Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías
Ignacio Farías is Professor of Urban Anthropology, Director of the Georg Simmel Center for Urban Studies and Co-Director of the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
His research interests focus on current ecological and infrastructural transformations of cities and the associated epistemo-political challenges to the democratization of city-making. His most recent work explores the politics of environmental disruptions, from tsunamis over heat to noise, as well as urban ethnography as a mode of city making performed with others (designers, initiatives, concerned groups, policy makers) and by other means (moving from textual to material productions).
Ignacio currently leads the ERC Consolidator Grant Urban Vibrations: How Physical Waves Come to Matter in Contemporary Urbanism and is a member of the SFB 1265 Refiguration of Spaces.
Institute for European Ethnology
Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. (former M*str.) 40/41
10117 Berlin
Monographs & Books
Farías, I., Marlow, F., Wall, R. 2024. Zaudern ums Gemeinwohl: Produktive Missverständnisse in der kooperativen Stadtentwicklung. Berlin: adocs Verlag.
Farías, I., Löw, M., Schmidt-Lux, T., Streets, S. 2023. Kultursoziologische Stadtforschung. Grundlagen, Analysen, Perspektiven. Frankfurt/New York: Campus.
Blok, A., Farías, I., Roberts, C. (eds.) 2019. The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory. London, New York: Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315111667
Blok, A., Farías, I. (eds.) 2016. Urban Cosmopolitics : Agencements, assemblies, atmospheres. London, New York: Routledge.
Articles in Edited Volumes
Farías, I., Criado, T. 2024. »Cities: Stories of urban STS.« In Elgar Encyclopaedia of Science & Technology Studies, edited by Felt, U., Irwin, A. Edward Elgar, 532–542.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377998.ch55
Schröder, J. V., Mendes, C., Farías, I. 2024. »Smart city new deals: unpacking the recursive entanglements of infrastructures and administrations.« In Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities, edited by Coutard, O., Florentin, D. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 79-93.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800889156.00013
Farías, I., Sánchez Criado, T., Remter, F. 2023. »How would animals and architects co-design if we built the right contract?« In Design For More-Than-Human Futures, edited by Tironi, M., Chilet, M., Ureta Marín, C., Hermansen, P. London: Routledge, 92-102.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003319689-7
Farías, I. 2023. »Foreword: The Resonance of Soundscapes.« In Resonant Fabrics, edited by Marvin Heine. transcript Verlag, 9-12.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839466438-001
Busch, M., Farías, I. 2022. »Snapshot 5. Don't Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages.« In Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough, edited by Martínez, F., Laviolette, P. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 115-120.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203325-011
Farías, I. 2022. »Heteronomy and Necessity: How Architects Design for Architectural Competitions.« Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 47-67.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11305-5_2
Farías, I., Paulos, J. 2021. »Die Räume der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie. Über die Formation, Deformation und Transformation des Sozialen.« edited by Heinrich, A. J., Marguin, S., Million, A., Stollmann, J. Handbuch qualitative und visuelle Methoden der Raumforschung. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 37-52.
Blok, A., Farías, I. 2019. »Urban cosmopolitics.« In Handbook of Urban Geography, edited by Schwanen, T., van Kempen, R. Edward Elgar Publishing, 47-62.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785364600.00012
Busch, M., Farías, I. 2019. »Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough - Don’t Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages.« In Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough, edited by Martínez, F., Laviolette, P. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 115-120.
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1850hkq.13
Farías, I. 2017. »Master Plans as Cosmograms: Articulating Oceanic Forces and Urban Forms After the 2010 Earthquake and Tsunami in Chile.« Springer International Publishing, 179-202.
Farías, I., Höhne, S. 2016. »2 Humans as Vectors and Intensities: Becoming Urban in Berlin and New York City.« In Deleuze and the City, edited by Frichot, H., Gabrielsson, C., Metzger, J. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 17-32.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474407601
Farías, I. 2015. »Epistemic Dissonance.« Oxford University Press, 271-289.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198702504.003.0014
Farías, I. 2014. »Die Improvisation einer Politik Katastrophenbewältigung, neoliberale Experimente und die Grenzen ökonomischen Wissens.« In Formationen des Politischen, edited by Adam, J., Vonderau, A. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 153-182.
https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839422632.153
Farías, I. 2014. »Formationen des Politischen: Anthropologie politischer Felder - Die Improvisation einer Politik Katastrophenbewältigung, neoliberale Experimente und die Grenzen ökonomischen Wissens.« Bielefeld: transcript, 153-182.
Farías, I. 2013. »Epistemische Dissonanz. Zur Vervielfältigung von Entwurfsalternativen in der Architektur.« In Wissenschaft Entwerfen, edited by Ammon, S., Froschauer, E. M. Brill | Fink, 77-107.
https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846755211_005
Farías, I. 2012. »Kulturen als soziomaterielle Welten.« In Durch Lehmanns Brille, edited by Birle, P., Dewey, M., Mascareño, A. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 173203.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-94084-7_9
Articles
Farías, I., Fehrs, K. 2024. »Gardening in Public Spaces: From Comfort to Care.« Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge, 87: 130-141.
Farías, I., Kemmer, L. 2024. »Elemental Urbanism. Engaging the terrestrial in city making.« Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge, 87: 3-9.
https://doi.org/10.18452/28534
Criado, T., Farías, I., Schröder, J. 2022. »Multimodal Values: The Challenge of Institutionalizing and Evaluating More- than-textual Ethnography.« Entanglements, 5 (1-2): 94-107.
Farías, I., Alvear, R. 2021. »Ciudades múltiples, ensamblajes asamblearios y ética de la incertidumbre: Una conversación con Ignacio Farías.« 7 (13): 37-63.
Farías, I., Orrego, S. 2021. »Moritz Ege/Johannes Moser (Eds.): Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities.« Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 2021 (2): 290-291.
https://doi.org/10.31244/zfvk/2021/02.27
Farías, I. 2020. »Für eine Anthropologie des Urbanismus. Etnographische Städte bauen.« Zeitschrift Fur Volkskunde, 116 (2): 171-192.
https://doi.org/10.31244/zfvk/2020/02.01
Ehn, P., Farías, I., Criado, T. S. 2018. »On the Possibility of Socialist-democratic Design Things: Interview with Pelle Ehn. Interviewers: I. Farías & T. Sánchez Criado.« Revista Diseña, (12): 52-69.
https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.12.52-69
Farías, I., Criado, T. S. 2018. »Co-laborations, Entrapments, Intraventions: Pedagogical Approaches to Technical Democracy in Architectural Design.« Revista Diseña, (12): 228-255.
https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.12.228-255
Farías, I. 2017. »An Idiotic Catalyst: Accelerating the Slowing Down of Thinking and Action.« Cultural Anthropology, 32 (1): 35-41.
https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.1.05
Farías, I. 2017. »Assemblages without systems: From the problem of fit to the problem of composition.« Dialogues in Human Geography, 7 (2): 186-191.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820617720091
Hutter, M., Farías, I. 2017. »Sourcing newness: ways of inducing indeterminacy.« Journal of Cultural Economy, 10 (5): 434-449.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2017.1326969
Farías, I., Blok, A. 2016. »Technical democracy as a challenge to urban studies.« City, 20 (4): 539-548.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1192418
Farías, I. 2016. »Devising hybrid forums. Technical democracy in a dangerous world.« City, 20 (4): 549-562.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1193998
Farías, I. 2016. »Devising Hybrid Forums: Technical Democracy in a Dangerous World.« City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 20 (4): 549-562.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1193998
Tironi, M., Farías, I. 2015. »Building a park, immunising life: Environmental management and radical asymmetry.« Geoforum, 66: 167-175.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.05.001
Farías, I. 2014. »Cultura: la performación de mundos sociomateriales.« Convergencia-revista De Ciencias Sociales, 21 (64): 65-91.
Farías, I. 2014. »Culture: performing sociomaterial worlds.« Convergencia-revista De Ciencias Sociales, 21 (64): 65-91.
Farías, I. 2014. »Improvising a market, making a model: social housing policy in Chile.« Economy and Society, 43 (3): 346-369.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2014.881596
Farías, I. 2014. »Misrecognizing Tsunamis: Ontological Politics and Cosmopolitical Challenges in Early Warning Systems.« The Sociological Review, 62 (1_suppl): 61-87.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.12124
Farías, I. 2014. »Planes maestros como cosmogramas: La articulación de fuerzas oceánicas y formas urbanas tras el tsunami de 2010 en Chile.« (14): 119-142.
Farías, I. 2014. »Virtual attractors, actual assemblages: How Luhmann’s theory of communication complements actor-network theory.« EconStor Open Access Articles. 24-41.
https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/190835/
Farías, I. 2013. »Virtual attractors, actual assemblages: How Luhmann’s theory of communication complements actor-network theory.« European Journal of Social Theory, 17 (1): 24-41.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431013484003
Farías, I. 2011. »Ensamblajes urbanos: la TAR y el examen de la ciudad.« Athenea Digital. Revista de pensamiento e investigación social, 11 (1): 15-40.
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenead/v11n1.826
Farías, I. 2011. »Ensamblajes urbanos: la TAR y el examen de la ciudad Urban assemblages: ANT and the examination of the city.« 11 (1): 15-40.
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.826
Farías, I. 2011. »The politics of urban assemblages.« City, 15 (3-4): 365-374.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2011.595110
Farías, I. 2011. »Tourist Maps as Diagrams of Destination Space.« Space and Culture, 14 (4): 398-414.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331210392682
Farías, I. 2011. »Urban assemblages: ANT and the examination of the city.« Athenea Digital. Revista de pensamiento e investigación social, 11 (1): 15-40.
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.826
Farías, I. 2010. »Adieu à Bourdieu? Asimetrías, límites y paradojas en la noción de habitus.« Convergencia-revista De Ciencias Sociales, 17 (54): 11-34.
Farías, I. 2010. »Sightseeing Buses: Cruising, Timing and the Montage of Attractions.« Mobilities, 5 (3): 387-407.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2010.494842
Busch, M., Farías, I., Ossandón, J. 2009. »BUSES TURISTICOS EN SANTIAGO DE CHILE: IDENTIDAD Y LÍMITES DE LA REPRESENTACIÓN SOCIAL.« Revista 180, (23)
Farías, I. 2008. »Hacia una nueva ontología de lo social Manuel DeLanda en entrevista.« Persona y Sociedad, 22 (1): 75-85.
https://doi.org/10.53689/pys.v22i1.159
Farías, I. 2007. »Destination Berlin: Orderings of City-Identity in Contemporary Tourist Guidebooks.« Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, 4 (3): 422-433.
https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-1890
Farías, I. 2005. »A la búsqueda del "Urbanismo Europeo": un reporte desde Berlín.« EURE (Santiago), 31 (94): 119-127.
https://doi.org/10.4067/s0250-71612005009400007
Conference Proceedings
Farías, I., Bender, T. (eds.) 2009. »Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies.«
Teaching & Courses
Le Calvé, M., Farias, I. Multimodal ethnography: A more than textual anthropological workshop. Practical course, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 10 March 2021 - 15 July 2021.