Academic Education
2003 – 2008: Dr. Phil., Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
2001 – 2003: D.E.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain
1996 – 2001: Licentiate in Sociology, Minor in Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Professional Experience (selected)
Since 2018: Professor of Urban Anthropology, Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
2015 – 2018: Assistant Professor of Participatory Technology Design, Department of Architecture & Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technische Universität München, Germany
2009 – 2015: Research Fellow, then Project Lead, Research unit “Cultural Sources of Newness”. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Germany
2008 – 2014: Associate Researcher, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
2005 – 2007 DFG-Fellow, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
2015 – 2020: Editor of EASST Review: www.easst.net/review
2013 – 2016: Elected Member of Academic Council of the European Association of Studies of Science and Technology (EASST)
2023-2025: “Re-Scaling Global Health. Human Health and Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet”, Exploration Project on Planetary Health, Berlin University Alliance
2023-2024: Multimodal Appreciation. Prototypes for the evaluation and institutionalisation of
more-than-textual ethnography. Programm Open-Up. Volkswagen Foundation
2022-2026: „Urban Vibrations: How physical waves come to matter in contemporary urbanism”, EU, ERC Consolidator Grant
2022-2025: „The Urban Microclimate Regime. The Constitution of Spaces and Infrastructures of Heat”, Subproject within DFG-SFB (Collaborative Research Center) “The Re-Figuration of Spaces”, DFG
2022-2023: “Stock Development through Public-Civic-Partnerships. Collaboration, Controversies,
Modelling“, Program ZukunftBAU of the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction. Funding, Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction
2016-2019: „Smarter Together: Smart and Inclusive Solutions for a Better Life in Urban Districts“, EU Horizon 2020a
Farías, I., Criado, T., Remter. F. (2023): How would animals and architects co-design if we built the right contract?, In: Tironi M./Chilet, M./Hermansen, P/Marín, C. (Eds.) Design For More-Than-Human Futures: Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding. London: Routledge.
Farías, I., Löw, M., Steets, S., Schmidt-Lux, T. (2023): Kultursoziologische Stadtforschung. Grundlagen, Analysen, Perspektiven, Campus.
Farías, I., Paulus, J. (2021): Die Räume der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie: Über die Formation, Deformation und Transformation des Sozialen, In: Heinrich, J./Marguin, S./Million, A./Stollmann, J. (Eds.) Methoden der qualitativen Raumforschung. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Wiesbaden: DG Verlag.
Farías, I., Blok, A. (2020): Urban Cosmopolitics, In: Schwanen, Tim/van Kempen, Ronald (Eds.) Handbook of Urban Geography.
Farías, I., Widmer, S. (2018): Ordinary smart cities: How calculated users, professional citizens, technology companies and city administrations engage in a more-than-digital politics, Technoscienza.
Farías, I., Blok, A. (2016): Introduction: Technical Democracy as a Challenge for Urban Studies, CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Vol. 20, Issue 4: 539-548.
Farías, I. (2016): Devising Hybrid Forums: Technical Democracy in a Dangerous World”. CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Vol. 20, Issue 4: 549-562.
Farías, I. (2015): Städtisches Leben von und mit Schadstoffen. Materielle Intimität als Einschränkung
urbaner Dingpolitik, Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge 69: 70-83.
Tironi, M., Farías, I. (2015): Building a park, immunising life: Environmental management and radical
asymmetry, Geoforum, Vol. 66: 167-175