Conferencia: Camillo Boano

Can we use differently the city?
Urban Design, architecture and the challenge of use

Camillo Boano, PhD, is an architect, urbanist and educator. He is Senior Lecturer at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College of London (UCL), where he directs the MSc in Building and Urban Design in Development. He is also co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. Camillo has over 20 years of experiences in research, design consultancies and development work in South America, Middle East, Eastern Europe and South East Asia. His research interests revolve around the encounters between critical theory, radical philosophy with urban and architectural design processes where collective agency and politics encounters urban narratives and aesthetics, especially those emerging in informal and contested urbanisms. He is author, with William Hunter and Caroline Newton of Contested Urbanism in Dharavi. Writings and Projects for the resilient city (London: Development Planning Unit, 2013), and several journals’ articles on Giorgio Agamben Philosophy related to desing and architecture.

In architecture, what does use mean? This lecture explores the theory of use in Giorgio Agamben’s works, confronting a series of oppositions between use, property, appropriation, use value and right to use, to finally reach a beyond-the-use condition of the common,
where common is not just free to use, but rather free from use: a condition of pure availability. The reflection will be expanded to the city and urbanism and how urban studies and urban theory can be challenged by a renewed reflection on use.

Invitan
Magister en Proyecto Urbano UC
Escuela de Arquitectura UC