ECOLOGIES OF EXCESS[OR AN INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTION OF ENERGY SEED-BOMBS]

scale: discourse user: you_ any-one medium: textual economy: generate free energy

political implications:

non ideologically charged terms

come into play

ecological implications:

recycling of matter and energy

infrastructural implications:

interventions in focal urban

junctures as growth points for

urban life

architectural implications:

from space to atmospheres

new vocabulary

"E" prefix _ to signify the potential of all tools implemented to generate energy for public use

new programatic elements

collective space of charging, free electricit, urban forests of lightness and darkness, solid waste collective spaces etc

new materials

use of piezoelectric materials to generate electrical currents, biodegradable components, recyclable material assemblages

projective visions

the leftover space of the city becomes a collective space of excessive ecologies

Preface/////////

Western society constantly creates its own ghosts to fight them. The first fight was with and against nature; recently

we have started to fight the consequences of this fight: pollution.

Ecologies of excess is another ghost projected as a composite figure that understands and accepts the potentiality

of both ends: the unpredictability of nature and the inevitability of pollution.

Infrastructures were invented as operational tools to perform such cultural fights with and against territories and

atmospheres; under the guidance of ideological mandates, political views or economical constraints.

Now is the time for any-one-thing to emerge as the builder of infrastructure. The crowd, floating urban matter,

natural flows -wind, water, earth- become a new paradigm of self-regulation, without law. any-one-thing is the

author of excess: the self-regulation from focal urban points growing in the city: the Ecologies of Excess.

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Man[y]festo / or the party of the hand/

A the specter of the Ecologies of Excess. Institutions entered into a holy alliance -with

words and practices- to exorcise this specter through rational numbers, idealized conditions, compromised

operations and performative interventions." Ecologies of Excess" come to problematize the stagnated

methodologies of logic and reason to per[form] an festival of publicness and life that asks when no-one

answers, that answers when no-one asks.

In a time where the desire for total knowledge and control over bodies, cities, ecologies and atmospheres has

arrived to our own code as beings, we, whoever we are, present the "Ecologies of Excess." We implant energy seed-

bombs in focal urban junctures, ammasing floating water, wind, smell, sound and solid waste. Floating matter and

natural elements are collected, through a set of tools, to generate create energy for new types of public space and

life.

This paradigm shift resides in three epistemological fronts and

three operational sites in three physical scales: the subject, the neighborhood and the metropolis operating as

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specter is hunting [the] US,

orgiastic

BECOMINGS, SENSORIUMS ATMOSPHERES

EGOSPHERES , SENSORIAL PLAYGROUNDS and PERFORMATIVE ATMOSPHERES.

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SYNERGETIC TOOLS[OR HOW TO CREATE AN ENERGY SEED-BOMB]

03ECOLOGIES OF EXCESS [OR AN INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTION OF ENERGY SEED-BOMB]

scale: multiscalar user: individual, collective,

the city

medium: abstraction economy: N/A

political implications:

“welcome to the independent

republic of your house”

ecological implications:

energy seed-bomb

infrastructural implications:

reinvention

architectural implications:

infrastructural masks

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I EGOSPHERES AUTONOMOUS SPACES OF BECOMING

04ECOLOGIES OF EXCESS [OR AN INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTION OF ENERGY SEED-BOMB]

scale: human subject user: metropolitan subject medium: environmental bubbles economy: modern individualism

political implications:

autonomy, off the grid

ecological implications:

ecological autonomous bubbles

infrastructural implications:

punctual pods of self-

sufficiency

architectural implications:

from space to well-tempered

environments and to well-

absorbed atmospheres

new representational methods / vocabulary

points, lines, fields and gradients

new programatic elements

egospheres of silent activity and concentration in the city

new materials

water collectors, biopavers, piezoelectric lights, electronic bushes, sound carriers

projective visions

autonomous energy spaces of becoming for subjects and collectives

filter fields -therapy grounds

II SENSORIAL PLAYGROUNDS[OF THE THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH AND SEVENTH KIND]

05ECOLOGIES OF EXCESS [OR AN INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTION OF ENERGY SEED-BOMB]

scale: neighborhood user: neighbor medium: surfaces economy: encounter and surprise

political implications:

consciousness of consumption

ecological implications:

garbage as memory and play

infrastructural implications:

rediscovery of urban leftover

spaces and residues

architectural implications:

materialization of productive

zones in the urban fabric

new representational methods / vocabulary

material compositions

new programatic elements

cemetery highways, garbage playgrounds, productive fields

new materials

energy generated from light and darkness

projective visions

e collective spaces in the city

06ECOLOGIES OF EXCESS [OR AN INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTION OF ENERGY SEED-BOMB]

scale: territorial user: the metropolitan being medium: sectional_longtitudonal economy: weather territories

political implications:

identity as a metropolitan

condition is substituted by an

atmospheric state / boundaries

contested

ecological implications:

corridors of extreme develop-

ment introduce new species

according to local atmopsheric

conditions

infrastructural implications:

new systems of believe, new

points of convergence, new

economies

architectural implications:

dissolution of center and pe-

riphery, of above and under

new representational methods / vocabulary

cities

new programatic elements

ecological systems of free will

new materials:

energy gathering pavements and city trails

projective visions:

disruption of center and periphery, creations of loci in suburban social deserts, urban condensers

III PERFORMATIVE ATMOSPHERES[METROPOLITAN ENVIRONMENTS, CLOUDS, CURRENTS AND OTHER TRAINS]

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07ECOLOGIES OF EXCESS [OR AN INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTION OF ENERGY SEED-BOMB]

scale: territorial user: all citizens medium: mapping of electrical

effects

economy:obsolescence of power

political implications:

decentralization of power

ecological implications

generation of e-hubs

infrastructural implications:

decenctralization of energy

control from the grid of sup-

plies

architectural implications:

focal e-points that redefine

the city as a self-redulating

system

new representational methods / vocabulary

urban areas/radii of affect

new programatic elements

urban condensers, e-hubs, focal urban points for new fabrics of growth

new materials

energy and life generators for the collective urban life

projective visions

energy hubs render obsolete the control grod of power plants

SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION IN TIME[PROJECTIVE ARCHEOLOGIES]

08ECOLOGIES OF EXCESS [OR AN INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTION OF ENERGY SEED-BOMB]

scale: subject and collective user: urban inhabitant medium: drawings and energy

flows

economy:wifi and e-spaces

political implications:

autonomy, off the grid

ecological implications:

ecological autonomous bubbles

infrastructural implications:

punctual collective pods of

self-sufficiency

architectural implications:

from space to environmental

bubbles

new representational methods / vocabulary

existing flows: points for pollution, vectors for air and wind, lines for water, gradients for ecologies

tools of implementation:rendered drawings

new programatic elements

e-tools: e-bushes, e-lights, e-car, e-biopaver, e-vaccum wall

new materials

piezoelectric enegies, greywater filtration, dust collection

projective visions

emergence of collective e-spaces as urban condensers with free energy

URBAN CASE STUDY IMPLEMENTATION[TYPICAL STREET SECTION AND E-SPACES]

The task now is to envision how the methodology proposed in this “Ecologies of Excess” is able to

reach the institutionalized realm. The ideas here presented propose a series of infrastructural

condensers that intend to question established notions of public and private, of service and served,

producing a society that becomes a producer of a system not based anymore in production but in

oneself, the other, and the other other: our planet.

09ECOLOGIES OF EXCESS [OR AN INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTION OF ENERGY SEED-BOMB]

scale: global user: you again medium: intertextual economy:ecology of powers

political implications:

N/A

ecological implications:

“ecology takes command”

infrastructural implications:

planetary planning of atmo-

spheres

architectural implications:

continuous energy-matter monu-

ment

POLLUTIONS TAKE COMAND / POWERS OF 9[OR HOW IT HAPPENS]

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