Talk & Discussion “Hidden Futures: Work. Clicks & Crowds”

Which chain of work processes are triggered by a click in an app? Whose bodies are thereby set in motion and exposed to the elements? And how will our cities change when work is no longer tied to spaces, but is controlled by an ephemeral architecture of routes, data and likes?

The promise of services that can be delivered directly to your doorstep around the clock has now become part of everyday life. However, platforms such as Uber Eats, Gorillas and Lieferando are operated at the expense of migrants, who are frequently subjected to precarious working conditions. Digital interfaces conceal the material conditions that make such services possible initially.

The evening brings people together who work in the digital economy, in the context of app-based delivery services, logistics platforms or the care secctor. What future of work becomes visible here, and what future do we want? The audience is invited to open discussions, personal assessments and solidarity-based networking.

With Janne Martha Lentz, Semih Yalcin, Hedi Tounsi, Sebastian Randerath, metroZones e.V. / Jochen Becker and more.

“Work. Clicks and Crowds” is the start of the new series “Hidden Futures” at PACT, which is being developed in cooperation with the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) | RWTH Aachen University. The series looks at the material conditions of a variety of models of the future developed in the present.

Header photo: Hedi Tounsi, 2023