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The surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture
As part of the Book Presentation Series "Osmosis" towards new theorizations and tales of the Urban PhD programme in Urban and Regional Development, the second meeting of the cycle entitled "The Surrounds: Urban life within and beyond capture", will be held on 20 June 2023 at the Castello del Valentino.
Abstract
In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, AbdouMaliq Simone centers the surrounds - those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, AbdouMaliq Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, AbdouMaliq Simone shows how the surrounds are an integral part of the expansiveness of urban imagination.
Speaker: AbdouMaliq Simone - Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield and co-director of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab, Politecnico di Torino.
Presenter: Michele Lancione, Professor of the Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST).
Discussants:
Abstract
In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, AbdouMaliq Simone centers the surrounds - those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, AbdouMaliq Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, AbdouMaliq Simone shows how the surrounds are an integral part of the expansiveness of urban imagination.
Speaker: AbdouMaliq Simone - Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield and co-director of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab, Politecnico di Torino.
Presenter: Michele Lancione, Professor of the Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST).
Discussants:
- Francesca Governa - Professor of the Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST);
- Angelina Grelle - PhD Candidate of the Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST);
- Astrid Safina - Post-Doctoral Researcher of the Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST).
20 June 2023 at 4,00 pm
Sala Vigliano - Castello del Valentino - Viale Mattioli 39, Torino - online on Zoom platform