Michael Obrist [feld72] in conversation with Keller Easterling über "The Mix is All"

Alternative approaches to design disrupt some habitual white/modern/Enlightenment approaches to the world’s intractable dilemmas—from climate cataclysm to inequality to concentrations of authoritarian power. Rather than a cultural firmware that favors singular solutions, monocultures, and binaries, solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable markers. Rather than the modern desire for the new, innovations are emergent relationships between emergent and incumbent technologies. Encouraging entanglement, these approaches do not try to eliminate problems but rather put them together in productive combinations. Errors and failures are information rich resources and opportunities. There is strength in difference, impure coalitions, and an unpredictable dissensus that keeps power guessing and disoriented. The mix is all

Keller Easterling
Keller Easterling is a designer, writer and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. She is currently working on a book about land activism in the US after the Civil Rights Movement. Other books include, Medium Design (Verso 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999). Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home, a laserdisc/DVD history of US suburbia from 1934-1960.Easterling lectures and exhibits internationally. Her research and writing was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design.

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