Revolution in the pub

On the penultimate weekend in March, more precisely, from 23.-25. March came together 31 speakers and about 70 people on Lake Starnberg, within the framework of the conference to discuss "revolution in the space" of urbanaut and the Protestant Academy of Tutzing on the new forms of protest, participation and discourse production between digital and urban public spaces.
It was the first official weekend of spring, and up to a few rain showers, it has also kept its promise. There would be probably the course of the meeting, the partners of the Munich forum was best described. Based on global events of the Arab spring, the protests in Tunis, Cairo and Benghazi as well as demonstrations of the Wall Street Occupy movement possibilities and challenges of social media and the Internet for the development of participation and democracy have been debated.
In the audience, and also on the panel met pioneers of the digital society to advocate the analog reality. Sun Facebook was just as open data, e-participation and intellectual discussion. Also present were representatives in addition to the Munich policy and administration (including Dr. Blume-Beyerle, Dr. Kueppers, Dieter Janecek, Siegfried Benker) theoreticians of different disciplines such as urban planning, architecture, politics and media studies (eg Dieter Rucht, Hannah Wettig, Anne Roth and Dirk von Gehlen) as well as practitioners and their specific projects (including the resistance of Slobodan Djinovic CANVAS Agency, part of Anna and Denis Bartelt and Peter Kusterer of Next start of the "Smart Cities Initiative" by IBM Germany).
Munich could be summed up in conclusion, that while others with the digital investment offer for the "Perspective Munich" and MOGDY by the city and a few private networking initiatives, the first important steps to be gone, but many activities are still in their infancy and sometimes the digital public space in Munich is still missing. "The revolution is here slowly, probably at the pub ..." (KM Drohsel). It became clear that it requires not only new concepts and a new awareness of the increasing fusion of digital and urban public spaces.
The meeting was organized here by Stefan and Karsten Michael Höffken Drohsel urbanophil.net of live and recorded in real time to read. Or will soon be on www.urbanaut.org.