Category Archives: territories

Climbing the City. Inhabiting Verticality Outside of Comfort Bubbles (with Andrea Pavoni)

By admin | Published: August 1, 2017

NOW PUBLISHED in Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability   Abstract. Over the last couple of decades, urban sports have been studied – as well as, in many cases, celebrated – as critical forms of using urban space. Urban climbing, a practice also known as ‘street bouldering’, ‘buildering’, ‘structuring’, and ‘stegophilia’, […]

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Tendencies in Architectural and Urban Research: Focusing on Everyday Life

By admin | Published: June 11, 2017

A seminar at http://resarc.se/courses/index.html, including lecture and workshop with PhD Students

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השליטה של מי הטריטוריה הזו? על בני אדם, חיות, והצורך לסמן את גבולות

By admin | Published: May 11, 2017

An interview with Tali Hatuka originally published in Hebrew at http://urbanologia.tau.ac.il/human-animal-territories/   TH. So, Andre, can you tell me about your project, about territories and what are the key ideas? I mean how do you address the whole concept of territories? Let’s…you know what, what is “territory” for you?

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Urban Animals – Domestic, Stray and Wild

By admin | Published: March 1, 2017

Notes from a bear repopulation project in the Alps by Andrea Mubi Brighenti & Andrea Pavoni Forthcoming in Society & Animals Abstract. This piece explores ‘domesticity’ as a social territory defined by the relationship it entertains with the conceptual and material space of ‘the wild’. The leading research question can be framed as follows: do […]

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Three Presents (with Mattias Kärrholm)

By admin | Published: December 1, 2016

On the multi-temporality of territorial production and the gift from John Soane Published in Time & Society Abstract Territoriality has primarily been seen as a spatial rather than temporal phenomenon. In this paper, we want to investigate how time functions in territorialising processes. In particular, we are attracted by the multi-temporality that is co-present in […]

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Domestic Territories and the Little Humans (with Mattias Kärrholm)

By admin | Published: September 25, 2016

Understanding the Animation of Domesticity Forthcoming in Space & Culture   Abstract. Domesticity is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon. In this piece, we approach it from the point of view of a general theory of territories. To do so, we attempt to tackle simultaneously the ecological and spiritual dimensions of home by attending the expressive dimension […]

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Social Camouflage: Functions, Logic, Paradoxes (with Alessandro Castelli)

By admin | Published: July 19, 2016

Now published in Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory Abstract. Camouflage is usually understood as a type of deceitful communication strategy in the animal and human domains. In this piece, we invite scholars to consider how the phenomenon of camouflage, while certainly grounded in antagonism and selection, might exceed its strategic meaning. Using the case of […]

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Cineforum TRANSIZIONI TERRITORI / 2 I tempi dei villaggi e delle città al cinema

By admin | Published: March 31, 2016
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Visibilità e spazio pubblico – Città di muri e città di schermi

By admin | Published: March 21, 2016

Lezione al Corso di dottorato in Scienze sociali, Università di Padova 5 aprile 2016 – h. 14-17 – Sala Specchi – Via Cesarotti 10/12 – Padova

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Urban Interstices

By admin | Published: March 8, 2016

now on googlebooks: https://books.google.it/books?id=Xw2OCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=it&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Also here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FB566BA4DF4C751868F0239B3C06AF87 and here: urban-interstices    

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Graffiti, Street Art and the Divergent Synthesis of Place Valorisation in Contemporary Urbanism

By admin | Published: March 1, 2016

A chapter recently appeared in the Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art, Edited by J.I. Ross. Also on Googlebooks & here

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Far-casa migrante: soglie del domestico, comune e pubblico

By admin | Published: December 9, 2015

Un intervento a Tracce Urbane, con Paolo Boccagni Sessione 3- Casa e città: pratiche dell’abitare e processi di home-making nella vita quotidiana Venerdì 11 dicembre 2015, Politecnico di Milano

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Warming up for camouflage

By admin | Published: November 5, 2015
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The ground before the battle (con Cristina Mattiucci)

By admin | Published: May 14, 2015

Now published in Massimiliano Guareschi, Federico Rahola, Forme della città. Sociologia dell’urbanizzazione. Prima del conflitto, i territori danno segni. Sono segni dei desideri e delle paure condivise, forse anche segni di insorgenze latenti, a venire, sedimentati in quelle che viviamo come “esperienze urbane”. Una pagina nota di Furio Jesi racconta come dʼimprovviso si possa rivivere […]

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(MU) at Ozu’s grave

By admin | Published: May 13, 2015

So many years after I first watched Wim Wender’s Tokyo Ga, I myself could pay respect to the great Yasujirō Ozu at Kita-Kamakura. My mu is his mu. I was there with my love in a sunny day in the blossoming season.  

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Border Regimes & New Territorial Formations

By admin | Published: May 8, 2015

Wednesday 20th May 2015, 6.00 pm Institute for Architectural Theory, University of Innsbruck

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Muri e città

By admin | Published: April 20, 2015
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Notre vie locale… (Vous êtes ici)

By admin | Published: January 7, 2015
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Ancient ways…

By admin | Published: December 4, 2014

Ancient ways… from andrea mubi brighenti on Vimeo.

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Territorio qualsiasi (intro)

By admin | Published: October 15, 2014
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Mobilizing territories, territorializing mobilities

By admin | Published: June 23, 2014

Brighenti-2014-Mobilizing territories, territorializing mobilities OUT NOW at http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/journal/article/index/Article/Journal:ARTICLE:723/Item/Journal:ARTICLE:723  

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Memory & Desire

By admin | Published: May 22, 2014

An old track from 2005…

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Teoria dei territori

By admin | Published: January 14, 2014

Disponibile qui: http://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/3900

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Two old papers on Dogville & Manderlay by Lars von Trier

By admin | Published: July 30, 2013

2008: (with Alessandro Castelli) “Fondamenti. Da Dogville a Manderlay”, in Pierpaolo Antonello (ed.) La violenza allo specchio. Massa (I): Transeuropa, pp. 121-137. Also in English: “Foundations: Dogville to Manderlay” 2006: “Dogville, or, the Dirty Birth of Law”. Thesis Eleven, no. 87(1): 96-111.

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La dimensione aurale. Nota per un’urbanistica sensoriale

By admin | Published: June 12, 2013

or, listening carefully to the asphalt… Now published in Studi Culturali, 1, 2013. Full text here.

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