https://moredustings.net moredustings Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:00:42 +0000 https://moredustings.net en https://moredustings.net/Home-1 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:57:44 +0000 moredustings https://moredustings.net/Home-1 https://moredustings.net/Page-Nav-1 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:57:50 +0000 moredustings https://moredustings.net/Page-Nav-1 ︎ IndexNext&nbsp;︎ https://moredustings.net/CoSEP-Collective-for-Socio-Spatial-and-Environmental-Praxis Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:20:13 +0000 moredustings https://moredustings.net/CoSEP-Collective-for-Socio-Spatial-and-Environmental-Praxis CoSEP: Collective for Socio-Spatial and Environmental PraxisDec 2023 - current <img width="1822" height="1808" width_o="1822" height_o="1808" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be524eedf2bc25d8f3b9a81bb2a6559acc2f49b15133b5a7b06bff0126d1bf0f/CSEP-Logo-moving.gif" data-mid="213025759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be524eedf2bc25d8f3b9a81bb2a6559acc2f49b15133b5a7b06bff0126d1bf0f/CSEP-Logo-moving.gif" /> Visit site: https://co-sep.net/ CoSEP is housed at the University of California, Davis, lead by Akshita Sivakumar, Ph.D. CoSEP -- The Collective for Spatial and Environmental Praxis -- is a research group focused on creative and critical approaches to addressing the political, socio-spatial, and sociotechnical nature of designing and governing the built environment. CoSEP's projects lie at the intersection of&nbsp;design, technology, governance, and social justice. CoSEP is based out of the University of California, Davis, and is housed in the Department of Design. The lab currently has two flagship research tracks: 1. Technoscience of Environmental Governance 2. Socio-Material Palette for a Just Transition ... https://moredustings.net/Agonistic-Arrangements-Design-for-Dissensus-in-Environmental Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:55:12 +0000 moredustings https://moredustings.net/Agonistic-Arrangements-Design-for-Dissensus-in-Environmental Agonistic Arrangements: Design for Dissensus in Environmental GovernanceDecember 2024<img width="792" height="1056" width_o="792" height_o="1056" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09fb79cffadfae97da7531fd4b9add542473795268d2fba6ee205012f6dc8bc1/02-small.jpg" data-mid="234421707" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/792/i/09fb79cffadfae97da7531fd4b9add542473795268d2fba6ee205012f6dc8bc1/02-small.jpg" /> Read hereAbstract: In response to a desire for justice-based outcomes in environmental governance, there is a rise in various forms of collective governance. The dominant models include participatory and consensus-based, deliberative governance, where aspects of the environment are managed and debated between state agencies, the market, and civil society. However, these models have limitations in negotiating power between various social groups to result in transformative organization. In response, building on the political theory of agonism, design and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) have recently acknowledged the role of difference and dissensus in public sector participatory processes. The methods and effectiveness of how design can assist social movement actors in spurring and maintaining these differences to ensure just outcomes when participating in state-led governance practices remain to be studied. This article draws on over three years of fieldwork with environmental justice activists participating in California’s decarbonization program. I argue design can help with dissensus by creating space for, articulating the content of, and giving form to ways to draw out tensions that are often suspended in participatory and deliberative processes. I propose a conceptual and methodological framework called Agonistic Arrangements to draw out these tensions. These findings have implications for those involved in participatory governance in the public section across domains. ... https://moredustings.net/Lagoons-of-Effluvia Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:00:42 +0000 moredustings https://moredustings.net/Lagoons-of-Effluvia Lagoons of EffluviaJuly 2024<img width="1281" height="469" width_o="1281" height_o="469" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06f32355525efb3bc4ac0cc9d9799a9801f9e45fed6d3311b7bba5a0fa9106a6/AquaAirground-Lagoons.jpg" data-mid="234421687" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06f32355525efb3bc4ac0cc9d9799a9801f9e45fed6d3311b7bba5a0fa9106a6/AquaAirground-Lagoons.jpg" /> Read here Environmental justice and climate justice activists routinely find themselves participating in state-led processes to determine energy futures and the built environment that follows. At stake is reproducing worlds of enclosure in the name of resilience, sustainability, innovation, carbon neutrality, and just transitions. This narrative performs a close reading of environmental justice activists’ participation in California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) alongside the landscape of San Joaquin Valley’s lagoons of effluvia. I draw on extensive fieldwork with environmental justice activists, decolonial theories on worlding, and the theory of agonism to present interventions that interrupt state-led imaginaries to instead multiply worlds within worlds. ... https://moredustings.net/The-PRECARITY-of-SOLIDARITIES-via-TECHNOLOGIES-of-CONTROL-The-Case-of Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:25:13 +0000 moredustings https://moredustings.net/The-PRECARITY-of-SOLIDARITIES-via-TECHNOLOGIES-of-CONTROL-The-Case-of The Precarity of Solidarities via Technologies of Control: The Case of Chrome Plating in California Nov. 2023 Abstract: The labor and environmental social movements have routinely been drawn into governance&nbsp;relationships under the dominant regulatory regime&nbsp;of command and control in&nbsp;the United States since the 1960s (Kazis &amp; Grossman 1983; Obach 1999). From&nbsp;scrubbers in smokestacks to&nbsp;computer models, these technologies have mediated&nbsp;regulatory compliance, decision-making, participation, representation,&nbsp;enforcement, and&nbsp;resistance to conditions of production. However, when state&nbsp;agencies take up the gambit of environmental justice (EJ), how, why, and to what&nbsp;effect do these technologies mediate the relationships between the two social movements?&nbsp;What happens when workers face the dissolution of&nbsp;their industries as a result?&nbsp;Through the case of the proposed ban of Hexavalent Chromium in California, this&nbsp;paper yokes together technology-driven mediations between labor and governance&nbsp;agencies and the interests of workers and environmental justice activists.&nbsp;Through participant&nbsp;observation, I find that state-driven technologies splinter&nbsp;solidaristic relationships between workers and the environmental justice&nbsp;movement.&nbsp;When these solidarities are weakened, an accelerated impetus for&nbsp;alternative control technologies promises to buttress worker precarity,&nbsp;obscuring empirically emergent and embodied best practices to live in toxic&nbsp;worlds while minimizing risks to workers and EJ communities.&nbsp;These findings&nbsp;problematize the longstanding jobs vs. environment stalemate, which has presented&nbsp;working-class jobs and environmental health as&nbsp;antagonistic goals. Contributing to how STS might inform governance structures that aim at a just transition, this paper suggests ways to think&nbsp;about the conditions of the precarity of the&nbsp;relationship between workers,&nbsp;environmental justice activists, and regulatory technologies. ... https://moredustings.net/Data-Surrogates-as-Hosts-Politics-of-Environmental-Governance Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:32:35 +0000 moredustings https://moredustings.net/Data-Surrogates-as-Hosts-Politics-of-Environmental-Governance Data Surrogates as Hosts: Politics of Environmental Governance Published in Catalyst: feminism, theory, technoscience April&nbsp; ‘23 Abstract Data-driven environmental governance within the standard regulatory regime routinely relies on unmeasurable, missing, or abjected data. Technocrats typically use data surrogates to alleviate this pervasive problem. By combining feminist technoscience and critical environmental justice approaches, this article argues that data surrogates are far more than fungible substitutes and rely on more than scientific rationality and transcendent objectivity. Through a case of intersecting environmental governance and justice work in the Portside Community in San Diego, this article exposits a broader conceptualization of data surrogates by developing a partial typology of operations they perform: calibrating, weighting, and validating. The politics and labors of these operations are crucial to analyze how data acquire material and discursive power in environmental governance. I propose an analytical shift from examining the work of data surrogates in terms of substituting to one of hosting. This shift reveals and better explains how data surrogates negotiate relationships between body, place, and property across state, market, and civil society actors. Moreover, it demonstrates how data surrogates interrupt the dominant regulatory regime by resisting fungibility through acts of social reproduction. Far from being subordinate to technocratic tools, the work of social reproduction makes governing with scientific and technical instruments both possible and contestable. ... https://moredustings.net/MUNDANE-AGONISTIC-BUREAUCRACIES Tue, 13 Dec 2022 03:08:47 +0000 moredustings https://moredustings.net/MUNDANE-AGONISTIC-BUREAUCRACIES MUNDANE + AGONISTIC&nbsp; BUREAUCRACIES ongoing <img width="2307" height="1298" width_o="2307" height_o="1298" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65da0b0e9a6ec26ef4a018f6b5494ce6601ca4fd531aae60e619d9d328fc4636/MA-Bureaucracies-logopurp-02.jpg" data-mid="161793434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65da0b0e9a6ec26ef4a018f6b5494ce6601ca4fd531aae60e619d9d328fc4636/MA-Bureaucracies-logopurp-02.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f74bf34a98935123f5994470aad58907518fb64006939af8d80366b22fd9a71/center.jpg" data-mid="161790839" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f74bf34a98935123f5994470aad58907518fb64006939af8d80366b22fd9a71/center.jpg" /> 01&nbsp; <img width="1273" height="1016" width_o="1273" height_o="1016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c42c1cf84757db60e879171b1dbae0537143a82549792c55f63d81dc5918b5b7/center-acc.gif" data-mid="161790798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c42c1cf84757db60e879171b1dbae0537143a82549792c55f63d81dc5918b5b7/center-acc.gif" /> <img width="6600" height="3400" width_o="6600" height_o="3400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26564f0d77f1bea1de60e2ecc5f7c5e1021e19bf4dd106463f9a7068c2989a9e/triptych.jpg" data-mid="193665672" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26564f0d77f1bea1de60e2ecc5f7c5e1021e19bf4dd106463f9a7068c2989a9e/triptych.jpg" /> ... https://moredustings.net/ENVIRONMENTAL-JUSTICE-ADVISORY-COMMITTEE Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:07:20 +0000 moredustings https://moredustings.net/ENVIRONMENTAL-JUSTICE-ADVISORY-COMMITTEE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE / COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT REPORT Summer 2022 <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b532455a2e41ae2d2d9bc28490930e8aa8fb3299b2680fc482f1d2c22962a78/EJAC-cover-CommunityEngagement-Analysis.jpeg" data-mid="156318156" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b532455a2e41ae2d2d9bc28490930e8aa8fb3299b2680fc482f1d2c22962a78/EJAC-cover-CommunityEngagement-Analysis.jpeg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7fd2db4b09cc0df0d256a44cd2eb82cdb8b6920821e4279ffadb1b773ccf079/EJAC-cover-CommunityEngagement-Spanish-Analysis.jpeg" data-mid="156318157" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7fd2db4b09cc0df0d256a44cd2eb82cdb8b6920821e4279ffadb1b773ccf079/EJAC-cover-CommunityEngagement-Spanish-Analysis.jpeg" /> Narrative and analytical report of the community engagement component of California’s Climate Scoping Plan of 2022 per Assembly Bill AB-32. &nbsp;Prepared by: Akshita Sivakumar, Ph.D. candidate (UC-San Diego)Sarina Vega, AB32 Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (EJAC) Member Environmental/Justice Solutions [Colin Miller (EJAC proxy member), Marybelle Nzegwu Tobias, Eva Farah, Sylvia Escarcega] https://moredustings.net/ARCHITECTURE-SPATIAL-THEORY Sun, 24 Oct 2021 05:20:48 +0000 moredustings https://moredustings.net/ARCHITECTURE-SPATIAL-THEORY ARCHITECTURE +/ SPATIAL THEORY Fall 2021 Course Description:&nbsp; In this course we will explore various theories that help us makes sense of and justify specific conditions within architecture, its relations, and discourse as a cultural activity since the “end” of Modernism. If we take as a premise that architecture matters because it spatially and materially negotiates the desires and values of a milieu, it is imperative for us as architecture students to then learn to analyze how to make sense of these negotiations within a feedback loop of theory and practice. To this effect, we will learn how the built environment and its representations help us gather meaning from and makes sense of the world, its events, and relationships, while facilitating meaningful experiences. We will draw on theories of space and representation from various fields that architecture has long been in contact with, including geography, urban studies, sociology, and media studies. Space here is conceived of in multiple ways from abstract to concrete, planned to produced, imagined to materialized, and relational to discrete. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1199" height="675" width_o="1199" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/767eabc39045dbebcd1deb70f28ebfb8728a799dd505d816a16b34a1f66f64ba/SpatialTheory.jpg" data-mid="122464400" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/767eabc39045dbebcd1deb70f28ebfb8728a799dd505d816a16b34a1f66f64ba/SpatialTheory.jpg" />