Air As Infrastructure

Infrastructural, Botanical, and Ecological Information System

2016
Tapajos River Basin, Brasil

In collaboration with Laura-India Garinois






Air as Infrastructure is a program integrating various infrastructural, botanical, and ecological information systems which aim to provide autonomous communication channels for protected territories and indigenous communities in the Tapajós National Forest. The scalable broadband communication network solution provides protective tools to the forest and its residents to monitor their land. It also enables the transaction of decolonized information between communities and territories, strengthening social organization and broadening access to internet-enabled devices within the forest.



Total RF propagations in the Tapajós generated by the communication network, providing local communities with protective tools to monitor the forest.

Temporal densities mapped in the Tapajós National Forest

App interface: geotag and identification of species along path




Archaic modes of specimen collection


Scale model of technical components in the rainforest.






Line of Sight/Site cataloguing the topographical obtrusions in the broadband range

Mesh Node propagation










Liam Martin



A designer in Brooklyn, New York