Shannon Mattern

Shannon Mattern is a Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition. She is the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities (2006), Deep Mapping the Media City (2015), Code and Clay, Data and Dirt (2017) and The City Is Not a Computer (forthcoming). She contributes a regular long-form column about urban data and mediated infrastructures to Places Journal and she collaborates on public design and interactive projects and exhibitions.

As of November 2020

New Alphabet School Blog: #Coding
Scaffolding , Hard and Soft : Critical and Generative Infrastructures
Nov 01, 2020