International Conference
Planning in a Heterogeneous World:
Re-assembling Informality

Naples, Italy
Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Columbia University
in cllaborazione con:
CRIOS | Critica degli Ordinamenti Spaziali

Department of Architecture
Via Forno Vecchio 36 | Aula Andriello | 9 am – 6 pm

Visualizzazione ingrandita della mappa

CONFERENCE THEME
This one-day conference will bring together scholars from Italy and the United States to explore the urban implications of actor-network theory. The focus will be on the networks of humans, nature, and technologies that comprise cities and without which cities could neither function nor thrive. These assemblages are the constituent forms that characterize such social concerns as sea-level rise, slum formation, informality, and inter-ethnic conflict. Assemblage thinking places action in its material context by recognizing that humans always act with both tools and nature.
Assemblage thinking also sits at the center of how we think about planning for the city. It enables us to understand how formal and informal processes emerge and function within and across the settings of city life.

This conference is free and open to the public. It is the first in a series of events and projects involving scholars from Federico II and Columbia University.

SPEAKERS
The speakers will present case studies that reflect on the formal and informal assemblages that comprise cities.
They will include:
• Robert Beauregard | Columbia University
• Laura Lieto and Attilio Belli | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
• Alessandro Balducci | Politecnico di Milano
• Serena Vicari Haddock | Università di Milano-Bicocca
• Francesco Moccia | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
• Stefano Moroni | Politecnico di Milano

PROGRAM
• 9:00
Introduction
Laura Lieto

• 9.15-9.30
Welcome Address
Gaetano Manfredi | Federico II Pro-Rector
Mario Losasso | Head of DiARC - Department of Architecture

• 9.30 – 9.45
Moderator: Laura Lieto
Attilio Belli | Crios Director
• 9:50 – 11.10
Robert Beauregard | Planning in an obdurate world
Laura Basco | Making multi-ethnic waste markets: Informal practices of waste picking in Naples
John West | Making an ethical market: Ideas, technologies and constituencies of congestion pricing in New York City

• 11:30 -- 13.00
Gilda Berruti | The “Open Seawalk” is not open: Policies, rights and constituent forms of Naples seafront as a geographic and social whole
Enrico Formato | Eco-town metabolism vs wild urbanization:The Piana Campana case in Naples city-region
Linying He, Mobilizing policy: Microfinance’s journey from Bangladesh to Washington, DC
Laura Lieto | Re-assembling formality and informality

• 13:00 – 13:30
Discussion

• 14.30 - 16.30
Moderator | Robert Beauregard
Alessandro Balducci | Planning and the difficult journey between hard and soft rationality
Francesco D. Moccia | The pervasive recurrence of structures through society and nature
Serena Vicari Haddock | Assemblage and power
Stefano Moroni | Final remarks and perspectives

• 17.00
Debate
• 17:30
Laura Lieto | Closing Remarks