INFRASTRUCTURES AND CITIES. RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES AND FORMS OF INQUIRY
International seminar coordinated and organised by Olivier Coutard (Université Gustave Eiffel – LATTS), Daniel Florentin (Mines ParisTech - PSL/ISIGE), Leonardo Ramondetti (Politecnico di Torino – DIST), and Agostino Strina (Politecnico di Torino – FULL – DIST)
The seminar hosts anthropologists, architects, economists, engineers, ethnographers, geographers, and urban planners from more than thirty universities worldwide to discuss their ongoing research and nourish academic debates on the relationship between infrastructures and cities. The themes are:
- Current trends and counter-trends in the commoning of infrastructures;
- The many faces of contemporary infrastructuration;
- Infrastructural violence on spaces, societies and bodies;
- The infrastructurocene and its discontents.
By discussing these topics through different methods and perspectives, the seminar sheds light on the social properties and practices related to infrastructure; the tensions in infrastructure development, governance, and use; and the shifting of infrastructure imaginaries, organizations, and management principles. The outcomes will be collected in the Handbook on Infrastructures and Cities edited by Olivier Coutard and Daniel Florentin (Edward Elgar, 2023).
PROGRAM
June 20th, 2022,
2.15-2.30 pm | Welcome by Andrea Bocco and Marco Santangelo
room: Sala Vigliano
2.30-3.30 pm | Lecture: Infrastructures and Cities: A Research Project
Speakers: Olivier Coutard and Daniel Florentin
room: Sala Vigliano
online: Zoom
3.45-6.45 pm| Parallel Sessions
rooms: 10V, Sala Astengo, Sala Mollino, Sala Vigliano
June 21st 2022
9.30-12.30 am | Parallel Sessions
rooms: Sala Astengo, Stanza della Caccia, Sala Mollino, Sala Vigliano
2.00-4.00 pm | Parallel Discussions on Ph.D. Research
rooms: Sala Vigliano, Sala Mollino
4.15-6.00 pm | Plenary Session
room: Sala Vigliano
Universities and research institutes involved
Politecnico di Torino – DIST – SCUDO – PRIN research group: Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris / Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées / Université Gustave Eiffel / Université Paris-Est Créteil / Tallinn University / Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography / RWTH Aachen University / Lyon Urban School / École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris / Concordia University of Montreal / University of Cambridge / Charles Sturt University / Lund University / Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute / Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / Universidad Alberto Hurtado Chile / Durham University / ESPI / Sciences Po Paris / University of Cape Town / Maastricht University / Humboldt-Universität Berlin / Technical University of Munich / University Eduardo Mondlane / ETH Zurich / University of Liechtenstein / Gauteng City-Region Observatory / Utrecht University / University of Manchester / McGill University / University of Illinois / Georgia State University / University College London / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / University of the Witwatersrand / Lancaster University
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