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Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how a person's various social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage. Examples of these factors include gender, caste, sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, disability, weight, and physical appearance. These intersecting and overlapping social identities may be both empowering and oppressing. However, little good-quality quantitative research has been done to support or undermine the theory of intersectionality. Intersectionality broadens the scope of the first and second waves of feminism, which largely focused on the experiences of women who were white, middle-class and cisgender, to include the different experiences of women of color, poor women, immigrant women, and other groups. Intersectional feminism aims to separate itself from white feminism by ac

Renforcer la liaison entre la ville d'Yverdon et le lac

Christoph Schneider, Tearanel Te

A l'échelle du territoire, le projet propose la mise en place d'une route (en partie existante) qui longe la bande de nature végétale (les cariçaies) jusqu'à Grandson définissant un front entre la ville et le lac. A l'échelle urbaine, l'intervention se situe à l'intersection du “canal oriental” et la route évoquée ci-dessus par l'emplacement d'un débarcadère.

1997

Method, apparatus and program for processing a circular light field

Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz, Martin Vetterli, Zhou Xue

Method for processing a circular light field comprising the step of receiving or storing a circular light field matrix, wherein the circular light field matrix comprises pixel data for different circumferential angles and for different incidence angles, wherein each circumferential angle represents one intersection point of a light ray with a circle, and each incidence angle represents an angle of incidence of the light ray in the plane of the circle at the one intersection point; and the step of determining a sub set of pixel data of the circular light field matrix relating to a location by determining for each different circumferential angle an incidence angle related to said location.

2017

Docta Manus Drawing Structures, UE GC EPFL Lausanne

Raffael Baur, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, David Carlos Fernandez-Ordoñez Hernandez, Patricia Guaita

Drawing constitutes a very powerful and critical tool of conceptual design. Drawing constructs thought, it acts as a communication interface between the work and the mind and between different disciplines; it is the most powerful language of communication in the working together between architects and engineers. The UE ’Docta Manus - Drawing Structures’ introduces the basic drawing techniques: sketch, plan, section, elevation, axonometry, perspective. Based on these techniques, we further investigate analytical drawing methods capable of exploring structural concepts and their architectural solutions. Through hand drawing we analyze selected projects that embody an exemplary interplay of architecture and civil engineering, as e.g. the work of Mies van der Rohe, Luis Kahn / August Komendant, Jean Prouvé and Luigi Nervi. Our main focus lies on the load bearing structure and its tectonic and spatial articulation as common intersection between architecture and engineering. Through analysis, students enter into dialogue with construction in a direct way. They get a sense for the adequacy of tools and refinements of solutions. We investigate proportion, material innovation and tectonic articulation in relation to the structural idea and become aware of the importance of detail. Analysis takes apart and makes transparent the parameters and dependencies of the design process and opens the work into a condition of possibility. We draw by hand, as this is the most direct and immediate way of becoming aware of technique in relation to intention as it forces to take decisions. Drawing by hand is a cognitive process where the dynamic relation between doing and thinking is essential. That is why ‘the more you draw, the more you see’ and vice versa. The learning hand builds up tacit knowledge. The construction of points and lines on a sheet of paper sensitizes students to the notions of scale, size, proportion, transparency and composition; it makes them aware of the importance of detail as a key moment of construction, as a mediator relating a structure to the perceiving subject. This first publication shows a selection of 24 working drawings from an atelier of 30 students in civil engineering and architecture that took place during the autumn semester 2020 at EPFL. The students each analyzed one out of five selected projects of Mies van der Rohe, exploring adequate scales, drawing types and techniques to understand the project’s structure and construction principles. The drawings thus include dimensioning and fabrication notes up to catalogue of elements, mounting principles and sequence. The careful construction of layers of information by hand builds up into tactile working drawings that embody the spatial and tectonic ideas as well as the construction process of a structure. These ‘meta-drawings’ allow the observing eye to survey from one detail to another in a synchronous manner while integrating all information into a mental construction.

2021

Docta Manus Drawing Structures, UE GC EPFL Lausanne

Raffael Baur, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, David Carlos Fernandez-Ordoñez Hernandez, Patricia Guaita

2021