Lifelines : : Politics, ethics, and the affective economy of inhabiting / / ed. by Camillo Boano, Cristina Bianchetti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abdallah, Ramona,; Alioni, Marco,; Bekdache, Nadine,; Bello, Elisabetta M.,; Bianchetti, Cristina,; Boano, Camillo,; Campli, Antonio di,; Cavallaro, Federico,; Cusanno, Alessandra,; Dabaj, Joana,; Dianin, Alberto,; Doglio, Federica,; Gabardi, Maria Teresa,; Giannotti, Emanuel,; Kërçuku, Agim,; Luzuriaga Torres, Fernanda,; Manfredi, Lorenza,; Mekkaoui, Hoda,; Melhuish, Clare,; Peñaranda Currie, Isabel,; Rabagliati, Lorenzo,; Rappaport, Nina,; Ravera, Giulia,; Rondot, Camilla,; Saavedra Meléndez, Valentina,; Saksouk, Abir,; Samhan, Hanadi,; Sanchez, Luis Martin,; Sanguedolce, Andrea,; Vassallo, Ianira,
• HerausgeberIn: Bianchetti, Cristina,; Boano, Camillo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : JOVIS Verlag GmbH, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

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.

Table of 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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