Spectres
MUDE – Museu do Design
Spectres investigates how the transformation of what we used to call the city into the technosphere is inextricable from both the imaginal technologies that guide extraction —remote sensing, thermal images, radar, sonar, lidar, ground-penetrating radar— and from the ghost acreages where energy and materials that sustain contemporary logistical capitalism emanate from.
How to sense the agency of the material dimensions of the contemporary city? How to become sensitive to the upheavals that are caused by its intensification? How to sense contemporaneity? What are the new ways through which we can understand the scale, diversity and magnitude of the Anthropocene? How to see these new dimensions? What to do with all our artefacts and accumulating materials? How to imagine different and diversified rhythms of change in the built environment and in the biosphere?
How Heavy Is a City? becomes a question that places architecture as both the object and method of an inquiry into the challenges of climate chaos: it is the object on display and investigated in its material configurations, and it is through architecture that we venture into the issue of expansion of the contemporary city onto all existing territories it cuts across.
MUDE – Museu do Design
Spectres investigates how the transformation of what we used to call the city into the technosphere is inextricable from both the imaginal technologies that guide extraction —remote sensing, thermal images, radar, sonar, lidar, ground-penetrating radar— and from the ghost acreages where energy and materials that sustain contemporary logistical capitalism emanate from.
How to sense the agency of the material dimensions of the contemporary city? How to become sensitive to the upheavals that are caused by its intensification? How to sense contemporaneity? What are the new ways through which we can understand the scale, diversity and magnitude of the Anthropocene? How to see these new dimensions? What to do with all our artefacts and accumulating materials? How to imagine different and diversified rhythms of change in the built environment and in the biosphere?
How Heavy Is a City? becomes a question that places architecture as both the object and method of an inquiry into the challenges of climate chaos: it is the object on display and investigated in its material configurations, and it is through architecture that we venture into the issue of expansion of the contemporary city onto all existing territories it cuts across.