Lifelines: Politics, ethics, and the affective 
economy of inhabiting

Published by JOVIS Verlag GmbH 2022

Lifelines

Politics, ethics, and the affective economy of inhabiting

Edited by: Camillo Boano and Cristina Bianchetti

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868598001

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About this book

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 / Editor information

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	4
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Lifelines: the stakes of life in the project Camillo Boano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Cartographies of protection Cristina Bianchetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Part 1. Promise and failure of infrastructures
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Broken distribution logistics inspire a shorter ecological supply chain Nina Rappaport Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Coca, cattle, and cities: fluid lifelines in the frontier of Caquetá, Colombia Isabel Peñaranda Currie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Ecological lifelines Giulia Ravera, Lorenzo Rabagliati and Andrea Sanguedolce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Production lifelines: Suzhou’s resistive lifelines and mutual support Luis Martin Sanchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Beyond the transport infrastructure: the paradigm of accessibility Federico Cavallaro and Alberto Dianin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Public Works’ Housing Monitor: digital lifelines for urban advocacy in Lebanon Nadine Bekdache, Abir Saksouk and Camillo Boano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Culture and heritage infrastructure as ‘lifelines’ in east London Clare Melhuish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Part 2. Spaces of lifelines and lifelines of spaces
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Bodily knowledges and spatial production practices in the Ecuadorian Amazon: a decolonial analysis Fernanda Luzuriaga Torres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Misappropriation and occupation: lifelines and artistic practices for the city of Beirut Federica Doglio and Camillo Boano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Autonomous spaces in Berlin: cynical resistance tactics in the neoliberal city Lorenza Manfredi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Taranto: a system of necrotized spaces protecting life Cristina Bianchetti, Alessandra Cusanno and Agim Kërçuku Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Fracture and resistance lines of modern designed spatial infrastructures Elisabetta M. Bello and Maria Teresa Gabardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Contradictions in housing: lifelines in Santiago de Chile Valentina Saavedra Meléndez and Emanuel Giannotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Part 3. The dark side of protection
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Borgo Mezzanone: vicious circles that keep informality together Cristina Bianchetti, Antonio di Campli and Camilla Rondot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
The ambivalent nature of productive lifelines: values without waste and landscape without inhabitation Ianira Vassallo and Luis Martin Sanchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
The Beik infrastructure of loyalists: Sawfar’s fragmented lifelines Hanadi Samhan and Hoda Mekkaoui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Viral politics: protection lifelines granting differentiated conditions of vulnerability during the Covid-19 outbreak in Brescia, Italy Marco Alioni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Inhabiting Tell Serhoun: holding places operated to confront the uninhabitable Joana Dabaj, Camillo Boano and Ramona Abdallah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Part 4. Towards a permanent seminar
The afterlife of Lifelines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Editors’ and authors’ biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: JOVIS Verlag GmbH
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: Architektur; Gesundheitskrise; Klimakrise; Gemeinschaftsforschungsarbeit; verflechten; techno-kapitalistisch; prekäre Räume; sozial; ökologisch; empirisch

eBook

Published: October 3, 2022
ISBN: 9783868598001

Paperback

Published: August 22, 2022
ISBN: 9783868597530