Fri
03
Oct
Seminars and Conferences
Designing otherwise
On October 3 at 6:00 PM, the Comala Association (Corso Ferrucci 65/a, Turin) will host a special event dedicated to the presentation of Inhabiting Future Friction (Lettera Ventidue, 2025), authored by Camillo Boano, Michele Cerruti But, Daniela Ciaffi, J. Igor Fardin, and Richard L. Peragine.
Far from a traditional book launch, the event is conceived as an open dialogue with students and the wider public—a collective moment to share reflections, concerns, and questions raised by the book. Blending elements of an open session, a jam session, and an informal gathering, the presentation will also bring together the large community of students who took part in the design studio Architecture, Society and Territory B from the Master’s program in Architecture for Sustainability at Politecnico di Torino (2021–2025).
Inhabiting Future Friction explores the contradictions and tensions of architecture within today’s global challenges, tackling the frictions of the Capitalocene, the complexities of human/non-human ecologies, colonialism, and extractivism—not only of resources, but also of relationships. Rather than proposing ready-made solutions, the book poses a stark and radical question: can architecture be anything other than extractive, racist, or universalist?
The book’s cover features the project Polluted/ant Archipelagos of Kosovo, which addresses the “right to breathe” through a mycological ecosystem designed to generate new ecologies of purification (by Gabriele Amato, Berfe Naz Haşemoğlu, Ece Kocaman, and Enes Topçu).
Far from a traditional book launch, the event is conceived as an open dialogue with students and the wider public—a collective moment to share reflections, concerns, and questions raised by the book. Blending elements of an open session, a jam session, and an informal gathering, the presentation will also bring together the large community of students who took part in the design studio Architecture, Society and Territory B from the Master’s program in Architecture for Sustainability at Politecnico di Torino (2021–2025).
Inhabiting Future Friction explores the contradictions and tensions of architecture within today’s global challenges, tackling the frictions of the Capitalocene, the complexities of human/non-human ecologies, colonialism, and extractivism—not only of resources, but also of relationships. Rather than proposing ready-made solutions, the book poses a stark and radical question: can architecture be anything other than extractive, racist, or universalist?
The book’s cover features the project Polluted/ant Archipelagos of Kosovo, which addresses the “right to breathe” through a mycological ecosystem designed to generate new ecologies of purification (by Gabriele Amato, Berfe Naz Haşemoğlu, Ece Kocaman, and Enes Topçu).