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Swiss neutrality

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Echoing Swiss Coloniality. Land, Archive and Visuality between Brazil and Switzerland.

Informed by longstanding artistic practice, this doctoral thesis approaches entanglements of Swiss coloniality in Brazil and Switzerland under the lens of land, archive, and visuality. The enduring legacies of imperial capitalism in the former Colonia Leop ...

EPFL2024

“Please Ensure the Gate is Properly Closed”: Questioning the Swiss Presence in Apartheid South Africa Through the Swiss Social Club in Cape Town

Denise Bertschi

It’s a special type of Swiss enclave that Denise Bertschi came across in South Africa in 2018: the Swiss Social & Sports Club welcomes Cape Town’s Swiss ex-pat community and temporary visitors to sit back and relax, be they businesspeople, bankers, or fina ...

2023

STATE FICTION „SUPERVISE, OBSERVE, INSPECT and INVESTIGATE“: The Scopic Practices of the Swiss Neutral Military Mission in Korea from 1953 to 1980

Denise Bertschi

The public program in the context of Bianca Baldi’s solo exhibition deals with perspectives on the colonial image archive and asks for the potential of a critical redesign. On November 5 and 6, the invited artists and scholars will introduce alternative na ...

2022

OASIS OF PEACE. Neutral Only on the Outside

Denise Bertschi

As part of her exhibition Oasis of Peace. Neutral Only On The Outside at Centre culturel suisse, the artist Denise Bertschi talks with Heonik Kwon (Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Trinity College, University of Cambridge). For her exhibiti ...

2021

STATE FICTION. The Gaze of the Swiss Neutral Mission in the Korean Demilitarized Zone

Denise Bertschi

In her book "State Fiction" Denise Bertschi looks at how Switzerland's neutral mission in the Korean demilitarized zone contributed to the construction of the Swiss “neutral” national identity. Offering new perspectives in terms of geopolitical, military, ...

Edition Centre de la Photographie Genève2021

Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a "Horizontal Metropolis"

Paola Viganò, Elena Cogato Lanza, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Chiara Cavalieri, Christian Arnsperger

In light of the rapid population growth forecast for the coming years and the powerful transformations already occurring throughout its whole territory, today's Switzerland stands in urgent need of critical reflection on its urban future. A novel set of co ...

Cogitatio Press2017

SWISS LESSONS

How will 14 million people be living and working in Switzerland in 2048? Swiss Lessons gives an insight into laba’s working process as applied to the projected Swiss territory in the year 2048. Starting with the thesis that Switzerland will continue to exp ...

Park Books2014

Network Neutrality Inference

Ovidiu Sebastian Mara, Zhiyong Zhang

When can we reason about the neutrality of a network based on external observations? We prove conditions under which it is possible to (a) detect neutrality violations and (b) localize them to specific links, based on external observations. Our insight is ...

2014

Network Neutrality Inference

Ovidiu Sebastian Mara, Zhiyong Zhang

2014

A Contextual Analysis of Land-Use and Vegetation Changes in Two Wooded Pastures in the Swiss Jura Mountains

Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Thomas Spiegelberger, Joël Chételat, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer, Michaël Kalbermatten, Kathryn Lannas

This study examines the effects of land-use policies and natural events on the evolution of two wooded pastures in the Jura Mountains in Switzerland between 1934 and 2000. The socioeconomic context and the local conditions were seen as major driving forces ...

Resilience Alliance2013

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