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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 ...

2023

OASIS OF PEACE. Neutral Only on the Outside

Denise Bertschi

As part of her exhibition Oasis of Peace. Neutral Only On The Outside at Centre culturel suisse, the artist Denise Bertschi talks with Heonik Kwon (Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Trinity College, University of Cambridge). For her exhibiti ...

2021

Innovators in Urban China: Makerspaces and Marginality with Impact

Monique Stéphanie Bolli

In China, the emergence of makerspaces, hackerspaces, Fab Labs, and innovation labs reflects top-down and bottom-up dynamics. The grassroots movements and governmental efforts promoting innovation and creativity are part of the maker trend linked to the ri ...

2020

The Social Life of Heritage-Making: Cultural Representations and Frictions

Florence Graezer Bideau

The chapter explores the social and historic construction of heritage and the role played in this by institutions, from an anthropological perspective. Since state members ratified the UNESCO Conventions, national inventories have been collated so that can ...

Amsterdam University Press2020

Surface roughness evolution in adhesive wear processes

Enrico Milanese

Geological faults movements generating earthquakes, a vehicles' tyres rolling on the pavement, and a chalk writing on a blackboard are all different examples of frictional systems. In these systems, which are everywhere around us, two separate bodies are i ...

EPFL2020

Indicators for urban sustainability: Key lessons from a systematic analysis of 67 measurement initiatives

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Albert Merino, Valeria Superti, Pekka Jaakko Halla

Today, the centrality of cities in the global sustainability challenge is widely acknowledged, and numerous initiatives have been developed worldwide for monitoring and comparing the sustainability performance of urban areas. However, the escalating abunda ...

2020

Entrepreneurship across Sociocultural Contexts: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

Shirah Eden Foy

Entrepreneurship is a highly contextualized process. Yet, the vast majority of entrepreneurship research has focused on Western contexts, yielding a skewed picture of global entrepreneurial behavior. Moreover, theories of mainstream psychology explaining t ...

EPFL2020

Plea for an Ecology of Savant Practices: A Brief Theoretical Venture

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Recent developments in media studies have led philosophers to emphasise the role played by mediation in a broad sense, conceiving of a medium as what lies in between two alterities and that at once enables and constrains, materialises and shapes our percep ...

2019

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

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

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