Atmospheric infrastructures to deal with the toxic air in a common world

Abstract

Air pollution is making visible that we cannot take the air for granted, and the geoengineering projects that aim to clean it are not the solution. To claim the air as a global common might create a different type of awareness, and yet, what are the infrastructures needed to do so? After specifying how infrastructures and the commons might be imagined otherwise, the design, construction and encounters with the atmospheric infrastructure Yellow Dust will reveal how experimental infrastructures might not "solve the problem" of air pollution, but are opportunities to think on how to have a better air, as well as on how to (better) live in a shared world.