The University of Delft academic journal Footprint, dedicated to publishing articles on architecture and urban research, dedicated a special issue on the relation between Professor Yuk Hui’s concept cosmotechnics and architecture.
Footprint promotes the creation and development – or revision – of conceptual frameworks and methods of inquiry. Its 35th issue, 'Cosmotechnical Thinking in Architecture and Urbanism,' was released in February 2024 and explores the intersection between architecture, technology, and cosmology.
It does so by examining the concept of ‘cosmotechnics’, a term coined by Professor Yuk Hui, which suggests an irreducible connection between cosmology and technology. Cosmotechnics bears directly upon a range of architectural and urban issues, including debates on preservation, decolonialism, and environmental justice. The contributions to this issue expand on the theoretical and practical intersections between cosmotechnics and architecture. They do so by foregrounding the productive tension between the local and universal dimensions of technology, within the situated contexts of different cultures. Together, they highlight the challenges and possibilities of cosmotechnics as a project of reinvention.
In addition to various articles written by academics and experts on architecture, the issue editors, Dulmini Perera and Samuel Koh, have written an extensive interview with Hui, discussing the implications of sociotechnical thinking for architecture, urbanism, and design. You can read it in the journal accessible below.
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Footprint is engaged in creating a body of critical and reflexive texts with a breadth and depth of thought which would enrich the architecture discipline and produce new knowledge, conceptual methodologies and original understandings.
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