APEAA Conference 2024 – APEAA
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\n\nNerea Calvillo (she\/they) is an architect-scholar, based at the research Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick, UK), director of spatial design office C+ arquitectas and funder of In the Air, an ongoing collaborative project to sense air(pollution). She works at the intersection between spatial design, feminist technoscience, queer and environmental studies, and her current research is on toxic politics, pollen, atmospheres and queer urban political ecologies. Her work has b
Air defies contention. It fills-in, permeates, escapes, evaporates, absorbs. By default. Everything. Air challenges leaking as a concept, both materially and symbolically. Then, what does leaking mean in Aeropolis, the city of airs? From a feminist technoscience and queer perspective I speculate how it might allow us to re-think sensing, the urban, design and relationality more broadly.
Amade Aouatef M’charek is Professor of Anthropology of Science at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam. She is the PI of the RaceFaceID project (https://race-face-id.eu/), an ERC-consolidator project on forensic identification and the making of face and race, and co-PI of the NWA project Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums (https://pressingmatter.nl/). Her work has centred on the ir/relevance of race in science and society focusing on genetic
APEAA Conference 2024 – APEAA