AnimalFarm Seminar Series - Fall 2026 | 3 – Andrea Borghini
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 aze 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 – Andrea Borghini, “Animal Farm”: Philosophical Perspectives
In this seminar we will survey how recent scholarship on food and philosophy can shed light on how to approach the study of animal farms today. Particular attention will be given to questions of linguistic justice, scale and justice, transitional justice, ethics of technology, and imagination.
About the speaker
Andrea Borghini is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Milan and co-founder and director of Culinary Mind, an international research network devoted to the philosophy of food.
His research explores the conceptual, ethical, and political dimensions of food and food systems, with particular attention to language, technology, public policy, and the spaces in which food is produced and consumed.
PROGRAM
Monday 05.10, 9.30–11.30 – Giovanni Ferrarese, Dalla stalla razionale alla fattoria senza terra. Le trasformazioni della zootecnia intensiva italiana nel secondo dopoguerra
Thursday 22.10, 10.00–12.00 – Camille Bellet, Milking rhythms: Sensing practices and multispecies relations in automated dairy farming
Wednesday 28.10, 16.00–18.00 – Andrea Borghini, “Animal Farm”: Philosophical Perspectives
INFO
To attend online, please send an email to: animal.farm@polito.it
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