Lifelines: Politics, Ethics, and the Affective Economy of Inhabiting - Paperback

by Camillo Boano (Editor), Cristina Bianchetti (Editor)

In the face of the radical convergence of a health crisis and an ecological crisis, it is not possible to return to the investigative trajectories on inhabitation and dwelling that yielded good results in the past. What is it that now defines inhabitation within the plurality of conditions, geographies, and politics that connote it?
Lifelines is a work of collective research on the spaces where life intertwines, mingles, and twists in constant resistance to the mechanisms that capture, exploit, and create the social and environmental precariousness that characterizes the violent techno-capitalist present. The book investigates the roles and challenges of design in uncertain spaces and brings together empirical explorations from Italy, Ecuador, the US, Lebanon, Germany, and the UK.

Author Biography

Cristina Bianchetti is full professor of Urban Design at Politecnico di Torino, where she was deputy dean at the School of Architecture from 2007 to 2012. Her studies deal with themes related to critical theory and urban design. She is president of the Evaluation Board of the Universita Iuav di Venezia.

Camillo Boano is full professor of Urban Design and Critical Theory at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London, and full professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Politecnico di Torino. He is co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. He worked in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East on urban infrastructures, habitability, and displacement. Camillo's research has centered on the encounters between critical theory, radical philosophy, and urban design.