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The infamous Scramble for Africa at the turn of the twentieth century disrupted the entire African continent with enduring repercussions. Morocco—standing at a geographical crossroads between Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghrebi Arab-Muslim world, and Mediterr ...

PARK Books2019

Reuse s to xl, A network of hubs for research and resale of second hand architectural components and materials, as an active strategy for sustainability and circular economy

Célia Marine Küpfer

Distinct from recycling, reuse maintains the shape, energy, know-how, technology and cultural part embedded in a component to use it beyond an initial use into a new project without strongly altering it. The "hub" for research and resale of reusable constr ...

2019

Modeling Dyadic and Group Impressions with Inter-Modal and Inter-Person Features

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran, Laurent Son Nguyen

This article proposes a novel feature-extraction framework for inferring impression personality traits, emergent leadership skills, communicative competence, and hiring decisions. The proposed framework extracts multimodal features, describing each partici ...

2018

Linguistic relativism in the age of global lingua franca: reconciling cultural and linguistic diversity with globalization

André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins

Globalization's intertwining of culturally and linguistically diverse peoples is empowered and reflected by an unprecedented worldwide lingua franca. This current state of affairs seems unproblematic if, following a simple utilitarian view, language merely ...

2018

Globalizing the digital: A cross-cultural framework for the ethics of operationalizing Big Data

Shin Alexandre Koseki

Concerns over the ever-increasing production, availability and use of multilayered individual data in social research, business and the everyday life calls for the development of ethical and legal guidelines. In parallel to civic and governmental initiativ ...

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

Urbaniser la campagne

Marlène Audrey Bertille Leroux

The primary goal of this research is to undertake an analytical study addressing the urbanisation of rural areas as a major territorial, environmental and cultural challenge. The new relations that have developed between urban and rural areas clearly signa ...

EPFL2017

Venice Lessons

Suspended in the struggle between sea and soil, Venice is an ambiguous land where human traces cannot survive without cyclical preservation efforts and continual compromise. Its story has often been told through vedute and capricci, paintings that conceptu ...

PARK BOOKS2016

Rethinking the house form in poor areas

Joana Rosa Ferreira Leite dos Santos Aleixo

Studying housing requires a multidisciplinary approach in order to come up with comprehensive solutions for physical, social and cultural needs. This thesis intends to bring those needs into the process of creating the house, by proposing a methodology to ...

EPFL2016

On the Symbiosis of People and Building

Sytse de Maat

Controversies continue to exist between architects and the public about what is a good building. High-style modern architecture is often disliked by the public. Moreover, in everyday life people blame the architect for everything they find impractical in a ...

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