SS EM

Alliance Landport is an intermodal facility composed of an airport, a freight train station, industrial warehouses, residential & retail areas. It is a space fueled by global commerce, where a series of vastly different programs, traditionally existing in separate contexts, is merged into a shared landscape. It’s a space that Clare Lyster, author of Landscapes of Exchange: Re-Articulating Site, cites as a space of potential reprogramming because of its infrastructural richness. It’s a landscape programmed and designed with an ease of access to utilities that makes it highly re-programmable. This type of rigid infrastructure is the landscape where our research semester focused. Highly programmed and protocolgical spaces become highly exploitable because the protocols in which they operate are not flexible enough to account for entities that wish to hack into them.