Dive into the archives.
- InfraNet Newsletter: Summer 2010
[WeatherField by Paisajes Emergentes + Lateral Office for the Land Art Generator Initiative, 2010.]
It has been a very exciting and busy summer at InfraNet Lab. We are delighted to announce a few recent projects–some completed, some on-going, and some only just starting. We have had a phenomenal team of InfraNetters this summer including: Fionn Byrne, [...]
- Foodprinting.TO
[Foodprint Toronto logo.]
We were excited to catch word a while back now that the fine folks that cooked up Foodprint NYC – Nicola Twillley and Sarah Rich – were exploring future locales to extend the foodprint series. Thankfully, Toronto has proven productive enough territory in which to host the second edition. And even better is [...]
- Expanded Territories
[99th Annual Conference, ACSA. Montreal, March 3-6, 2011.]
We are hosting a topic session at the 99th ACSA Annual Conference next March in Montreal. Our topic is titled Architecture’s Expanded Territories. If you are interested to submit a paper for the session (or any of the other great topics) read below for more. Here is how [...]
- Corn Belt 2.0: Syncing the Starchscape
[Mountain of Corn.]
Editors Note: File under Feedback: Architecture’s New Territories, an InfraNet Lab seminar at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design / University of Toronto. Guest post and images are by Matthew Spremulli. Matthew will be continuing this work in his MArch thesis, which will be blogged at the ever-expanding reField.
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Corn has unquestionably become [...]
- Border Economies: the Maquiladora Export Landscape
[An aerial view of a maquiladora park in Tijuana, Baja California del Norte; Mexico]
Editors Note: File under Feedback: Architecture’s New Territories, an InfraNet Lab seminar at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design / University of Toronto. Guest post and images are by Juan Robles.
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The ongoing processes of trade and communication that now integrate the [...]
- Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer
[Operations / Interior logistics at the Aalsmeer Flower auction, Aaalsmeer, The Netherlands. At 10.6 million ft2, it is the third largest building in the world.]
Editors Note: File under Feedback: Architecture’s New Territories, an InfraNet Lab seminar at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design / University of Toronto. Guest post and images are by Fei-Ling [...]
- InfraNet does HotDocs
[Chelyabinsk, Russia, a nuclear dumping site for decades, is the subject of the film Tankograd.]
Festival season is starting. In particular, we are excited about a slew of films that are part of the Canadian International Documentary Festival, nicknamed HotDocs, that runs April 29 – May 9, 2010 here in Toronto. With so many fascinating accounts [...]
- Feedback: Architecture’s New Territories
[InfraNet Lab Winter seminar, University of Toronto. Feedback: Architectures New Territories.]
Total Design has two meanings: first, what might be called the implosion of design, the focusing of design inward on a single intense point; second, what might be called the explosion of design, the expansion of design out to touch every possible point in the [...]
- Oil + Water
[Oil+Water Conference April 8-10, 2010.]
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UC-SB is presenting a series of fantastic events this year on the theme Oil+Water. With this event they turn to their own backyard: the case of Southern California. Oil + Water commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Santa Barbara oil spill, and provides an opportunity to [...]
- Crisis of Solutions / Opportunity of Crisis
[Crisis As Catalyst: The Annual Thesis Publication 2009, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design / University of Toronto.]
The Thesis publication this year, ANNUAL, has raised the stakes again. Below is a short piece I submitted to it, which asked for responses to the provocation of "crisis as catalyst."
The Crisis of Solutions / The Opportunity [...]
