Plattform
On Infrastructure: Keller Easterling
, 14:00
Renowned architect, urbanist, and writer Keller Easterling presents her work on the infrastructures, digital formulas and urban policies that govern our lives and movements in the world – drawing from her recent research publication ‘Medium Design’.
Keller Easterling is an architect, writer and professor at Yale. Her recent books and essays include ‘Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space’ (Verso, 2014), examining global infrastructure as a medium of polity; the e-book essay ‘Medium Design (Strelka Press, 2017); ‘Subtraction’ (Sternberg, 2014). Other books include: ‘Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades’ (MIT, 2005) and ‘Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America’ (MIT, 1999). Her research and writing were included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Architecture Biennales. She lectures and exhibits internationally.
Plattform is Bergen Kunsthall’s lecture series connected to our exhibition programme and wider contemporary debates.