Introduction from the Editors. Science and the City. In the Era of Paradigm Shifts

The 23rd Issue of Forum A+P investigates and speculates on the relationship between the city and techno-science. The term ‘city’ is understood in two ways: first, in a discursive sense – as an object of study and a set of practices – episte- mological, aesthetic, architectural, political, economic, and social among others - that deal with such object; and sec- ond, as a reality that both delimits and challenges the very notion and possibility of representing and knowing it as an object. In its hyphenated form, techno-science is under- stood - in Bernard Stiegler’s words: “as a com-position of science and technology, meaning that science submits to the constraints involved in becoming the technology that for- mulates the systematic conditions of its evolution.” [...]