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- Ecologies of Excess
[Ecologies of Excess - The Research/ Designers. Poster by: Eva Franch Gilabert]
Excess typically implies in addition to what is required, a by-product, or residue. The continual growth model of our economic system produces a vast amount of excess. Could excess become part of a larger productive system if it was put to work? This [...]
- Re-Link: The Physcial Network of Data
[The global network of submarine cables as it existed in 1901.]
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 Ali Fard.
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With an estimated 1,733,993,741 users and a global growth rate of 380% since 2000 [...]
- 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 [...]
- Stored Potential
[The 62-interlocked concrete silos as seen from I-80, Omaha, Nebraska. Courtesy flickr user bnmelvin.]
It is a typical North American scene: the hulking iconic residue of 20th-century industrial farming sitting there mocking any would-be re-user. Demolition costs are considerable enough that across North America, these monoliths have sat there vacant, unused, and on very few occassions [...]
- Frozen Cities / Liquid Networks. (air)port & Infrastructural Autonomy
[Air/Port, a new infrastructure for Igloolik. Image courtesy of Lubell and Phull]
The melting of the polar caps will not only open up new shipping routes such as the North-West and Northern Passage, it has the potential to connect existing communities in the Arctic to a larger network of distribution. Presently, most Arctic communities depend [...]
- Frozen Cities Liquid Networks: Landjacking the Mackenzie
[The amphibious landscape of Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories]
At 4,200 kilometres in length, the Mackenzie River in North-western Canada is one of the longest rivers in the world (11th). Its watershed, 1.8 million square kilometres in size, drains one-fifth of the country. The River, whose headwaters begin in the Peace and Athabasca rivers, [...]
- Geoengineering After the Tipping Point
[Eruption of Mount Pinatubo pumped large quantities of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, effectively changing the climate]
The increasing speed that climate change is impacting our globe, coupled with slow transformations of lifestyle and policy to radically reduce GHG emissions, have prompted many climate change scientists to (re)consider Geoengineering, A.K.A planetary climate-engineering, to rapidly cool the [...]
- Hygeia: A City of Health, 1876
[Hygeia: A City of Health Re-Imagination of the 20th Century by Joshua Arnold, completed under Norman Klein while at SciArc, 2005.]
Dr. Benjamin Richardson conceived of a city of health called Hygeia in 1876. Dr Richardson is an M.D., and he calculated a death rate for Hygeia of 8 per 1,000 in the first generation and [...]
