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Crepe Romane: a Semi-Serious Catalog

Giulia Scotto, Zelli Marco ECCO, 2021 Before being citizens, users and drivers we are all walking creatures (often needing wheels).1 This does not seem to match with the priorities of municipalities, especially in Rome. In a few meters…

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The Implementation of the EU Hotspot Approach in Greece and Italy: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis

Kenny Cupers, Alaa Dia, Dr. Chiara Pagano, Artemis-Maria Fyssa Swiss Network for International Studies, 2021 This project explored the role of infrastructure in migration management with a study on the implementation of the EU Hotspot…

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The Emotions of the Block

Linus Suter | Master Thesis , 2021

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Coloniality of Infrastructure

Kenny Cupers e-flux, 2021 Coloniality of Infrastructure is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture, Critical Urbanisms at the University of Basel, and the African Centre for Cities of the University of Cape Town, featuring…

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Between Visible and Invisible; ENI and the Building of the African Petroleumscape

Giulia Scotto Routledge, 2021 In 1955, the Italian national hydrocarbon agency Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI) launched what the coordinator of ENI’s activities in North and West Africa later described as its “grande disegno africano,”…

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Architectural Demodernization as Critical Pedagogy: Pathways for Undoing Colonial Fascist Architectural Legacies in Sicily

Emilio Distretti, Alessandro Petti L'Internationale, 2021 For Walter D. Mignolo, the distinctiveness of the archive and its determination to produce knowledge defines a narrative that exceeds the status of fiction and transforms into…

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Art and the Environment in the Third Reich

Hosted by Yale University’s Department of Art History, the conference on art and the environment in the Third Reich brings together art and architectural historians working in medieval and modern fields to investigate the relationships…

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Provincializing ENI’s Disegno Africano: Agip Tanzania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam

Giulia Scotto Routledge, 2021 On July 31, 1964—the year of the United Republic of Tanzania’s foundation—the government-owned Tanzanian newspaper The Nationalist published a double-page illustrated article announcing the opening of a new…

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CRITICAL URBANISMS SUMMER COURSE 2021

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (Universität Basel students): Registration for the Critical Urbanisms Summer Course are open until 29 Mar 2021. The summer course is in collaboration with DAAR – Decolonizing Architecture and Art research,…

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Master Info Evening

The University of Basel's Master Info Evening will be held digitally on Thursday 18 Mar 2021 from 17:00-20:00. It will offer in-depth insights into courses and subjects as well as the opportunity to receive answers to your questions…

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