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Les frontières au quotidien? Modes de vie dans l'agglomération trinationale de Bâle

Yann Francis Eric Dubois

The gradual opening of borders, which occurred over the past few decades have dramatically altered their role and function. Although these evolutions were not uniform, they have enabled the development of cross-border regions, which are characterized by a ...

EPFL2017

Skilled Indians in Europe: knowledge transfer and social impact

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

Within the migration and development nexus, the recognition of skilled migrants as active agents of transformation, which function as bridges for the circulation of knowledge, ideas and talents between countries, has gained importance in recent times. Whil ...

Palgrave Macmillan2017

The Next Switzerland: The Country's New Political Geography Goes Without the Röstigraben

Shin Alexandre Koseki

Cultural diversity and political stability are historical trademarks of Switzerland. This paradox makes of the country a success story of modern democracies. On many social and political questions, cultural frontiers between linguistic groups have been kno ...

2016

Assembler son quotidien sur la route

Lisa Maude Reitz

In a context of housing crisis and general increase in short-term/casual work, new forms of social precarity have developed since the end of the nineties in Western countries. Furthermore, a movement of voluntary shift to nomadic lifestyles is initiated. P ...

EPFL2016

Geneva's philanthropists around 1900: a field made of distinctive but interconnected social groups

Thomas David

This article analyses the social profile of Geneva's philanthropists around 1900. It shows that, contrary to what the literature on philanthropy argues, philanthropists belonged to varied social groups defined by diverse forms of capital (economic, social ...

Cambridge Univ Press2016

New Urban Social Movements, Situated Practice and the Affordances of a Porous Urban Space.

Darío Negueruela Del Castillo

With this presentation I intend to put forward a new definition of urban porosity as a notion capable of describing the necessary rich quality coupling urban space and social and civic engagement. This is done through the analysis of the social space pract ...

2016

L'espace public à Bogotá

Yafiza Zorro Maldonado

There is a link between phenomena covered by the umbrella term «urban mobility» and the wealth of social and spatial dynamics active in de-structuring the city as a coherent spatial model, a process known as «urban fragmentation». It is therefore reasonabl ...

EPFL2015

Undergraduate group projects: Challenges and learning experiences

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac

Working in groups and managing projects are important professional skills for engineers, and there is a growing demand to teach and assess such skills. But what should be taught and when? Tuckman’s famous “stages of development of performing groups” provid ...

2015

Aesthetics and Spatial Practices. The Example of Switzerland

Mirza Tursic

The main assumption underlying this article is that aesthetic categories and spatial practices are intrinsically connected. I argue that aesthetic experience and aesthetic judgment assume an importance for their high potential to elicit emotions and activa ...

2015

Growing a Graph Matching from a Handful of Seeds

Matthias Grossglauser, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Ehsan Kazemi

In many graph–mining problems, two networks from different domains have to be matched. In the absence of reliable node attributes, graph matching has to rely on only the link structures of the two networks, which amounts to a generalization of the classic ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015