Fall 2019

Edited by Nicholas Pevzner & Stephanie Carlisle

Infrastructure is always political, and energy transitions have always been contested, pitting established players against upstart technologies and new coalitions. How can a radical reimagining of energy infrastructure create opportunities for an inclusive and participatory conversation about climate change and social justice? Who has the power to talk about infrastructure, and who gets left out?

Introduction: Power

Nicholas Pevzner & Stephanie Carlisle

Community Power As Provocation: Local Control For Resilience And Equity

José Juan Terrasa-Soler and Daniela Lloveras-Marxuach

Our Energy For Our Country

Arturo Massol-Deyá

Speculative Designs For Energy Democracy

Nicholas Pevzner

The TVA, Fuzzy Spaces Of Power, And Other Purposes

Micah Rutenberg

The Missouri River Basin: Water, Power, Decolonization, And Design

Kees Lokman

Power Plant Power

Salvador Lindquist and Eric Minton

Arctic Present: The Case Of Teriberka

Viktoria Khokhlova

Coal Ash Wastescapes: The Byproduct Of Our Coal-Fired Power Dependency

Lauren Delbridge

Biomass For All: Designing An Inclusive Biomass Infrastructure

Julie Marin, Charlotte Timmers and Bruno De Meulder

China’s Giant Transmission Grid Could Be The Key To Cutting Climate Emissions

James Temple

2050 – An Energetic Odyssey: Persuasion By Collective Immersion

Dirk Sijmons and Maarten Hajer

The Blue Lagoon: From Waste Commons To Landscape Commodity

Catherine De Almeida

Territory Of Extraction: The Crude North

Michael W. Smith

Daylighting Conflict: Board Games As Decision-Making Tools

Janette Kim

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Can networks and logistics of extraction engender city making? With a lush combination of photography, rich narrative, design provocations and critical theory and history, ‘The Petropolis of Tomorrow’ explores the logics, logistics, and architectural possibilities of the floating mechanical islands that will serve Brazil's emerging offshore oil boom.

Museum of Lost Volumes

by Neyran Turan

After a long meeting, the unanimous vote was held to ban further Rare Earth mining and to build a museum that would house and preserve remaining Rare Earth mines of the world, and would carry their legacy to future generations.

The Hole World: Scales and Spaces of Extraction

by Gavin Bridge

Landscapes of energy extraction are portals, wormholes between two worlds in which time and space work differently.

Energy extraction from wind: marine re-territorialization in the North Sea

by Claudia Bode

The deployment of offshore wind power on a massive scale is driving new forms of marine management and cartographic representation, and upending traditional ideas about what constitutes national territory.

Wild Innovation: Stoss in Detroit

by Jill Desimini

In the context of decreasing physical density, decentralization and sprawl, landscape has been found by many as a medium affording a unique traction on the problematics of the contemporary city.

Segunda Vida: an Architecture of Resilience

by Mike Yengling

In a reversal of the predominant U.S.-Mexico border dynamic, building materials — and even entire buildings — make the migration across the border to Tijuana, becoming ingredients of a vibrant construction sector.

Information Anxiety: Towards Understanding

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Communication is equivocal. We are limited by a language where words may mean one thing to one person and quite something else to another. The founder of TED conferences, Richard Saul Wurman examines the architecture of communication.

One Percent: Mining Bone Valley

by Rob Holmes, Lauren Sosa & Christie Allen

Florida is the epicenter of phosphate mining in the United States. The sheer scale of the impact of this extraction on the Floridian landscape is immense. As it grows, phosphate mining is producing enormous accidental monuments to the current American way of life.

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