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We are pleased to share the program for the symposium "City, Life, and Techniques: Urban Worlds Under Construction," which will be held at the Collège de France and the Institut des Civilisations on Thursday, November 13, and Friday, November 14. The program is available below and can also be found here.
The symposium will be preceded on Wednesday, November 12, by a lecture by Patrick Boucheron (Politique de la ville. Architecture du pouvoir, pouvoirs de l'architecture) at the Ecole des Mines starting at 5 p.m. Admission is free, but reservations are required. https://my.weezevent.com/colloque-international-villes-vie-et-technique-idees-pour-construire-les-mon
The symposium is the result of a collaboration at the intersection of geography, architectural history, and the anthropology of technology. Its aim is to contribute to contemporary multidisciplinary research on urban materiality, approaching it from the perspective of what we propose to call "expanded biopolitics."
This event will provide an opportunity to hear from colleagues who, from large-scale projects to ordinary cities, from zoos to controlled environments, from space colonization projects to cities of the Ancien Régime, via biodiversity management systems and maintenance practices, question the city as an equipped living environment. Through a series of works that will be discussed during these days, we will see how the city can be understood as a vast set of socio-technical arrangements that organize, govern, and support human and non-human lives.
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