Dean Massey will explore the role of architecture and infrastructure in contemporary biopolitics through the concept of “governing by design” that he and his co-authors from the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative developed in their 2012 book of the same title. His starting point is the widespread criticism of the proposed US-Mexico border wall as an infrastructure of white supremacy. He will also sketch out some other ways that US architecture and infrastructure build racial inequity, taking examples pipes, prisons, schools, and houses. Finally concluding by highlighting strategies for imagining and building alternative infrastructures.
