Human and more-than-human diversities in cities

Diversités humaines et plus-qu'humaines en ville

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

09:00 - 13:00
University of Lausanne
Géopolis Building, Room 2227

The general topic of this workshop is to explore the different ways in which “urban nature” is enchanted by civil and institutional action and the implications such enchantment has in terms of sustainability and its imaginaries. The different case studies contribute to obtaining a nuanced understanding of larger social and cultural dynamics around human and more-than or other-than human diversities that characterize contemporary urbanized societies.

With: (alphabetic order)

Uri ANSENBERG, Haifa University, Israel.

Irene BECCI, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Caterina BRACCHI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, ASA Alta Scuola per l'Ambiente, Brescia, Italy.

Marian BURCHARDT, Universität Leipzig, Germany.

Bianca GALMARINI, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.

Mar GRIERA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Paola JUAN, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Mischa PIRAUD, CIC Centre intercantonal d’information sur les croyances, Geneva, Switzerland.

Jacopo TARGA, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

Mariam URDIA, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Kato VAN SPEYBROECK, KU Leuven, Leuven.

PROGRAM    

Chair : Paola JUAN

09:00 – 09:15    Introduction by Irene BECCI

Part 1

09:15 – 10:45    Marian BURCHARDT, discussant

Mischa PIRAUD
On urban hospitality: implementing Isaac Joseph’s urban ecology in an action-research on religion and solidarity in Geneva.

Bianca GALMARINI
Greening as a plant-based solution: the controversies of the “plant as co-workers” rhetoric in climate urbanism.

Kato VAN SPEYBROECK, Jacopo TARGA
Othering nature in urban environmental struggles: an overview from Brussels and Milan.

10:45 – 11:00    Short coffee break

Part 2

11:00 – 12:30    Irene BECCI, discussant

Mariam URDIA
Disruption vs. protection: Urban-nature challenges and the Mtkvari river in contemporary Tbilisi.

Uri ANSEBERG
The paradox of soil pollution and nature revival in Tel-Aviv.

Caterina BRACCHI
A city of water: Mantua, its river and lakes through the lens of social-spatial relations.

12:30 – 13:00    Conclusion by Mar GRIERA