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Power of Configuration: When Infrastructure Goes off the Rails

  • Jamie Kruse (author)
Chapter of: Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life(pp. 214–221)

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TitlePower of Configuration
SubtitleWhen Infrastructure Goes off the Rails
ContributorJamie Kruse (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.38
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightKruse, Jamie
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-04
Long abstractOn November 11, 2011, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) delivered a timeline to an audience of U.S. industry executives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and members of Congress. It detailed the unfolding of events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station during, and in the critical hours following, the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. The story contained within the document entitled, “Special Report on the Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,” reads like a screenplay. The gravity of the immediate hours after the accident, detailed and delivered through stark legalistic language, confronts the reader with a poignant reminder: when things don’t go as planned, human bodies are what must show up to try to steer things back on course.The INPO report serves well as a reference manual for contemporary designers, architects, urban planners, and engineers. It’s a powerful invitation to consider configuration in relation to infrastructure design and planning. Configuration: how and where we stage what we de-sign, how humans and infrastructures are situated in relation to one another, and how they inevitably interact. Yet humans and infrastructures exist not only in relation to one another and the landscape, but also in relation to the multitude of earth forces capable of rising up and challenging our best design and engineering capacities.
Page rangepp. 214–221
Print length8 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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