What if the problem with planning was its very relation with normativity and future? In this
article, we challenge the idea that “the future that we want” can be designed in the sense …

The paper aims to evaluate the value that the experimentation of tactical urban planning
activities can assume for the city, through the critical account of some practices in three …

This essay is a response to Michele Lancione's Housing Futures Essay, which was recently
published in this journal. Bleak urban futures and the obscure perspective on housing calls …

In the face of the growing interest in Agamben's work by planning scholars, this article
suggests reframing such an interest by examining the theoretical controversy between …

Urban development and city expansion in Yangon, Myanmar happened through the forced
resettlement of people from the city toward the periphery. Forced resettlement has become …

This paper can be considered an attempt to think on what a camp does rather than on what it
is. Camps seem to arrest, fix in time and space lives, stripping political agency away from …

Spaces of refuge represent the paradoxical encounters between a series of governmental
forces, disciplinary knowledge, aesthetic regimes and spatial conditions that tend to arrest …

In recent years, Brazilian municipalities have had to deal with increasing numbers of crises,
such as disasters. Infrastructural systems (infrasystems) play a critical role in determining the …

Press, 2021), and guest-editor of special issues for the International Journal of Islamic
Architecture (themed 'Field as Archive/Archive as Field') and for the Journal of Visual Culture …

Is there space for an ontological urban design? Or better still, following the words of
Elisabeth Grosz, is there space for an “ontoethics” of the urban? While contributing to the …