Barbara Carnevali

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Subway design: Modernism from Milan to New York (1964–1972) 

2018-2019: Fall

Barbara Carnevali is associate professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where she holds a a chair in “social aesthetics”. She studied philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and has been a fellow of the Fulbright Foundation at the University of Chicago (2003-2004), of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris (2011-2012) and of the Italian Academy (fall 2013).

She works on issues at the intersection between social philosophy and aesthetics. Her publications include the books Romantisme et reconnaissance. Figures de la conscience chez Rousseau (Droz: Geneva, 2012) and Le apparenze sociali (Social Appearances, Bologna: Il Mulino 2012, new English version forthcoming by Columbia University Press). She has contributed to various international journals such as Annales, Critique, Diogenes, WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, and she is member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Philosophy. 

During her stay at the Italian Academy, she will work on a new book on civic design and the aesthetic dimension of public space. 

Web page: https://www.ehess.fr/fr/personne/barbara-carnevali