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French colonial empire

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Forestscapes and the plantation. The ‚longue-durée‘ of Swiss coloniality shaping Brazilian and Swiss land

How can artistic practices trace, unearth and reveal long lasting intrusion into landscapes and ecosystems through colonial infrastructure? This talk compares the romantizised visual language in travelogues of european „scientific“ explorers in the forests ...

2023

Big company, Small town. Spatial and Social Capital in a Persistent Company Town.

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

Something that is not much discussed when talking about Dalmine is the impact of its production as a supply chain sustaining extractive operations that also serve as a dominance and land exploitation mechanism. For instance, Dalmine supplied various oil an ...

2023

Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Huế's Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making

Phi Nguyen Yen

This dissertation interrogates postcolonial cities’ syncretic territories, using Huế’s mnemonic sites – historically and culturally significant locales that aid in remembrance – to explore displaced communities’ cohabitation tactics and decolonization effo ...

EPFL2023

L’impact environnemental du chemin de fer au XIXe siècle au prisme de la pollution atmosphérique

Arthur Grégoire Jacques Emile

Le chemin de fer est devenu emblématique de l’industrialisation des puissances occidentales et de leurs empires coloniaux au long XIXe siècle, symbole d’une nouvelle modernité et objet d’un récit technique progressiste perceptible dans les multiples représ ...

2022

Devout Landscape Migrant Placemaking through the Afterlife in Huế, Vietnam

Phi Nguyen Yen

The settlement history of Huế is one of constant demographic shifts, political turmoil, and natural vulnerability. A borderland and battleground during Vietnam’s invasion of Champa Kingdom, the North-South Civil War between two Vietnamese clans Trịnh - Ngu ...

2021

Du brutal au pittoresque. Un projet de logement social à Londres

La démolition imminente du légendaire bloc de logement brutaliste Robin Hood Gardens, dans le quartier de Poplar, au pied du centre financier londonien, illustre bien le changement radical d’idéologie sur le logement social en Angleterre qui s’est opéré au ...

2018

Le forum de la Riponne. Une résolution par la lecture des flux piétons (Lausanne, VD)

Svend Reymond

Au début du XIXe siècle, Lausanne choisit de construire son interface commerciale entre ville et campagne par le comblement de la Louve en dehors de ses remparts. Alors qu'au tournant du siècle, la ville a de nouvelles ambitions culturelles et touristiques ...

2010

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