Gazal Anil Nanwani

AD4016

Prosthesis for a Cyborg City -  Digital Hybrids  of Energy Architecture    I write in the times when Technology has become more pervasive and interconnected and the time required to align and produce buildings and environment has been compressed. The impact of Contemporary Network Culture has at times made the contemporary inhabitant ( the human) - a transgenic monster , One who fails to engage in the messy contingencies of the site and institution/ ecology that it is a part of. In this, has arisen a zeitgeist of ‘Feminist Ecologies ‘ of the Anthropocene Age , which has chaged the co-evolutionary dynamics between Humans and Companion entities, making us aware of the need of a Techno-transcedent vision of the future, proving more to be a fleeting geopolitical instant than a slow geological era. Architectural Spaces and Infrastructures have taken form from anticipation of patterns of machine visions and habitation rather than our own where technology and intelligence computes conditions and constructs worlds causing plausible expanses of Machine landscapes. Data centers, telecommunication networks, distribution warehouses, unnamed ports , industrialized agriculture and other living systems have become rupturing , non-repairing, non-accommodating environments devoid of humanism, identity and relationality between human and Ecology. A struggle for a common ground, an essential meta-political condition as Haraway suggests, is essential for calibration of broken orders and disrupted components of the Environment to which Human Engagement and occupation are central . They become the pillars of growth and morphological contribution amidst the bio -technological contingencies of a post humanist world. Feminism , according to me , works to script a base code for our survival, for our existence with the post humanist epoch Intrinsically, without bias in its ecological and sociological comprehensions and processes. Architecture of a Feminist nature hence, works to produce possibilities of meshing of multiple, subjective , located and situated evidence, interpretations, sites, entities and energies to increase urban equatibility and empower communities. Feminism in Architecture explores the anthology of new Hybrids between entities of Environment, Human and relational identity- power and access. Methods and infrastructure of science are invaluable and are rivaled with aspects of democracy. New industrial perspectives taking shape are to produce a portent continuum of post humanist digital life and Architecture where production , distribution and consumption, the thresholds of survival intersect and collaborate. The prosthetic Prelude I propose are Digital Hybrid Systems that suture Techno transcendent sciences with processes of the Homo sapiens of argillaceous earth ( Farmers, Consumers, Botanists ) , including generating power, Surplus energy and comestibles through intervention in discourse of Food Processes, Automation and Information. An Architecture that breaks the Foundational myths of Machine and Human Identity.  A feminism that is able to infrastructuralize Architecture by folding a cultural and intellectual agenda and an An architecture that attends to development of Feminist ecological methods that foreground Hybridity and Renewal is what a Revolutionary Feminist Architecture collimates !