Nerea Calvillo: Aeropolis - lecture at Gallery VI PER
History, Theory and Criticism in Architecture
Galerie VI PER Vás zve na poslední letošní přednášku v rámci přednáškového cyklu History, Theory and Criticism in Architecture.
Atmosphere is a shared property. But what if it is polluted? I would like to explore these questions through Aeropolis, a speculative and interdisciplinary framework aimed at reorienting common understandings of air and atmospheric pollution as something "out there." Aeropolis challenges regimes of air management that ultimately serve to sustain dominant ways of shaping the world that rely on forms of exclusion and inequality. Instead, Aeropolis proposes that air be understood as a city that is the center of social, cultural, political, and ecological contexts. Aeropolis draws from feminist technoscience and queer ecological frameworks, deviating from solutions toward a methodology of "designing-member-producing," which redirects and connects our understandings of air – as designers, as citizens – with the ongoing struggle for a just future. The lecture will focus on two spatial design interventions to unpack the complexity of interventions into various connections between air, pollution, repairs, protection, and urban space.
Nerea Calvillo is an architect and researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick, UK), director of the spatial design office C+ arquitectas, and founder of In the Air, a collective project focused on measuring air pollution. She works at the intersection of spatial design, feminist technoscience, queer studies, and environmental studies. Her current research focuses on toxic politics, the nature of artificial intelligence, atmosphere, and queer urban political ecology. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Royal Academy of Arts, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Shanghai Biennale, and published in interdisciplinary journals such as Social Studies of Science, Journal of Extreme Events, and Public Culture. She is the author of the book Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds (2023).
Atmosphere is a shared property. But what if it is polluted? I would like to explore these questions through Aeropolis, a speculative and interdisciplinary framework aimed at reorienting common understandings of air and atmospheric pollution as something "out there." Aeropolis challenges regimes of air management that ultimately serve to sustain dominant ways of shaping the world that rely on forms of exclusion and inequality. Instead, Aeropolis proposes that air be understood as a city that is the center of social, cultural, political, and ecological contexts. Aeropolis draws from feminist technoscience and queer ecological frameworks, deviating from solutions toward a methodology of "designing-member-producing," which redirects and connects our understandings of air – as designers, as citizens – with the ongoing struggle for a just future. The lecture will focus on two spatial design interventions to unpack the complexity of interventions into various connections between air, pollution, repairs, protection, and urban space.
Nerea Calvillo is an architect and researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick, UK), director of the spatial design office C+ arquitectas, and founder of In the Air, a collective project focused on measuring air pollution. She works at the intersection of spatial design, feminist technoscience, queer studies, and environmental studies. Her current research focuses on toxic politics, the nature of artificial intelligence, atmosphere, and queer urban political ecology. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Royal Academy of Arts, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Shanghai Biennale, and published in interdisciplinary journals such as Social Studies of Science, Journal of Extreme Events, and Public Culture. She is the author of the book Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds (2023).
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