Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design

Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is putting all work and programs on hold indefinitely.

We consider it impermissible to carry on business as usual in the present situation while lives in Ukraine are being lost.

Since its foundation, the Institute’s work has been focused on researching cities and developing ideas for a planetary future. While this mission remains essential, for a productive conversation about the future, there needs to be peace.

Establishing dialogue and cessation of hostilities in Ukraine is the single most important goal right now.

Strelka Institute stands in solidarity with everyone pleading for an immediate end to this armed conflict.

Strands is a project by artist Kerem Ozan Bayraktar for the Busan Sea Art Festival 2021. The mixed-media installation in a small fishing tent forms a mysterious habitat that immerses us into the dark, labyrinthine world of eels. Through Strands, the artist not only experiments with the possibility of redesigning the ideological hierarchy between humans and non-humans, but also the interrelations among inorganic objects, living bodies, and digital media.

Kerem Ozan Bayraktar: Strands A mixed-media installation for the Busan Sea Art Festival 2021.

Strelka alumni architect Fabrizio Furiassi contributed to the new issue of the Log Magazine highlighting various aspects of Italy’s position in postcolonial architectural discourse. In his essay he takes on the Mafia’s role in the production and transformation of space in postwar Sicily and questions the agency of architects in the industry since then. Be sure to check out: https://stre.lk/MQLZ

In The Revenge of the Real, Benjamin Bratton envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognizes that governance is literally a matter of life and death. He argues that instead of thinking of biotechnologies as something imposed on society, we must see them as essential to a politics of infrastructure, knowledge, and direct intervention. In this way, we can build a society based on a new rationality of inclusion, care, and prevention. Strelka Mag publishes an excerpt from The Revenge of the Real.

Excerpt: ‘The Revenge of the Real’ by Benjamin Bratton The future of politics after the pandemic.

The Terraforming final year kicks off in Istanbul! For the next 7 days researchers will get acquainted and introduced to key thematic insights and findings from the previous year's cycle as well as address the new design-research themes in the context of the conceptual scope of the program and start the work on group projects. Today has started with the first seminar by program director Benjamin H. Bratton, covering the 2022 research themes: "Artificial Environments", "Astropolitics", "Synthetic Materialism", "Planetary Sapience".

The Autocene is a period in which all of Earth’s systems have been altered by machines. The design challenge is directing the trajectory—the Autocene we have today may be the antithesis or apotheosis of the Autocene to come.
An essay by Stephanie Sherman.

The Autocene: Towards a Post-Automotive Future Stephanie Sherman on the rise of pervasive automated planetary machines.

All Under Heaven: Sоvereignty and Infrastructure After Globalization by Seiche and Strelka Mag is a design-research project that explores how waves of globalization have shaped and reshaped political, social, and economic paradigms over the past century, stretching and bending the meaning of sovereignty. https://seiche.strelkamag.com/

A Lead Author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Paul N. Edwards argues that climate change is an infrastructural problem, it’s not an individual action problem. Read his interview on Strelka Mag: https://stre.lk/cBHr

"Working really hard, any of us can maybe cut our carbon footprint by 10 or 20 percent, but we will not get to zero. We just can’t, because it’s embodied in the goods we buy, the food we need, and everything else. So we really need policy change, and technology change, to get to a place where we can at least have some hope of limiting climate change."