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...

A fundamental aspect of research on digital infrastructures is to visualize their effects on communities and ecosystems. This lab aims to provide strategies to visualize and communicate these processes through models encompassing information from diverse sources: field visits, interviews, municipal archives, aerial images, reports, youtube videos, and commercial brochures. LABORATORY BY BARTLEBOOTH 12.45 - 2.30 PM & 4.30 - 7.30 PM Departing from their research project “Exhausted Soils,” Bartlebooth leads a workshop on visualization models of extractive dynamics of mining and energy projects, with an emphasis on the microhistories of these territories’ inhabitants. Often, “ectoplasmic territories” escape our everyday experiences and information flows. These visualization models facilitate their scrutiny. Drawings, diagrams, videos, and stories are generative and intentional media that reveal conditions that otherwise remain hidden. Bartlebooth is a research and publishing platform that examines contemporary spatial practice through physical publications, web projects, audiovisual installations, exhibitions and workshops, among other...