BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news110@urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201116T103112 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201123T180000 SUMMARY:"Thinking Through Buildings": Lecture by Madlen Kobi DESCRIPTION:Biopolitics in contemporary Chinese cities are often discussed with regards to either the increasing surveillance of residents or the sta te’s control of healthy bodies during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Thi nking biopolitics from another angle\, this lecture addresses the ways in which buildings and urban energy infrastructure intervene in citizen-state relationships. In particular\, I will focus on the thermal implications o f the Huai River Heating Policy from the 1950s which divided China into a heated north\, where district or central heating infrastructure is install ed in urban buildings\; and a non-heated south where the thermal control o f indoor spaces in winter is left to residents’ own responsibility. Base d on ethnographic fieldwork\, semi-structured interviews and building anal ysis\, this lecture explores architecture and biopolitics in two cities: Ürümqi\, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest C hina and Chongqing in the southwest of the country. The provision of warm bodies through power stations\, subsidized heating funds\, and district he ating as part of urban housing infrastructures contributes to the territor ial connection of northern borderlands to the state. In the south\, the la ck of such infrastructure leads to more neoliberal solutions and residents ’ active use of objects and practices for staying warm depending on thei r economic means\, age\, native place\, and cultural expectations of comfo rt. Relying on Dominic Boyer\, I will outline how “biopower”\, the man agement of life and population through direct impact on the body\, and “ energopower”\, the provision of electricity or other forms of energy inf rastructure creates differing socio-technical responses in this vast count ry. Heating infrastructure beyond being a material installation for the pr ovision of thermal comfort molds encounters between citizens and the state .\\r\\nThis will be held on Monday November 23\, 18:00.\\r\\nPlease note t hat this will be a virtual lecture via Zoom. Please register for the event /Zoom link by sending an email to maren.larsen@unibas.ch. (Students enroll ed in the Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates course need not register) X-ALT-DESC:

Biopolitics in contemporary Chinese cities are often discusse d with regards to either the increasing surveillance of residents or the s tate’s control of healthy bodies during the current COVID-19 pandemic. T hinking biopolitics from another angle\, this lecture addresses the ways i n which buildings and urban energy infrastructure intervene in citizen-sta te relationships. In particular\, I will focus on the thermal implications of the Huai River Heating Policy from the 1950s which divided China into a heated north\, where district or central heating infrastructure is insta lled in urban buildings\; and a non-heated south where the thermal control of indoor spaces in winter is left to residents’ own responsibility. Ba sed on ethnographic fieldwork\, semi-structured interviews and building an alysis\, this lecture explores architecture and biopolitics in two cities: Ürümqi\, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China and Chongqing in the southwest of the country. The provision of warm bodies through power stations\, subsidized heating funds\, and district h eating as part of urban housing infrastructures contributes to the territo rial connection of northern borderlands to the state. In the south\, the l ack of such infrastructure leads to more neoliberal solutions and resident s’ active use of objects and practices for staying warm depending on the ir economic means\, age\, native place\, and cultural expectations of comf ort. Relying on Dominic Boyer\, I will outline how “biopower”\, the ma nagement of life and population through direct impact on the body\, and “energopower”\, the provision of electricity or other forms of energy infrastructure creates differing socio-technical responses in this vast co untry. Heating infrastructure beyond being a material installation for the provision of thermal comfort molds encounters between citizens and the st ate.

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This will be held on Monday November 23\, 18:00.

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Plea se note that this will be a virtual lecture via Zoom. Please register for the event/Zoom link by sending an email to maren.larsen@unibas.ch. (Studen ts enrolled in the Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates course need not reg ister)

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