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

What chain of work processes is triggered by a click in an app? Which bodies does it set in motion under any weather conditions? And how are our cities changing when work is no longer tied to spaces, but is controlled by a fleeting architecture of routes, data and likes?

The promise of services that can be delivered directly to your doorstep at any time has become an everyday reality. However, platforms such as Uber Eats, Gorillas or Lieferando are operated at the expense of precarious working conditions that often affect migrants. The digital surfaces conceal the material conditions that make such services possible in the first place.

The evening brings together people who work in digital economies such as app-based delivery services or crowdworking platforms. What future of work is visible here and what future do we want? We invite the audience to an evening of discussions based on experience reports and film contributions.

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.