AnimalFarm explores the architectural history of animal farming in Europe and North America, from sixteenth-century Palladian villas until late-twentieth-century automated factory farms. The project engages with the perspectives of critical animal studies, history of veterinary medicine, and labor history. AnimalFarm ultimately explores the historical roots of a controversial phenomenon of the Anthropocene, and it fosters an alternative gaze on the spatial, material, and ethical implications of the human-animal relationship through time.

The AnimalFarm seminar series brings together scholars from different disciplines whose research intersects with architectural and animal history, as well as ethnography, critical animal studies, history of science and design theory.
All talks will be in English, unless specified.

Dates

Monday 11.05 I 14.30–16.30 (CET) Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta

Tuesday 19.05 I 09.30–11.30 (CET) Mariachiara Ficarelli, Senses of Confinement

Wednesday 03.06 I 14.30–16.30 (CET) Lisa Carignani, Spazi critici per gli animali (The talk will be in Italian)

Venue

Sala Mollino, Castello del Valentino & online on Zoom

To attend online, please send an email to: sofia.nannini@polito.it