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14 May 2020
Hölderlin and the Purple Words:
Translations on a Living Building
ANNA WILD
The Barlett School of Architecture
Postcolonial Logistics
ENI’s* “Disegno Africano” and the motel Agip of Dar es Salaam
GIULIA SCOTTO
Urban Studies, University of Basel
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Motel and gas station Agip, Dar es Salaam. Photo: Tinelli
Source: ENI Historical Archive
This paper introduces the notion of “postcolonial logistics” as the theoretical framework of my ongoing phd dissertation on the supply chain expansion of the italian hydrocarbon agency ENI in early postcolonial Africa, the so-called “disegno Africano”. Furthermore, it explores the Motel Agip of Dar es Salaam, one of the case studies of the dissertation, as a logistic architecture in order to understand its genealogies, contexts, and performances in the Longue durée.Hölderlin and the Purple Words:
Translations on a Living Building
ANNA WILD
The Barlett School of Architecture
Postcolonial Logistics
ENI’s* “Disegno Africano” and the motel Agip of Dar es Salaam
GIULIA SCOTTO
Urban Studies, University of Basel
Motel and gas station Agip, Dar es Salaam. Photo: Tinelli Source: ENI Historical Archive
* Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi is the Italian National Hydrocarbon Agency