Through Logistics Geographies: Dimensions, Norms, Frictions and the Human Being

h. 5:30 pm (CEST) | Online

The PhD students in Urban and Regional Development are pleased to invite you to the second season of DISTant Talks: The PhD Students Behind the Scenes.

Register at: https://distant-talks-ep1.eventbrite.it

In this meeting:

Speakers
Niccolò Cuppini (SUPSI and IntoTheBlackBox)
Laetitia Dablanc (Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris)
Stephen Ramos (University of Georgia)

Moderators
Elia Silvestro
Agostino Strina

Abstract
In the relentless public- and private-led reconfiguration of Global Production Networks, logistics geographies have emerged both in their material and immaterial expressions as generators of global infrastructure, flows and norms but also as a locus of human frictions and negotiations. With this DISTant Talk, we seek to put a variety of viewpoints in dialogue: social and spatial, quantitative and qualitative, global and local. How do logistics spaces take shape in metropolitan areas, and how is the urban reshaped by logistics? What are the implications and frictions inherent to becoming physical corridors of impalpable logistics networks? Where do the norms of logistical spaces encounter the ecologies involved in planning logistics spaces? We will engage in a conversation with three international scholars investigating the multiplicity of logistics, charting their different theoretical and methodological approaches.

DISTant Talks, season 2, is curated by DIST PhD students:
Allegra Eusebio, Karl Benjamin Kraehmer, Lorenzo Mauloni, Alessandra Mossa, Richard Lee Peragine, Caterina Pozzobon, Sofia Beatriz Rivera Garcia, Federica Rotondo, Saanchi Saxena, Elia Silvestro, Agostino Strina.