Full Professor (L. 240)
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
Profile
Research interests
Biography
Camillo Boano is interested in urban design criticism and the relationship between philosophies and architecture. 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 2006 to 2019 he was Full Professor of Urban Design and Critical Theory at the Development Planning Unit, UCL, London where he directed the MSc Building and Urban Design for Development at UCL, and was co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. In 2020 he returned to Italy to the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, at the DIST Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, where he teaches and does research. He is serving in the editorial board of “Archeologia Filosofica” (Edizioni Efesto, Roma) and “Descamino” (Letteraventidue, Siracusa). He currently has open research in Latin America, the Middle East and the Black Mediterranean. He has written and published in international journals such as the Journal of Archieture, The journal of Urban Design, Architecture and Culture, The journal of Urbanism, Cities, City. Among others, he is the author with Fabrizio Floris of Città Nude. Iconografie dei campi profughi (Franco Angeli, 2005), 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), with Cristina Bianchetti, Lifelines Politics, Ethics, and the Affective Economy of Inhabiting (Jovis, 2022), with Francisco Vergara Perucich e Martin Arias-Loylola, Los Arenales. Hacia El Derecho a la Ciudad (Sangria, 2023) and with Antonio di Campli translated and edited the Italian version of Samia Henni, I deserti non sono vuoti (LetteraVentidue, 2024). In 2024 he is scheduled to publish, with Bristol University Press, Displacement Urbanism. Politics of bodies and spaces of abandonment and endurance, edited with Giovanna Astolfo.
Scientific branch
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- ARCHITETTURA. STORIA E PROGETTO, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ARCHITETTURA. STORIA E PROGETTO, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ARCHITETTURA. STORIA E PROGETTO, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Architettura e Design. Componente
- Collegio di Pianificazione e Progettazione. Componente
Teachings
PhD
- The camp: researching violence, exclusion and temporariness. A.A. 2024/25, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Main teacher
- Decolonial urbanism. from eurocentric critique to decolonizing planning practices. A.A. 2024/25, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
- Critical theory and the architecture of livability. From refusal to abolition. A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA. STORIA E PROGETTO. Main teacher
- The camp: researching violence, exclusion and temporariness. A.A. 2023/24, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Main teacher
- Decolonial urbanism. from eurocentric critique to decolonizing planning practices. A.A. 2023/24, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
- Critical theory and the architecture of livability. From refusal to abolition. A.A. 2023/24, ARCHITETTURA. STORIA E PROGETTO. Main teacher
- The camp: researching violence, exclusion and temporariness. A.A. 2022/23, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Main teacher
- Displacing architectural narratives: new avenues for research (didattica di eccellenza). A.A. 2022/23, ARCHITETTURA. STORIA E PROGETTO. Main teacher
- Critical theory and the architecture of livability. From refusal to abolition. A.A. 2022/23, ARCHITETTURA. STORIA E PROGETTO. Main teacher
- The camp: researching violence, exclusion and temporariness. A.A. 2021/22, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Main teacher
- Decolonial urbanism. from eurocentric critique to decolonizing planning practices. A.A. 2021/22, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
- Critical theory and the architecture of livability. From refusal to abolition. A.A. 2021/22, ARCHITETTURA. STORIA E PROGETTO. Main teacher
- The camp: researching violence, exclusion and temporariness. A.A. 2020/21, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Main teacher
- Decolonial urbanism. from eurocentric critique to decolonizing planning practices. A.A. 2020/21, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Urban design (Studio) (modulo di Critical urban design). A.A. 2025/26, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Titolare del corso
- Architecture, society and territory B (modulo di Architectural and urban design). A.A. 2025/26, ARCHITETTURA PER LA SOSTENIBILITA'. Titolare del corso
- Theory and History of Architecture (modulo di Architectural and urban design). A.A. 2025/26, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Titolare del corso
- Urban design (Studio) (modulo di Critical urban design). A.A. 2024/25, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Titolare del corso
- Architecture, society and territory B (modulo di Architectural and urban design). A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA PER LA SOSTENIBILITA'. Titolare del corso
- Theory and History of Architecture (modulo di Architectural and urban design). A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Titolare del corso
- Architecture, society and territory B (modulo di Architectural and urban design). A.A. 2023/24, ARCHITETTURA PER LA SOSTENIBILITA'. Titolare del corso
- Architecture, society and territory B (modulo di Architectural and urban design). A.A. 2022/23, ARCHITETTURA PER LA SOSTENIBILITA'. Titolare del corso
- Architecture, society and territory B (modulo di Architectural and urban design). A.A. 2021/22, ARCHITETTURA PER LA SOSTENIBILITA'. Titolare del corso
- Pianificare la città (Atelier) (modulo di Analisi e progettazione della morfologia urbana). A.A. 2020/21, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Rigenerazione urbana e sviluppo locale (Atelier) (modulo di Componenti architettoniche della rigenerazione urbana). A.A. 2023/24, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
- Rigenerazione urbana e sviluppo locale (Atelier) (modulo di Componenti architettoniche della rigenerazione urbana). A.A. 2022/23, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
- Programmi integrati di sviluppo locale e rigenerazione urbana (Atelier) (modulo di Componenti architettoniche della rigenerazione urbana). A.A. 2021/22, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
- Programmi integrati di sviluppo locale e rigenerazione urbana (Atelier) (modulo di Componenti architettoniche della rigenerazione urbana). A.A. 2020/21, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
Research
Centres
Supervised PhD students
- Alessandra Faccini. Programme in Architettura. Storia E Progetto (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Giulio Gonella. Programme in Architettura. Storia E Progetto (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Juri Igor Fardin. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (37th cycle, 2021-2025)
Thesis: Figures of an(other) Play: Francis Alÿs's Children's Games, Skateboarding in Milano Centrale and Ugo La Pietra's Gioco dell'Uso - Sofia Beatriz Rivera Garcia. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)
Thesis: Between violence and care: socio-spatial practices of (un)care amid extreme and chronic violence in El Salvador - Marco Alioni. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (36th cycle, 2020-2024)
Thesis: Gravitational Geometries of Exclusion: Infrastructuring injustice in Brescia (Italy) and Newark (New Jersey, US) - Luca Bertocci. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (36th cycle, 2020-2024)
Thesis: The Archipelago. Envisioning the Urban Revolution amid the Planetary Flood. - Richard Lee Peragine. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (36th cycle, 2020-2024)
Thesis: The project of emptiness Sovereignty, the weaponization of space and architecture in the Bosnian krajina
Publications
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- Boano, C.; Cerruti But, M.; Ciaffi, D.; Fardin, J. I.; Peragine, R. L. (2025)
Inhabiting future frictions. Siracusa, Lettera Ventidue, P. 304. ISBN: 9791256440467
Libro - Boano, Camillo (2024)
Città: Architettura guerrilla. In: Enciclopedia Italiana / S.N., Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 282-285
Contributo in Volume - Boano, Camillo; di Campli, Antonio (2024)
Discomfort, queer e selvatico. In: ARDETH, pp. 219-227. ISSN 2532-6457
Contributo su Rivista - Boano, Camillo (2024)
Death by landscape. Lifelines and Slow death as reflection on inhabitation. In: SCIENZE DEL TERRITORIO, vol. 12, pp. 58-66. ISSN 2384-8774
Contributo su Rivista - Boano, Camillo; Peragine, Richard Lee (2024)
A pedagogy of uselessness: challenging solutionism and utility in the Anthropocene through architectural pedagogy. In: THE JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE, pp. 1-24. ISSN 1360-2365
Contributo su Rivista - Astolfo, Giovanna; Boano, Camillo; Desmaison, Belen (2024)
Abitare precario tra i margini: limiti, scarti e rotture nel fare territorio. In: TRACCE URBANE, vol. 11, pp. 386-410. ISSN 2532-6562
Contributo su Rivista - Asan, Berhan; Akif Atmaca, Mehmet; Boano, Camillo; Ciaffi, Daniela; CERRUTI BUT, ... (2024)
Mapping "Otherwises": Alang-Sosiya's Metal Metabolism/ Mapear “Outras Maneiras”: O Metabolismo do Metal de Alang-Sosiya. In: JORNAL ARQUITECTOS, pp. 4-11. ISSN 0870-1504
Contributo su Rivista - Astolfo, Giovanna; Boano, Camillo; Desmaison, Belen (2024)
Displacement as Precarious Inhabiting: Care and Repair at the Urban Margins. In: Beyond Houses Architectural Thinking and Practice for Climate, Disaster and Forced Displacement Crises / A. Nuno Martins · Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo · Liliane Hobeica · Jorge León · Adib Hobeica, S.L., Springer Nature, pp. 159-176. ISBN: 978-3-031-61402-6
Contributo in Volume - Boano, Camillo; Fabbri, Edoardo (2024)
Destituente. In: Le parole e le forme, Decimo Forum ProArch,, Genova, 16, 17, 18 novembre 2023, pp. 386-394. ISBN: 9791280379030
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Hanadi, Samhan; Boano, Camillo (2024)
Camps Verticality: Dimensions and Possibilities. In: OFFICINA, vol. 45, pp. 10-19. ISSN 2532-1218
Contributo su Rivista - Boano, Camillo; di Campli, Antonio (2024)
Di deserto in deserto. Strati e intrecci di liberazione. In: OP. CIT., pp. 21-35. ISSN 0030-3305
Contributo su Rivista - Boano, Camillo; Astolfo, Giovanna; Desmaison, Belen (2024)
‘When the house burns down’: displacement, precariousness and inhabitation. In: JOURNAL OF URBANISM, pp. 1-18. ISSN 1754-9183
Contributo su Rivista - DI CAMPLI, Antonio; Boano, Camillo (2024)
LA LETTURA MIGLIORE È LA LETTURA INCERTA. In: I deserti non sono vuoti / S.N., S.L., Letteraventidue, pp. 6-18. ISBN: 978-88-6242-905-4
Contributo in Volume - DI CAMPLI, Antonio; Boano, Camillo, a cura di (2024)
I DESERTI NON SONO VUOTI. S.L., Letteraventidue, P. 207. ISBN: 978-88-6242-905-4
Curatele - Mastromarino, S; Boano, C (2024)
Inhabiting through interstitial opacity. Protective negotiations of suspended existence across Paris’ liminalities. In: LO SQUADERNO, vol. 67, pp. 35-38. ISSN 1973-9141
Contributo su Rivista