Fossil Urbanism

Metabolic hauntologies and new energetic ecologies

Abstract

The project presented here is an artistic research in a prospective phase. It is being developed within the framework of the Situated Research artistic residency organised annually by Medialab Matadero (Madrid, Spain). "Fossil Urbanism: metabolic hauntologies and new energetic ecologies" studies the role played by social imaginaries in dialogue with their energetic metabolism in the development of modern architecture and urbanism in Madrid. It will explore new energy ecologies through speculation and the testing of technologies such as artificial intelligence in dialogue with field, theoretical and historical research. This approach constitutes a double archaeology of the urban and architectural image: past and future converge in it through presence and absence. The metabolic hauntology is constituted as a way to explore these dialogues through the phantasmagories and its narrative modes. It also proposes a path towards a materialism of the incorporeal in cultural creation and the decarbonisation of imaginaries and affects.