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Flux de carbone à l'échelle du quartier

Dans un contexte d’engagements politiques visant la neutralité carbone en 2050, la maîtrise des flux de carbone constitue un impératif opérationnel incontournable. Pour aborder ces enjeux à l’échelle du quartier, le Laboratoire d’architecture et technologi ...

Espazium2024

Spinning Out Greentech Start-ups

Adam Swetloff

The Paris Agreement has made combating climate change a priority and has incentivised innovation for the greentech industry. Higher education institution[s] (HEI[s]) play an important role in fueling this innovation by developing disruptive technologies an ...

Bern2023

Cultural healing through computational crisis: disruption as a catalyst for alternate technologies

Our presentation will take the form of an interactive dialogue centred around the ramifications of electronic devices: tackled both from our Canadian (Cyrus Khalatbari) and Ghanaian (Akwasi Afrane) arts and design perspectives. Developed moreover as a conv ...

2023

Laser-Induced Graphene on Chitosan: An Enabling Technology for Sustainable Resistive Humidity Sensors

Sandro Carrara, Johanna Zikulnig

The development and characterization of resistive humidity sensors based on Chitosan on a glass substrate is reported. The sensor electrodes are made of laser-induced graphene derived from Chitosan, which represents a sustainability advancement by eliminat ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Régénération des friches urbaines

Martine Laprise

Dans le cadre du projet interreg Italie-Suisse RiCoNET «Régénération territoriale et coopération pour la gouvernance transfrontalière», organisé par l’Institut Tourisme HES-SO en collaboration avec IUSEFOR Turin, Dr. Martine Laprise était invitée à présent ...

2022

Living Periphery

Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Frédéric Frank, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

Entre ville et campagne, les périphéries urbaines constituent un défi particulier dans le contexte de la transition. Éloignées de la dynamique de densification en cours dans les espaces centraux, elles représentent néanmoins une part non négligeable de l’e ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022

Transformations

A l'heure de l’urgence climatique, de la contraction des ressources disponibles et de la crise environnementale, la prise de conscience des multiples conséquences induites par l’étalement urbain des dernières décennies conduit à promouvoir des stratégies t ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022

Biological nanopores for single-molecule sensing

Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Simon Finn Mayer

Evolution has found countless ways to transport material across cells and cellular compartments separated by membranes. Protein assemblies are the cornerstone for the formation of channels and pores that enable this regulated passage of molecules in and ou ...

2022

Prototype pavilion in Fribourg: towards an upgrade of argamassa armada through Textile Reinforced Concrete

Patricia Guaita

This article describes a partnership between architects and engineers researching in Switzerland and Brazil around innovative experiences on Textile Reinforced Concrete, which aim at the upgrade of the “argamassa armada” technology developed by brazilian a ...

2022

Ensuring the environmental sustainability of emerging technologies

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This report assumes that something can be done to guide technology developers and others towards producing technology that does not cause indirect and delayed damage to the environment. It explores the extent to which environmental sustainability concerns ...

EPFL2022

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