Scape

Technoscape

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Appadurai's term for the global configuration of technology — mechanical and informational — and the high speed with which it now moves across previously impervious boundaries. The technoscape describes how technology, driven by complex relationships among money flows, political possibilities and labour markets, distributes itself unevenly through the world, conditioning the infrastructures and construction capacities available to the built environment.

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Details

Flow
Technoscape

Classifications

Holder
Communal intergenerational
Source of authority
Observation
Subject
Human centred
Degree of codification
Pattern based
Mode of transmission
Digital model
Knowledge type
Relational embodied
Epistemic cluster
Western philosophical

Referenced by

Sources

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  3. Appadurai, Arjun. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1–24, 1990.

Cite this entry

First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Technoscape." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/scape/technoscape/. Accessed July 17, 2026.