Animal Farm Seminar Series - Spring 2026 | 3 - Lisa Carignani
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.
3 - Lisa Carignani, Spazi critici per gli animali (the talk will be in Italian)
The speaker
Lisa Carignani is an architect, researcher, and screen printer. Her doctoral research, titled “Animals and Architecture: Rethinking Space through Antispeciesism” lies at the intersection of architecture, urban studies, and Critical Animal Studies. Discussed in March 2025 at the Department of Architecture of Roma Tre University, the dissertation has been presented in various academic and non-academic contexts. She has collaborated in teaching activities for courses in architectural theory and urban design and has taken part in grassroots projects involving self-construction, collective mapping and printing, and territorial research.
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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