EDAR Newsletter

nº 99

June 2025

EDAR WELCOMES

New PhD Students

EDAR is delighted to welcome the new PhD students:

• Natalia GOMEZ MATEU, who will start her research on the 1st of July 2025 at ALICE
• Kathlyn R KAO, who will start her research on the 1st of August 2025 at RIOT
• Agustina Josefa LABARCA GATICA, who will start her research on the 1st of August 2025 at HITAM
• Anne-Laure FRANCHETTE, who will start her research on the 1st of September 2025 at HAT
• Stefan SAUTER ECHEVERRIA, who will start his research on the 1st of September 2025, at HITAM,

and wishes success in their studies.

PUBLIC THESIS DEFENSES

Barbara Lambec (PhD student at SXL)

13 June 2025, 16:00 (CET)

The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "Reuse Potentials of Building Elements: Learning from Practices and Synthesis of Assessment Methods" will be held in SG Foyer (campus EPFL Ecublens). The thesis is completed under the supervision of Prof. Corentin Fivet (SXL). To attend the public defense, please contact here.

Mengke Zhang (PhD student at HAT)

23 June 2025, 16:00 (CET)

The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "Reconfiguring the Mountains: Mechanisms and Practices of Chongli's Extended Urbanization Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics" will be held in BC 420 (campus EPFL Ecublens). The thesis is completed under the supervision of Prof. Florence Graezer Bideau (HAT) and Prof. Thierry Theurillat (HES-SO). To attend the public defense, please contact here.

Andrea Settimi (PhD student at IBOIS)

4 July 2025, 16:30 (CET)

The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "Computer Vision-Assisted Timber Fabrication with Retrofitted Manual Tools" will be held in CO 2 (campus EPFL Ecublens). The thesis is completed under the supervision of Prof. Yves Weinand (IBOIS). To attend the public defense, please contact the speaker.

AR-687 LEARNING FROM THE SOUTH

Cultural Landscapes and Transnational Dialogues on Urbanization in Transition

Organised by Habitat Research Center (HRC), the International PhD Seminar Learning from the South explores how various global urban and cultural landscapes address socio-ecological transitions. The seminar will showcase doctoral research from India, Brazil, Senegal, China, Ecuador, Mali, Colombia, Uruguay, Bolivia, Lebanon, and Iran. It will also offer to EDAR and international PhD students various methodological and theoretical perspectives on the Urbanisation in Transition through keynote lectures by Satish Kumar (The Resurgence Trust, UK), Armelle Choplin (Université de Genève), and Sabina Favaro (Wits Mining Institute).

The seminar will take place on June 10-11, 2025 in Foyer SG and is open for attendance to the whole EDAR community. For detailed program, please visit the Memento link.

AR-808 MOVEMENT MATTERS

Exploring Transitions in Architecture Research

The 2025 ETHZ/EPFL Summer School Movement Matters explores movement in architecture through identity, materials, and environmental flows and examines migration, technology, and non-human elements in placemaking. Co-organised by the PhD students Akshar Gajjar (THEMA), Debasish Borah (gta, ETHZ), and Jacopo Zani (LUS, ETHZ), the Summer School invites participants to take part in four workshops and three guest lectures that explore topological modalities of movement, led by Philip Ursprung (ETHZ), Florian Dombois (ZHdk), Alice Hertzog (University of Zürich), and Alice Twemlow (University of Amsterdam / KABK).

The Summer School will take place on June 23-27, 2025 in Passo del San Gottardo, Airolo. For detailed program, please visit the Memento link and website: link.

CALLS



Call for applications

Digital Humanities Laboratory announces a call for applications for the Summer School Digital Methods and Datasets for Urban History, which will be held on June 23-25, 2025 at EPFL (campus Ecublens). This workshop offers researchers the opportunity to discover, explore, and understand, through computational approaches, new perspectives of Venice's long history through unpublished datasets. It will combine daily presentations and tutorials by the researchers that helped curate those datasets to introduce the latest technical tools for the manipulation of data in historical research. Applications with a 100-word summary of your research are to be submitted to paul.guhennec@epfl.ch by June 10, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

Calls for papers

Università Iuav di Venezia and Politecnico di Milano extend the call for papers for the 11th edition of Urbanism&Urbanisation International PhD seminar, which will be hosted in Venice, Italy, on October 29-31, 2025. The aim of the seminar is to combine the interpretation of urbanisation processes with the commitment and care for the urban condition in all its manifold manifestations and bring together urban theory and the theoretical grounding of urbanism with innovative practice. Abstracts up to 500 words are to be submitted to uu2025venice@iuav.it by June 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

UC Berkeley announces a call for papers for the symposium entitled Modern Vernacular: Asian American Architects and the Built Environment of Postwar Northern California – A View through the Environmental Design Archives, which will be held in the fall of 2025 at the University of California, Berkeley. The symposium invites submissions that dive into the spatial history of Asian American communities and engage with the intertwined relationship between Asian American identities and the built environment in all their constitutive affinities, historical multitudes, and cultural capaciousness. Abstracts of 250 words are to be submitted via the link by July 1, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

The Journal of Architectural Culture (JOELHO) announces the call for papers for its new issue entitled Co-Operative Housing. The issue welcomes articles that explore the roots of contemporary housing problem in the cultural developments occurred in the 20th century through case studies related with evolutionary housing, sharing of collective spaces, and participative processes of design. Abstracts of 500 words and brief CV are to be submitted through the link by July 28, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère (CRAUP) announces the call for papers for its new issue entitled Digital Images in Architecture. This thematic issue takes a critical look at digital images produced in the field of architecture and spatial representation, aiming to reflect on the digital images produced by a wide range of actors, from architectural agencies to artists, designers, urban planners, geographers and landscapers. This issue thus wishes to investigate how practices are evolving, how these images are used, produced and perceived, what shapes them technically, socially and professionally, along with their characteristics. Proposals for complete articles in French or English are to be submitted to craup.secretariat@gmail.com by October 20, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.