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Scaffolding, Hard and SoftInfrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures

Shannon Matternwordsinspace.net

@shannonmattern


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Infrastructure as a Critical Structure


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Harvard GSD, Landscape Futures

A Deeper, Networked Media History


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Telegraph Wires + Train Tracks;Fiber Optic Cables in Parisian Sewers


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Media Networked Across Scale


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Ben Millen, iPhone Deconstruction [/Archaeology]
http://www.benmillen.com/portfolio/?p=155http://www.benmillen.com/portfolio/?p=155


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VirtualitysMaterial Scaffolding


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Human Infrastructure


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Via Michael Chen + Justin Snider, Signal Space Urban Omnibus
http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/http://urbanomnibus.net/2011/07/signal-space/


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Agbogbloshie dump, in Accra, Ghana. Andrew McConnell


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Subjective Cartographies: Mapping Telecom Infrastructure in Bangalore
http://bangalore.metamap.fr/http://bangalore.metamap.fr/


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Infrastructure as a Generative Structure


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Itemizing the

Accoutrements

of Scholarship,via Things Organized

Neatly


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Thank you.Shannon Mattern

wordsinspace.net

@shannonmattern

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