|
2025 EDAR CHRISTMAS PARTY-ASSEMBLY
| | EDAR community is warmly invited to attend the annual EDAR Christmas Party-Assembly at 18:00 on December 1 in the exhibit room of Archizoom. Organised by the EDAR Direction together with CINQ, PhD students' representative collective, the Christmas Party-Assembly is a festive event during which various announcements will be shared, including awarding the 2025 EPFL Distinction and an overview of activities planned for the 2026 Spring semester. The Assembly will be followed by a friendly and warm apéro. For organisational purposes, attendees are asked to fill out a short form. | | Discover the new EDAR doctoral program's website! With a new design hosting new contents, available at the link, the EDAR site is a pilot case in the ongoing reorganisation of the EDOC's web architecture, conducted by the Education Outreach Department (SPE). | | |
AR-667 RYTHMOLOGIES
Sociétés et territoires à l'épreuve
| | Rythmologies is an international doctoral seminar organised by the Laboratory of Urban Sociology (LASUR), École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Toulouse (ENSA Toulouse), and Maison des Sciences Humaines Alpes (MSH-Alpes), comprised of monthly events taking place between November 2025 and June 2026. Under the responsibility of Vincent Kaufmann and Luc Gwiazdzinski, the seminar aims to explore the notion of rhythm as a reading grid of contemporary worlds, a mode of representation and transformation active through practice, or even a new paradigm. For detailed information and schedule, please consult with the EDAR Course book via the link. | | |
AR-689 FIELD WORK
The Terrain, the Lab, the Archive
| | Field Work is a doctoral seminar organised by the Laboratory of Research and Development for Innovation on Architecture, Urban Design and Territory (RIOT) that will take place on November 25-26, 2025. The seminar expands the concept of the field beyond traditional boundaries to encompass diverse fieldwork methodologies. It will explore three different angles – the terrain, the lab, and the archive – through three sessions organised as a roundtable discussion, including doctoral students, master's students, EPFL scholars and researchers, and external guests. For detailed information, please consult with the EDAR Course book via 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 the doctoral workshop Making the World Discrete 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. For detailed information, please consult with the EDAR Course book via the link.
| | | | |
|
CALLS
Calls for participation
| | Columbia University announces a doctoral symposium entitled On the Edge of Legibility: Architecture and its Peripheries, which will be held in New York on April 2-3, 2026. The symposium invites proposals from doctoral students across disciplines that investigate and reflect on the histories of the built environment within three arenas: geographic peripheries, temporal peripheries, and epistemic peripheries. Abstracts of 350 words and CV are to be submitted via the link by December 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | |
The University of Pisa announces an international symposium and round table series entitled Weird Science, Isolated Intelligence. Histories of Architecture, Technology and Evolution, which will be held in Pisa, Italy, between December 2025 and May 2026.
The symposium aims to intercept those inventions that emerge as the result of individual intelligence, conceived by solitary, isolated, excluded, exiled, nomadic, marginalized scientists, forced to emigrate due to tensions, conflicts or wars. The call is structured into three sessions, entitled SPACE, NATURE, and MACHINE. Abstracts of 300 words, CV, and title image are to be submitted to lina.malfona@unipi.it by November 30, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.
| | ETHZ gta papers announces a call for papers for its upcoming issue entitled Demolitions. The issue seeks to give voice to contributions that focus on marginalized spatial disappearances that reveal the social, political, and cultural dynamics shaping what is deemed worthy of preservation for future generations – and what is not. It encourages analyses of how class, race, gender and marginalized identities, as well as processes of coloniality, extraction or oppression, intersect in the valuation and devaluation of the built environment. Abstracts of 300 words and sample images are to be submitted to academic.editor@gta.arch.ethz.ch by November 30, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | Intertiors journal announces a call for papers for its upcoming special issue entitled Domestic. The issue seeks scholarship that interrogates Domicile, Domesticity, and Domestication – and the corresponding lines of inquiry each elicits.It is aimed at theorists, historians, researchers, creative scholars, and practitioners in architecture, design, and other related fields interested in engaging the home as a critical interior condition. Abstracts of 300 words, CV and key images are to be submitted to idacjournal@gmail.com by December 1, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | Les Cahiers scientifiques internationaux Réseaux et Territoires (FLUX) announces the call for papers for its special issue entitled New Challenges for Rural Mobilities. This thematic issue seeks to develop a plural reading of spaces far from major urban centers and to examine the mobility issues facing rural communities today. More specifically, it sheds light on the particularities that characterize rural territories in terms of travel, but also the difficulties encountered by the populations that populate them and the forms of ingenuity (individual, collective, informal, institutional, technical, project-based, etc.) that develop there. Contributions are expected to cover the topics of the modalities of public innovation in rural areas, the diversity of daily mobility practices and experiences beyond the car, mobility issues through the lens of populations, and mobility infrastructure in rural areas. Abstracts of 4,000 characters in French or English are to be submitted to gaetan.mangin@gmail.com, elena.cogatolanza@epfl.ch, and vincent.kaufmann@epfl.ch by December 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | Clara journal announces a call for papers for its Archives and Position(s) sections, to be published in the upcoming issue. Articles in Archives section investigate little-known archival resources, shed light on the genesis of architectural projects documented therein, and address the new challenges faced by contemporary archival collections. The section Position(s) gathers short articles that take a stand on current events in the field of architecture. Abstracts of 800 words, CV and key images are to be submitted to clara.archi@ulb.be by January 15, 2026. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | | | |
