What are the physical and social effects of overflows and shortages in cities today? How are they produced, physically, infrastructurally, and discursively? How are governments, citizens, and private firms responding to these new “elements of disorder”? And how do measurements of unexpected flows come to be translated into actionable techniques for city-making? In what ways are conditions of extremity and normalcy relative? Put differently, under what conditions does one group or place’s normal experience come to be publicly named as an “extreme”? The inaugural Flow/ Overflow/ Shortage online symposium will address these questions gathering young researchers working on urban infrastructure from different perspectives, geographies, and disciplines.
Published: 05/18/2023