# Spatial Rationales: Food for Thought

## TOOLS

**Concept**\
[Design Rationale](https://jennifercederstam.com/design-rationale/)\
[Typology of the Virtual Dimension](http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-43431) (in-depth)

* **Jeff** on the walkable city
* **Hito** on how not to be seen
* **Jared** on collapsing societies
* **Keller** on infrastructure space
* **Ann Cavoukian** on embedding privacy into the infrastructure of our society
* **Judith** on examined life
* **Saskia** on expulsions
* **Lorraine** on rules and norms
* **Sebastian** on design against productivity
* **Rem** on the future of the city

### **Jeff Speck: walkable city‌**

Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who, through writing, public service, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design.

[Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Jeff Speck](https://www.ted.com/talks/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse)

### **Hito Steyerl: how not to be seen**

Hito Steyerl is a German artist, writer and theorist known for taking a strong political stand and being unafraid to challenge the power of the art market, has been named the most influential person in contemporary art.

[Hito Steyerl, How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE3RlrVEyuo)

### **Jared Diamond: collapsing societies**

Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how -- if we see it in time -- we can prevent it.

[Jared Diamond, Why societies collapse](https://www.ted.com/talks/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse)

### **Keller Easterling: infrastructure space**

"*Actors have a script, but their real work lies in crafting an action, usually with an infinitive expression."* - (Extrastatecraft, Keller Easterling, p91)

Keller Easterling is an American architect, urbanist, writer, and teacher. Her latest book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades, researches familiar spatial products that have landed in precarious political situations around the world. Very interesting if you would like to look at space, social space and infrastructure space on a global scale.

[Keller Easterling, The Space in Which We're Swimming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WFtwd9EFKI)

### Ann Cavoukian - embedding privacy into the infrastructure of our society

Both of the private and public sectors are incentivised to extract as much data as they can out of you. Data has become the new oil of the 21st century, and massive surveillance that has been used in the process of extracting it has resulted in lack of privacy and trust. Ann Cavoukian speaks about the importance of imbedding privacy into the design of organisations and products and services that they provide.

[Ann Cavoukian - embedding privacy into the infrastructure of our society](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG09bYC9t64)

### **Judith Butler: examined life**

Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor went for a walk and engaged in a terrific conversation about disability as not merely some physical status but largely a social status, and that is also true for so called "able-bodied" persons.

[Judith Butler, Examined Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0HZaPkF6qE)

### **Saskia Sassen: expulsions**

Saskia Sassen is redefining power through the language of expulsions and incorporation. Speaking about her recent book Expulsions, Sassen argues that existing academic and intellectual categories fail to capture current political, economic, and social turmoil.

[Saskia Sassen, What are the spaces of the expelled, on Expulsions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK8s3SK65hU)

### **Lorraine Daston: rules and norms**

[Lorraine Daston, The Rule of Rules, or How Reason Became Rationality](https://vimeo.com/18497646)

[Lorraine Daston, The Origins of Norms: The Place of Value in a World of Nature](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2KDS5XzLwY)

### **Sebastian Deterding: design against productivity**

Dr. Sebastian Deterding is a designer and researcher working on playful, gameful, and motivational design (or gamification) for human flourishing. He is broadly interested in how code shapes conduct: how software and games pervade everyday life, and what ramifications this holds for individuals, communities, ethics, and design.

[Sebastian Deterding, Design Against Productivity](http://codingconduct.cc/Design-Against-Productivity)

### **Rem Koolhaas: the future of the city**

Provocative, perceptive, blistering and often witheringly witty, Rem Koolhaas's writing has changed the way we look at cities, just as much as his architecture has forced us to reassess what buildings can be and how they can embody radical ideas.

[Rem Koolhaas, on urban planning and the future of the city](https://youtu.be/pdjFYUTDUjU?t=6m19s)