Jordan Crowder is a Canadian writer, artist, and architectural designer whose work examines the relationship between the body, architecture, and the hyperreal conditions of contemporary life. His research operates at the intersection of phenomenology, critical theory, and digital culture, often through the lens of his own neurodegenerative condition.

His autoethnographic thesis and gallery exhibition explored the erosion of the body and the built world in what he terms the “server-city,” using the rooftop as both site and metaphor for resistance, perspective, and fleeting reconnection to the real. As his physical abilities decline, this vantage point becomes increasingly charged—an embodied method of research and a space where the city reveals itself in its most machinic format.

Crowder’s current work investigates how bodies and cities are simultaneously reduced—digitally, materially, and existentially—within technological, economic and bureaucratic systems that erode the physical, bodily and the other, producing a form of collective disability. Through photography, writing, and narrative inquiry, he traces the loss of meaning, dwelling, and human scale in the hypermodern urban condition. His practice remains rooted in the frictions between disappearance and visibility, pleasure and (dis)pleasure, and the search for moments of truth within landscape's defined by simulation and decline.