On the Traces of Mobility Data: An Interactive Data Walk through Frankfurt
As part of the accompanying programme for the exhibition On the Move! Frankfurt and Mobility at the Frankfurt Historical Museum, we offered a public data walk in May. As this was very well received, we are repeating the offer again in autumn
25.10.2025 | 15:00 Uhr
Led by: Catharina Dietrich, Janine Hagemeister (Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt)
Registration: No prior registration is required.
Meeting point: We will meet at 3 p.m. in front of the main entrance of the Historical Museum (Saalhof 1, 60311 Frankfurt am Main).
Accessibility: The walk will cover a distance of approximately 3 km. Content will be presented both visually and verbally. However, we want to make the walk accessible to all participants. Please contact us in advance at datenpolitiken@uni-frankfurt.de so that we can take your needs into account and find a suitable solution together.
In case of bad weather: In the event of thunderstorms or heavy rain, we will meet in the foyer of the museum and hold a discussion there about the data landscape.
Description
Frankfurt is on the move – every day, hundreds of thousands of people travel around the city, along with goods and merchandise. As a designated ‘smart city’, Frankfurt is increasingly recording traffic volumes digitally: while data on car traffic is collected in real time, only isolated data patches exist for other modes of transport such as cycling and walking.
We would like to explore the city with you, following the trail of different mobility data.
Together, we will visit various measuring stations in public spaces. We will look at data available for specific locations and discuss our perceptions of street space and different perspectives on the city. In short presentations from our research project ‘Tracing Data Politics,’ we will talk about how digital traffic data is integrated into political contexts and recount the journeys that data takes from its creation to its use.
The event is open to the public and part of the programme of the Goethe University’s Citizens’ University