Cycle de conférences en Anthropologie (CCA) - Inge DANIELS - Disobedient Buildings : An Ethnography of Ageing Tower Blocks

Publié le 18 mars 2026 – Mis à jour le 18 mars 2026

- April 3rd, 2 to 4 p.m., Salle H. Janne (S.S15.331) : **Inge DANIELS : "Disobedient Buildings : An Ethnography of Ageing Tower Blocks”

[Anthropology of Housing] Since January 2020, Inge Daniels, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, has served as Principal Investigator (PI) for *Disobedient Buildings***, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) until June 2025. Pr Daniels will talk about the project that examines the connections between housing, welfare, and wellbeing in the United Kingdom, Romania, and Norway, responding to the global rise in incidents in aging high-rise infrastructure such as the Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017. Disobedient Buildings investigates how residents of European tower blocks create safe, comfortable homes amid infrastructural challenges. It combines anthropological research on atmospheres—a concept she has long researched—with the Anthropology of Infrastructure, while challenging the usual focus on technology-driven public projects emblematic of progress.

Date(s)

Le 3 avril 2026

14h à 16h

Lieu(x)

Plan d'accès

ULB - Campus Solbosch

Bâtiment S - 15ième étage

Salle Henri janne

S.15.331

44 avenue Jeanne - 1050 Bruxelles