Nerea Calvillo, Aeropolis. Queering Air in Toxic polluted Worlds

How to know, visualise, and design with something as elusive as air? Nerea Calvillo addresses these challenges in Aeropolis Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds. Combining conceptual work, design, and aesthetic production, she presents us with the plurality of urban air. Aeropolis begins with an image that effectively summarises the book’s ideas. “Intuitively, urban air is the negative of the city in three dimensions. […] But the air is the city” (p. 15). Although simple, the movement toward...