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Type and Elementary Structure: The Anthropological Turn
As Vidler suggests, the Third Typology’s radical proposition was to identify the nature of architectural elements as neither scientific nor technical but essentially architectural. For Martí Arís, this ‘essence’ of architecture is rooted in form-making, th ...
2023Swiss Coloniality – Unearthing its (in)visibilities: Tracing a fragmented visual and material history of Swiss coloniality between Switzerland and Brazil
Artists, urbanists, anthropologists, architects and other specialists from Russia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Kyrgyzstan and other countries are the participants of the “Colonial Endurance Across Eastern Geographies” laboratory. Together they are to exp ...
2023Challenges and approaches in bridging the biomimicry gap in biohybrid systems of fish and robots
As the field of ethology advances, especially over the past two decades, the role of animal-robot interaction tools has increasingly become essential. This importance arises from the need for controlled, repetitive, repeatable, and long-duration experiment ...
EPFL2023Towards Novel Evaluation Methods for Social Dialog Systems
Language has shaped human evolution and led to the desire to endow machines with language abilities. Recent advancements in natural language processing enable us to achieve this breakthrough in human-machine interaction. However, introducing conversational ...
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