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Aeropolitics
Aeropolitics examines the political and ethical stakes of flight. It traces how aerial dominance, from early aviation to satellites and drones, redefines sovereignty, conflict, and spatial rights. This approach reveals the transformative reach of governance from above.
Prof. Matteo Vegetti (USI/SUPSI)
Principal investigator, Aeropolitics axis coordinator
Principal investigator, Aeropolitics axis coordinator
Matteo Vegetti (PI) is professor of Theories of Space and Living at the Southern University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Mendrisio (SUPSI-DACD), lecturer at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio (AAM-USI) and a member of the Master’s programme in geopolitics and global security at the University La Sapienza in Rome. With his expertise in political philosophy and geopolitics he will concentrate on aspects related to the political and social significance of the Aerial Spatial Revolution on a material and imaginary level.
Doc. Tommaso Morawski (SUPSI)
Postdoctoral researcher
Postdoctoral researcher
Tommaso Morawski is a postdoctoral fellow in the DFG Graduierten Kolleg “Medienanthropologie” at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He studied philosophy and history of philosophy at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Sapienza – Università di Roma, where he obtained his PhD (2017) with a dissertation on La questione dell’ordine spaziale nel pensiero di Kant. Logica, estetica, orientamento. His major research foci include Kant’s philosophy, aesthetics, history and philosophy of cartography, media archaeology and spatial theory.
Lucrezia Pozzi (USI/SUPSI)
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student
Aeroplanning
Aeroplanning investigates how aerial photography and planning tools reshape urban design. By examining large-scale surveys and spatial data, it reveals how flight catalyzes new approaches to structuring architecture, territories, and infrastructural networks for modern living.
Prof. Katrin Albrecht (OST)
Aeroplanning axis coordinator
Aeroplanning axis coordinator
Katrin Albrecht is an architect and professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Urban Design at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST, ArchitekturWerkstatt St Gallen). With her expertise in the history of modern architecture and urbanism, she will focus on architectural and urban design practices and transformations in a historical and theoretical frame, addressing material as well as social, institutional and political issues related to the Aerial Spatial Revolution.
Doc. Jacqueline Maurer (OST)
Postdoctoral researcher
Postdoctoral researcher
Lisa Henicz (USI/OST)
Ph.D Student
Ph.D Student
Aerovision
Aerovision explores how flight expands perception, shaping modern views on architecture, city space, and technology. Through philosophical lenses, it analyzes the influence of aerial imagery on collective awareness and the urban environment, unveiling new forms of spatial experience.
Prof. Emmanuel Alloa (UNIFR)
Aerovision axis coordinator
Aerovision axis coordinator
Emmanuel Alloa is Full Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of Fribourg since 2019. He studied philosophy, history and art history in Freiburg (D), Padua, Berlin and Paris. In 2009, he received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Paris I-Panthéon and the Free University of Berlin with a binational dissertation. He taught at the Département d'arts plastiques of Paris 8, as well as at the Collège international de Philosophie, held a postdoc position at the NCCR Image Criticism eikones (Basel), and worked as assistant professor of philosophy at the University of St. Gallen. Various visiting professorships and fellowships have taken him to diverse international institutions such as the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University (New York), Universidad San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Mexico), UFMG Belo Horizonte (Brazil), IKKM at Bauhaus University Weimar, University of Vienna, Turin and UC Berkeley. His work has received several awards, including the 2016 Latsis Prize and the 2019 Aby Warburg Wissenschaftspreis. Emmanuel Alloa currently serves as Deputy President of the German Society for Aesthetics.
Lilian Kroth (UNIFR)
Postdoctoral researcher
Postdoctoral researcher
Lilian Kroth is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Fribourg, where she works on conceptual critiques of remote sensing. Her PhD project at the University of Cambridge engaged with Michel Serres’s philosophy of limits. She is an associate researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin) and the University of Groningen, and one of the organizers of the CRASSH research network “Remote Sensing. Ice, Instruments, Imagination” in Cambridge. Prior to that, she studied Philosophy at the University of Vienna (BA, MA) and Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Alessandro De Cesaris (UNIFR)
Postdoctoral researcher
Postdoctoral researcher
Alessandro De Cesaris has studied Philosophy in Naples (Federico II), Turin (University of Turin), Freiburg i.Br. (Albert-Ludwigs Universität) and Berlin (Humboldt, Technische Universität). Right now he works as an assistant to the Chair for Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland). He wrote his PhD dissertation on the notion of Singularity in Hegel’s logic, and right now he is working on a media-theoretical interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy. His main research fields are media philosophy and philosophy of technology, with a particular focus on the notion of “medium” and its meaning in the current debate.
Emanuel Tandler (UNIFR)
Ph.D Student
Ph.D Student
Collaborators
Max da Rocha Fonseca (SUPSI)
Scientific collaborator
Scientific collaborator
Max is a visual designer and journalist focused on science communication. At SUPSI, Max contributes to the conception and implementation of applied research projects, promoting dialogue between science and society.
Partners
Prof. Christoph Frank (USI)
Prof. Caren Kaplan (Univ. of California, Davis)
Prof. Antonio Somaini (Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Prof. Jennifer K. Lavasseur
(Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.)
Prof. Lisa Parks (MIT, Cambridge MA)