Vol. 18 No. 2 (2024): Issue # 35 | Engaging Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism: Cosmologies, Technologies, Worlds

Footprint 35, 'Cosmotechnical Thinking in Architecture and Urbanism,’ explores the intersection between architecture, technology and cosmology. It does so by examining the concept of ‘cosmotechnics’, a term coined by the philosopher 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.

Issue editors: Dulmini Perera and Samuel Koh