Workshop Maintenance and Sustainability Two Keywords for Past and Future of Communication Studies?

December, 4th
4.30-5.30 PM Welcome Coffee at the House of Sustainability
5.30-6.30 PM Why we are here: the House of Sustainability, Airolo, and book to be celebrated

December, 5th
8.45-9.00 AM Introduction to the workshop
9.00-10.00 AM Presentations and Q&As – First round
Stefan Krebs
Maintenance and sustainability: a difficult relationship?
Corinna Peil
Infrastructures of care: networks of support for sustaining digital media in everyday life
Roberta Spada
Keeping media heritage as a form of maintenance: What sustainability? 
10.00-10.30 AM Coffee Break
10.30-11.30 AM Presentations and Q&As – Second round
Riccardo Ferrigato and Roberto Leggero
Maintenance as a “function” and a “culture” in the context of environmental sustainability
Laura Meneghello
Sustainability and the built world: Discourses of “sustainable” building materials in architectural journals (1950-2000)
Zeynep Ecem Pulas
Sustainability, maintenance, and resilience through the lens of Ottoman infrastructure projects
11.30-12.30 PM Brainstorming and discussion towards a possible position paper, and next steps