Keller Easterling: Extrastatecraft – The Logistics of the Next Economy
Friday, May 6, 20165:30 PMCEST
| Fenixloods II, Paul Nijghkade 19
Rotterdam, NLRelated
Infrastructure space is not an infrastructure of pipes and wires under the ground, but something like an operating system for shaping the city. It is coded with laws, econometrics, informatics, global standards and formulas for making spatial products. Everybody has seen it: the cartoon of skyscrapers, malls, resorts, franchises, parking lots, golf courses, airports and airport lounges, free zones. Not an infrastructure that is hidden – far from it – it is pressing into view and everywhere looking the same, whether it is in Texas or in Taiwan. Some of the world’s most radical changes are being written in the language of this matrix space, so much so that is has become a de facto medium of polity. It is the secret weapon of some of the world’s most powerful players.
In this Next Talk at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, writer, urbanist and architect at Yale, Keller Easterling addresses infrastructure space as a structuring element in the Next Economy. How can we connect the digital infrastructure to the physical infrastructure? How can we reconfigure this generic operating system to develop socially inclusive and environmentally sound urban economies?
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