Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems

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Infrastructure and Society This anthology radically resituates architecture as a support system in the service of infrastructure. A collection of 12 critical essays and creative projects explore the interaction between architectural spaces and infrastructural systems with the aim of responding to contemporary environmental, social, and political crises. In addition, the book presents a selection of 10 speculative design experiments undertaken in Critical Studies in Architecture at KTH Stockholm and within Design, Philosophy and Architecture at the University of Melbourne. With its integrative approach to pedagogy, practice, and theory the book contributes to an understanding of the vulnerability of planetary life and the importance of fostering relations of care in architecture. Infrastructure as an integral aspect of architecture Social and political contexts and suggestions for more relations of care From public, private, and commercial space to mobility and migration Contents Prologue Infrastructures Chapter 1 Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems Chapter 2 Architectural Storytelling: A Space between Critical Practice and Fragile Environments Chapter 3 Infrastructural Love in Times of COVID-19: Care, Repair, and Maintenance Taking Instructions Chapter 4 Implicated in Care, Haunted by Protection: The Violence of Bronze and Stone Bodies Project An Infrastructural Performance: Caring for the Posthuman Landscape Chapter 5 Interrupting Infrastructures: Dust in the Desert Project Infrastructural Remains: Caring for Anthropogenic Ruins Chapter 6 A Villa Borghese Love Story: The Parking Garage as Support Structure Project Moving Peripheries: The Concrete Circus Chapter 7 Sandstorm, Mirage, Sludge: Mourning for Dead Support Structures Project The Nonhuman Embassy: Representational Critters and Calamitous Diplomacy Chapter 8 A Day with a Duck Project The Cleaning Pigeons Chapter 9 On Mediums and Exchange: Narrative Flow in the Strait of Hormuz Project Is Data Brief? Chapter 10 Plantationocene Parable: Infrastructural Rhythms and After-Affects Project The Preemptive City Chapter 11 Bordered Imagination Project Utö Campus: Student Housing Infrastructure Chapter 12 A Landscape Inventory: Ulla Bodorff’s Mapping of the Järva Field Project Connecting Infrastructure Chapter 13 Drain Ontology Project Conversion of a Military Base: Reuse of Infrastructural Leftovers Chapter 14 The Critical Zone: Observatory Space Project After the Human: Monument to the Anthropocene Chapter 15 A Synthetic Universe: An Underground Network of Sensing Infrastructures Contributors Index