Waste Is Information
Infrastructure Legibility and Governance
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2023
Summary
Waste is material information. Landfills are detailed records of everyday consumption and behavior; much of what we know about the distant past we know from discarded objects unearthed by archaeologists and interpreted by historians. And yet the systems and infrastructures that process our waste often remain opaque.
In this book, Dietmar Offenhuber examines waste from the perspective of information, considering emerging practices and technologies for making waste systems legible and h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549967 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262549964 |
| Author: | Dietmar Offenhuber, Carlo Ratti |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Infrastructures |
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Dietmar Offenhuber
Dietmar Offenhuber is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. He is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard metaLAB and was recently a fellow at the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. He is the author of the award-winning Waste Is Information (MIT Press).
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