Architecture and Cities Research Forum: Urban Aerography by Lindsay Bremner

In this seminar, Lindsay Bremner presented her recent experimental work on urban agglomerations as aerographies rather than geographies. She developed the idea that air, far from being the in-between or backdrop to the everyday dramas of urban life, is a dynamic material agent that organizes and transforms cities in ways that are historical, political, meteorological and affective. Drawing from philosophy, cultural geography and anthropology, she developed three ideas about air’s urban material agency – weathering, datafying and mattering, and explored these ideas in the city of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu in South India.