Camillo Boano
Co-Investigator (DIST, Politecnico di Torino & the Bartlett’s DPU, UCL)
Biography
Camillo Boano is Full Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at the Polytechnic di Torino and Full Professor of Urban Design and Critical Theory at UCL, London. He has practiced architecture in situations of conflict, emergency and urban informality in different contexts of the Global South and has worked on radical pedagogy and collective planning processes in Asia Middle East and Latin America. From 2007 to 2019 he directed the MSc Building and Urban Design for Development at Development Planning Unit, UCL, and was co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory (2011-2023). Since 2020 he returned to Italy at the Polytechnic di Torino, DIST Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, where he teaches and does research. He currently researches in Latin America, the Middle East and the Black Mediterranean.
Research interests
Camillo Boano researches urban design criticism and philosophies of architecture. His research has centred on the complex encounters between critical theory, radical philosophy and urban design processes, specifically engaging with informal urbanisations, urban collective actions, as well as crisis-generated urbanisms. He has written and published in international journals as the Journal of Architecture, The journal of Urban Design, Architecture and Culture, The Journal of Urbanism, Cities, City. Among others, he is the author The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism: Critical Encounters Between Giorgio Agamben and Architecture (Routledge, 2017), Progetto Minore. Alla Ricerca della minorità nel progetto urbanistico ed architettonico (LetteraVentidue, 2020), con Cristina Bianchetti, Lifelines Politics, Ethics, and the Affective Economy of Inhabiting (Jovis, 2022), con Francisco Vergara Perucich e Martin Arias-Loylola, Los Arenales. Hacia El Derecho a la Ciudad (Sangria, 2023) with Antonio di Campli he had trasnlated and edited the italian version ofi Samia Henni, I deserti non sono vuoti (LetteraVentidue, 2024).
Selected publications
Boano, C., Astolfo, G., Desmaison, B., (2024) ‘When the house burns down’: displacement, precariousness and inhabitation. Journal of Urbanism, pp. 1-18
Boano, C.; di Campli, A (2024) Di deserto in deserto. Strati e intrecci di liberazione, OP. CIT., n.180, pp. 21-35.
Samhan, H., Boano, C. (2024) Camps Verticality: Dimensions and Possibilities, OFFICINA, vol. 45, pp. 10-19.
Mastromarino, S. and Boano, C. (2023) ‘Vallée de la Roya and its opaque infrastructures of transit. Inhabiting the border.’, field:, 9(1), pp. 47-63.
Boano, C., Astolfo, G., Desmaison, B., (2024) ‘When the house burns down’: displacement, precariousness and inhabitation. Journal of Urbanism, pp. 1-18
Boano, C.; di Campli, A (2024) Di deserto in deserto. Strati e intrecci di liberazione, OP. CIT., n.180, pp. 21-35.
Samhan, H., Boano, C. (2024) Camps Verticality: Dimensions and Possibilities, OFFICINA, vol. 45, pp. 10-19.
Mastromarino, S. and Boano, C. (2023) ‘Vallée de la Roya and its opaque infrastructures of transit. Inhabiting the border.’, field:, 9(1), pp. 47-63.
Contacts: camillo.boano@polito.it & c.boano@ucl.ac.uk
TEAM
Giovanna Astolfo
Co-Investigator
Camillo Boano
Co-Investigator
Edoardo Ciuffreda
Research Assistant
Antonio Di Campli
Research Assistant
Alessandra Faccini
Research Assistant
Manuel Grimaldi
Research Assistant
Stefano Mastromarino
Research Assistant
Richard Lee Peragine
Research Assistant
Antonio Stopani
Co-Investigator
Inappropriable is a research, a collective investigation and a condition of possibility which sets out to interrogate practices of inhabitation, infrastructures of life, of marronage and fugitive worldling, focusing on labour ecologies in territories of migration: frontiers where bodies, spaces and labour are reconfigured through extractive and plantation-like capitalist processes of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion.