Urban Infrastructures &
Urban Transitions
Politics, Social Justice and
Everyday Life
Urban infrastructure transitions bring profound opportunities for vulnerable groups worldwide but are frequently delivered in ways that reproduce and entrench socio-economic and political inequalities. Drawing from the examples of public housing and networked services for the poor, and the post-networked infrastructure transitions of urban elites (e.g. solar panels, water boreholes, water tanks) in South Africa, Charlotte Lemanski uses the language of infrastructural citizenship to reveal how material infrastructure mediates civic identities and relationships. Based on empirical research on poverty and housing in Switzerland, Peter Streckeisen's discusses the necessity of overcoming the gap between energy policy, social policy, and housing policy. In this two-part talk, the speakers will discuss housing, infrastructure, and the implications the concept of infrastructural citizenship has for the energy transition at home and abroad.
The event is taking place in English on Monday, 24 October 2022, at 17.30 at the ETH Hönggerberg Campus HIL Building, Room HIL E 6.
Lecture: Charlotte Lemanski (University of Cambridge), Peter Streckeisen (ZHAW)
Moderation: Lindsay Howe (Uni Liechtenstein)