Urban infrastructures and ecologies
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Ignacio Farías is professor for European ethnology with a focus on urban anthropology at HU Berlin. In the field of urban studies, Faríashas conducted ethnographic research in three main areas: a) cultural consumption, tourism, and city-marketing; b) cultural production, studio practices, and creative industries; and c) urban disasters, city reconstruction, and governmentality. His publications include Urban Assemblages. How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies (2009) and articles in journals such as Mobilities, Space and Culture, CITY, and EURE. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano y Regionales.
Selected publications:
1. A. Blok I. Farías and C. Roberts, eds. A Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory. London: Routledge, 2019.
2 I. Farías and S. Widmer. “Ordinary smart cities: How calculated users, professional citizens, technology companies and city administrations engage in a more-than-digital politics.” In: Technoscienza 8.2 (2018), pp. 43–60.
3. I. Farías and T. S. Criado. “Co-laborations, Entrapments, Intraventions: Pedagogical Approaches to Technical Democracy in Architectural Design.” In: Revista Disen ̃a 11 (2017), pp. 228–255.
4. I. Farías and T. S. Criado. “Re-learning design: Pedagogical experiments with cultural theory in studio design courses.” In: Revista Disen ̃a 11 (2017), pp. 14–29.
5. M. Hutter and I. Farías. “Sourcing Newness. Ways of Inducing Indeterminacy.” In: Journal of Cultural Economy 10.5 (2017), pp. 434–449.
6. Farías. “Devising Hybrid Forums: Technical Democracy in a Dangerous World.” In: CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 20.4 (2016), pp. 549–562.
7. I. Farías and A. Blok. “Technical Democracy as a Challenge for Urban Studies.” In: CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 20.4 (2016), pp. 539–548.
8. “Epistemic Dissonance. Reconfiguring valuation in architectural practice.” In: Moments of Valuation. Exploring Sites of Dissonance. Ed. by Ariane Berthoin Antal, Michael Hutter, and David Stark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 271–289.
9. I. Farías and A. Wilkie, eds. Studio Studies. Operations, Topologies & Displacements. CRESC Book Series. London: Routledge, 2015.
10. I. Farías. “Misrecognizing tsunamis: ontological politics and cosmopolitical challenges in early warning systems.” In: Sociological Review 62.S1 (2014), pp. 61–87.