Doctoral Program Architecture and Sciences of the City (EDAR)
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EDAR Welcomes
New PhD student
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EDAR is delighted to welcome the new PhD student Léo Brumm, who will start his research on the 1st of July 2024 at LASUR, and wishes success in his studies. | |
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Sara Formery (PhD student at LAST)
21 June 2024, 17:00 (CET)
The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "Quartiers rhodaniens en transition" will be held in Foyer SG SG 294.22 (campus EPFL Ecublens). The thesis is completed under the supervision of Prof. Emmanuel Rey (LAST). To attend the public defense, please contact here.
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Project for the New Visual Identity of EDAR
PhD students' submission to the Open Consultation
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EDAR Committee is glad to announce that five very original proposals were submitted to the Project for the new visual identity of EDAR Open Consultation, launched in February 2024.
In the frame of 8th Les Rencontres de l’EDAR, the five submissions were made public through an exhibition, presented by the authors, and discussed by three eminent graphic designers: Fabienne Kilchör (Emphase, as the official expert of the Open Consultation jury), Paolo Tassinari (TassinariVetta), Sebastien Fasel (Emphase). From left to right (see the picture), the groups of Noélie Lecoanet and Samuel Buntschu (Mention for its high potential); Emma Larcelet, Vasileios Chanis, and Erblin Jaisiqi (Mention for its high degree of accomplishment); Maria Sivers; Chloé Joly-Pottuz; and Tanguy Auffret-Postel, delivered five proposals that were impressive for their quality and creativeness, and that are ready for a more in-depth elaboration.
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EDAR Courses
Fall 2024 EDAR Course Book – Preview
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The Fall 2024 EDAR Course Book is in progress, but we are happy to share a synthetic preview to allow PhD students to plan next months’ activities.
The two regular methodological courses Thesis Writing Workshop (AR-616, Gretchen Bakke, Léa Sgier) and Introduction to Research I (AR-602, Luca Pattaroni, Elena Cogato Lanza) will be held respectively on October 8-9 and on October 28-29.
Prof. Sarah Nichols will be responsible for the 2024 series of public lectures of Scholars in Transition: entitled Mud on the Floor: Dirty Realities in Scholarly Work, the series will deal with how to study construction sites.
Prof. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and her team are preparing an interactive seminar and course on Citation Politics: AI, Unheard Voices, and Unusual References in Spatial Research.
The EPFL Habitat Research Center and the Laboratory of Urbanism will coordinate the international seminars Space, Life, and Politics (AR-681, Paola Viganò, Panos Mantziaras, Tommaso Pietropolli) on October 28-29, and Urbanism of Hope (AR-680, Paola Viganò, Tommaso Pietropolli, Elena Cogato Lanza) on December 12-14 in the frame of the 16th IFoU Conference.
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EDOC Announcement
Welcome Event for New PhD Candidates
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The EPFL Doctoral School (EDOC) is glad to invite all new PhD candidates to a PhD Welcome & Networking Event, which will be held at Forum Rolex (Ecublens campus) between 16:00 and 18:00 on November 4, 2024. The event will reveal the resources and services available at EPFL for your PhD journey and will highlight the activities of EPFL bodies and associations.
PhD candidates residing outside Lausanne can submit applications for travel support via the following link. For detailed information, please visit the Memento link.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSION
The Fifth Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize 2025
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Every two years, the Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize recognizes the best PhD research in the field of urbanism. The award honours the memory of professor in urbanism, and architect, Manuel de Solà-Morales Rubió (1939-2012). Candidates can submit any doctoral thesis that has urbanism as the object of the research, which was presented at a European university between 1st January 2020 and 30th September 2024. Submissions are accepted until September 30, 2024. For detailed information, please visit the link. | |
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A call for chapters has been announced for an edited volume Protests Beyond Plaza: Strategies, Urban Morphologies and Everyday Spaces, edited by Kateryna Malaia and Nathan Hutson, to be published by Routledge in 2025. The goal of this volume is to read the history of an urban protest on an architectural scale in order to understand how architectural and urban morphology shape the causes, development, and ultimate outcome of urban protests. Contributions that feature diverse geographies and movements are encouraged for submission, particularly highlighting the context of North America, Africa, and Western Europe.
Abstracts of 600 words, covering research methodology and including a brief bibliography, are accepted until July 31, 2024, at Kateryna Malaia (kate.malaia@utah.edu) and Nathan Hutson (Nathan.Hutson@unt.edu). For detailed information, please visit the link.
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Journal of Architectural Education announces a call for papers for its new issue, entitled Architecture Beyond Extraction. Submissions might examine specific materials and properties that have fuelled extractive networks and defined building cultures, unpack the correlation between extraction and environmental violence, trace the entanglements of land, energy, and capital, or uncover the exploitative ways that labour and knowledge are used in practice, construction, and pedagogy.
For the full call for papers and a list of thematic sessions, please visit the link. Complete manuscripts are to be submitted via the link before August 2, 2024.
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In continuity with the Bernardo Secchi Working Seminars (JBS) initiative, organised by the Habitat Research Center (HRC) at EPFL and Fondation Braillard, IUAV announces a PhD seminar Common Denominators. Parallelisms/Overlaps/Tangencies. The seminar is open to PhD scholars' proposals that discuss interactions of current and emerging phenomena in relation to spaces, ecologies, inequalities, marginalised and disregarded issues. Proposals should address one of the two thematic tracks: soil as infrastructure and emerging inequalities.
The seminar will take place on October 30 and 31, 2024, in Venice. Abstracts of 600 words are to be submitted to commondenominators@iuav.it before July 5, 2024. For detailed information, please visit the link.
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The Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) announces a roundtable European Reflections and Learnings for a Post-War Urban Planning. The roundtable aims to contribute to the development of strategies and approaches that can guide urban transformation in post-war settings towards greater inclusivity and resilience. The primary objective is to facilitate the exchange of lessons learned, knowledge, and best practices among European cities and cities that have undergone post-war recovery processes.
The roundtable will take place in Bratislava on October 18, 2024. Abstracts are to be provided via the link before August 1, 2024. All accepted papers will be considered for publication in the European Journal of Spatial Development. For detailed information, please visit the link.
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