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Matthew Skjonsberg

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Park Systems from Lausanne to Los Angeles

Matthew Skjonsberg

Un nouveau regard sur le civic design Avant l’émergence du projet industriel d’aménagement urbain (urban design), essentiellement axé sur la technologie et l’économie, il existait un projet social d’aménagement civique (civic design) qui s’attachait à prom ...

2019

Symposium ‘Ghost Writers: Collectors, Creators, Archives, and Memory’

Matthew Skjonsberg

Design practice depends heavily on display of drawings or photographs – representations of buildings and landscapes – from architecture schools to competitions and from client meetings to the final publicity of a completed project. Archives and other recor ...

2019

Cadres de référence et expertise requise pour une réfection des espaces publics dans le secteur de la Borde-Bellevaux à Lausanne

Paola Viganò, Claire Guenat, Matthew Skjonsberg, Derek Pierre Christie, Roberto Sega, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Shin Alexandre Koseki

Un projet de redéveloppement des espaces publics le long de l’axe de la Borde-Bellevaux pose un défi pour l’aménageur. Pour répondre à cette tâche, l’étude présentée dans ce rapport s’appuie sur l’expertise de chercheurs associés au HRC, sur l’expertise de ...

EPFL2019

A New Look at Civic Design: Park Systems in America

Matthew Skjonsberg

A New Look at Civic Design reflects on the nature of the various crises facing the very idea of democracy today, explicitly in relation to climate change - namely mass extinctions, water scarcity and overabundance, and in general widespread and increasing ...

EPFL2018

A Civic Hope: from Lausanne to Los Angeles

Matthew Skjonsberg, Christian Arnsperger

Cet ouvrage se propose de redéfinir le rôle joué par le projet – projet de villes et de territoires – dans la construction sociale de l’espoir. Les disciplines de la transformation de l’espace ont toujours contribué à l’élaboration de visions du monde et d ...

Metis Presses2018

Between the Lines: On the Explicit and Implicit in Writing and Building

Matthew Skjonsberg

Narratives employed when writing about a place and building a place have a central theme in common: both weave between the human, personal and emotional experience of place and the physical, spatial and atmospheric place – a dialogue between the inner and ...

2018

Do It Yourself: From Individual Sovereignty to Civic Design

Matthew Skjonsberg

With the Usonian Automatic construction system, Frank Lloyd Wright provided citizens of Usonia—Wright’s preferred term for a culturally advanced North America—with the means of “doing it themselves,” of building their own homes and communities. Though desi ...

Museum of Modern Art - New York2017

Genius of Utopia

Matthew Skjonsberg

Seen through the ‘frankly eutopian’ lens of Patrick Geddes’ regional survey methods – encompassing both his pragmatic involvement with existing cities and his regional ambitions – this essay considers several practical interpretations of the term ‘genius’ ...

Franco Angeli2016

Pointing at the Moon: the civic dimension of exhibitions

Matthew Skjonsberg

An overview of the essay 'Do It Yourself: from individual sovereignty to civic design', and a report on Taliesin apprenticeship as pertains to future museum programming. ...

2016

Rethinking Urban Space in a World Without Cars

Matthew Skjonsberg, Farzaneh Bahrami

The Confluence Collective in partnership with the Municipal Library of Lyon organizes moments of discussion and debate where young researchers present, confront and criticize their work in social sciences, humanities and arts. The reduction in individual m ...

2015