Daniel Gallano is a doctoral researcher at MESH and a fellowship-holder with a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities at the University of Cologne. His research aims to investigate the aspect of independence from human control of the built environment in a context of precariousness and unpredictability. Drawing upon ecology, urbanism, environmental anthropology, and case study examples, he works on the reconceptualisation of the urban space as the result of overlapping multispecies dwelling strategies and construction activities. The working title of his PhD project is: “Co-inhabiting the built environment: cities as social artifacts beyond control and exclusivity.”
Daniel completed his master’s degree in Philosophy at the University of Turin in 2022. His thesis “Coinhabiting the Anthropocene: non-human species in the city” examines the sharing of the urban environment in a time of mutual vulnerability and general precariousness and proposes to develop care and a radical curiosity towards the multispecies entanglements as a humble way to cope with worsening biodiversity loss, climate disruption and ecological unravelling. In 2018, he obtained his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Turin with a thesis on the role of imagination in the later Wittgenstein. Daniel has worked on a cooperation project in a suburb of Praia, Cape Verde, observing the convergence of neo-colonial economic policies, social injustice, and the particularly evident effects of climate change on the daily life and work of fishermen.