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Les "vestiges" de l'opération Million dans l'oeuvre de Georges Candilis - Actualités et stratégies de sauvegarde pour un patrimoine de l'habitat économique du second après-guerre

The preservation of post-war architecture represents a complex challenge to overcome for different reasons: hesitating recognition, bad perception and a certain material fragility. Especially the economic post-war housing has difficulties to be recognized ...

EPFL2019

New Drawings of the Alhambra: Deformations of Muqarnas in the Pendentives of the Sala de la Barca

Architectural heritage preservation and sustainability need advanced graphic techniques in order to document and understand the disposition/composition of plaster muqarnas, a fragile construction element. The muqarnas are key elements in the Nasrid archite ...

2019

Can Venice be saved?

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo

Will Venice be inhabitable in 2100? What kinds of policies can we develop to navigate the best scenarios for this floating city? In 2012, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University Ca’Foscari launched a programme called the Veni ...

2019

Patent Citations Reexamined

Kenneth Younge, Jeffrey Kuhn

Many studies rely on patent citations to measure intellectual heritage and impact. In this article, we show that the nature of patent citations has changed dramatically in recent years. Today, a small minority of patent applications are generating a large ...

2019

Historic Urban Landscape in Beijing: The Gulou Project and Its Contested Memories

Florence Graezer Bideau

The chapter scrutinizes public reactions to two successive projects (2010 and 2012) that seek to transform the urban fabric of Gulou neighbourhood in Beijing. By discussing collective memory (through lived and embodied experience of heritage and community’ ...

Amsterdam University Press2018

The commodification of alternative cultural spaces

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

The commodification of "alternative" cultural spaces is a process that started to take place in several European cities, like Lisbon, for instance. This has happened due to the pressure of the real estate market, tourism trends or the austerity measures im ...

2018

How to Tell Ancient Signs Apart? Recognizing and Visualizing Maya Glyphs with CNNs

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, Gülcan Can

Thanks to the digital preservation of cultural heritage materials, multimedia tools (e.g., based on automatic visual processing) considerably ease the work of scholars in the humanities and help them to perform quantitative analysis of their data. In this ...

2018

Inventories without archives: the list of “Living Traditions in Switzerland”

Florence Graezer Bideau

Since ratifying the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2008, Swiss cultural authorities have taken its innovative cultural philosophy to heart. Despite the central role of tradition and folklore in the history of this ...

2018

Smart specialization strategies as a case of mission-oriented policy – a case study on the emergence of new policy practices

Dominique Foray

This article involves a conceptual evaluation of a large-scale innovation policy experiment—so-called smart specialization strategies (S3s)—that took place within the framework of the European regional cohesion programs between 2011 and the present. The go ...

2018

Urban Scars: From invisible to visible – In Beijing and Mexico City

Yves Pedrazzini, Florence Graezer Bideau, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Memory is a process that works through the identification of social references within a spatial framework, without physical marks necessarily found in the tangible present. Nonetheless, these references subsist in representations from the past and continue ...

Icono 142017

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