Spatial products and intersectionality during climate change

The capitalist world system matrix is a zone of incentivised urbanism, lubricated economic conditions, political exclusion and ecological dissent. Urban multipliers within that system, such as special economic zones, mutate the temporality of cities, terrains and landscapes. These projects dramatically alter habitats, human and non-human migration patterns, topography and landscape. Climate change and the pandemic have completely transformed geopolitics, revealing these programmes to be inefficient hybrids of vernacular and smart infrastructures. In our collective fight against the crisis, can urban multipliers act as points of critical climate resilience? What can we learn from the impact of incentivised urbanism on political movements for climate justice?

Keller Easterling is an American architect, urbanist, writer, and professor at Yale University. She earned both her B.A. and M.Arch from Princeton University School of Architecture and has taught architectural design and history at Parsons The New School for Design, and Columbia University. She is currently Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Easterling is a contemporary writer working on the issues of urbanism, architecture, and organization in relation to the phenomena commonly defined as globalisation.

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