EDAR Newsletter

nº 95

February 2025

PUBLIC THESES DEFENSES

Anne Bösch (PhD student at HERUS)

12 February 2025, 17:00 (CET)

The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "Application and use of sustainability indicators by local governments, and their determinants: a Swiss case study" will be held in ELA 2 (campus EPFL Ecublens). The thesis is completed under the supervision of Prof. Claudia Binder (HERUS) and Dr. Albert Merino. To attend the public defense, please contact here.

Fiona Del Puppo (PhD student at LASUR)

14 February 2025, 16:00 (CET)

The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "Passing through home: A renewed domesticity theory based on young middling migrants coliving or house sharing in Geneva and London" will be held in BCH 2201 (campus EPFL Ecublens). The thesis is completed under the supervision of Prof. Luca Pattaroni (LASUR) and Dr. Garance Clément (LASUR). To attend the public defense, please contact here.

EDAR GENERAL SCHEDULE

Spring 2025

EDAR has set up a general schedule encompassing all doctoral courses and other events and activities organised by the doctoral program in 2025 Spring semester. The schedule is available through the following link. For detailed information on individual courses, please consult with the EDAR Course book by visiting the link.

To view the full database of external doctoral courses, please visit the link. In order to have the external courses counted towards the requirements of the EDAR program, please consult with Sandra Bottà in all cases.

AR-685 – NEIGHBORHOODS IN TRANSITION II

28-30 April, 2025

The doctoral seminar Neighborhoods in Transition II: Potentials of Urban Slopes in a Post-Carbon Context, organised by Emmanuel Rey and Sophie Lufkin (LAST) in partnership with Paula Cadima (AA London), is designed to explore the complex dynamics of sloping neighborhoods in urban environments. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the course blends elements of sustainable architecture, urban studies, urban geography, and climate resilience, encouraging students to critically engage with the multifaceted nature of urbanity on sloped terrain. The seminar will take place at EPFL (campus Ecublens) on April 28-30, 2025. PhD students are invited to register early for organisational purposes. For detailed information, please visit the link. For registration and course requirements, please refer to the EDAR Course Book: link.



CALLS

EPFL Doc.Mobility 2025

The EPFL Doctoral School is pleased to announce the call for applications for the Doc.Mobility program. This grant supports doctoral candidates enrolled at EPFL who seek to enhance their scientific and professional profile through a research stay abroad between 1 September 2025 and 31 August 2026. The program funds stays of 3 to 6 months and contributes to personal living expenses, travel costs, conference participation, tuition fees, and family-related expenses. The candidate’s salary must be supported either by their thesis director/current funding source or by the host institution. The deadline for application submission is on April 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

Calls for Papers and Participation

KU Leuven announces a call for papers for the colloquium entitled The Making of Technocelebrity: Intermediaries of the Modern Movement, which will be held in Leuven, Belgium, on September 25-26, 2025. This colloquium investigates the emergence of "technocelebrity" architects in the 20th century, emphasising the crucial role of intermediaries – such as publicists, intellectuals, and journalists – in shaping their public image and influence through media and cultural discourse. Abstracts of 500 words should be submitted to technocelebrity.conference@kuleuven.be by February 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

University of Innsbruck and the Research Area "Mountain Regions" announce the International Mountain Conference (IMC) 2025, which will be held in Innsbruck, Austria, on September 14-18, 2025. The IMC is the largest conference on mountain research, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange. The key goals of the 2025 conference are to synthesise and enhance our understanding of mountain systems, in particular their response and resilience to global change. Abstracts of 350 words should be submitted via the link by February 20, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

ARQ journal announces a call for papers for its new issue entitled Popular América. The issue encourages submissions that engage critically with the realities and potentialities of dense urban environments in América and explore the diverse urban, spatial, and ecological processes: from the histories of formal and informal settlements to the architecture and infrastructures. Full articles up to 6000 words and columns of 1500 words are to be submitted to revista@edicionesarq.cl by March 7, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

gta Institute at ETH Zürich announce an international workshop entitled Diversifying the Architectural Canon with ‘Crossed Histories’, which will be held in Zürich on November 2-4, 2025. The workshop invites papers that explore the possibilities of writing a crossed history by using a rich ‘site of encounter’ within twentieth-century architecture and urban design as a concrete case study. Examples include the crossing of people, objects, practices, and perspectives in the activities of the Aga Khan Development Network, the reciprocal, but hierarchical, knowledge exchange within the Non-Aligned Movement, or various forms of South–South Cooperation. Full papers of 2500-3000 words and bios are to be submitted to cathelijne.nuijsink@gta.arch.ethz.ch by May 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.