Interventions on design and political geography

Grove, Kevin; Krivý, Maroš; Rickards, Lauren; Schliwa, Gabriele; Collier, Stephen J.; Cox, Savannah; Gandy, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.04.009

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“…Large amounts of data generated in such venues serve strive to render animals trackable and therefore amenable to calculation and control. They feed into imaginaries of ‘data-behaviourism’ where design is flouted as a means of governing futures through ‘complexity’ rather than democratic dispute (Grove et al, 2019), while global automobile industries and ‘the fossil fuel-enabled circulation of goods and people characteristic of the Capitalocene’ proliferate ‘without disruption’ (White, 2020; n.p.). Furthermore, reconciliation infrastructures can serve to render animal mobility into use values for capital.…”

Section: Infrastructure As Medium: Non-human Habitusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, it invites analysis of the dynamics of non-human (im)mobility and flow, where long-standing engagements with cosmopolitan faunas (Clark, 2002; Crosby, 2004) can be brought into conversation with phenomenological takes on animals’ mobilities (Hodgetts and Lorimer, 2018; Lulka, 2013) and the wider biopolitics of governing bio-circulations (Braun, 2007). Second, it draws attention to a whole new arena of planning and design that seek to administer other-than-human life and actualize worlds, whether in a mode that is techno-managerial (Grove et al, 2019) or cosmopolitical (Metzger, 2019). Here, further investment in understanding animals as mediatic bodies, how they sense infrastructural worlds and are being deployed as sensing infrastructures, can be generative.…”

Section: A Wider Infrastructural Ontologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Infrastructure and non-human life: A wider ontology

Barua

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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This article develops a wider ontology of infrastructure. It argues that infrastructures not only hasten the flow of materials but produce non-human mobilities and immobilities that radically alter the dynamics of life. Infrastructures become a medium of life as natural and infrastructural ecologies meld, reorienting notions of design, architecture, planning and governance. Non-human life itself can be cast as infrastructure, with biopolitical implications for anticipating and managing the future. An infrastructural ontology moving beyond anthropocentric familiars generates new analytics and critical openings for the politics of governing human and non-human life.

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Section: Infrastructure As Medium: Non-human Habitusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Wider Infrastructural Ontologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructure and non-human life: A wider ontology

Barua

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…The concept of wicked problems is now routinely deployed in relation to any set of issues capable of being re-described in terms derived from new forms of complexity science and theories of resilience (Crowley & Head, 2017;Head & Alford, 2013;Peters, 2017). The renewal of interest in the concept of wicked problems is, then, one index of a widespread adoption of expansive concepts drawn from design thinking -broadly understood as a field of practice focused on developing participatory practices for imagining future scenarios (see Grove et al, 2019;Gründel, 2015). It is part of a wider movement in which a design imagination focused on learning through collaborative practices of prototyping and ongoing user-oriented testing has become a staple feature of both academic and policy discourses (see Zivkovic, 2018).…”

Section: The Career Of a Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

The wicked city: Genealogies of interdisciplinary hubris in urban thought

Barnett

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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the first two decades of the 21st century saw the consolidation in policy circles and public debate of what Waite and Morgan (2019) have called "metrophilia." Marked by a distinctive emphasis not just on challenges and problems but also on the opportunities and potentials of urbanisation, a "new conventional wisdom" identifies cities as empowered to respond creatively to a range of intersecting issues whose causes are not necessarily attributed to urbanisation at all (see Gordon & Buck, 2005). An assertive view of the multi-faceted potential of urban life has become a core element in the problematisation of various "global challenges" as objects of expert management. Cities are now seen as essential platforms for responding to the

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“…At the same time, as for the examples that are more applicable to everyday planning practices, increasing interests in the role of 'nonhumans' in urban design seem promising. Geographers such as Grove et al (2019) are carving out a new space for how 'design thinking' can offer more effective ways of acknowledging non-human agencies and their representation in cities. The way we design space inevitably mediates how we perceive our immediate surroundings, as well as how these material realities substantially affect our moods, thoughts and philosophies about the world.…”

Section: Environmentalism As a Mundane Political Affair: Advocating Fmentioning

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Deciphering posthumanism: Why and how it matters to urban planning in the Anthropocene

Jon

2020

Planning Theory

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This article responds to the call for planning theorists to develop a posthumanist approach to planning, especially in the context of the Anthropocene or planetary environmental degradation. In the wake of often unexpected and brutal feedback from nature – frequent flooding, heat waves, tornadoes or cyclones – the positioning or conceptualisation of ‘the environment’ in planning has changed; rather than being discounted as an inanimate background that merely hosts human affairs, it is now considered an active agent that influences how we design and plan for a city. The posthumanist framing of the planning agenda is closely related to the previous ‘material turn’ in planning, which initially introduced ‘distributive agency’, where human agency or our willingness to act is activated only via our relation with non-human surroundings. ‘More-than-human’ approaches to planning, inspired by the new ecology movement that debunks the idea of human exceptionalism, attempt to extend that logic even further by proclaiming how we can critically reframe planning to develop more inclusive and ethical relationships with non-human species. As a continuation of this dialogue, I provide the philosophical background behind the recent rise of posthumanist or ‘new materialist’ ecopolitics and argue why and how they can offer important insights for planning theory and practice. I lay out specifically how planners would execute this ‘posthumanist normativity’ in their everyday planning practices, focusing on three lessons that could be directly applicable: (1) understanding environment politics as a mundane politics of representation – which eventually allows us to consider non-human species as social minorities, (2) learning to ‘stay with the trouble’ – recognising the webs of our material dependency on non-human critters that encourage us to cultivate ‘response-ability’ and (3) activating political mobilisation based on empirical experiences – thinking of immediate physical experiences and sensory values as major sources of environmental activism.

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Interventions on design and political geography

Cited by 12 publications

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Infrastructure and non-human life: A wider ontology

Infrastructure and non-human life: A wider ontology

The wicked city: Genealogies of interdisciplinary hubris in urban thought

Deciphering posthumanism: Why and how it matters to urban planning in the Anthropocene

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