Lecture date: 2013-11-01
AA Think Tank: Plan the Planet (Part 1)
This evening launches the new AA Think Tank research initiative led byJohn Palmesino andAnn-Sofi Rönnskog. The Think Tank will support research projects that rethink how architecture operates amidst a growing number of spatial practices. The introduction will be followed by a lecture delivered by Keller Easterling with a response from Kodwo Eshun(The Otolith Group).
AA Think Tank – Plan the Planet
Lecture by Keller Easterling – Extrastatecraft
Keller Easterlingis an architect, writer and professor at Yale University. Her books includeEnduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades(MIT, 2005) andOrganization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America(MIT, 1999). A forthcoming book,Extrastatecraft: Global Infrastructure and Political Arts(Yale University Press, 2013), examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity.
