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Víctor Muñoz Sanz

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Adidas Speedfactory, Ansbach, Germany. Photo: Ériver Hijano.

Positions
January 2018










Notes
1

"Adidas and Siemens set to collaborate in the digital production of sporting goods," Siemens Global, (April 24, 2017), .

2

“WTIN: Rethinking the Textile Supply Chain,” Softwear Automation Press & Events (August 18, 2017), .

3

Frank Gersdorf and Heiko Jessayan, “De mens ontwerpt, de robot zet in elkaar,” Het Financiele Dagblad (October 30, 2014), .

4

Víctor Muñoz Sanz, “Welcome to Futureland. Automation Takes Command in the Port of Rotterdam,” Volume 49 (September 2016), 33–38.

5

Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), 149.

6

Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016), 43.

7

John Urry, What is the Future? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016).

8

William H. Mulligan, Jr, “Mechanization and Work in the American Shoe Industry: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1852-1883,” The Journal of Economic History 41, 1 (1981), 59.

9

David Newhall Johnson, Sketches of Lynn (Lynn, MA: T. P. Nichols, 1880), ; Blanche Evans Hazard, The Organization of the Boot and Shoe Industry in Massachusetts before 1875 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921), ; Ibid., Mulligan, Jr.

10

Ross Thomson, The Path to Mechanized Shoe Production in the United States (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press Books, 1989).

11

Robert Enoch Buck, “Railroads and Capital: Money, Credit, and the Industrialization of Shoemaking,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 57, 4 (1998) 513.

12

Ibid.

13

Sidney Kaplan. 1955. “Jan Earnst Matzeliger and the Making of the Shoe,” The Journal of Negro History 40, 1 (1955), 840.

14

Richard Roe, “The United Shoe Machinery Company,” Journal of Political Economy 21, 10 (1913), 938–953; Richard Roe, “The United Shoe Machinery Company,” Journal of Political Economy 22, 1 (1914), 43–63.

15

Reyner Banham, A Concrete Atlantis: U.S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture, 1900-1925 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986).

16

Ibid.

17

Gwendolyn Wright, USA. Modern Architectures in History (London: Reaktion, 2008).

18

Ibid., Banham.

19

Ibid.

20

As quoted in Ibid., Wright, 53.

21

As quoted in: Jiří Svoboda, Jiří Voženílek: Architekt ve Zlíně - Architect in Zlín (Brno: Brno University of Technology, National Heritage Institute, 2011), 19.

22

Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Networked Utopia. Architecture and Urbanism in the Bata Shoe Company satellite cities, 1930 to the present (Doctoral Dissertation: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2016).

23

Andrew Tenner, “Lasting Impressions,” Harvard Magazine, (September 1, 2000), ; Ibid., Wright.

24

Ibid., Banham, 68.

25

Department of Agencies of the United Shoe Machinery Company, Handbook of Shoe Factory Engineering (Boston, MA: Department of Agencies of the United Shoe Machinery Company, 1916), .

26

Ibid., 5.

27

Ibid., 6.

28

Ibid., 11.

29

Ibid., 12–13.

30

Víctor Muñoz Sanz, "Captives in Futureland," Volume 51 (2017).

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