Translations:Clouds to Commons: Closing Program/15/en

Livio Liechti is a writer and researcher focused on the materiality of information infrastructures. A political scientist by training, Livio‘s core expertise lies in researching and responding to the political economy and infrastructural dimension of digital technology and its intersection with civic space and activism. Together with Apsara Flury, a graphic designer, he runs Papertrail, a publishing collective that engages with hidden infrastructural systems and their effects on the public sphere. They use printed matter, such as zines, posters, and books to make infrastructural power visible and tangible. Their research combines a documentary perspective on the environmental effects of digital infrastructures, such as hyperscale data centres, with prefigurative experimentation with non-digital information infrastructures, such as street libraries. He is also active in the (anti) data centre movement, where he takes people on educational walks. https://papertrail.world/