Session 2 | Internet tour: a walk through invisible infrastructures

When you open a webpage or send a message, what is actually happening? The internet is not an ethereal cloud. It is cables, boxes, unremarkable buildings, beaches and seas where submarine connections are buried. Physical infrastructures that go unnoticed within the city. Internet Tour is a sightseeing route through places no one visits—the points where the Network flows.

Since 2018, collective walks have been organised in different neighbourhoods and cities to make these hidden architectures visible, from data centres in industrial areas to beach sand where the cables connecting continents come ashore. In this edition, we will explore the area around the Canòdrom to trace the path of the internet all the way to the facility. We will do so with visual artist Mario Santamaria, who designed the itinerary, and the architects from Col·lectiu Punt6 taking notes on how these infrastructures shape our daily lives. We will document the itinerary and publish it on the website so anyone can replicate it.

Organised by: Canòdrom.