Code, Layers, Infrastructures

Code, Layers, Infrastructures (2020) is a workshop by Loren Britton, Kamran Behrouz, Isabel Paehr and Jörn Röder that was developed for HKW’s The New Alphabet School at the Common Room in New Delhi, India.

Current centralized, entangled corporeal and governmental internet infrastructures tend towards exploitation and surveillance. By experimenting with embodying and coding networks that are decentral, anonymous, temporary, specific and/or collective, we contributed to the digital commons. Together, participants used the metaphor of the layer to question existing networked structures and to collectively imagine alternative tools of navigation. Starting from the everyday layers of computational networks, we went on a computational walk in the neighborhood and played through different network types and applications.