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

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RAFICO RUIZ (online)
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The aim of the sessions is to explore the ways in which these flows function and how they relate to

Cities are crisscrossed by a multitude of flows that constantly reorder their material reality. They are organisms whose in/stability depends on a tangle of systems that guarantee certain levels of mobility, food, energy and care. Power plants, distribution lines, sewers, protocols, regulations, antennas, landfills, sensors and purifiers organize the city in a veiled way. This activity proposes a series of guided tours designed to traverse the infrastructural landscape of the city of Madrid.

The aim of the sessions is to explore the ways in which these flows function and how they relate to

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