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FutureSpace Talk #21 | Marie-Pier Boucher
Thursday, 12 November 2026 · 16:00–17:00 CET
The Cosmos is Being Urbanized
The Cosmos is Being Urbanized examines the consequences of the hardening of extraterrestrial [media] infrastructures against the surface of terrestrial urbanization. The complex co-conditionings of orbital and terrestrial urbanism find concrete “form” in the unbounded volumetric geographies of networked infrastructure, which are woven, unsettled, disrupted and reshaped by media infrastructure. Media infrastructure radicalizes the notion of infrastructure and decenters urban analysis from its focus on architecture to privilege instead the logics and logistics of flows and security across networked environments. The Cosmos is Being Urbanized looks at the challenges that infrastructural migration bears on the articulation of the right to the city and the right to the cosmos by contemplating how such migration is rendered visible in terrestrial architectural details.
Marie-Pier Boucher is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology + the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. She is co-editor of Space Feminisms: People, Planets, Power (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Being Material (MIT Press, 2019), Heteropolis (2013), and Adaptive Actions Madrid (2010).
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