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Social cognition
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Pierre Dillenbourg
A former teacher in elementary school, Pierre Dillenbourg graduated in educational science (University of Mons, Belgium). He started his research on learning technologies in 1984. In 1986, he has been on of the first in the world to apply machine learning to develop a self-improving teaching system. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster (UK), in the domain of artificial intelligence applications for education. He has been assistant professor at the University of Geneva. He joined EPFL in 2002. He has been the director of Center for Research and Support on Learning and its Technologies, then academic director of Center for Digital Education, which implements the MOOC strategy of EPFL (over 2 million registrations). He is full professor in learning technologies in the School of Computer & Communication Sciences, where he is the head of the CHILI Lab: "Computer-Human Interaction for Learning & Instruction ». He is the director of the leading house DUAL-T, which develops technologies for dual vocational education systems (carpenters, florists,...). With EPFL colleagues, he launched in 2017 the Swiss EdTech Collider, an incubator with 80 start-ups in learning technologies. He (co-)-founded 4 start-ups, does consulting missions in the corporate world and joined the board of several companies or institutions. In 2018, he co-founded LEARN, the EPFL Center of Learning Sciences that brings together the local initiatives in educational innovation. He is a fellow of the International Society for Learning Sciences. He currently is the Associate Vice-President for Education at EPFL.
Darío Negueruela Del Castillo
Darío Negueruela currently heads the division of fundamental research at ALICE. In 2017 he completed his doctoral thesis "The City of Extended Emotions". Prior to this, Dario studied at Madrid School of Architecture, ETSAM (Diploma of Advanced Studies, 2011), TU Delft, The Netherlands (MSc Arch, 2006) and Westminster, London (BA Arch & Urban design 2002).
His research addresses the mutually constitutive dynamics between space and collective agency. More precisely, his enquiries look into the way in which urban space, through its degree of urbanity, enacts emotionally certain forms of collective agency (social movements) and how in turn these agencies modify and produce new space.
The ubiquitous upsurge of urban protests around the world seem to confirm the equally growing production of literature that deals with the city as a scene of conflict and a device for the production of segregation with the implication of biopolitical control. However, the city is also the scenery that gives birth to many new social movements that seek to respond to this situation by producing new spaces and forms of sociality that are fundamentally distanced from those of institutional city production.
Beyond their consideration as a new urban question or as the result of collective effervescence, Dario's research into these novel forms of social contention seeks to overcome deterministic approaches to the phenomenon of collective agency and spatial framing. It does so through a combination of analysis of spatial practices, perception of spatial affordances and spatial cognitive appraisal through emotional elicitation.
In line with the promising yet largely unexplored Extended Mind thesis, this research explores the phenomena of extended affectivity as a form of distributed cognition of the city.