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EDAR WELCOMES
New PhD Student
| | EDAR is delighted to welcome the new PhD student Alejandro Varela Lopez, who will start his research on the 1st of May 2025 at ALICE, and wishes success in his studies. | | |
Stéphanie Savio (PhD student at ACHT)
7 May 2025, 18:30 (CET)
The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "Hannes Meyer and the Settlement Cooperative of Freidorf, 1919-1926: The Theater of Social Progress" will be held in CO 1 (campus EPFL Ecublens). The thesis is completed under the supervision of Prof. Christophe van Gerrewey (University of Ghent) and Prof. Ita Heinze-Greenberg (ETHZ). To attend the public defense, please contact here.
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“We are honoured to have earned your trust as representatives. We look forward to meeting you and continuing to build our community together at the EDAR. Stay tuned for our next meet and greet.” – CINQ.
EDAR is very pleased to announce that the CINQ team consisting of Reda Berrada, Elif Erez Henderson, Jules Grandvillemin, Chloé Joly-Pottuz and Tiffanie Paré has been elected to serve as PhD students' representatives. The collective can be reached through the following email: cinq@epfl.ch.
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AR-687 LEARNING FROM THE SOUTH
Cultural Landscapes and Transnational Dialogues on Urbanization in Transition
| | The International PhD Seminar Learning from the South: Cultural Landscapes and Transnational Dialogues on Urbanization in Transition, organised by Habitat Research Center (HRC, ENAC), in partnership with the Urban and regional planning community (CEAT, ENAC) and the Heritage, Anthropology and Technologies (HAT, CDH), explores how various global urban and cultural landscapes address socio-ecological transitions. By acknowledging the relational nature of cultural landscapes, designers are reminded that every technical choice is also an ethical and political act — one that shapes not only spatial configurations but also the ways in which we relate to one another and to the Earth. The seminar will take place on June 10-11, 2025 in Foyer SG. Interested EDAR PhD students should submit a 300-word abstract by May 2, 2025, to anna.dealmeidasantos@epfl.ch. For detailed information, please refer to the EDAR Course Book: link. | | |
AR-808 MOVEMENT MATTERS
Exploring Transitions in Architecture Research
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The ETHZ-EPFL Summer school Movement Matters: Exploring Transitions in Architecture Research, co-organised by the EDAR PhD student Akshar Gajjar (THEMA) and the PhD students at ETHZ Debasish Borah and Jacopo Zani, explores movement in architecture through identity, materials, and environmental flows. It examines migration, technology, and non-human elements in placemaking. The Summer school will take place on June 23-27, 2025, at Passo del San Gottardo, Airolo. EDAR PhD students can apply for participation at the link by April 13, 2025. For detailed information, please refer to the Summer school's website: link and EDAR Course Book: link.
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CALLS
Calls for Papers and Participation
| | EPFL Heritage, Anthropology and Technologies Research Group and the University of Geneva Heritage Lab announce a call for participation for the international workshop entitled Heritage Infrastructures: Materialities, Flows and Exchanges, which will be held at Instituto Svizzero in Rome, Italy, on September 18-19, 2025. Infrastructures in material or immaterial sense increasingly shape the expression and nature of heritage, from new forms of digitalization, sustainability techniques and bureaucratization to changing politics, and investment practices. This workshop offers a space for rethinking the relationships between heritage and infrastructure(s) from international to local scales. Abstracts should be submitted to florence.graezerbideau@epfl.ch and peter.larsen@unige.ch by April 18, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | Université de Liège announces the call for participation in the doctoral seminar entitled Exploring the Periphery: Towards a Project for Suburbia, which will be held at the Faculty of Architecture of Liège, Belgium, on June 11, 2025. As an “observatory of the periphery”, the seminar seeks for contributions capable of interacting with projects, methods and descriptions of peripheral spaces, their current or future transformative trajectories, ongoing changes and shift in the production of space. Abstracts up to 1,000 words are to be submitted to guillaume.vanneste@uliege.be by April 22, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | The African Cities Journal announces a call for papers for a special issue focusing on environmental determinants of health and well-being in African cities. The issue seeks contributions that delve into various aspects of the intersection between urban planning and public health, bridging the gap between research and practical solutions. Manuscripts in English or French should be submitted via the link by April 30, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | Materia Arquitectura journal announces a call for papers for its new issue entitled Press Play. The issue seeks to explore the role of design in digital environments within an era of both scarcity and excess, placelessness and embeddedness, human and non-human agency—through the lens of interactive media. It invites researchers, designers, and scholars to contribute articles that critically examine the effects, limitations, and promises of these media as we navigate the intersection of digital immersion, environmental responsibility, and architectural innovation. Articles of 1,500 words or visual explorations should be submitted to materia.arquitectura@uss.cl by May 5, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO) and Université de Lausanne announce a conference entitled Life, Career, and Death of the Modern Architect (19th-20th Centuries): Individual and Collective Biographies of a Profession in Construction, which will be held in Lausanne on September 4-5, 2025. The conference aims to bring together architectural historians to explore biographical methods in various ways, addressing the topics of women in architecture, architectural publishing and criticism, and actors in urban planning. Abstracts up to 2,000 characters in French, English, German, or Italian and a short CV are to be submitted by June 1, 2025 to alexandra.ecclesia@unil.ch. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | Florida International University and University of Miami announce an international conference entitled Computing for Resilience: Expanding Community Knowledge and Impact, which will be held on November 6-8, 2025, in Miami, Florida. The conference explores building resilience in an increasingly uncertain world, initiating a discussion on the topics of computational strategies for climate adaptation, integrating robotics and AI in architecture and construction, sociopolitical and economic resilience through digital design, and space innovations for a sustainable and resilient Earth. Full papers of 4,000 words are to be submitted by June 1, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link. | | | | |
