Urban Pores as Media: Questions of Aesthetics and Access
Sabine Haenni
Sabine Haenni's introduction to the second round explores pores as media, biology, and as form.
Roundtables
Feminist Protocols: Auditing Urban Infrastructures and Reporting Gender Violence in the City
Carrie Rentschler
Carrie Rentschler on feminist and anti-racist practices in the porous urban spaces and surfaces of chalking, graffiti, and postering
Apparitions and Wormholes: Moving Image Artworks and Urban Porosity
Annie Dell'Aria
Annie Dell'Aria shows how illuminations and projections move through the fluid, living skin of the built environment, parting the boundaries between public and private space
Liu Jiayin’s spatial politics of reduction
Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf
Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf discusses Liu Jiayin's documentary interiors in connection to Beijing's porous, globalized space
Porous Gateways: The London Docklands on Film and as Archive
Anna Viola Sborgi
Anna Viola Sborgi explores the varied history of London's Docklands as a vector of threats to the empire, the loci of gentrification, and a space where the past opens into the present
Introduction: The Porous City
Sabine Haenni
Sabine Haenni introduces the new Roundtable with some reflections on the meanings of the porous and the historical origins of the idea of the porous city.
The Horizons of Platformed Urban Politics
Scott Rodgers & Susan Moore
In this wrap up to the Platform Urbanism roundtable, Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore argue that horizons of a platformed urban politics should entail critical engagement and practice.
“Highest and Best Use” from the Plan to the Platform
John Stehlin
John Stehlin considers the historical resonances and specificity of platform urbanism.
On the Slippages in Platform Urbanisms
Matthew W. Wilson
Matthew Wilson argues that, as a form of “self-city-nation,” platform urbanisms enable slippages between the self and outside organizing forces that expand logics of quantification.
Platform Urbanism Rejoinder: Why now? What now?
Sarah Barns
Sarah Barns uses Henri Lefebvre's theories of the quotidian to consider platform urbanism as a mode of ‘everyday’ urban intervention.
We Are All Platform Urbanists, But Not All in the Same Way
Maroš Krivý
Maroš Krivý asks whether platforms contribute to the dynamics of uneven urban development itself.
Platforms as urban technology?
Lizzie Richardson
Lizzie Richardson's followup post explores urban plan forms as technologies of urban life.