Architectures of Mistrust
Suspect, Sense, Regulate, Repeat
D. Dinçer (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
G. Önal (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
G. Tona (Eindhoven University of Technology)
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Abstract
Institutionalized suspicion toward border-crossing bodies is increasingly systematized by the security models of complete situational awareness. This hyper-surveillant regime relies on the seamless interoperation of inspection technologies and architectural design to manage, contain, and exclude those bodies at borders. This paper focuses on airports as one such space of mistrust and asks: how do surveillance technologies and architectural design converge in the practices of regulating borders? We respond by examining the architecture of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport as a ‘suspicious infrastructure’ (Simon Noori 2022) that continuously adapts itself to the state-of-the-art technologies which sense, inspect and organize mistrusted, human and more-than-human bodies en route. [...]