Uprooting Silicon Prairie

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_18957
dc.contributor.author	Darmour-Paul Matthew
dc.title	Uprooting Silicon Prairie
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The American Midwest is undergoing a major renovation. A landscape known for facilitating the farming and distribution of crops and animal products is transforming to enable the proliferation of digital platforms, retrofitting infrastructure like buildings, mines, factories and fields in the service of producing hardware and software that create a platform for other actors to conduct their own business. A new economic framework called the Silicon Prairie has declared Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska as a mecca of data production. While there has been increased scholarship on the effects of the platform economy in urban areas, drawing mostly from the study of gig work, smart cities and governance optimisation, there is a noticeable gap in researching how the infrastructure of platform capitalism materialises within rural environments and smaller urban settlements. This essay presents three speculative design interventions in a project called Digital Permaculture.
dc.relation.ispartof	The Future Contemporary
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-12-14
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-10-10
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-756-2/uprooting-silicon-prairie/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-756-2/006
dc.identifier.issn	2785-1613
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-0986
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-756-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Architecture
dc.subject	Multispecies
dc.subject	Permaculture
dc.subject	Platforms
dc.subject	Re-worlding
dc.subject	Regionalism

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Uprooting Silicon Prairie

Matthew Darmour-Paul Researcher and designer

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The American Midwest is undergoing a major renovation. A landscape known for facilitating the farming and distribution of crops and animal products is transforming to enable the proliferation of digital platforms, retrofitting infrastructure like buildings, mines, factories and fields in the service of producing hardware and software that create a platform for other actors to conduct their own business. A new economic framework called the Silicon Prairie has declared Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska as a mecca of data production. While there has been increased scholarship on the effects of the platform economy in urban areas, drawing mostly from the study of gig work, smart cities and governance optimisation, there is a noticeable gap in researching how the infrastructure of platform capitalism materialises within rural environments and smaller urban settlements. This essay presents three speculative design interventions in a project called Digital Permaculture.

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Dec. 14, 2023

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Oct. 10, 2023

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978-88-6969-756-2

Keywords: Platforms • Architecture • Permaculture • Re-worlding • Multispecies • Regionalism

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