Wireless Walk and Talk
Electromagnetic waves envelop and connect us almost everywhere in urban spaces. The “Wireless Walk and Talk” on 19 March 2024 through the city centre of Dresden was designed to make the wireless world more tangible – through our mobile phones, sensing devices, stories and societal resonances.
While we moved through incommensurable worlds of sensing and making sense of 5G, we explored leakages in the context of broader challenges of socio-technical governance: Where can we actually sense emissions and potential leakages of wireless communication networks? How does resistance against hegemonic 5G visions seep into the laboratories where innovators test and present 5G and 6G futures?
The three-hour tour started at the Barkhausen Institute Dresden, the participants and the WAVEMATTERS team, had the opportunity to engage with 5G waves through demonstrators that made its existence and latency tangible, e.g. in the form of a air-hockey man-machine interaction.