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Engaging Caring Practices through Water Narratives in Le Vallon, Lausanne

This work is a continuation of the Enoncé Théorique, Matters of Care: About the Entanglements of Waters and More-Than-Human Worlds, which explores how caring about water can help us understand the intertwining of our environments and identify the places in ...

2023

2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTXTXTWEET (2X): Combining Media archeology and electronic literature to support societal change through design

Through the case study of the 2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTXTXTWEET (abbreviated 2X), this contribution will situate the potential of using Twitter’s publically available data streams as inputs for the creation of media archeological (Hertz and Parikka, 2012) textual ...

2023

Academic Citizens’ Assembly 2022: a way for better decision-making on complex and divisive issues? Interview with Sascha Nick, Researcher in societal transitions

Sascha Nick

The objective of any Citizens’ Assembly is better decision-making on complex and divisive issues. “Better” decision-making means that a fully inclusive group of well-informed people, free of the influence of lobbies and fake news, engaged and knowing their ...

ClimAct (EPFL and UNIL)2022

Conduit, Patio, Waste: Mapping Environmental Relations in Bairro da Malagueira

Bárbara Maçães E Costa

The ongoing ecological crisis is reframing the common binary opposition between architecture and nature and provoking us to ask what kinds of buildings we collectively want to create for the ecosystems that we inhabit. The environment is not a neutral back ...

EPFL2021

Géohistoire de l'Albanie moderne. Une lecture des recensements de 1918 à 2011.

Alain Nicolas Jarne

In this thesis, an original database is constituted, described and exploited in a geohistorical perspective, containing the registration of the population at the local level for the fifteen censuses conducted in Albania between 1918 and 2011. The precision ...

EPFL2020

Housing functions: towards a new understanding of flexibility in architecture

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani, Ivo Philippe Baur

The durability of buildings plays a key role for the sustainability of cities and the communities inhabiting them. However, the progressive loss in the last three centuries of the ability to alter buildings - in favor of a more controlled design and operat ...

2020

International Migration and City Growth in the Global South: An Analysis of IPUMS Data for Seven Countries, 1992–2013

Mathias Lerch

Evidence on the demographic components of city growth in the global South is scarce, and the role played by international migration is neglected. We analyze the importance of recent international migration in cities, compare it with that of internal moveme ...

2020

Designing for the co-Orchestration of Social Transitions between Individual, Small-Group and Whole-Class Learning in the Classroom

Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

Educational technologies are often developed such that students work on specific social levels (e.g., individual, small group, whole class) at specific times. However, in the reality of the classroom, learning activities are not so cleanly divided, with tr ...

2020

Les bâtards

Les banlieues de Stockholm ont été construites à partir de bâtiments solitaires qui n'ont pas été organisés selon une forme architecturale et urbaine unifiée. Ces quartiers manquent d'espaces collectifs où pourraient se confronter des personnes d'origines ...

2018

Medialab stories: how to align actor network theory and digital methods

Dominique Georges Léon Boullier

The history of laboratories may become controversial in social sciences. In this paper, the story of Sciences Po Médialab told by Venturini et al. is discussed and completed by demonstrating the incoherence in the choice of digital methods at the Médialab ...

2018

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