Call for Submissions: The Terraforming Design Research Program at the Strelka Institute

The Terraforming may be a three-year design research initiative and think-tank of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and style directed by Benjamin H. Bratton. Each program cycle runs for five months with a gaggle of 30 Russian and international researchers. The Terraforming explores the geotechnical, geourban, and geopolitical conditions by which a viable planetarity are often conceived, modeled, and articulated.

The first year of the program emphasized the remaking of the earth itself (and remaking ourselves thereby), while the second year will emphasize remaking ourselves (and remaking the earth thereby). In 2021 we’ll be adding a replacement chapter of motivating themes: Populations, Zoning Earth, Anthropoforming, and Modes of Planetarity.

Populations will consider the question “Where will the people go?” During the pandemic, many resorted back to their country of passport, but this “great filtering” only highlighted how artificial that logic is, and the way much alternatives are both needed and possible. Zoning Earth will examine the myriad of the way that the earth is formally subsectioned, both spatially and temporally. another time we have an interest in alternatives to this arrangements, and also how the urban planning logic of functional zoning could be applied at planetary scale. Anthropoforming is that the process by which humans remake themselves and by which they’re continuously remade by their environments. We have an interest within the ways in which planetarity consists at biological, epidemiological, and prosthetic scales. Modes of Planetarity expands our work on “the planetary” by explicitly staging a confrontation between two modes of “planetarity”—the philosophical and therefore the astronomic—so on consider how each could, and will , correspond with and reinforce the opposite .

In 2021 the think-tank will host contributions from many new visiting faculty, including Nandita Sharma, Thomas Moynihan, Anya Bernstein, Nicholas DeMonchaux, Chen Qiufan, Reza Negarestani, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, and lots of others.

The Terraforming 2021 invites applications from young professionals with various backgrounds and work experience within the fields of architecture, urbanism, design, filmmaking, journalism, digital media, philosophy, politics , social studies, and other fields.

The program is tuition-free and researchers receive a monthly stipend.

Title

Call for Submissions: The Terraforming Design Research Program at the Strelka Institute
Type

Grants, Scholarships & Awards
Website

http://theterraforming.strelka.com
Organizers

Srelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design
Submission Deadline

November 10, 2020 11:59 PM
Venue

Strelka Institute
Price

Free