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Surfaces of War, Surfaces of Conveyance: OPEN CALL for a Beyond Inhabitation Lab Spring 2027 signature event

We are thrilled to announce an open call for participation in our signature event, “Surfaces of War, Surfaces of Conveyance: Popular Intelligence and Military Capture in the Mediterranean“, to be held in Turin, 27th May – 1st June, 2027.

This is a twofold event at the Beyond Inhabitation Lab that discusses habitability, popular intelligence, and militarist turns in the contemporary urban Mediterranean.

Part 1 consists of a two-day workshop that hosts a maximum of 25 participants, selected through the application process outlined in the open call flier. Twelve travel scholarships will be available. The scope of the workshop is to enable scholars addressing the proposed themes to connect and establish a dispersed working group across the region.

Part 2, which takes place right after the Workshop, consists of a two-day writing Lab for seven selected participants on the Workshop’s themes. Part 2 is by invitation only. The scope of the lab is to produce a collective working text on the themes of the workshop, to structure and open up conversations across and beyond the Beyond Inhabitation Lab.

The deadline for submitting applications for the Workshop is 23rd October, 2026.

You can find all relevant information in the flier below, or download it here.

Please help us circulate this call across the Mediterranean regions, especially toward the South and the East. We look forward to receiving interest from scholars, writers, artists and organisers currently working at the intersection of popular territories, economies and military capture.

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Special gathering in LA

I’ve been able to spend a few days in LA with very special people. Old and new friends, organisers in Skid Row and Echo Park Lake, scholars whom I deeply admire – including my comrade Ananya, with whom we are cooking something up.

LA is a city that grew in me throughout time. I visit the first time in 2012, while I was working with Stewart Clegg in Sydney, Australia. Then I came back a number of times, especially in recent years, to do some research, attend and sometimes contribute to events organised by Ananya at the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. The work these folks have done over the last 10 years is quite impressive – both in terms of scholarship and genuine community building and radical engagement with housing justice struggles.

This time, I was also able to meet my dear friends John and Henriette from the LAPD again, who are continuing their important work in Skid Row.

Not an easy city, LA. A city of cities – with plenty of injustices and raw urbanity – but also hope and resourfulness. I look forward to coming back again, hopefully soon.