Camillo Boano

Camillo Boano, is Full professor in Urban Design and Critical Theory at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) and full professor in Architecture and Urban Design at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. Camillo’s research has centered on the interfaces between critical theory, radical philosophy, and urban design processes. He is working on a series of interconnected research projects in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East on urban infrastructures, habitability, and the urban project. He is the author of The Ethics of Potential Urbanism. Critical Encounters between Giorgio Agamben and Architecture (Routledge, 2017) and Progetto Minore. Alla ricerca della Minorità nel Progetto Archiettonico ed Urbanistico (LetteraVentidue, 2020) and with Antonio di Campli, Decoloniare L’urbanistica  (LetteraVentidue, 2022). He recently finalized a research project on pandemic urban space and its challenges to design with Cristina Bianchetti whose outcome are published in Lifelines.  Politics, Ethics, and the Affective Economy of Inhabitin, Jovis, Berlin (2022).