Infrastructural Love Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems
Edited by Hélène Frichot, Adrià Carbonell, Hannes Frykholm, Sepideh Karami
Birkhäuser Basel
CONTENTS Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems
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Prologue Infrastructures Céline Condorelli
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Chapter 1 Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems Hélène Frichot, Adrià Carbonell, Hannes Frykholm, Sepideh Karami
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Chapter 2 Architectural Storytelling: A Space between Critical Practice and Fragile Environments Isabelle Doucet
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Chapter 3 Infrastructural Love in Times of COVID-19: Care, Repair, and Maintenance Shannon Mattern in dialogue with Hélène Frichot
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TAKING INSTRUCTIONS Infrastructural Journey 100 Infrastructural Details Irrational Section Cut Detail Mash-up Cross-Species Encounters Dirty Model
Smooth Montage Proliferating Precursors and Thought-Provoking Precedents Follow the Materials! Territorial Slice
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Chapter 4 Implicated in Care, Haunted by Protection: The Violence of Bronze and Stone Bodies Elke Krasny
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Project An Infrastructural Performance: Caring for the Posthuman Landscape Malin Bergman
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Chapter 5 Interrupting Infrastructures: Dust in the Desert Danika Cooper
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Project Infrastructural Remains: Caring for Anthropogenic Ruins Emilie Evans
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Chapter 6 A Villa Borghese Love Story: The Parking Garage as Support Structure Hannes Frykholm
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Project Moving Peripheries: The Concrete Circus Isak Hellström
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Chapter 7 Sandstorm, Mirage, Sludge: Mourning for Dead Support Structures Sepideh Karami
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Project The Nonhuman Embassy: Representational Critters and Calamitous Diplomacy Erik Lokrantz
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Chapter 8 A Day with a Duck Helen Stratford
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Project The Cleaning Pigeons Marie Le Rouzic
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Chapter 9 On Mediums and Exchange: Narrative Flow in the Strait of Hormuz Rouzbeh Akhbari
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Project Is Data Brief? Thandi Lane
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Chapter 10 Plantationocene Parable: Infrastructural Rhythms and After-Affects Hélène Frichot
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Project The Preemptive City Richard Gray
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Chapter 11 Bordered Imagination Shahram Khosravi
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Project Utö Campus: Student Housing Infrastructure Marco Bruggmann
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Chapter 12 A Landscape Inventory: Ulla Bodorff’s Mapping of the Järva Field Adrià Carbonell
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Project Connecting Infrastructure Raphael Marius Schall
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Chapter 13 Drain Ontology Yaseera Moosa
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Project Conversion of a Military Base: Reuse of Infrastructural Leftovers Leonie Hartung
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Chapter 14 The Critical Zone: Observatory Space Alexandra Arènes
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Project After the Human: Monument to the Anthropocene Changhyun Ahn
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Chapter 15 A Synthetic Universe: An Underground Network of Sensing Infrastructures Blanca Pujals
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Contributors
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Index
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I NFRAS TRUCTU R ES Infrastructures
Céline Condorelli
With infrastructure, something both
value. Spatially, it is farther away and
huge and hidden is conjured up, a dark
always to be discussed later. Despite
and indistinct shadow of a thing whose
this subservient status, infrastructure is
imperative is to function without need-
what allows society to hold its shape—its
ing to be thought about. Conceptually,
structure—as a complex set of events and
it is beneath structure, below architec-
to form and support a stable pattern. The
ture, under life as we know it, the infra
pattern comprises actions, not things, as
signaling that it is lower in position, in
the universe is constantly moving, and
Céline Condorelli
therefore infrastructure needs to regener-
Yet infrastructure itself has long been
ate, to evolve, to contain, to transport, to
repressed, historically excluded, for in-
transfer, to guide, and generally to move
stance, from architectural drawings. The
things along.
modern city was designed to create and
Infrastructure is often confused with
maintain the illusion that infrastructure
public works and the local government
was a utility to be placed out of sight and
departments responsible for the planning
separated from the landscapes of our
and maintenance of the practical aspects
everyday lives. Any analysis of the built
of city services. Yet, as is often the case, it
environment tends to show a complicity
is precisely within this subordinate func-
with supplementary machines, mecha-
tion that infrastructure is imagined and
nisms, and infrastructures, yet buildings
constructed as the repository of political
and objects always reemerge as autono-
and cultural imagination, the network for
mous: we do not like to admit that things
social and economic connections, and the
have conditions. Left out of the plan,
form of human ecology. In short, infra-
infrastructure was selectively edited out
structure displays a society’s inherent
of the new urban utopia so that the new
ideology and the conditions that allow
residential landscape could resemble a
or restrict what appears in the domain of
tranquil place for the full development of
the visible; it not only designates images
the modern individual.
but that which is intelligible. Systems of
The result is that we have forgotten
domination, subjugation, or repression
about infrastructure and its need to be
also take place in infrastructural systems,
maintained, updated, funded. Also forgot-
which are not simply a manifestation or
ten is that infrastructure is where socie-
embodiment of such preexisting systems
ties articulate their political imagination;
but an intrinsic part of their configuration.
it guides how we want to live in our cities,
Infrastructure is both a symbol of perma-
in our societies, and, ultimately, as Buck-
nence and a channeler of flows, a collec-
minster Fuller would have it, on spaceship
tion of built objects and a set of ideas
earth.
about modernity.
Prologue: Infrastructures
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I NFRAS TRUCTU RALLOV EI NT I M ESOFCO VI D-1 9 Chapter 3 Infrastructural Love in Times of COVID-19: Care, Repair, and Maintenance Shannon Mattern in dialogue with Hélène Frichot
Shannon Mattern is a transdisciplinary scholar who defies categorization. Media theorist, design theorist, anthropologist, broken-world thinker, she is the author of several influential books and a regular columnist for Places Journal, which has supported her most recent publication, A City Is Not a Computer.1 When I spoke with Shannon for the Melbourne School of Design MSDatHome series, it was with this book project, Infrastructural Love, in mind, and with a desire to engage her in a discussion on the pertinent themes of care, repair, and maintenance. Without the crucial, though all too often unseen and undervalued acts of maintenance and repair, infrastructure would not be able to hold itself together. I was also keen to discuss pedagogy with Shannon, an activity that can be conceived as a relation of care.2 Shannon is a dedicated pedagogue. Her website wordsinspace.net sets out pedagogical adventures that frame authentic problems for her students to tackle.3 On Twitter, @shannonmattern, she communicates as a generous social media persona, sharing resources and pedagogical tips. Hélène Frichot: Shannon, you’re Professor of Anthropology at the New School of Social Research, New York, and you draw on a multidisciplinary background, starting in chemistry, moving to English, completing a PhD in media studies, and undertaking course work in urban and architectural theory. You have even undertaken postdoctoral research in art history. In your current position you work at the intersection of anthropology and design. These diverse disciplines are evident in your highly readable essays; for instance, in Places Journal and in your recent books, The City Is Not a Computer and Code and Clay, Data and Dirt. You engage in subjects that range from the archive to the smart city, drawing attention to connections between data and dirt and calling for a reorientation of our maintenance and repair efforts, which seems especially fitting at the current world-historical juncture. In your essay “Maintenance and Care” in Places Journal, you draw attention to an expanded sense of infrastructures, from a rundown street and its cracked
1 See “Shannon Mattern, Contributing Writer,” Places, https://placesjournal.org/author/shannon-mattern/; and Shannon Mattern, A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press in association with Places Journal, 2021). Some of Mattern’s other books include Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017); Deep Mapping the Media City (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015); and The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007). 2 “MSD at HOME with Shannon Mattern,” Melbourne School of Design, https://msd.unimelb.edu. au/events/msd-at-home/ msd-at-home-with-shannon-mattern. The present dialogue is adapted from the original online event. I thank colleagues in the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne who made this event possible: Sara Brocklesby, Philippa Knack, James Rafferty, Jet Bakker, Donald Bates, and Alan Pert. I also thank
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Justine Clark of archiparlour.org, who arranged for the transcription of the lecture.
pavement to corrupted computer code.4 You argue that, in response to aged and failing infrastructures, what we really need is to study how the world gets put back together. If it’s possible to think beyond the current virus—assuming such
3 Cementing the reach of Mattern’s pedagogical influence, a forthcoming issue (76, no. 2) of the Journal of Architectural Education cites her work and is dedicated to “Pedagogies for a Broken World Thinking.” See http://www.jaeonline. org/pages/pedagogies-broken-world#/ page1/. 4 Shannon Mattern, “Maintenance and Care,” Places Journal, November 2018, https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/.
pandemics are not here with us to stay as part and parcel of concatenating climate crises—what role do you think an ethos of maintenance, repair, and care might achieve in the design disciplines? Shannon Mattern: Thank you so much for that generous introduction, Hélène! As I mentioned in my article, I was partly inspired by the framing of maintenance as invisible labor and a kind of care work. These themes are woven through a lot of my own practice and even, I would like to think, throughout my entire career. “Maintenance and Care” was written in response to a group of scholars who have united under the umbrella of the “Maintainers.” They draw mostly from science and technology studies, history, media studies, and, more generally, science- and technology-oriented humanities and social sciences. They were motivated by attempts to provide an alternative to the innovation and novelty fetishization prevalent in Silicon Valley. The Maintainers recognize that infusing a maintenance sensibility, a care sensibility, into the design process from the beginning might imply a different kind of methodology, a different sense of what constitutes success and functionality, a different sense of the values that are inherent to the design process. Thinking about how a building will be maintained, what types of circulation or storage are necessary for its maintenance and repair, means
The Maintainers recognize that infusing a maintenance sensibility, a care sensibility, into the design process from the beginning might imply a different kind of methodology, a different sense of what constitutes success and functionality, a different sense of the values that are inherent to the design process.
thinking about the entire lifecycle of a building: How can it be responsibly dismantled or repaired over the longue durée?
These are the types of things that have not historically been front and center in design processes, particularly not in product design and fashion. If the design process is infused with maintenance and repair, we could raise some very different questions that would flow through the entire evolution of a design, into the construction and the afterlife of that construction. HF: If maintenance and repair can expand our conception of architectural projects, do you think these approaches allow a means of resistance to the prevalent neoliberal imperative to innovate and to be innovative? Can slow modes of inventiveness be supported by acts of maintenance and the attentive work of repair?5 With this maintenance movement you are describing, and its slow pace, it seems to invite a revaluation of what has been undervalued. I’m interested in what we might learn in the context of the current slowing down that COVID-19 has imposed on us. Will the pandemic make us more like design tinkerers and the Maintainers? SM: That is a possibility. Various “slow” movements have emerged over the past several years: we have slow food, and a book that came out a few years ago advocates for slow academia, which pushes against the obligation many scholars feel to keep producing and instead advocates that we allow our thoughts to marinate for a while. Certain political modes of resistance also use slowness: workers movements that slow production lines or block supply chains, land rights claims movements—all those use slowness and refusal, an intentional dragging of the heels, as a political strategy. Yet I would also want to highlight that slowness can be a privileged strategy. This has been made apparent in discussions of the contemporary pandemic, in which not everyone has the capacity to slow down. Some of us were able to sit at home, read, watch Netflix, have things delivered to us. Yet the people actually delivering goods and services: those folks do not have the
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5 In the Economist recently, the announcement that Apple would allow certain customers limited access to repair their iPhones, specifically the screens, and to replace batteries, was considered an aboutface brought about in part by the growing “right to repair” movement. “Why Is the Right to Repair Gadgets and Machines Spreading?,” The Economist, November 19, 2021, https://www.economist. com/the-economist-explains/2021/11/19/ why-is-the-right-to-repair-gadgets-and-machines-spreading. On repair, see also Valeria Graziano and Kim Trogal, “The Politics of Collective Repair: Examining Object-Relations in a Postwork Society,” Cultural Studies 31, no. 5 (2017): 634–58.
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capacity to decide when they can or can’t slow down. In fact, their work might be conducted at hyper speed, because an entire city, nations, continents are depending upon their reliable service provision. It would of course be advantageous if everyone had the capacity to enjoy the lessons of the pandemic—to slow down and become reflective practitioners. Imagine being an electrician and being able to take time after each job to think for a while about what you’ve just accomplished, about the philosophical implications of your work. When your services are in high demand, though, it’s unlikely that you can enjoy such luxurious reflection. While I would advocate for the value of slowness and different forms of contemplation and the methodological opportunities they open, we also have to ask political and ethical questions about who has access to such privileges. HF: This requires considering an invisible workforce that is attending to maintenance, care, and repair, which includes acknowledging gendered traditions of women’s work, domestic and reproductive labor, which, you argue, are very much acts of preservation. The invisible labor that holds things together both socially and materially—for example, domestic chores such as cleaning—require an acute attention to detail, the kind of attention we usually demand of our architecture and design students. To understand the design detail, you must get close and intimate with the materials you are managing. There might be lessons, both in our attention to detail and our acknowledgment of a massive laboring workforce that we depend upon, even for our daily survival. SM: Another of the reasons I wanted to write the “Maintenance and Care” essay for Places Journal is that, as much as I admire the work of the Maintainers and remain a proponent of their work, I thought something paradoxical was happening. The Maintainers themselves were becoming a bit of a brand and with that grew a presumption that the brand was casting new and exciting attention onto maintenance.
While the Maintainers were not at all ignorant or dismissive of their predecessors, popularizations of the Maintainers’ work didn’t always build bridges to that earlier work—to the themes of care, preservation, and conservation long present in the work of feminist economists, indigenous studies scholars, information workers, and other scholars and practitioners. Validating and celebrating this new attention to maintenance requires acknowledging other, perhaps less flashy, scholarship that has been making similar claims for a long time— including, as you mentioned, research on feminized labor, including work taking place in libraries and archives, which is something I’ve often written about. My first book was about libraries, which compelled me to recognize the importance of maintenance staff, the behind-the-scenes work that is necessary to make an institution operate. We also have to recognize the inevitable future role of maintenance in fields defined by unabashedly ahistorical newness. Consider the “smartification” of everything: cities, houses, and gadgets. Infrastructure, whether smart or not, requires maintenance. But if we embed wires and sensors in our walls and streets, what happens when they fail? How do we access them for repair? What happens when “the computer” is distributed throughout an environment? Where do you localize the site of maintenance to fix something like that? As more and more design fields—from fashion to interiors—are technologized, we have to recognize that designers need to start asking the questions about their own data infrastructures that archivists have been asking for a long time. HF: Many scholars concerned with infrastructure define it in relation to the inevitable event of infrastructural failure. When infrastructure fails or falls apart, it looms into consciousness. It thus shares a similar domain with invisible labor. Considering questions of invisible labor, feminized labor,
When infrastructure fails or falls apart, it looms into consciousness. It thus shares a similar domain with invisible labor.
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INFRASTRUCTURAL JOURNEY We invite you to venture into your local environment-world. Take an infrastructural journey and look out for different qualities, affects, points of view, connections, happy conjunctions, and sad failures as you venture forth. On the one hand is your sen-
sory experience and the baggage you bring with you—your tastes and predilections. On the other hand, you can attempt to adjust your existing biases by supplementing your journey with research in archives, news media, information available at municipal offices, and by paying more astute attention to what you encounter on your way. Compose a collage, draw a diagram, write a short story. Infrastructural Journey. Utö Island, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden. Drawing by Sijia Peng and Raphael Marius Schall Group 1, 2019.
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100 INFRASTRUCTURAL DETAILS Storytelling ethnographer Anna Tsing and feminist philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers each exhort us to “pay attention!” to our local worlds. Local attention can lead to an understanding of the specificities of each place and also lead to a consideration of the inevitability of global connections. This instruction is about paying attention to the ordinary details and affects of everyday infrastructures. 1
1 Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015); and Isabelle Stengers, In Catastrophic Times: The Coming Barbarism, trans. Andrew Goffey (Ann Arbor, MI: Open Humanities Press and Meson Press, 2015), DOI: 10.14619/016.
Take a journey to your site. Be sure to use public transportation to get there; better still, use multiple forms of transport. On the way you will pass through different urban, suburban, and perhaps even rural landscapes. Pay close attention to the world around you as you travel. You must sharpen your skills of observation until they become acute. Now, begin to collect details. You can commence by taking photographs, but you must also have some means of documenting scale. Carry a measuring tape with you, if in doubt. Begin to collect details, small and large. You can organize this exercise in a
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An Infrastructural Performance: Caring for the Posthuman Landscape Malin Bergman
“Care is omnipresent, even through the effects of its absence. Like a longing emanating from the troubles of neglect, it passes within, across, throughout things.” (Maria Puig de la Bella Casa, 2017)1
Borrowing from Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, I have explored the omnipresence of care throughout my projects in the Infrastructural Love design studio. My work is inspired by the too often silenced processes of care taking place within our urban environments, understanding their performative aspects as supporting infrastructures. My aim is to enhance narratives of care through speculative interventions and a politics of visibility. For me, narratives allow existing paradigms of capitalism, anthropocentrism, and power to be challenged by proposing alternative realities that explore other ways of living, caring, and practicing architecture. Telling the story of something that has been silenced or neglected is itself an act of care.
1 Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters Of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), 1.
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The project “An Infrastructural Performance: Caring for the Post-human Landscape” embodies such values in considering the disused infrastructural landscape of Barkarby Airport, northwest of Stockholm. Once a strategic site for the Swedish air force, in 2019 the airfield was disrupted by an infrastructural event: the construction of a new metro line and the development of Barkarbystaden. Alongside these processes, the airfield’s polluted soil had to be remediated. Responding to these site events, the project gives agency to the polluted soil of the field and acknowledges the “faceless pairs of hands and unseen laboring backs”2 involved in urban excavation and expansion. An infrastructural performance inspired by the performance artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s maintenance manifesto and other works of maintenance art rendered visible the otherwise silenced labor and metabolistic flows of urban development.3 The project also proposes creating an ecosystem of care, consisting of a remediation plan for Barkarbystaden and seven mobile structures. Vegetation for phytoremediation would be planted so that the roots can relieve the earth of its contaminants. Barkarby Airport would be transformed into a field of earth maintenance. The structures would stage the labor and move around the airfield following the gentle pace of remediation. Each proposed structure (e.g., laboratory, tool shed, incinerator) would tend to a certain aspect of this process and provide support and care for the industrial landscape as well as the worker. 2 Gavin Bridge, “The Hole World: Scales and Spaces of Extraction,” Scenario Journal 5, no. 6 (2015), https:// scenariojournal.com/article/the-hole-world/. 3 Mierle Laderman Ukeles, “Manifesto! Maintenance Art—Proposal for an Exhibition: ‘Care’” (1969), https:// queensmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ukeles-Manifesto-for-Maintenance-Art-1969.pdf. Ukeles’s Seven Works Ballet and City Maintenance Dance were performed in New York in 1985.
The design of the structures plays with the historical tradition of a passive folly in a picturesque landscape and flirts with the aesthetics of phenomenological influences in architecture. Following Sara Ahmed’s concept of queer phenomenology, these influences are reoriented toward a productive, dirty, and machine-like character.4 The materiality and program of the structures draws on prefabricated cabins (i.e., portacabins) and scaffolding as support structures for construction. The design plays with these conventional support elements of urban development by merging them with the concept of a productive folly. The architecture distorts the hierarchy between spaces of mundane labor and extravagant decoration. Through the support system of care, a new narrative for the site emerges, proposing a slower and less volatile approach to urban development and earth maintenance. Time thickens at Barkarby Airfield as seeds are planted, creating a resistance to the fastpaced development of Barkarbystaden. Now that the development has been put on hold, the project critiques the anthropocentric timeline for care and instead proposes space for more-than-human care, setting the pace to the rhythm of soil times.5
4 Sara Ahmed, “ORIENTATIONS: Toward a Queer Phenomenology,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 12, no. 4 (2006): 543–74. 5 Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters of Care, 169.
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Helen Stratford, A Day with a Duck (2012). A day spent following a Muscovy duck marked the beginning of the residency in the city of Ely. Photograph: Nick Cheek.
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The masterplan’s top-down vision for the city primarily gravitated toward economic ranking—with clearly delineated divisions, hierarchies, and categories of place— recast through such neoliberal phrases as “urban residential extension,” “leisure village,” and “riverside quarter.”
The Day of the Duck artist’s book evolved out of a six-month self-initiated artist residency that gravitated around a small patch of council-managed ground by the River Great Ouse in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom.1 In recent years this “public space” had become contested due to its occupation by a rare population of Muscovy ducks, making human access
1 The Day of the Duck was coauthored by Helen Stratford and Lawrence Bradby. See Helen Stratford and Lawrence Bradby, The Day of the Duck (London: Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, 2018).
2 See Karen Barad, “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, no. 3 (2003): 801–31, DOI: 10.1086/345321; and AbdouMaliq Simone, “Ritornello: ‘People as Infrastructure,’” Urban Geography, March 5, 2021
problematic. As a worker in Ely, I observed how the presence of these “wild animals” immediately challenged the boundaries of the space. The ducks’ interruption of everyday behavior through actions considered antisocial and anarchic—stopping traffic, eating people’s sandwiches, public defecation—threw into sharp relief the anthropocentric focus by which cities are conventionally performed and envisaged. Further, the ducks made visible “intra-actions” of people, place, and practice that together combine or “congeal” to produce specific “infrastructures.”2 A day spent following a duck marked the beginning of the residency, which also included conversations with residents, workers, and tourists, a presentation in the nearby Babylon Gallery, and a series of participatory events across the city. At the time of the residency, Ely was undergoing consultation on a previously stalled masterplan process.3 In its organization of prearranged sets of questions delivered via workshops and Post-it Note sessions with invited members of the local community, the consultation process (in which I took part as both local resident and architect) echoed conventional architectural processes. Further, the masterplan’s top-down vision for the city primarily gravitated toward economic ranking—with clearly delineated divisions, hierarchies, and categories of place—recast through such neoliberal phrases as “urban residen-
tial extension,” “leisure village,” and “riverside quarter.”4 In this context, further informed by the increasing political polarization in the United Kingdom, the residency and the book built on and critiqued the city’s conservative nature, which seemed to gain in intensity during the project.5 The residency and book raised questions that responded to the relationship between the masterplan (as regulatory or governmental top-down process), the ducks (as anarchy, nature, and chaos), and the degree to which the city’s inhabitants reproduced or challenged the particular urban visions that these positions reinforced.
Sanitized Visions of the City In Ely, assumptions of urban order—and associated fears of disorder—are vividly expressed in residents’ visceral revulsion to the ducks and their occupation and degradation of what the residents believed should be a place to sit “with a glass of wine.”6 In this context, the ducks challenge projected desires for both order and commodification. Further, even comments in favor of the muck and grime of a working and productive river—“If you live in the countryside, you should expect a bit of shit”—express and reproduce the boundaries between order and disorder, urban and rural.7 Here, the attraction to “purity” as “a mark of ‘civilized’ society,” which for many urban thinkers still underpins much of contemporary urban planning, becomes translated into contemporaneous public spaces that should not include “messy” animals or deviant human actions if they are to be clean and fit solely for a particular type of use.8 The Day of the Duck elaborates on observations regarding this “noir” side of architectural visions.9 The extract “In the Market Place” that opened this chapter presents an imagined dialogue between town ranger, ramblers, Muscovy duck, and shoppers alongside an associated diagram of Plate S. Duck Deterrent Hard Landscaping Features. In this vision, exclusionary practices are defined by the physical designation of specific zones for specific city denizens. These are laid out in specially designed landscaping features that prevent the ducks from entering the “Heritage Zone,” reinforced by patrolling town rangers with
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3 “Possible Legal Flaws Led to Masterplan Being Suspended,” Ely Standard, May 21, 2008, https:// www.elystandard. co.uk/news/possible-legal-flaws-led-to-masterplan-being-suspended-7756928. 4 East Cambridgeshire District Council, Ely Masterplan: A Framework for the Future Development of the City of Ely (Ely, UK: East Cambridgeshire District Council, 2010), 10, https://www.eastcambs. gov.uk/sites/default/ files/FINAL%20Ely%20 Masterplan.pdf. 5 This was reflected in the growing popularity of the United Kingdom Independence Party in the city, manifest in banners on the marina, seemingly supported by the Union Jack–themed flower basket displays installed in the city to mark the Diamond Jubilee year, and witnessed firsthand in certain discussions around what was acceptable practice in the city (and by whom). 6 Interview with Ely residents, 2012. 7 Interview with Ely residents, 2012.
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Contributors Changhyun Ahn is a designer working for Gusang Group Architects, Seoul. He received a master’s degree in architecture from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, earning honorable mention for his thesis, “Leftovers.” Interested in mega-scale projects, Chang currently works mainly on cultural projects such as memorials and art spaces. Rouzbeh Akhbari is an artist working in video installation and film. His practice is research-driven and usually exists at the intersections of storytelling, critical architecture and human geography. Through a delicate examination of the violences and intimacies that can occur at the boundaries of lived experience and constructed histories, Akhbari uncovers the minutiae of power that regiments the world around us. He holds a BFA in sculpture and installation from Ontario College of Art and Design University and a masters of visual studies from the University of Toronto School of Architecture, Landscape and Design. He has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed articles in Projections 13 (a journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies), Funambulist, Scapegoat Journal, Society + Space, and C-Magazine, and contributed book chapters to The Work of Wind: Land (K-Verlag, 2018), Unsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts (Cambridge Scholars, 2017), and Shift (Sugar Contemporary, 2019). His first long-format story titled Prizes from Fairyland was released in 2018, and his most recent ficto-critical novella Perturbation: A Speculative History of Future(s) Past was launched in the summer of 2021 in collaboration with Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Akhbari is currently a Ph.D. student at University of Toronto’s school of Geography and Planning.
Malin Bergman is an architect practicing in London. An attentive listener, she is devoted to tuning in to silenced narratives through caring spatial explorations, an approach she developed as a student in the Infrastructural Love design studio. She holds a master’s degree in architecture from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where she completed her thesis, “Residual Care—Stories from an Extractive Landscape.” Marco Bruggmann studied architecture at ETH Zurich and did his exchange semester at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in autumn 2019. He graduated at the chair of Anne Lacaton and received his master’s degree in architecture from ETH in 2020. Since graduation he has been working as project manager of spatial and urban planning in his hometown of Uzwil, Switzerland. Adrià Carbonell is an architect and urbanist. He is a lecturer in architecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He has held teaching positions at KU Leuven Sint-Lucas, Tallinn University of Technology, Umeå Universitet, and the American University of Sharjah. He is cofounder of the research collaborative Aside, where he writes on the interplay between architecture, territory, politics, and the environment. His writings have been published in PLAN, ACE: Architecture, City and Environment, ZARCH Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, San Rocco, MONU, Cartha, among others. His current research addresses two guiding questions: how to reframe cosmopolitical spatial practices and how to challenge existing urban inequalities through processes of territorial redistribution.
Céline Condorelli is a London- and Lisbon-based artist
which she examines through both conceptual-method-
and one of the founding directors of Eastside Projects
ological inquiries and historical and contemporary cases.
in Birmingham. She is the author and editor of Support
Ongoing research focuses on women in architecture after
Structures (Sternberg Press, 2009). Her work combines
1968. She is the author of The Practice Turn in Architecture.
multiple approaches, from developing structures for “sup-
Brussels after 1968 (2015). Recent editorial projects include
porting” (the work of others, forms of political imaginary,
the edited volume Activism at Home. Architects Dwelling
existing and fictional realities) to broader enquiries into
between Politics, Aesthetics, and Resistance, coedited with
forms of commonality and discursive sites. Her work has
Janina Gosseye (2021), and the thematic issue “Resist
been exhibited international at group and solo shows in
Reclaim Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture
France, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Italy, and Australia. In 2017
and the City,” coedited with Hélène Frichot, in Architectural
she was awarded the Australian Institute of Architects Art
Theory Review (2018).
and Architecture Prize. Her first monograph, bau bau, was published by Mousse in 2017.
Emilie Evans is an architectural graduate from the University of Melbourne and holds a BA (Honours) in interior
Danika Cooper is Assistant Professor of Landscape Archi-
architecture from Monash University, where she teaches
tecture and Environmental Planning at the University of
history and theory in the architecture faculty. Her teaching
California, Berkeley, where the core of her research centers
engages with ideas of architecture and the urban on a
on the geopolitics of scarcity, alternative water ontologies,
planetary scale. She is also a research assistant at the
and designs for resiliency in the world’s arid regions. Her
University of Melbourne and a practicing architectural
work incorporates historiographical research methods,
graduate specializing in the residential sector. Her inde-
data visualizations, and theories of urban infrastructure to
pendent thesis project “Infrastructural Remains: Caring for
evaluate and design for environmental and social justice.
Anthropogenic Ruins” was nominated for a Royal Institute
Specifically, Cooper is focused on emphasizing alternatives
of British Architects Silver Medal Award and an Australian
to the prevailing nineteenth-century conceptions that the
Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter Graduate Prize.
aridlands should be overturned through technocratic solu-
Her research interests lie in speculative architectural
tions and neoliberal politics. Her work has been published
fictions, more-than-human agency, and multispecies
and exhibited around the world, and she has practiced
relations.
architecture and landscape architecture in both the United States and in India.
Hélène Frichot is professor of architecture and philosophy and director of the Bachelor of Design Program in the Fac-
Isabelle Doucet is Professor of Theory and History of
ulty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the Univer-
Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Civil
sity of Melbourne. She is the former director of the Critical
Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. Her
Studies in Architecture program at the School of Archi-
research focuses on the relationship between architecture,
tecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where she was
(urban) politics, and social/environmental responsibility,
based from 2012 to 2019. Drawing on the two disciplines
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in which she is trained, architecture and philosophy, her
University Belfast and an MSc in architecture from the
research fosters creative practice methodologies and
KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His master’s thesis, “A
develops concept-tools and theories that draw on femi-
Design for Decline,” researched and proposed solutions
nist new materialism, the posthumanities, environmental
for architecture in shrinking cities. He is employed at
humanities, and affect theory. She is the author of Creative
UrbanWorks, an architecture and urban development
Ecologies: Theorizing the Practice of Architecture (Blooms-
office in Stockholm.
bury, 2018), How to Make Yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool (AADR, 2016), and Dirty Theory: Troubling Architecture
Leonie Hartung is an architecture master’s degree student
(AADR, 2019). She has collaborated on numerous collec-
at Berlin University of the Arts and a bachelor of philoso-
tions, including, as a coeditor with Catharina Gabrielsson
phy student at HU Berlin. She has worked and studied in
and Helen Runting, Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies,
Stockholm, Brussels, and Basel. A recent fellow with the
Economies, Technologies (Routledge, 2017); with Naomi
editorial team of ARCH+ Journal for Architecture and
Stead, Writing Architectures: Ficto-critical Approaches
Urbanism, she currently assists at the Chair of Urban
(Bloomsbury, 2020); and with Marco Jobst, Architectural
Design and Urbanization at TU Berlin.
Affects after Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 2021). Isak Hellström is an architect (SAR/MSA) and artist at Hannes Frykholm is an architect, educator, researcher, and
Respons Arkitekter, where he mainly works on recon-
currently the Rothwell Chair Postdoctoral Associate at the
structing existing housing units in central Stockholm. He
University of Sydney, School of Architecture, Design and
graduated from the KTH School of Architecture in 2019
Planning. He holds a PhD in architecture from the KTH
and from the art school Nyckelviksskolan in 2013. As an
Royal Institute of Technology, where he has been teaching
artist he works with figurative painting to describe the
the master’s degree studio Infrastructural Love. His doc-
urban landscape, in-between places, and the infrastruc-
toral thesis, “Building the City from the Inside,” considers
ture of everyday life.
entrance situations that occur between buildings and cities in order to develop new ways of investigating ar-
Sepideh Karami is a writer, architect, teacher, and re-
chitecture and urban transformation. The thesis points to
searcher and currently a Lecturer in Architecture at the
the threshold of three buildings as sites of a transforma-
University of Edinburgh, School of Architecture and Land-
tional relationship between architecture and capitalism,
scape Architecture (ESALA). She holds a PhD in architec-
whereby the city is reconfigured through the extension of
ture and critical studies from the KTH School of Architec-
interiors onto sidewalks and squares. He is a member of
ture, where she also held a lecturer position until 2020.
FyR Architects, a Stockholm- and Madrid-based practice
She developed her thesis Interruption: Writing a Dissident
exploring the relationship between architecture and
Architecture, through writing practices and critical fiction
infrastructure.
as political practices of making architectural spaces. She completed her architecture education at Iran University
Richard Gray is an architect based in Stockholm. He holds
of Science and Technology (MA, 2002) and Chalmers
a BSc (First Class Honours) in architecture from Queen’s
University (MSc, 2010). Since completing her first degree
in architecture, she has been committed to teaching,
Planet: Covid-19 Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care
research, and practice in various international contexts
(transcript Verlag, 2022), develops a feminist perspective
and has developed her work through artistic research
on imaginaries of war and the realities of care in pandem-
and interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of
ic times.
architecture, performing arts, literature and geology, with the ethos of decolonization, minor politics and criticality
Erik Lokrantz is a graduate of the School of Architecture,
from within. She has presented, performd, and exhibited
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where he also partici-
her work at international conferences and platforms, and
pated in an exchange at the Berlin University of the Arts.
is published in peer reviewed journals.
His interests include fashion, film, liberatory politics, and sci-fi. These interests lay the groundwork for his practice,
Shahram Khosravi is professor in anthropology at Stock-
which reflects on multispecies relations, property, violence,
holms Universitet (Stockholm University). He is the author
and the performed dichotomies of nature/civilization,
of Young and Defiant in Tehran (University of Pennsylvania
human/nonhuman.
Press, 2009) and “Illegal” Traveller: An Auto-ethnography of Borders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has also contrib-
Shannon Mattern is a professor of anthropology at The
uted to publications such as the New York Times and Red
New School for Social Research in New York. Her writing
Pepper. His research interests include anthropology of Iran
and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media
and the Middle East, migration, human rights, and forced
spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and
displacement.
mediated sensation and exhibition. She is the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities
Elke Krasny is professor for art and education at the Acad-
(University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Deep Mapping the
emy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist,
Media City (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), Code and
urban researcher, curator, and author. With colleagues at
Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media
the Acadmemy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of
(University of Minnesota Press, 2017), and A City Is Not
Applied Arts Vienna she initiated the Alliance Art and
a Computer (Princeton University Press, 2021). She also
Education against Racism and Fascism. Her scholarship
contributes a regular long-form column about urban data
addresses epistemic violence and memory politics, matters
and mediated infrastructures to Places, a journal focus-
of care and social reproduction, and ecosocial justice at
ing on architecture, urbanism, and landscape, and she
the present historical conjuncture, with a focus on eman-
collaborates on public design and interactive projects and
cipatory practices in architecture, urbanism, and contem-
exhibitions. She can be found online at wordsinspace.net.
porary art. She was advisor for the exhibition Un paradiso amaro / Bitter Paradise (2021) dedicated to remembering
Yaseera Moosa is a photographer and architecture student
the erasure of the Jewish sculptor Teresa Feodorowna
at the University of Melbourne on unceded Wurundjeri
Ries. Together with Angelika Fitz, she edited Critical Care:
Country. Through design, image-making and writing, she
Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet together (MIT
is interested in unearthing material-embodied narratives
Press, 2019). Her forthcoming book, Living with an Infected
and interdependencies, as well as critically examining
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constructs of nature and infrastructure, in an effort to
in architecture from UIC Barcelona School of Architecture.
unsettle and enrich understandings of place.
She completed her studies with an MA in critical theory from the Independent Studies Program of the Museu
Thandi Lane is a quietly passionate Master of Architecture
d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Barcelona Museum
student at the Melbourne School of Design, University of
of Contemporary Art), tutored by the philosopher Paul B.
Melbourne, who deeply values architecture’s potential for
Preciado. She was recently a postgraduate at the Centre
boundless curiosity and lateral inquiry. She applauds the
for Research Architecture (Visual Cultures Department)
discipline’s innate reliance upon a collaborative spirit and
at Goldsmiths University of London, directed by Susan
sees endless possibilities for the interweaving of archi-
Schuppli and Eyal Weizman. She is currently developing
tecture within a rich tapestry of creative, interdisciplinary
her practice-led PhD in arts and sciences, focusing on the
expression. Establishing her own meandering desire lines,
geopolitics and spatial articulations of particle physics
Thandi earnestly pursues inventive, thoughtful, playful,
infrastructures. She can be found online at
and kind communications and storytelling within every-
www.blancapujals.com.
thing she does. Raphael Marius Schall is a graduate of the Technical Marie Le Rouzic, a creative designer and researcher with
University of Munich, where he focused on history, theory,
an education in applied arts and architecture, is a gradu-
and built heritage conservation. For his master’s thesis,
ate of École Boulle (Paris), Central Saint Martins (London),
he investigated the potential and possible constructions
and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her work
of design-build within existing building structures as an
explores perspectives that defy the anthropocentric model
interim use strategy. After finishing his bachelor’s degree
and enable collaborations within our ecosystems. As an
at the Leibniz University Hannover in 2017, he gained work
advocate for ecofeminism, she values fair and sustainable
experience in the field of architecture in Zurich before
approaches and emphasizes the design of innovative, eco-
starting his master’s studies in Munich in 2018. As part of
logically conscious living environments mindful of their
the master’s program, he studied at KTH Royal Institute of
contexts and users.
Technology for a year and was part of the Infrastructure Cares studio. Since 2021, he has been working as a junior
Blanca Pujals is an architect, spatial researcher, and critical
architect in Munich.
writer. Her cross-disciplinary practice uses spatial research and critical analysis to engage with questions around the
S.O.C. (Société d’Objets Cartographiques) is a France-
geographies of power on bodies and territories, policies of
based studio of three architect-artists (http://s-o-c.fr). The
scientific and technological knowledge production, as well
studio’s main objective is to help foster exchanges among
as transnational politics, developing tools for undertaking
the arts, sciences, and architecture with long inquiries
analysis through different visual and sonic devices. Her
emerging from field practices and involving a network of
work encompasses film, architecture, lecturing, curatorial
actors from various disciplines. The S.O.C.’s current inqui-
projects, teaching, and critical writing. She received her BA
ries—Terra Forma, Où atterrir?, and Critical Zones—will be
represented by various multimedia objects (e.g.,
Škuc Gallery, and P74. She has published in
books, workshops, installations, cartographies).
peer-reviewed journals and in the edited vol-
The studio designed the installation CZO space
umes Material Matters: Architecture and Material
at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe,
Practice (Routledge, 2007) and Altering Practices:
for the exhibition Critical Zones: Observatories for
Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space (Routledge,
Earthly Politics (2020–2022), curated by Bruno
2007). Her artist’s books include The Day of the
Latour. Alexandra Arènes cofounded S.O.C. in
Duck (Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory,
2016 after years of practice in a landscape archi-
2018) and Mechanical Operations in Cambourne
tecture firm. She is a doctoral researcher at the
(Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, 2009).
University of Manchester. Her research interests
She can be found online at
include the impact of the Anthropocene on
www.helenstratford.co.uk.
landscape studies and visualizations. She is the author of Terra Forma: Manuel de cartographies potentielles (B42, 2019). Helen Stratford is an artist with a background in architecture. Located between art, performance, architecture, and writing, her practice and research embrace site-specific live events, video works, and speculative writing that search for modalities to expand architectural conventions. Currently a lecturer in architecture at Sheffield Hallam University, she completed her PhD, “Feminist Performative Architectures: Making Place in and with Public Space,” at Sheffield University in 2021. She has held residencies at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wysing Arts Centre, METAL, g39, Oriel Davies, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the Center for Contemporary Arts Celje. A member of the Taking Place feminist architecture collective, her research has been presented at the Oslo Architecture Triennale, Floating University Berlin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, National Theatre, Royal Institute of British Architects, Tate Modern, Institute of Contemporary Arts London,
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A Ableist 123 Active form 15, 179 Affect 11‑14, 27-31, 64, 74, 76, 122-12, 127, 176, 246, 272-274, 288 Agency 14, 38, 41, 140, 143, 163, 179, 208-209, 231, 293, 323, 342343 Agential realism 432-434 Agricultural 28, 145, 155, 157, 194, 263, 321, 344-345, 354 Ahmed, Sara 141 Algorithmic 263-264 Alice in Wonderland 366 Amin, Ash 14, 167, 179, 281, 284 Animal 117, 223-230, 274, 321, 324, 354 Anthropocene 24, 37, 118, 131, 213, 273-277, 329, 339, 366, 371372 Anthropogenic Ruins 161 Archipelago 169, 239-259, 269, 278, 307, 333-334, 354 Architectures, Abandoned 229, 236 Archival 240, 272 Arizona 143-145, 154-157 Assemblages 17, 88, 167, 176, 179, 229, 263, 276, 281, 303, Asylum 302-304 Atmosphere 96, 144, 213, 257, 360, 364-367, 386 B Barad, Karen 223, 229, 242-243, 385 Bhandar, Brenna 145, 340 Bird 41-42, 247, 256, 258, 270, 345,
Bird Rose, Deborah 28, 39, 162 Bodorff, Ulla 310-328 Bodies, Bronze and Stone 115135 Bodies, Nonliving 119, 125-126, 129, 135 Border 156, 175, 199, 202-206, 297-298, 301-302, 305, 382-383, 386 Braae, Ellen 316 Brewing 39, 42 C Capitalism, Fossil 118 Capitalocene 213, 229, 273-275, 282-283, 339 Care 13-26, 30-32, 43-44, 47-49, 55-60, 67-71, 115-135, 139-141, 161-163, 241, 245, 271, 275, 284285, 297, 333 Care Ethics 17-18, 26, 31, 126 Care, Labor of 128, 130 Care, Monument 116-117 Care, Sensibility 56 Caring 26, 48, 122-126, 131, 139140, 208, 285 Cartography 367 Casa Grande 143, 154-157 Cementa 189-190 CERN 377, 380-383 City, Preemptive 291-293 City, Smart 11, 14, 62-63 Classification 322-323 Clay 341-342, 346, 348 Cleaning 58, 128, 226, 235-236 Climate 28-29, 37, 39, 120, 158159, 194, 208-209, 213, 265, 278, 293, 219, 242, 248-249, 355, 371 Condorelli, Céline 15-17, 168 Consumption 199, 240, 265, 348,
353-354, Colonial, Colonialism 13, 117-119, 133-134, 143-145, 154-159, 196, 199, 203-206, 211, 240-243, 263, 271, 277, 279, 285, 297, 303-304, 329, 340-344, 348-349 Colonization 12-13, 33, 194, 198, 280 Colonizers 205, 242, 305 Commemorative 115, 269, Communities 45, 60, 274, 282, Communities, Migrant 60, 64 Contemporanea 169, 173-181 Copper 130, 324 Cowan, Stuart 45 Cowen, Deborah 158 Critical Practice 36-37, 227 Critical Zone 358-359, 365-367 D Dam 161 Daston, Lorraine 328 Data 55, 61-63, 64, 110, 256, 263-265, 302, 318, 361-365, 372, 377-380 Data Center 11, 61, 64, 263-265 Data Personal 264 Data Waste 264-265 Decolonial 13, 122 Deep Time 162–163, 342 Desert 32-33, 143-145, 154-158, 196-199, 202-207 Desert Landscape 143, 154, 156 Development 13, 29, 32, 62, 120, 130, 140-141, 145, 154-157, 189, 194-196, 202, 291, 313-316, 331, 340-341, 348-349, 381 Digital Lives 265 Diplomacy 213 Dirt 55, 92, 206, 235-236
Dirty Resilience 235 Disposition 14-15, 23, 27, 69, 177180, 186, 284 Drainage 339, 342, 344 Duck 41, 223-231 Duck, Muscovy 32, 223-231 Ducklands 38-42 Dust 32-33, 70, 143-145, 156-159, 181, 198-199, 207, 236 Dust Storm 143, 157-158 Dystopia 39 E Easterling, Keller 14, 179, 209 Ecocide 117 Ecological 28, 37, 41, 44-45, 105, 123-125, 145, 158, 163, 194-196, 229, 265, 274, 312, 320, 323, 328330, 341, 343, 353-354, 385 Ecological preservation 312 Ecological infrastructure 329 Economic 9, 14, 125, 145, 154155, 157, 193-194, 196, 213, 223224, 292, 315, 322, 333, 353 Education 38, 49, 64, 122, 129, 135, 312, Education, Design 43, 264 Edwards, Paul N. 317 Eel Trap 12 Empirical 38-39, 319 Environmental Awareness 353 Environmental Futures 46 Environmental Humanities 27-29, 37-39, 116 Environmental Imaginaries 37-39, 47 Environment, Natural 48, 319 Environment, Hybrid Urban 378 Epistemologies, Noongar 343
Index
Ethnocide 117 Ethnography 39, 65, 67 Ethnography, Patchwork 67 Extinction 46, 117, 213, 271, Extraction 126, 134, 145, 194-201, 236, 250, 265, 277, 320-321, 324325, 341, 349, 378 F Face 297, 299–302, 304–305 Factory 189, 250, 253, 274, 288 Factory, Cement 190, 321 Failure 17, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 59, 74, 205, 207-209, 291, 371 Failing 15, 26, 56, Fanon, Frantz 301-302 Feminism 21, 43, 176, 228, 232, 236, 378 Feminist 13, 18, 27, 28, 29, 43, 59, 60, 67, 76, 105, 116, 119, 122, 124126, 131, 135, 176, 225, 229, 230, 273, 281, 343 Feminist Critical Practice 227 FictoFicto-critical 47, 255, 270 Ficto-visual 240 Fiction 39, 44, 211, 213, 226, 228, 274, 278, 288, 299, 311 Field Research 132 Fieldwork 66, 67, 116, 144, 240, 242, 255, 284, 311, 321, 357 Fisher, Berenice 125, 126, Folly 24, 69, 141 Fuller, Buckminster 9, Futures 24, 39, 41, 46, 63, 144, 161-162
Gardens 226, 271, 274, 282, 283, 312, 315-316, 345, 346 Genocide 117, 131, 246 Geography 15, 209, 240, 241, 308, 322, 328, 366 Geology 69, Ghosn, Rania 31, 211, Gordon, Avery 117, 134, Grid 78, 150, 171, 172, 174, 175, 179, 293 Grounding, Un-grounding 38, 145, 273 H Haraway, Donna 39, 40, 42, 48, 67, 211, 213, 229, 230, 271, 273-275, 277, 282-83, 288, 365, 378 Hardt, Michael 22, 168, 176-177 Hardware Stores 71 Hate 197, 297-298, 305 Haunted 117, 132 Haunting 117-118, 132, 134-135 Hedrén, Johan 37, Heritage 130, 132-133, 225, 283, 312, 323, History 18, 24, 55-56, 61, 62, 115–120, 125-126, 131-134, 156, 185, 194, 198, 211, 256, 279, 297, 305, 319, 341, 346, 371-372 History, Feminist 116, 126, 131, 135 Höhler, Sabine 319, 322 Housing, Affordable 14, 307 Hui, Yuk 329-330 Hydrological 156, 341, 348-349 Hydrophobia 339
G Garage 32, 166-186
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I Imaginaries Imaginaries, Environmental 3739, 47, 49, 159 Imaginaries, Sociocultural 37-39, 46, 49, 159, 241, 255, 272, 318, Imagination 9, 25, 33, 102, 240, 246, 298, 304, 365, 386 Indigenous 12, 59, 154-155, 195, 206, 283, 284, 320, 340, 342-343, 346, 349, Industrial 140, 145, 161-162, 189-190, 194, 197, 202, 212, 272, 281, 321, 329, 330, 339, 346, 354, 364, Industrial Sites 189, 229, Industrialization 118, 277-278 Information 33, 59, 65, 129, 133, 234, 252, 254, 264-265, 271, 311, 377, 379, 380 Infrastructural planning 315 Infrastructural systems 9, 11, 1416, 18, 27, 30, 71, 122, 167-168, 213, 229 Infrastructuralization 116, 122123, 125, 129 Infrastructure, Data 59 Infrastructure, Ecological 329 Infrastructure, Failing 56 Infrastructure, Green 312 Infrastructure, Hard 143 Infrastructure, Hydraulic 155-156 Infrastructure, Interrupting 115, 156, 122, 130, 143-144, 158, Infrastructure, Modern 130, 143144, 158 Infrastructure, Quantum 385-386 Infrastructure, Scientific 378, 380-381, 384, Infrastructure, Social 226, 230-
231, 271, 281, 284 Infrastructure, Social and Material 231, 271 Infrastructure, Subterranean 378 Installation 60, 173, 175, 177, 240, 358-359, 365-367 Instrument Station 358, 361 Intersectional 27, 122, 209 Iran 193-195 Islands 239, 241-243, 245-247, 278, 334 J Joy 33, 270, 319 Jazairy, El Hadi 31, 211 Järvafältet 311-314, 316, 319320, 324, 328-330 K Khuzestan 195, 197-199 Knowledge, Situated 40, 49 L Labor 21, 25, 56, 58-60, 64, 67, 69, 70, 77, 128-129, 130, 140-141, 269-271, 273-274, 276-279, 282, 285, 288, 308, 319 LaDuke, Winona 158-159 Landscape 9, 18, 25, 33, 64, 67, 70, 77, 109, 139, 140-141, 143-145, 150, 154, 156-157, 159, 161, 162, 165, 167, 169, 195-197, 203-204, 207-208, 229, 230, 236, 241, 246, 273, 275-276, 280, 310-313, 315-325, 328-331, 341-343, 346, 357-359, 361, 385 Landscape surveying 312 Landscape inventory 310-313, 315, 318, 322-323, 329 Landscape ecology 320, 329-330
Landscape, Modern 313, 318, 322 Landscapes, Welfare 317 Larkin, Brian 13 Latour, Bruno 41, 357, 365, 380381 Le Guin, Ursula 39, 40, 44, 47, 288, 297 Linné, Carl von 322 Love 12, 14-15, 17-18, 21-24, 30-31, 33, 38-39, 42-43, 49, 50, 55, 69, 71, 120, 139, 168-169, 176-177, 180, 186, 193, 197, 208209, 228, 231, 271, 283-284, 288, 297-298, 305, 339 M Machines 141, 265, 275, 281, 315, 324, 362, 383, 386 Maintainers 56-59 Maintenance 9, 13, 23, 30-32, 45, 54-61, 71, 120-121, 123, 128, 130, 133, 140-141, 176-177, 213, 226, 230 Map 165, 316, 323, 325, 353, 361, 367, 377 Mapping 33, 55, 65, 68, 109, 167, 173, 311, 312, 318, 323-324, 359 Marble 119, 130, 133 Markelius, Sven 314, Marx, Karl 319, 346, 380 Masterplan 223-225 Materialism, New 27-29, 70, 342344 Matter 19, 22, 29, 30, 108, 117, 126, 134, 144, 195, 197, 223, 226, 229, 235-236, 239, 255, 257-259, 264, 269, 277, 282, 303, 318, 320, 343, 377-378, 385-386 Matter, Organic 144 Matter, Nonliving 115-116, 119,
125-126, 129, 135 Mbembe, Achille 135, 274, 276277 Memorialization 128 Messy 17, 44-46, 92, 144, 225, 227 Microns 144 Middle East 199, 204, 303, 383384 Migrant 25, 60, 64, 226, 231 Military Base 255, 324-325, 333, 353-354 Miljonprogram 312 Mine 62, 195, 282, 378 Mining 106, 117, 130, 154-155, 353, Mirage 156, 192, 196-197, 203206, 208-209, 263 Modernity 9, 117, 129, 154, 158, 176, 196-197, 204, 207-208, 277278, 304, 312, 317, 330, 385, 388 Monuments 115-117, 119-121, 124, 129-135, 167, 190, 316, 371 More-than-human 11, 19, 24, 27-28, 91, 141, 161, 163, 273, 275, 343-344, 349, 378, 386, 389 Moretti, Luigi 166-167, 169-172 Multispecies 39, 163, 274-275, 282 Museum 48, 62, 129, 135, 173, 320, 341, 343, 358-362, 365 N Natural, Systems 157, 329, 371 Natural, Environment 48, 317, 319 Natural-Ecological Values 320 Nature-culture 229-230, 272, 313-314, 330, 342 Naturecultures 228 Negarestani, Reza 195, 199, 205 Negri, Antonio 22, 168, 176-177
Index
Neimanis, Astrid 37, 39, 46-47, 339 Network 11-12, 14, 25-26, 32, 68, 89, 154, 156, 167-168, 170, 196197, 239, 242, 246, 273, 279, 314315, 318-319, 341-342, 357-358, 376-379, 386 Neutrinos 377-381, 383-384, 387 Non-Human 39, 111, 227-232, 235, 343-344, 365 Noongar 342-344, 350 O Observatories 356-360, 367, 369, 377, 379 Oil 194-199, 202-209, 318 Ontological 125, 127, 129, 130, 168, 176, 343-344, 349, 378, Ontology 119, 121, 123, 245, 264265, 282, 343 Ontology, Data 264 Ontology, Drain 339-340, 348-349 Other 24-25, 28, 32, 43-44, 115, 117, 123, 162, 211, 228-229, 231, 242-243, 274, 297-305 P Pandemic 25, 56-58, 69, 163, 184, 250, 308 Parody 213, 226-227, 230, Participation 38-39, 229, 265, 300, 379, 381 Participation, Nonhuman 265 Patriarchy 118, 133 Pattern 8, 13-14, 48, 150, 167, 213, 257-258, 281, 314, 330 Pedagogy 29, 31, 43, 55, 64 Pedagogies 11, 43, 56, 64, Pedagogies, Feminist 43 Pedagogies, Critical 64, 66, 68 Performance 60, 173, 188, 227-
228 Performance, Infrastructural 139140 Performativity 18, 29, 69, 121, 139, 179, 223, 230, 276 Peripheries 130, 158, 169, 189190, 242, 244, 330 Petrocultures 197, 203, 208-209, Phenomenology, Queer 141 Physics, Quantum 343, 385 Pigeons 32, 235-236 Pigeons, Cleaning 93, 235-236 Pipes, Pipeline 13, 122, 154, 156, 170, 195, 197, 199, 203, 206-207, 280, 339, 341, 346, 349 Planetary 15, 24, 117, 163, 239, 246, 272, 274, 320, 329, 339, 380381, 386 Plantationocene 268, 272-277, 280-283, 288-289 Poetic pragmatics 29-30, 172 Pollutants 236, 364 Pollution 189, 195, 198, 204, 232, 236, 367 Posthumanties 18, 27-29, 37-38, 50, 223, 232, 255, 265 Posthumanities, Critical 18, 27-29, 37-38, 50, 223, 232 Postindustrial 161, 229, 235 Preservation 58-59, 116, 213, 229, 312, 320, 330, 333 Price, Cedric 38, 41, 343 Production 49, 57, 71, 123, 154155, 159, 167, 177, 189-190, 195, 198, 213, 265, 276, 319, 340, 346, 353-354, 379 Production, Industrial 189-190 Property 13, 145, 154, 173, 269, 276, 313, 340, 346, 383, 385 Property Rights 383
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Property Law 155, 341, 383 Provision 26, 58, 121, 125, 132133, 232, 271, 274, 282-285, 288, 349, 385 Publics 63, 125, 206, 227 Public 9, 11, 14, 22, 26, 41, 45, 71, 77, 115, 117-120, 122, 124132, 135, 145, 155, 161, 171, 177, 223-232, 242, 315, 353-354, 358, 380-381, 383 Public Defecation 223 Public Space 129, 135, 170, 223232 Public Works 9, 14 Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria 17-19, 40, 139, 275, 378 Purity 225, 233, 349 Q Queer 116, 141, 229 R Racialized 117, 124, 276, 301-303 Racism 117, 119, 135, 278, 297, 301, 341 Refugee 298, 305 Relations 12-15, 18-19, 21-23, 28-29, 30, 57, 68, 70, 83, 111, 133, 144, 163, 190, 196, 211, 213, 230, 232, 235, 271, 274-275, 277, 280285, 289, 304, 314-315, 320, 325, 330, 339, 344, 346, 349, 354, 381, Relations, Diplomatic 213 Relations, Ecological 15, 19, 26, 29, 46, 144, 163, 230, 235, 271, 282-283, 344 Repair 23, 30-32, 54-60, 71, 120, 123, 133, 274, 349, 378 Residency 223-225, 229-230, 232 River 12, 33, 41-42, 155-156, 193195, 199, 208-209, 223, 225, 263,
318, 341, 344, 358-362 Rome 119, 165-167, 169, 170-171, 177, 185-186, 190 S Sandstorm 162, 192, 196-199, 202-203, 208-209 Settler Colonialism 145, 154, 156157, 159, 277, 349 Seychelles 269-270, 278-280, 283-285 Sensor 59, 63, 378-379 Sensing 27, 33, 328, 376, 380, 386 Science Fiction 39, 44, 211, 213, 299 Sciences 39, 56, 66, 383, 385 Sciences, Earth 322, 365 Sciences, Natural 384 Scientific 40, 144, 273, 277, 322, 357, 365, 377-386 Scientific Spaces 378 Scientific Discourse 144 Sculpture 118, 129-130 Settler 144-145, 154-159, 242, 277, 283, 340-341, 343-344, 348349 Sewers 340, 349 Shipping 14, 64, 302 Situated Knowledges 40, 49, Simone, AbdouMaliq 14, 223, 226, 232, 280 Sludge 192, 196, 199, 205-209 Smart City 11, 55, 62-63 Sociological miniaturism 158 Sociocultural 37, 281 Socioenvironmental 159 Sociopolitical 28, 104, 158, 281, 385, Soil 13, 140-141, 144, 157, 170, 199, 203, 250, 253, 273-275, 283285, 311, 320, 324, 344-345, 348,
357-361, 363-365, 367, 386 Soil Times 141 Solà-Morales, Manuel de 323 Speculative 11, 21, 26, 31, 37-38, 139, 161, 190, 211, 213, 274 Stengers, Isabelle 26, 40, 76, 288, 357, 365, 386 Stockholm 26, 29, 31, 33, 38, 49, 75, 79, 81, 84-87, 89-90, 93, 99, 140, 168, 189-190, 211-212, 291, 301, 307-308, 311-314, 316, 319320, 322, 328, 333-334, 354, 371 Stories 32, 38-42, 44-47, 67, 111, 135, 145, 156, 161-162, 186, 193, 255, 284-285, 288-289, 304, 325, 359, 372 Stories, Architectural 42, 44 Stories, Geological 162 Storying 30, 39, 41, 44, 163 Storytelling 19, 36, 38-40, 42, 44, 49, 76, 213, 241, 274 Strait of Hormuz 238-242, 246, 254-255 Stranger 299, 301-302, 305 Subjectivity 40, 144, 277 Superstructure 380 Support structure 17, 164, 168, 179-180, 186, 199, 203 Support system 11, 14-16, 27, 109, 141, 174, 229, 272, 318, Systems 9, 11-12, 14-18, 26-27, 30, 65, 67, 71, 109-111, 117, 120, 122, 132, 144, 157-159, 162, 167169, 193, 196, 211, 213, 271-272, 280-281, 311, 316, 318-319, 328, 330, 340, 343-344, 349, 354, 371, 378, 385, 387 Szeman, Imre 205, 206-208 Sörlin, Sverker 325
T Technical 14, 25, 37, 46, 71, 177, 226, 312-313, 316, 322-325, 328, 330, 359, Technical environments 313 Technical landscapes 325 Technobureaucratic 143, 157 Technocratic 40, 348, Technologies 15, 25, 61-63, 69, 111, 118, 155, 264, 277, 280, 319, 325, 330, 334, 379, Technologies, Digital 61, 354 Technologies, Environing 325, 328, 330 Technospaces 377 Techno-organism 379, 386 Terraforming 325 Territory 32, 60, 109, 143, 145, 154-155, 174, 311-312, 316, 323, 325, 330, 365, 382, Territorial 13, 108, 110-112, 154, 241, 246, 313, 315, 320, 333, 385 Topography 18, 152, 157, 311, 314, 358-359 Tourism 178, 193, 307-308, 333, 122 Transnational 241, 377-380, 382386 Tronto, Joan 18, 125-126, 131 Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt 39-40, 42, 46, 76, 271, 274-277, 282 U Ugly 235, 297 Ukeles, Mierle Laderman 60, 140 Underground 33, 161, 166, 169171, 177-178, 184-186, 197, 334, 363, 371-372, 377-378, 383, 386 Unheimlich 123, 134, 305 Universe 367, 377-378
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Urban Design 37, 38, 313-314, 320, 331 Urban Life 167, 236 Urbanism 170, 236, 320, 330 Urbanism, Interior 167-168 Urbanism, Landscape 320 Urbanism, Metabolic 320 Urbanization 115, 118, 122-123, 190, 206, 319-321, 325, 330, 342 Utopia 9, 39, 47, 62, 204-205, 278 Utopia, Urban 9 Utopias, Lived 47
Z Zitouni, Benedikte 39-42 Zayandeh Rud 193-194, 209 Å Åsberg, Cecilia 29, 37, 39, 46
V Van der Ryn, Sim 37 Van Dooren, Thom 39, 44, 163 Violence 117-118, 123, 126, 132135, 176, 197-199, 202-203, 288, 303, 340, 344, 349, 383, Volcanic 161-162, 170 W Wadawurrung 162 Waste 45, 48, 65, 69, 92, 235, 264265, 318, 325, 339, 341, 343, 345, 371, Watershed 155, 357-363 Wedge, Green 312, 314, 319-322, 325, 328-330 Welfare Landscapes 316 Welfare Planning 313, 317 Wetlands 33, 46, 195, 199, 341342, 345, 348 Wilkinson, Eleanor 22, 176 Wormbs, Nina 325, 328 World-Making 41-45, 49 Y Yusoff, Kathryn 24, 277, 283
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