Sensing Nature: Green Databases and Maintenance as/of Care

Kopitz, Linda

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 6, 2023<June 8, 2023

Sensing Nature: Green Databases and Maintenance as/of Care

Linda Kopitz

Linda Kopitz traces how the vision for Amsterdam’s sustainable future has been digitally mapped by “green” databases in ways that construct ideas of maintenance as care, and care as maintenance. Yet such mediations of urban nature risk fragmenting sustainable practices in the present.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 5, 2023<June 9, 2023

Caring Cities: An Introduction

Linda Kopitz and Pei-Sze Chow

In their introduction to the Caring Cities dossier, Linda Kopitz and Pei-Sze Chow consider how care intersects with the urban, and how care might be “designed," through the lenses of technology, politics, and the senses.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 5, 2018<November 5, 2018

Platforms as urban technology?

Lizzie Richardson

Lizzie Richardson's followup post explores urban plan forms as technologies of urban life.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 2June 7, 2017<June 7, 2017

Sense and the City: Liam Young’s Speculative Cinema

Holly Willis

Holly Willis explores Liam Young's "speculative cinema," showing how his work that integrates film, fiction, animation, marketing, games and documentary demonstrates an emergent cinematic form that defies generic boundaries whilst simultaneously reconfiguring the city.