Behind the beauty and crudeness of automated landscapes, this report from the Netherlands reveals that human bodies are not absent at all in these centers of production, but instead adopt the uptime rhythm of automation.

How the combination of domesticated fire, the data center, and artificial intelligence is reshaping our communities, opening them up to a stealthier and more pervasive form of the Smart City.

As the boundary between the natural and the automated dissolves, the vast logistics infrastructures underpinning our economies point the way to new models of the sublime.

In allowing Amazon to invent our future, we have lost sovereignty over our cities, our regions and our bodies. The commerce giant’s invisible logistics chains leave an imprint on everything they touch.

Acknowledging the end of human-centered design, speculative architect and filmmaker Liam Young reflects on how to prototype new relationships with emerging architectural typologies.