Lifelines : politics, ethics, and the affective economy of inhabiting / Camillo Boano, Cristina Bianchetti, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boano, Camillo, editor.

Bianchetti, Cristina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and climate.

Architecture and society.

Dwellings--History.

Dwellings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Jovis Verlag GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

Durch das Aufeinandertreffen von Gesundheits- und Klimakrise ist ein Rückgriff auf bislang bewährte Forschungsansätze im Bereich des Wohnens nicht mehr zielführend. Wie prägen die geografischen und politischen Entwicklungen das heutige Wohnen?Lifelines ist eine Gemeinschaftsforschungsarbeit zu Räumen, in denen sich Lebensformen vermischen, durchdringen und verflechten – und zwar in ständigem Widerstand gegen die Mechanismen einer techno-kapitalistischen Gegenwart, die soziale und ökologische Unsicherheiten nicht nur abbilden, sondern auch erzeugen und nutzen. Die Autor*innen beleuchten die Herausforderungen, die sich dem heutigen Entwerfen stellen, und untersuchen die Rolle, die dem Entwerfen in prekären Räumen zukommt. Das Buch versammelt empirische Untersuchungen aus Italien, Ecuador, den USA, dem Libanon, Deutschland und Großbritannien.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Lifelines: the stakes of life in the project

Cartographies of protection

Part 1. Promise and failure of infrastructures

Introduction

Broken distribution logistics inspire a shorter ecological supply chain

Coca, cattle, and cities: fluid lifelines in the frontier of Caquetá, Colombia

Ecological lifelines

Production lifelines: Suzhou’s resistive lifelines and mutual support

Beyond the transport infrastructure: the paradigm of accessibility

Public Works’ Housing Monitor: digital lifelines for urban advocacy in Lebanon

Culture and heritage infrastructure as ‘lifelines’ in east London

Part 2. Spaces of lifelines and lifelines of spaces

Bodily knowledges and spatial production practices in the Ecuadorian Amazon: a decolonial analysis

Misappropriation and occupation: lifelines and artistic practices for the city of Beirut

Autonomous spaces in Berlin: cynical resistance tactics in the neoliberal city

Taranto: a system of necrotized spaces protecting life

Fracture and resistance lines of modern designed spatial infrastructures

Contradictions in housing: lifelines in Santiago de Chile

Part 3. The dark side of protection

Borgo Mezzanone: vicious circles that keep informality together

The ambivalent nature of productive lifelines: values without waste and landscape without inhabitation

The Beik infrastructure of loyalists: Sawfar’s fragmented lifelines

Viral politics: protection lifelines granting differentiated conditions of vulnerability during the Covid-19 outbreak in Brescia, Italy

Inhabiting Tell Serhoun: holding places operated to confront the uninhabitable

Part 4. Towards a permanent seminar

The afterlife of Lifelines

Editors’ and authors’ biographies

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Boano, Camillo Lifelines

ISBN:

3-86859-800-6

OCLC:

1337943766