Aeropolis – Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds

Nerea Calvillo

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Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
02 November 2023

Architecture; Impact of science & technology on society; Applied ecology

"How do we get to know to air? Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds offers a speculative and interdisciplinary framework to reorient common understandings of air and air pollution as matter ""out there."" Aeropolis contests regimes of managing air which ultimately operate toward upholding dominant modes of world-making that are dependent on forms of exclusion and inequity. Instead, Aeropolis proposes that air is thought of as a city, to center its social, cultural, political, ecological entanglements. Drawing upon feminist technoscience and queer ecological frameworks, Aeropolis moves away from solutions toward a methodology of ""designing-thinking-making"" that redirects and connects our understandings of air-as designers, as citizens-with ongoing struggles for just futures.

Moving through a series of design interventions, histories of air, and theoretical coordinates, Aeropolis thinks with air across its many forms-through smog and dust, bodies and breath, pollen and weeds, and from urban design to geopolitics, polluted environments to open data, parks to aerial infrastructures. It insists that we acknowledge the diversity of air and its relation to humans, non-humans, and environments, both physically and affectively. That we become sensible to air by following its unruliness-by living, breathing, seeing, holding, touching, queering airs."

By: Nerea Calvillo
Imprint: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9781941332788
ISBN 10: 1941332781
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 02 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nerea Calvillo is an architect and researcher; an associate professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick; and an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

Reviews for Aeropolis – Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds

The airs of Aeropolis are full of political agonism and liberatory potential, and this book serves as a guide to navigating the world of the potently-affective and semi-visible. -- Jaffer Kolb * BOMB Magazine *