Infrastructural and Urban Transformations. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Castello del Valentino, Torino

This cycle of seminars reflects and builds on both an ‘infrastructural moment’ — with massive symbolic and financial investment in, especially, energy, digital and transport infrastructures — and on an ‘infrastructural turn’ — with a growing and increasingly diverse use of the notion in various research areas.

PhD Program in Urban and Regional Development Seminar Series organised by:
Daniel Florentin (Ecole des Mines Paris PSL) and Leonardo Ramondetti (DIST, Politecnico di Torino)

Attending the whole cycle equals to up to 15 hard skill hours

Seminar Series
Seminar 1: April 15, 2.30-5.30 pm
Seminar 2: April 17, 2.30-4.30 pm
Seminar 3: April 22, 2.30-4.30 pm
Seminar 4: April 26, 2.30-4.30 pm
Seminar 5: April 29, 9.30-12.30 am
Seminar 5: April 29, 2.00-5.00 pm

Program Outline

Seminar 1
The extension (and limitations) of the infrastructural realm: shall we call everything an infrastructure?
Daniel Florentin and Leonardo Ramondetti

Seminar 2
Attention to the unspectacular: The interest of maintenancecentred approaches
Daniel Florentin

Seminar 3
Investigating infrastructural space through critical cartographies
Leonardo Ramondetti

Seminar 4
Ethnographies of infrastructure and infrastructures of ethnography
Andrea Pollio

Seminar 5
Presentation of the Handbook on Infrastructures and Cities and Final Workshop
Olivier Coutard

To participate please inform the organisers no later than April 7 by sending an email to:
leonardo.ramondetti@polito.it
daniel.florentin@minesparis.psl.eu