Staying With the Urban Disruption to Break the ‘As Usual’

Revealing the massive, often invisible, complexes of contemporary urban infrastructure that carry energy, communications, transport and water, urban disruption also exposes the social control of nature that is exercised through technology. At the same time, urban disruption is a sign of the world's vitality and its constant transformation. But what role does disruption play in making the territory more resilient? In Brussels, at the Marais Wiels, and in Rome, at the Lago Bullicante, bulldozers carrying out new land transactions remove the topsoil and reach the water table, which flows up and fills the excavations. Two new urban lakes have emerged in areas that were previously floodplains. These two disruptions are inhabited by multispecies ensembles, and the social learning that is essential for evolutionary resilience is routine here.