New feature in FAKTUR 03
Infrastructures for infrastructure: making culture under the arches
John Bingham-Hall
Accident becomes idea becomes technology becomes infrastructure becomes ecology.
We are talking here about cultural infrastructure: not a specific set of things, but an approach to urban planning focused on supporting the cultural life of the city.
The point of this story is to show that an infrastructural approach could provide the enabling conditions for culture’s production, without needing to predefine what culture is. The moral of this story, if there can be one, is that an infrastructural approach means always looking underneath, behind, and around in order to find out what makes things work.
Text by John Bingham-Hall, images and illustrations by Elahe Karimnia and Cecily Chua.
Faktur: Documents and Architecture, a journal that celebrates research as the source of architectural imagination. Faktur responds to the concerns of an emerging generation of architects, and aims to bridge the distance between practice and academic scholarship.