Check the programme here. Convened by architect Marina Otero Verzier, Territorio Ectoplasma is a week-long critical studies programme that looks at the territorial dynamics and often overlooked spaces and bodies that sustain the activity of metropolitan centers. In particular, it focuses on the digital infrastructure making possible our datafied, urban life. In the last decade, the world has experienced unprecedented production and consumption of data. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), global data will grow by 23 percent annually from 2020 to 2025. The data-driven developments in planning, climate science, and healthcare, as well as the further implementation of AI, the Internet of Things, and the Metaverse, will only exacerbate this condition. Every byte of data has an impact. The carbon footprint of digital devices, the internet, and the infrastructures supporting them account for about 3.7% of global greenhouse emissions, a percentage that, according to some estimates, will double by...

This session with the Institute for Postnatural Studies invites reclaiming and engaging the body as a medium for creating and understanding our surroundings. Together we explore the digital infrastructures that surround the city of Madrid through the body. To do so, we will travel to Robledo de Chavela, home to NASA’s Deep Space Communications Complex, a facility used for tracking and communicating with NASA spacecraft, especially interplanetary missions. We welcome participants with various physical abilities. SCHEDULE 10.30 - MONCLOA BUS STATION 10.58 - BUS TO ROBLEDO DE CHAVELA 11.58 - ARRIVAL AT ROBLEDO DE CHAVELA 12.00 - 14.00 - WALK 14.00 - 15.00 - LUNCH 15.00 - 16.58 - WALK 16.58 - BUS BACK TO MADRID 18.06 - ARRIVAL AT MONCLOA Founded in 2020, the Institute for Postnatural Studies is conceived as a cultural platform whose work focuses on the relationship between contemporary artistic practices and the necessary revision of...