Habitat Research Center

At the EPFL ENAC Research Day, our Doctoral Candidate Flore Guichot received the Poster Awards! #TOD #urbanism #mobility #EPFL

Présentée à l'espace Archizoom jusqu'au 28 octobre, l'exposition «Entre l’eau et nous» interroge notre relation à l'eau. Elle est le fruit d'une collaboration avec l'Habitat Research Center de l'EPFL, dirigé par Paola Viganò, professeure ordinaire d'architecture à l'EPFL. Des réalisations de Lausanne Jardins y sont aussi présentées. A lire sur espazium. #archizoom #EPFL #architecture #eau #exposition

7th Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar Space, life, and politics
Counter-projects and the Socio-Ecological Transition October 28th-29th, 2024
Geneva / Lausanne Call for contribution deadline: April 2nd, 2024 HRC is pleased to launch the call for contributions to select participants for the 7th edition of the international Bernardo Secchi Working seminar. An international, interdisciplinary forum initiated by HRC and the Fondation Braillard Architectes in 2015, the Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar addresses key urban and regional issues for ecological transition amid the climate crisis. The seminar aims to share, challenge, and delve into the hypothesis that a Transition project demands a distinct epistemological and operational framework. As the social and ecological Transition shapes a novel “biopolitical regime,” now is the opportune moment to contemplate alternative initiatives — counter-projects. The seminar spans two working days in Lausanne/Geneva. In commemoration of Bernardo Secchi’s 10th memorial anniversary, a subsequent seminar organized by Università Iuav di Venezia will pay tribute to his legacy. Cover image: Bertrand Plewinski, 50,88132N,4,35596E, 2023 #HRC #EPFLArchitecture #EPFL #IUAV #territorialproject #biopoliticalproject #BernardoSecchi

[CALL FOR APPLICATIONS] MAS ETH EPFL in Urban and Territorial Design 2024 - 2025 Call for applications February 1-April 30, 2024 https://lnkd.in/gFuACvyD   The Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design (MAS UTD) is accepting new applications from February 1-April 30 for the 2024-2025 academic year. The joint MAS programme bridges the ETH Zurich and EPFL and is part of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at the ETH Zurich D-ARCH and the Habitat Research Center (HRC) at the EPFL ENAC. Participants of his one-year, full-time postgraduate programme receive a 60 ECTS joint degree, the “MAS ETH EPFL UTD.”   The Territorial Project for Social and Ecological Change The future of the urban engages social and environmental imaginaries, which now extend beyond-the-city and beyond-the-human. Rather than an object, the territory becomes a subject in dialogue with other subjects, and space becomes an agent of socioecological change. The urban and territorial project is understood as a possibility to explore common epistemic horizons and new biopolitical paradigms. The MAS programme embraces such a transition as a field of critical and imaginative investigation based on the principles of social and environmental equity and justice. Engaging with notions of transformation, reuse, regeneration, reparation, and transition of habitats and ecologies, the MAS deploys the urban and territorial project as the crucial field of knowledge production across scales.   For further information concerning the programme, tuition fees, scholarships, and how to apply, please contact us:   Tommaso Pietropolli - EPFL MAS UTD - EPFL Programme Coordinator [email protected] [email protected]   Nancy Couling - ETH MAS UTD - ETHZ Programme Coordinator [email protected]   #MASEPFLETH #HRC #EPFLArchitecture #EPFL #territorialproject #applynow #mastersurbandesign EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), ETH Zürich *** Graphic concept: Goda Budvytytè