Inhabiting Extended Transiency

25/10/2022, h. 14:00 – 17:00
Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, Edificio 12, SALA Riunioni
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Migration, Urban Transformation, and Overlapping Displaceability

The everyday experience of inhabitation for more and more dwellers in globalizing cities is framed by impermanence, provisionality, and uncertainty: a complex condition of extended transiency, continuously stretched out over time and taking in much broader sectors of the population than those usually categorized as ‘temporary’, ‘in transit’, or ‘on the move’.

The relevance of such in-between time and space in relation to various forms of displacement is particularly manifest in locations where internal and cross-border human flows intersect with capital flows propelling extractivist restructuring processes. In these dynamic and contested settings, we observe the coexistence of different social groups dealing with multiple forms of potential and actual displacement brought about by urban transformation policies, bordering mechanisms, and deepening inequalities.

Reflecting on urban inhabitation under such conditions of “extended transiency” and “overlapping displaceability” across different geographies, the seminar bridges debates on displacement, transit migration, transient dwelling, urban informality, and urban geopolitics. The aim is to expose the linkages among different forms of displacement and to problematize the binary between host local communities and displaced incoming groups, discussing the situated interactions among heterogeneous transient populations who inhabit the city in various circumstances of informality, vulnerability, and temporariness.

Relatore: Francesco Pasta, DAStU – Politecnico di Milano
Discussants: Camillo Boano – Politecnico di Torino, Didem Danış – Galatasaray University, Irit Katz – Cambridge University, Giovanna Marconi – IUAV.

Responsabile: Francesco Pasta