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- Student Works: Edible Corridors
[A proposal for the ONE Prize by Drew Adams, Fadi Masoud, Denise Pinto, Karen May, and Jameson Skaife titled Growing the Hydro Fields approporaites hydrocorridors as cultivatable public lands.]
Coming off the contagious energy of the Foodprint.TO event last weekend, and the whirlwind of conversations (now thankfully on video) on Toronto’s food infrastructures, it was a [...]
- Urban Incubators: Xiamen
[Xiamen, China: London Met, Unit 8-CHORA’s site of enquiry on large-scale carbon emission reduction.]
Increasingly, carbon emission issues will need to be addressed at a very large, even regional and urban, scale to offset a downward spiral. And nowhere is this more pressing than in parts of rapidly-developing China. London Metropolitan University’s Unit 8, led by [...]
- Carp: Invasive Species and Waterway Augments
[Here, and then gone. Recently, no Asian Carp were found among the more than 100,000 pounds of fish collected during a week-long fish kill on the Little Calumet River. Where are they now?]
Editors Note: File under Feedback: Architecture’s New Territories, an InfraNet Lab seminar at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design / University of [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
