On 1 May 2009, tat ort has put its mobile appliances subsidiary into operation.

Executive Director: Wolfgang Fiel

Pooling a wide range of expertise along the entire logistics chain, a set of mobile appliances will be dispatched to various urban settings around the world in order to initiate what we call the mapping of urban dynamics. This process, based on the immediate engagement of participating individuals aims at the creation of alternative `narratives´ to what is understood as the official statistical representation of homogenised constituencies. Crosscutting the apparently irreconcilable divide between `individual´ and `collective´ modes of explanation, the resulting `portrait´ exceeds the prevailing methodological opposition held by `sociology´ and `economics´ on either side of the discursive spectrum. The underlying principle is conceived to account for those developments that fall below the threshold of institutionalized mediation.