Julio Paulos is Associate Director, Research at the Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global at the Swiss Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. With an interdisciplinary background in humanities and social sciences, Julio’s interests are shaped by curiosity about how cities are governed and thought. His professional and academic engagements have spanned a range of topics, disciplines and geographies, all of which are related to the urban challenges of our time. Situated at the intersection of Urban Studies, Planning Theory and STS, Julio’s research is particularly invested in problematising the political and democratic challenges posed by urban transformations. He is one of the editors of Relational Planning: Tracing Artefacts, Agency and Practices (Springer, 2018): a collection framing planning as a socio-material practice taking place within the multifaceted relations between artefacts, agency and practices; a hybrid, distributed and situational practice.
