Event overview
with Tamta Khalvashi, Ilia State University. Part of spring term seminar series.
In Georgia elevators were once icons of Soviet modernity. Now they are derelict infrastructures in need of constant repair and maintenance. One stop-gap innovation has been the introduction of coin-operated boxes, a prepayment technology absolutely integral to how most Georgians move in residential buildings.
This paper examines elevator brokenness and repair. It focuses on elevators’ materiality, how they shape mobility, uncertain environment of urban Georgia, and daily strategies and skills to operate elevators. A ride on the prepayment elevator hence means to restructure relations with space, state, and neighbours. While coin-operated technologies are essential for maintaining obsolescent infrastructures, elevators nonetheless continue to break down. I thus focus on the elevators as a means of inquiring states of brokenness and repair and relations between technology, body and urban space in the context of postsocialist transformation.
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| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Feb 2019 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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