Mapping the Global Factory. Architectures of Commodity Chains
Symposium, Sunday 29 September 2019, 16:30–20:30pm
Projektraum, ExRotaprint, Gottschedstraße 4, 13357 Berlin
What kind of buildings and urban situations do things traverse on their way to become commodities? How are global production chains of bread or T-shirts anchored within specific places, and shaped by physical (infra)structures? And how can interdependencies of planetary production systems, uneven urban development, architecture and spatial planning be investigated?
Contemporary built environments are decisively shaped by the continuing global expansion of commodity production, as geographically dispersed systems of manufacturing and distribution require physical structures on the ground – whether factories and warehouses, mines and fields, or roads and harbours. These built structures, from the architectural object to the operational landscape, are instrumental in attracting and chanelling commodity flows. In turn, transnational production systems impart their profit-maximizing logic on the design and allocation of buildings and infrastructure, contributing to shape the patterns of urbanization. Considering architecture and urban space from a global commodity chain perspective allows to read current urbanization processes as relational phenomena distributed across diverse geographies, and thus puts forward a multi-local, planetary approach to urban research.
The symposium brings scholars from the fields of architecture, urbanism and geography in conversation. Four lectures trace stations and routes of global commodity production, exploring the interplay with the built environment and planning. As concluding event of the research project Transnational Production Spaces at the Habitat Unit (Chair for International Urbanism, Institute for Architecture, TU Berlin) the symposium aims to take stock and chart new ground for transdisciplinary research at the interface between commodity chain studies, urban and architectural research.
Organized by Elke Beyer, Anke Hagemann and Lucas Elsner (Habitat Unit, TU Berlin)
Program:
16:30–18.15
Architectures of Grain. Physical impacts of the political economy of wheat from Cairo to Chicago
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (Zurich)
Surplus Form
Jesse LeCavalier (Toronto)
Response Elke Krasny (Vienna)
18:30–20:30
Where is the Global Factory? Spaces of transnational clothing production in Turkey, Bulgaria and Ethiopia
Elke Beyer & Anke Hagemann (Berlin)
Getting the Territory Right: Spatial planning and the expansion of production networks
Seth Schindler (Manchester)
Response Jana Kleibert (Berlin)
Concluding statement Philipp Misselwitz (Berlin)
more information:
http://habitat-unit.de/en/events/mapping-the-global-factory/
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