Fall 2019

Edited by Nicholas Pevzner & Stephanie Carlisle

Infrastructure is always political, and energy transitions have always been contested, pitting established players against upstart technologies and new coalitions. How can a radical reimagining of energy infrastructure create opportunities for an inclusive and participatory conversation about climate change and social justice? Who has the power to talk about infrastructure, and who gets left out?

Introduction: Power

Nicholas Pevzner & Stephanie Carlisle

Community Power As Provocation: Local Control For Resilience And Equity

José Juan Terrasa-Soler and Daniela Lloveras-Marxuach

Our Energy For Our Country

Arturo Massol-Deyá

Speculative Designs For Energy Democracy

Nicholas Pevzner

The TVA, Fuzzy Spaces Of Power, And Other Purposes

Micah Rutenberg

The Missouri River Basin: Water, Power, Decolonization, And Design

Kees Lokman

Power Plant Power

Salvador Lindquist and Eric Minton

Arctic Present: The Case Of Teriberka

Viktoria Khokhlova

Coal Ash Wastescapes: The Byproduct Of Our Coal-Fired Power Dependency

Lauren Delbridge

Biomass For All: Designing An Inclusive Biomass Infrastructure

Julie Marin, Charlotte Timmers and Bruno De Meulder

China’s Giant Transmission Grid Could Be The Key To Cutting Climate Emissions

James Temple

2050 – An Energetic Odyssey: Persuasion By Collective Immersion

Dirk Sijmons and Maarten Hajer

The Blue Lagoon: From Waste Commons To Landscape Commodity

Catherine De Almeida

Territory Of Extraction: The Crude North

Michael W. Smith

Daylighting Conflict: Board Games As Decision-Making Tools

Janette Kim

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Water Proving Ground

Banyoles

Promenada

Living With Water

The Packard Belt

Hydrofutures

Sea Quilt

Infrasurface

Carbon T.A.P.

National HEDGE

Urban Regeneration: Foresting Vacancy In Philadelphia 

Invasive Species

Waste legibility can be an asset shared by active power generating operations, a novel ecological community, and recreational uses. At the Blue Lagoon, the formalization of a wasteland commons created instead a high-end, privatized spa that conceals the underlying landscape and its unique conditions.

Gold Mining Exploits and the Legacies of Johannesburg's Mining Landscapes

by Guy Trangos & Kerry Bobbins

An extensive network of abandoned mine shafts and tunnels exist beneath Johannesburg. Today, these spaces are lost to time, long forgotten and abandoned below the surface of the Earth.

Infrastructure Adrift: West 8's Shells

by Laura Tepper

The Dutch government commissioned West 8 to create a project along the Roggenplaat, one of several artificial islands used to construct a storm surge barrier. The firm shaped the island’s sand deposits into plateaus bold enough to impress passing drivers. So, where is it?

Yangtze River Delta Project

by Catherine Seavitt

Coastal urban estuaries are dynamic sites. These sedimentary terrains must be reconsidered at the infrastructural scale to create a more resilient and adaptive landscape, a system that dynamically responds to the increasing risks of the coastal environment.

Brooklyn Bridge Park

by Sarah Kathleen Peck

Currently under construction, Brooklyn Bridge Park will eventually encompass approximately eighty-five acres and 1.3 miles of the previously industrial waterfront directly across from downtown Manhattan.

Segunda Vida: an Architecture of Resilience

by Mike Yengling

In a reversal of the predominant U.S.-Mexico border dynamic, building materials — and even entire buildings — make the migration across the border to Tijuana, becoming ingredients of a vibrant construction sector.

One Percent: Mining Bone Valley

by Rob Holmes, Lauren Sosa & Christie Allen

Florida is the epicenter of phosphate mining in the United States. The sheer scale of the impact of this extraction on the Floridian landscape is immense. As it grows, phosphate mining is producing enormous accidental monuments to the current American way of life.

Butte Montana: A Case for the Mining Metropolis

by Bradford Watson & Sean Burkholder

Extraction is an ugly process. Still, the vast resources present beneath the ground and the motivation to pull them to the surface are intimately tied to the settlement and permanent occupation of the landscape.

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