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5373: ENERGETICS OF URBANIZATION URBAN THEORY LAB PRACTICUM SPRING 2018 COLLOQUIUM HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN MAY 8, 2018 USERS WARNING: Not for the faint of heart or overextended Towards a study of the energetics of

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5373: ENERGETICS OF URBANIZATION URBAN THEORY LAB PRACTICUM SPRING 2018 COLLOQUIUM HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN MAY 8, 2018

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USER’S WARNING: “Not for the faint of heart

  • r overextended”
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Towards a study of the energetics of urbanization

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Starting points: critique of ideology

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Proliferating debates on ‘sustainable’ and ‘green’ urbanism—in social science and design The need for critical deconstructions of dominant neoliberal and technoscientific ideologies that block systemic change The need for alternative modes of analysis that illuminate the systemic sources and uneven (social and spatial) effects of ecological injustices

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Beyond fuel-centric studies

  • f energetics

Beyond city-centric studies

  • f urbanization
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Beyond fuel-centric studies

  • f energetics

Beyond city-centric studies

  • f urbanization
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Energy≠Fuel

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ALL ENERGY IS BY DEFINITION RENEWABLE.

(avoid this tautology)

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You can only transform energy and its dissipative structure.

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ENERGETICS IS THE SPORT OF DIFFERENT QUANTITIES OF DIFFERENT QUALITIES OF ENERGY

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Work on the correct

  • rder of magnitude.
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WHAT IS YOUR SYSTEM BOUNDARY? AND WHY?

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Buildings & Cities are (always and only)

  • pen systems.
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  • KM_diagram1_wlandscape.jpg
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Energy dissipates in open systems.

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Emergy Avoids isolated system thinking

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Emergy is

  • Spatial
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Emergy is

  • Spatial
  • Temporal
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Emergy is

  • Spatial
  • Temporal

Convergence

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Emergy is

  • Spatial
  • Temporal

Concentration

  • matter
  • energy
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Emergy is

  • Spatial
  • Temporal

Concentration

  • matter
  • energy

Convergence

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Emergy In the open systems that are the basis

  • f life,

urbanization, and architecture

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Emergy is

  • Spatial
  • Temporal

Concentration

  • matter
  • energy

Convergence Feedback

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Beyond fuel-centric studies

  • f energetics

Beyond city-centric studies

  • f urbanization
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LSE / Deutsche Bank research project / conference series

‘Urban age’

50% world urban population threshold

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Rural

Urban

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U = Pc / Pt

U = urbanization Pc = population of cities Pt = total population

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Provocation Perhaps the city is not a settlement type or a spatial form—but one element in a broader, uneven process of urbanization (city vs. urban)

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Provocation Perhaps urban restructuring is not simply a mutation of city space but a multiscalar process

  • f ‘implosion’ and ‘explosion’

that encompasses diverse territories, landscapes and ecologies

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Concentrated urbanization

the moment of implosion: node, agglomeration, metropolis, region

Extended urbanization

the moment of explosion:

  • perational landscapes that support

and result from agglomeration.

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INTENSITY

  • f land use

CONNECTIVITY infrastructures METABOLISM

  • f socio-environmental relations
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H I N T E R L A N D

ENCLOSURE INFRASTRUCTURALIZATION INDUSTRIALIZATION

O P E R A T I O N A L L A N D S C A P E

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Proposition The specificity of contemporary planetary urbanization lies not in the generalization of “the” city to the world or in the “transition” to a majority-urban world.

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Proposition Rather, it consists in the increasing industrial operationalization of erstwhile hinterland zones (of agriculture, extraction, logistics, waste management) to support the relentless metabolism of capital, as spatialized in the global metropolitan network.

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Proposition Questions of energetics (and related issues of sustainability) require us to embed “cities” and metropolitan regions within the broader, increasingly planetary webs of life and metabolic transformations in which they are embedded and to which they actively contribute (metabolic rifts and shifts)

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Towards a study of the energetics of urbanization: key concepts

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Maximize Power & Production of Entropy Feedback Dissipative structures

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Concentrated / extended urbanization Implosions-explosions of the capitalist urban fabric Metabolic rift; ecological load displacement

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Towards a study of the energetics of urbanization: some key questions

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How are energetic processes materialized in the multiscalar, unevenly woven infrastructures of the capitalist urban fabric?

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In what ways do capitalist forms of urbanization intensify the dissipation of entropy, and with what consequences?

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How do the infrastructures

  • f capitalist urbanization

mediate and exacerbate capital’s metabolic rifts, and with what consequences?

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How does the (energetic) study of extended urbanization transform our understanding of the historical geographies of capital’s metabolic ‘rifts’?

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In what ways might exploration of such questions reframe our understanding of ‘fossil capital’ and associated energetic and urban dynamics?

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In what ways might exploration of such questions reframe contemporary debates on postcarbon energy ‘transitions’?

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Towards a study of the energetics of urbanization:

work flow in our research practicum

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WORKFLOW

7 WEEKS: READING SEMINAR ON ENERGETICS AND URBANIZATION

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WORKFLOW 7 WEEKS: READING SEMINAR ON ENERGETICS AND URBANIZATION

  • 3000 WORD ANALYTICAL ESSAY
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WORKFLOW

7 WEEKS: READING SEMINAR ON ENERGETICS AND URBANIZATION

  • 3000 WORD ANALYTICAL ESSAY
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WORKFLOW

7 WEEKS: READING SEMINAR ON ENERGETICS AND URBANIZATION

  • 3000 WORD ANALYTICAL ESSAY

7 WEEKS: RESEARCH PROJECTS

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WORKFLOW

7 WEEKS: READING SEMINAR ON ENERGETICS AND URBANIZATION

  • 3000 WORD ANALYTICAL ESSAY

7 WEEKS: RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • ”TECHNOFOSSIL”
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WORKFLOW

7 WEEKS: READING SEMINAR ON ENERGETICS AND URBANIZATION

  • 3000 WORD ANALYTICAL ESSAY

7 WEEKS: RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • ”TECHNOFOSSIL”
  • WEEKLY PROBES AND DRILLS
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WORKFLOW

7 WEEKS: READING SEMINAR ON ENERGETICS AND URBANIZATION

  • 3000 WORD ANALYTICAL ESSAY

7 WEEKS: RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • ”TECHNOFOSSIL”
  • WEEKLY PROBES AND DRILLS
  • FINAL COLLOQUIUM
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Distinguished Visitors

Hannah Holleman

Assistant Professor of Sociology at Amherst College

Julie Klinger

Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston U.

Damian White

Dean, School of Liberal Arts, RISD

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SCHEDULE 9:00-9:30am: Welcome and Introduction by Neil Brenner and Kiel Moe

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SCHEDULE 9:00-9:30am: Welcome and Introduction by Neil Brenner and Kiel Moe (1) 9:30-10:50am: The unstable stability of soybean production under capitalism: analyzing the energetics of urbanization in Mato Grosso, Brazil, by Angeliki Giannisi and Anne Hudson

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SCHEDULE 9:00-9:30am: Welcome and Introduction by Neil Brenner and Kiel Moe (1) 9:30-10:50am: The unstable stability of soybean production under capitalism: analyzing the energetics of urbanization in Mato Grosso, Brazil, by Angeliki Giannisi and Anne Hudson (2) 11am-12:20pm: How Bottled Water Intensifies the Metabolic Shift: A case study in the planetary urbanization of Fiji’s potable w ater through an energetic analysis, by Aurora Jensen and Pamela Cabrera

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SCHEDULE 9:00-9:30am: Welcome and Introduction by Neil Brenner and Kiel Moe (1) 9:30-10:50am: The unstable stability of soybean production under capitalism: analyzing the energetics of urbanization in Mato Grosso, Brazil, by Angeliki Giannisi and Anne Hudson (2) 11am-12:20pm: How Bottled Water Intensifies the Metabolic Shift: A case study in the planetary urbanization of Fiji’s potable w ater through an energetic analysis, by Aurora Jensen and Pamela Cabrera (3) 1:40-3:00pm: Dissipatory Circuits of Pow er: A Systems Ecology Approach to Analyzing the Energetics of Urbanization, by Bohan Zhang, Iain Gordon and Zlatan Sehovic

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SCHEDULE 9:00-9:30am: Welcome and Introduction by Neil Brenner and Kiel Moe (1) 9:30-10:50am: The unstable stability of soybean production under capitalism: analyzing the energetics of urbanization in Mato Grosso, Brazil, by Angeliki Giannisi and Anne Hudson (2) 11am-12:20pm: How Bottled Water Intensifies the Metabolic Shift: A case study in the planetary urbanization of Fiji’s potable w ater through an energetic analysis, by Aurora Jensen and Pamela Cabrera (3) 1:40-3:00pm: Dissipatory Circuits of Pow er: A Systems Ecology Approach to Analyzing the Energetics of Urbanization, by Bohan Zhang, Iain Gordon and Zlatan Sehovic (4) 3:10-4:30pm: Green Infrastructure as the Respatialization of Planetary Carbonscapes, by Peter Osborne and Ryan Beitz

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SCHEDULE 9:00-9:30am: Welcome and Introduction by Neil Brenner and Kiel Moe (1) 9:30-10:50am: The unstable stability of soybean production under capitalism: analyzing the energetics of urbanization in Mato Grosso, Brazil, by Angeliki Giannisi and Anne Hudson (2) 11am-12:20pm: How Bottled Water Intensifies the Metabolic Shift: A case study in the planetary urbanization of Fiji’s potable w ater through an energetic analysis, by Aurora Jensen and Pamela Cabrera (3) 1:40-3:00pm: Dissipatory Circuits of Pow er: A Systems Ecology Approach to Analyzing the Energetics of Urbanization, by Bohan Zhang, Iain Gordon and Zlatan Sehovic (4) 3:10-4:30pm: Green Infrastructure as the Respatialization of Planetary Carbonscapes, by Peter Osborne and Ryan Beitz 4:45-6:00pm Roundtable w ith Hannah Holleman, Julie Klinger, and Damian White.