Keller Easterling’s Medium Design: Oblique Strategies for Reprogramming Design Practice

2021-04-22T12:52:00-04:00

Keller Easterling is a thinker intent on peering behind the veil to inquire into the forces and conditions that give rise to forms and spatial formations: the infrastructural, political, and financial milieux that softly but surely govern the production of architectural objects.

Medium Design: Knowing how to work on the world is concerned with a central preoccupation: how can designers and design thinkers operate with agency in the face of “intractable dilemmas” arising from entrenched power and its fixations on convenient solutions? In the words of the late Mark Fisher, how can we “conceive of a world radically different from the one in which we live?”

Urban Slot Machine: A conversation with Keller Easterling

2006-08-02T09:30:00-04:00

You would be hard-pressed to find someone in architecture today with the kind of versatility that Keller Easterling exhibits. Her ability to navigate in waters as diverse as theater, urbanism, technology, theory, comedy, globalization, literature and capitalism have made her an essential figure in decoding the contemporary condition. Additionally Easterling writes (and speaks) with a highly developed customized vocabulary that serves her choreography of such seemingly unrelated topics. From protocol to spatial products to cocktails to errors , she has devised a way to occupy both literary space (theater) and physical space (architecture / city). Language as a fly tower with layers and layers of malleable phyllo-like backdrops.

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Keller Easterling’s Medium Design: Oblique Strategies for Reprogramming Design Practice

Urban Slot Machine: A conversation with Keller Easterling