Sense-able Structures – Infrastructural Aesthetics

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Sense-able Structures – Infrastructural Aesthetics

Shannon Mattern
June 18, 2015
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There's been much recent interest in "making visible the invisible," in manifesting the "optics" of subterranean, covert, and seemingly immaterial infrastructures. In this talk, I begin by addressing what we can learn about urban infrastructure by engaging it with our "other" senses – by listening to it, touching it, even smelling and tasting it. I then examine how these aesthetics "scale down" by examining infrastructure of a smaller dimension: that of furniture. I share some preliminary case studies from my current research on "intellectual furnishings," which explores how the design of our media-organizational devices – from book stacks to computer server racks – scaffolds our media technologies, informs how bodies relate to those media, and embodies knowledge. These infrastructures, both physical and intellectual, are also simultaneously functional, affective and aesthetic.

The talk was given at the conference "Poetics of Infrastructure" in Vienna on December 13, 2014. This extract is part of the Issue Poetics of Infrastructure.