Technoscape
Explore in the Atlas →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.
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
- Arjun Appadurai proposed
- The Sociotechnical Imaginary circulates through
Sources
- n.d..
- n.d..
- 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.