Friday, May 8, 2009
[Image: "People wear surgical masks as a precaution against infection inside a subway in Mexico City, Friday, April 24, 2009." Photo by AP Photo/Marco Ugarte].
1) In his under-appreciated novel Super-Cannes, easily amongst his best, J.G. Ballard explored the psychological, sexual, and even epidemiological implications of landscape design. This is "the secret life of the business park," Ballard writes....
2) You go to the Salone del Mobile next year in Milan and discover that I've somehow released a new line of furniture. Each piece varies just slightly from the rest, in that their measurements have been dictated not by human comfort, international rates of shipment, or even by industrial timber specifications, but by the distances medically necessary to maintain between yourself and others in order to avoid respiratory infections...
3) The recent outbreak of swine flu in and around Mexico City and the U.S. border region, is "suspected of killing at least 60 people," the BBC reports. In fact, the outbreak "has the potential to become a pandemic," according to Margaret Chan, current director of the World Health Organization...
4) This brings to mind Marina Nicollier's final thesis project at Rice University, wherein she explored the medical effects of architectural design. Part of her project dealt with the history of sanitarium architecture and, from there, the health implications of modern architecture...
5) The medical aspects of utopia seem under-explored in contemporary urban literature. Here, utopia could be retheorized as the city where no one gets sick. Through microbe-resistant building materials and a precisely measured anti-contagious spatiality, perhaps, your metropolis might even cure you...
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