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Cristina Nan, Valentina Mihaylova, Josh Black, Fritz Holtgrewe, Talha Malik, Shankar Mall, Harry Eddolls, Elsa Konkka.

Cristina Nan

20-22 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
This work is the output of a 4 years investigation which I am leading as a Lecturer in Design and Digital Fabrication at the University of Edinburgh. The work is the specific output of PG students.

Call for ideas 2020

Superinfrastructures.


Cohabitation Strategies for Human Conditions and Machine Zones.

Superinfrastructures.


Cohabitation Strategies for Human Conditions and Machine Zones.
Conceptual propositions for speculative spatial innovation of superinfrastructures within the urban & non-urban.
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Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Radical changes in our lifestyle, triggered by hyper-digitalisation and hyper-consumerism lead to a massive expansion of a global infrastructures & their footprints, increasingly expanding within the (peri)urban and rural. The project addresses urgent issues related to infrastructural developments, territorial tensions and correlated scenarios of energy and mobility. This work leads to a new way of detecting (peri)urban & rural vulnerabilities in relation to socio-technological trends, induced through complex global interdependencies — economic, political, geographic, environmental — and their built manifestation as super-infrastructures. The formulation of innovative, collaborative cross-disciplinary approaches of addressing these within hyperlocal sites and contexts is aimed for. Through public disciplinary interrogation of neglected infrastructural zones, this phenomena can be scrutinised allowing for an understanding of yet unexplored causalities.

Superinfrastructures.


Cohabitation Strategies for Human Conditions and Machine Zones.

Superinfrastructures.


Cohabitation Strategies for Human Conditions and Machine Zones.
Conceptual propositions for speculative spatial innovation of superinfrastructures within the urban & non-urban.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Radical changes in our lifestyle, triggered by hyper-digitalisation and hyper-consumerism lead to a massive expansion of a global infrastructures & their footprints, increasingly expanding within the (peri)urban and rural. The project addresses urgent issues related to infrastructural developments, territorial tensions and correlated scenarios of energy and mobility. This work leads to a new way of detecting (peri)urban & rural vulnerabilities in relation to socio-technological trends, induced through complex global interdependencies — economic, political, geographic, environmental — and their built manifestation as super-infrastructures. The formulation of innovative, collaborative cross-disciplinary approaches of addressing these within hyperlocal sites and contexts is aimed for. Through public disciplinary interrogation of neglected infrastructural zones, this phenomena can be scrutinised allowing for an understanding of yet unexplored causalities.


Idea by

Cristina Nan, Valentina Mihaylova, Josh Black, Fritz Holtgrewe, Talha Malik, Shankar Mall, Harry Eddolls, Elsa Konkka.
Cristina Nan
20-22 Chambers Street
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
This work is the output of a 4 years investigation which I am leading as a Lecturer in Design and Digital Fabrication at the University of Edinburgh. The work is the specific output of PG students.