the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar

Keller Easterling

Disposition

This lecture took place on November 2nd, 2010 at 7:00 pm in the Wollman Auditorium at the Cooper Union

Lecture introduction

Spaces are rarely considered to have disposition. Treated as objects or volumes, not actors with agency or temperament, they are not typically evaluated for, for instance, a quotient of aggression, submission or exclusivity immanent in their arrangement. If spaces and organizations are performing, what are they doing? How are form-making faculties redoubled when action is form?

About Keller Easterling

Keller Easterling is an architect and writer in New York City and a professor at Yale. Her book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the
world. A previous book Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. A forthcoming book, Extrastatecraft, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity.

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