Series: Sternberg Press / The Incidents

On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities. Robots designed to care for people and neglected landscapes of digital trash. The promise of synthetic biology and the panic of living on a dying planet. Wonderful feats of intelligence and systemic acts of violence....

If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less. This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at...