Horizontality and its project: Pluralizing urbanization perspectives

Speaker: Prof.Michiel Dehane, Prof.Catherine Maumi, Prof.Tom Avermaete Tommaso Pietropolli, Mose Cometta. Prof.Charles Waldheim, Prof.Dean Almy, Prof.Great de Block, Andrea Palmioli, Adria Carbonell Rabassa, Elvira Pietrobon, Nikos Katsikis, Prof.Luca Pattaroni, Prof.Milica Topalovic, Prof.Antonio Di Campli Organiser: Prof.Elena Cogato Lanza, Flore Guichot, Prof. Paola Vigano, <p>Ten years ago, EPFL's Laboratory of Urbanism proposed horizontality as a critical lens for urban theory and practice. Since then, the concept has grown substantially richer through theoretical traditions developed across Europe and beyond.<br> This year's seminar revisits horizontality not as a closed paradigm, but as a mode of critical engagement with the socio-political, ecological, and economic processes of urbanization. It is approached as a historical, ideological, conceptual, and political question — one intersecting with territorial redistribution, accessibility, solidarity, and spa