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Planning urban proximities: An empirical analysis of how residential preferences conflict with the urban morphologies and residential practices
Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss
Urban proximity planning is foreseen as a solution to foster a “sustainable” city, including economic viability, environmental soundness and social inclusivity. This paper focuses on the inclusivity aspects by questioning the adoption of urban proximities: ...
2024Actors and Objects of Heritage Preservation. The Singular and Dual Condition of Historical Architectural Archives
Salvatore Aprea, Barbara Galimberti
In a society that recognizes the urgency of safeguarding the environment and drastically limiting land transformations and energy-intensive activities like constructing new buildings, the protection of architectural and environmental heritage is no longer ...
2024High-Quality Data Enabling Universality of Band Gap Descriptor and Discovery of Photovoltaic Perovskites
Alfredo Pasquarello, Haiyuan Wang, Wei Chen
Extensive machine-learning-assisted research has been dedicated to predicting band gaps for perovskites, driven by their immense potential in photovoltaics. Yet, the effectiveness is often hampered by the lack of high-quality band gap data sets, particular ...
Amer Chemical Soc2024Sustaining Knowledge and Governing its Infrastructure in the Digital Age: An Integrated View
Simon François Dumas Primbault, Pierre Henri Marcel Mounier
Preprint of a programmatic article on the governance and ecology of digital knowledge infrastructures stemming from a year of seminars and workshops led between September 2021 and June 2022 at the Laboratory for the history of science and technology (LHST) ...
2023From the Cloud to Agbogbloshie: The Case of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform and Akwasi Bediako Afrane’s TRONS
This contribution sheds light on discarded electronics repair in Accra, Ghana. After placing these practices in dialogue with the Western and Eurocentric narratives around the materiality of digital interactions and infrastructure, it delves into two arts ...
2023A User Centered News Recommendation System
Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Rania Islambouli
Spending an uncontrolled quantity and quality of time on digital information sites is affecting our well-being and can lead to serious problems in the long term. In this paper, we present a sequential recommendation framework that uses deep reinforcement l ...
ACM2021Demonstration of Roteco - the robotic teacher community: An informative, collaborative platform with a unique community ecosystem
Today the digital society in which we live requires the acquisition of new computer-related skills, such as computational thinking or coding skills, as well as cross-curricular skills, such as communication, collaboration and creativity. Preparing and insp ...
ACM2021Technologizing Democracy or Democratizing Technology? A Layered-Architecture Perspective on Potentials and Challenges
While technology is often claimed to be “democratizing”, the technologizing of society has more often yielded undemocratic or even anti-democratic outcomes. Is technology fundamentally at odds with democracy, or is it merely a rich and infinitely-adaptable ...
University of Chicago Press2021Learning music composition with recurrent neural networks
Throughout this thesis, we are interested in modeling music composition. To do so, we study the association of music theory concepts with the learning capabilities of recurrent neural networks. Especially, we explore numerical formalizations of music so th ...
EPFL2021Radical Intangibles: Materializing the Ephemeral
Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Lillian Hibberd, Jeffrey Shaw
New materialism considers that the world and its histories are produced by a range of material forces that extend from the physical and the biological to the psychological, social and cultural. In recognizing that heritage is not held in objects alone, new ...
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