The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19

The World Around & Dezeen

April 22nd, 2020

COVID-19 has triggered material, relational, and performative transformations around the world. Climate crisis, transspecies displacement, and the destruction of both human and non-human habitats announce a growing acceleration of pandemic outbreaks. The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19—a collaborative project developed by Andrés Jaque and Ivan L. Munuera along with the Office for Political Innovation—tracks how coronavirus, its contagion, and its responses are enacted through space.

An architecture assembled across scales, as a medium where social control, inequality, and environmental violence is now disputed. The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19 interrogates territorial divides, the condition of migration and the making of refugeeness, old and new geometries of colonialism, tax justice, access to healthcare, racism and xenophobia, warfare rhetoric, surveillance, urban infrastructures, public spaces, and borders. But also; entanglement, cooperation, inventiveness, engagement, and emerging forms of togetherness.

Charity:

Housing Works: https://www.housingworks.org

Sound / Dur. 14 mins. 01 secs

Andrés Jaque & Ivan L. Munuera

With the Office for Political Innovation

Sound by Jorge López Conde with the special contribution of Clarice Jensen and her piece ‘Metastable’ from her album The Experience of Repetition as Death

Research & Production Team:
Rajvi Anandpara
Shubhankar Bhajekar
Drishti Gandhi
Roberto González García
Maria Karagianni
Meerati Rana
Saumil Sanghavi
Mishti Shah