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Daniele Porretta – Autor/a en A*Desk

Daniele Porretta is an architect, holds a PhD in Architectural Theory and History, and teaches in the Design Degree program at Elisava, Barcelona. His research focuses on the relationship between the city and film and literature, particularly the construction of the image of the city of the future in popular culture, from the technological utopias of the late 19th century to the dystopias of social control in the 20th century. He is a member of Histopia, CSIC (Institute of History), a group that promotes the Transatlantic Network for the Study of Utopias, which carried out the research project ““Utopías trasatlánticas: imaginarios alternativos entre España y América, siglos XIX-XX (UtopiAtlantica)” [Transatlantic Utopias: Alternative Imaginaries between Spain and America, 19th-20th Centuries (UtopiAtlantica)] (2022-2025). In 2022, he published La otra Tierra. Marte como utopía [The Other Earth: Mars as Utopia] with Siruela, a book dedicated to the history of utopia on the planet Mars.

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