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DOI 10.60531/INSIGHTOUT.2024.2.4| GERBER: IM RAHMEN DER MÖGLICHKEITEN_ INSIGHTOUT 2(2024) 15 Fig. 1.: Joint discussion of the presentations,© Technisches Museum Wien tions to the workshop. While the introduction aims to convey the initial ideas, Pamela Heilig and Rosalie Lorenz discuss the issue proper and share their experiences as, respectively, project assistant and mediator at the Technisches Museum Wien. On the basis of their personal experiences and a number of case studies, they identify challenges and approaches to communicating intersectional content in exhibitions dedicated to the history of technology, against the background of museum infrastructures. Michaela Frauwallner discusses the findings within the scope of the Colonial Infrastructures project at the TMW 1 research institute. Frauwallner’s research focuses particularly on the multifaceted and long-overlooked role of Herero women as forced labourers and prisoners-of-war in the construction of the Otavi railway during the genocide of the Herero and Nama between 1904 and 1908. Her sources are picture-based: photographs of the women taken by colonialists and German soldiers. These images were used by the Germans as part of their colonialist and wartime propaganda. Shusha Niederberger (Zurich University of the Arts) for her part looks at the research conducted as part of the project‘Latent Spaces. Performing Ambiguous Data’, the data-centred present and the question of how data infrastructures utilise users and co-construct them, based on the example of Mastodon and feminist servers. How do infrastructures create subjects; what roles do users assume; and what is their relationship to technology? Calvin Lai ’s PhD project(Darmstadt Technical University) also focuses on the role of digital infrastructures. Lai studied the smartphone use of marginalised residents of Hong Kong to look at how infrastructures restricted and/or enabled personal mobility, for example during the Covid-19 pandemic. Through interviews, Lai was able to show that there are differences depending on the user’s gender and that women are more often beset by difficulties, for example in terms of mobility. With regard to disability and age, Lai comes to the conclusion that neither the government nor businesses take into account the needs of these particular user groups. Swati Guha (ILSR Calcutta) took a closer look at the infrastructure of another metropolis, i.e. Kolkata in India. She noted that, with regard to the city’s queer inhabitants in particular, Kolkata provides mainly 1 https://www.technischesmuseum.at/museum/forschungsinstitut/das_museum_im_kolonialen_kontext(accessed 20 Aug. 2024) 