Forming Publics: Technologies of Assembly

Harvard GSD

Technology of Assembly (n.) A cultural, spatial, institutional, or mediated practice through which strangers become publics and publics become capable of collective life.Before building comes assembly. Before buildings, institutions, and infrastructure take form, there are the conditions through which people gather, negotiate, listen, remember, and act together. This seminar investigates these pre-building conditions through the idea of technologies of assembly: the practices that transform…