Animal Farm Seminar Series - Spring 2026 | 1 - Andrea Bagnato
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.
1 - Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta
The speaker:
Andrea Bagnato is an architect and writer. He has curated exhibitions, taught and lectured widely, and published five books – most recently, the monograph Terra Infecta. He works both independently and for cultural institutions.
His thinking is concerned with the politics of health, illness and contamination, and with the impact that different conceptions of the body have on the space around us.
PROGRAM
Monday 11/05 - 14.30–16.30 (CET) Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta
Tuesday 19/05 - 9.30–11.30 (CET) Mariachiara Ficarelli, Senses of Confinement
Wednesday 03/06 - 14.30–16.30 (CET) Lisa Carignani, Spazi critici per gli animali (The talk will be in Italian)
INFO: to attend online, please send an email to: sofia.nannini@polito.it
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