LECTURES
THE AFORMAL ARMATURES OF A NEW AUTONOMOUS URBANISM
Jason Hilgefort [Institute for Autonomous Urbanism] Amsterdam / The Netherlands
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The recent emergence of imbricating Dispersed Infrastructures frames a moment in time where we can fundamentally reconceive how we make, fund, and even reconceptualize the form of world surrounding us. The shifting technologies of the moving parts of the twentieth-century city – i.e. cars and elevators – reformed our now Constellated Cities. What are the spatial implications of these emergent hubs for digital transactions, photovoltaics, drones, etc? If we no longer necessitate roads, power grids, market halls,
and knowledge flows through the air - what space remains for society? How do we as spatial practitioners set up armatures within the possibilities of a new Autonomous Urbanism? AN AUTONOMOUS URBANISM
Cities began as a simple collection of individuals sharing common elements to each other’s benefit. They have slowly evolved to include mega-regional, multimodal, geographically carpeting spaces facilitated by vast infrastructural, capital, and political networks.
