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EDAR AND EDOC WELCOME EVENTS
for new PhD students
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On October 10, EDAR cordially invites the new PhD students to a welcome session at 09:45, in the room BP 3127. The session will be the opportunity to get to know the EDAR program and obtain answers to all related questions. It will also feature a presentation by Melchior Allet, HR Manager of the ENAC faculty, on various HR aspects of the PhD status.
On November 6, EDOC conducts the annual PhD Welcome event open to all first-year PhD candidates at EPFL. The event will commence at 15:30, at Rolex Learning Center. It will feature testimonials from PhD candidates, present the services available on campus and provide an opportunity to meet members of the PhD community. For registration and detailed information, please visit the link.
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EDAR PIZZA LUNCH
meet your PhD fellows
| | CINQ, the EDAR PhD representatives' collective, organises an informal gathering for PhD students at 12:00 on October 15, 2025, in the PhD Room BP 3143. It will facilitate a discussion of academic and social events and initiatives planned by CINQ. CINQ also maintains a dedicated WhatsApp group for communication between the PhD students, which can be accessed through the link. Please also save the date for the PhD Winter Retreat on January 23-24, 2026. To indicate an interest in participating, please fill out a short survey available through the link. | | |
LA DOCTORALE
Research and Doctoral Awards Ceremony
| | The Vice Presidency for Postgraduate Education and EDOC announce the annual Research and Doctoral Awards Ceremony. The event will commence at 17:30 on October 27, 2025, at Rolex Learning Center. It celebrates all doctoral graduates for the successful completion of their PhD and presents the EPFL Research Awards to selected laureates in recognition of their outstanding research contributions. For registration and detailed information, please visit the link. | | |
AR-690 MAKING THE WORLD DISCRETE
Workshop on Methods
| | The Laboratory for the History and Theories of Architecture, Technology and Media (HITAM) organises a doctoral workshop, which will take place on November 18-20, 2025. The workshop brings together three leading architectural historians – Alla Vronskaya (Uni Kassel), Cristóbal Amunátegui (UCLA), and Zeynep Çelik Alexander (Columbia University) – to discuss how architecture and technology have contributed to making the world measurable and reducible to numbers. Particular attention will be given to the infrastructures, technical media, actors, and practices that enable this process – from ledgers to buildings, housing schemes, counting offices, and institutions designed to store and quantify people, materials, and commodities. For detailed information, please consult with the EDAR Course book via the link. | | |
MORE THAN METHODOLOGIES
Explorations in Landscape and Urban Research
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ETHZ Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) conducts a doctoral seminar More than Methodologies: Explorations in Landscape and Urban Studies. Launched on September 19 and running until December 5, 2025, the seminar explores innovative methodologies beyond conventional approaches in landscape and urban research. For registration and detailed information, please visit the link.
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CALLS
Call for chroniques
| | ENAC announces a call for publicistic columns (chroniques) about the research conducted by PhD students and faculty members. The columns are published in L’Express, L’Impartial, Le Nouvelliste, and La Côte, showcasing the expertise and research gathered at ENAC throughout French-speaking Switzerland. Contributions for a column in 2025, comprising of 3'000 characters in French or 2'800 characters in English, are to be provided to sandrine.perroud@epfl.ch by November 13, 2025. For a reference on the previously published columns, please visit the link. | | Call for student innovation grants | | Smart Living Lab announces a call for student innovation grants open for EPFL PhD students. The award recognises ideas on net-zero buildings, energy efficiency, sustainable construction, circular economy and reuse, digital transformation of the built environment, and well-being and health in buildings that can be turned into concrete projects. The deadline for project submission is on October 27, 2025. For detailed requirements and guidelines on the project proposal preparation, please visit the link. | | Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University announces a call for 2026-2027 fellowships for faculty, visiting faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and dissertation completion. The fellows are expected to approach the concept of habitat through lenses of environmental humanities, science and technology studies, indigenous and postcolonial studies, and urban studies. For detailed requirements and information on registration deadlines, please visit the link. | | CEPT University and Oxford Brookes University announce an international conference entitled Reframing Vernacular Architecture for a Decolonised World, which will be held in Ahmedabad, India, on February 26-27, 2026. The conference seeks to explore and rethink the meaning of vernacular architecture in a decolonised world, focusing on the aspects of language and meaning, production and use, documenting and archiving, and conserving and adapting. Abstracts of 250 words and CV are to be submitted via the link by October 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | Université de Liège announces a scientific colloquium entitled Who Governs the City?, which will be held in Liège, Belgium, on April 23-24, 2026. The colloquium highlights contributions focusing on the changing role of local authorities and decision-makers in a context marked by the transformation of local institutions and urban public action instruments. The colloquium will be held in French. Abstracts of 800 words are to be submitted to nathan.flore@uliege.be and loic.perrin@uliege.be by December 20, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal announces the call for papers for its upcoming issue entitled Conditions of Architecture. The issue will explore what happens when we start to consider that architects are in turn also conditioned by social, cultural, economic and material constraints. It seeks contributions that analyse specific situated practices of architects and their work, as well as theoretical explorations. Abstracts of 600 words, with a sample image for visual essays, are to be submitted to editors.footprint@gmail.com by December 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | | | |
