Urban Lab Global Cities focuses on extreme territories (the Arctic, the Desert (Gobi Desert Steppes and Sahara), the Amazon, Siberia, Oceans) as operational landscapes (namely landscapes that have been transformed for industrial purposes) that support an accelerating, intensifying process of urban industrial growth at the planetary scale. More specifically ULGC investigates the material consequences of geopolitical decisions and their associated forms of violence (landscape degradation, forced population migration, conflicts) that impact these territories, using design practices as optical devices to problem-address, to investigate these key issues and challenges.Field of investigation are mainly geography of oil and affiliated infrastructures, geography of waste, and military geographies.
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