A Right to Infrastructure: The Need to Democratize the Access

Amateur Cities, expanding design practices, New Generations, No Density, Politics and economics, Talk, Territory and mobility, Urgent, City, Willem Schinkel.

Architecture’s role, Collective city, Contemporary society, Cultural agitator, Democracy, Digital era, Energy, Hierarchies, Inequality, Infrastructure, Political & Economic Approach, Public Space, Public space role, Society, talk, urban, Urban democracy.

Interview by Ania Molenda from Amateur Cities

Discussing the rise of speculative vocabularies, Willem Schinkel emphasises the importance of being attentive to the concepts that underlie any shift in vocabulary and how we should refuse dominant forms of understanding in seeking totally new responses to urban problems.