SYMPOSIUM CULTURES OF SPATIAL INVESTIGATIONS Date: 12.04.2024 15:00 Venue: IKA Akbild, Schillerplatz 3, 2nd floor room 211a Organization: Martin Eichler OeH IKA, @alesdobre Curation: Daniel Hüttler (adO/Aptive), @adoaptive Setup: Megaworld collective, @megaworld.xyz Speakers: Ines Weizman @inesweizman Ben Ditto @ben_ditto Zaher Jureidini @zaherj_ Enar de Dios Rodriguez Orest Yaremchuk @oresty DePart Collective @depart.collective The European Data agency describes Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) as “the practice of collecting and analyzing information gathered from open sources to produce actionable intelligence.”1 Raw material for OSINT is widely available since the proliferation of the internet and the accessibility to devices like computers, smartphones, cameras, drones and any other media-mechanisms. Thus creating open-source intelligence is a process of qualifying, sorting and contextualizing these vast amounts of data into coherent perspectives that enrich our view on reality. As artists and architects, we are trained to channel images and representations to produce interpretations of reality. Through the workshop and symposium on Cultures of Spatial Investigations we want to explore how OSINT strategies can extend our methods and learn from methods that have already adopted these strategies.