Publications de Julien Lafontaine Carboni

Dissonant Geometries

Simon Nessim Henein, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Joëlle Valterio, Tiphaine Laure Elodie Abenia

Lars Müller Publishers2024

Chèrex créaturex. Retours d’expériences sur un enseignement féministe queer dans une école polytechnique

Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Morgane Hofstetter, Marion Fonjallaz

This letter, addressed to a creature taking the form of a human chimera gathering the thoughts and knowledge of people who inspire and accompany us, recounts the experiences, affects and issues related to our first semester of teaching the course named DRA ...

2023

Repertoire as Infrastructure for Architectural Historiographical Crafts in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

This article retraces a discussion with Gurba M. L., a Sahrawi activist who participated in building the refugee camp of Smara near Tindouf, Algeria, and Lahsen S. S. B, a Sahrawi researcher and collaborator in the Oral Memory Conservation project of the M ...

2023

Uneven distances. About the limits of transmission, acts of remaining and means of reappearance of the Sahara

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

EPFL Press2023

Unearthing Traces. Dismantling imperialist entanglements of archives, landscapes, and the built environment

Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Denise Bertschi

EPFL Press2023

(from) the repertoire : an architectural theory of operations. Oral and embodied knowledge in architectural and spatial practices

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

How can one construct spatial histories and architectural theories from gestures, words and voices, bodies and minor threads? This research delves into oral and embodied architectural and spatial knowledge as modes of producing buildings, spaces and spati ...

EPFL2022

Les inconnues éblouies. Pénombre sur les places de la République

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

2021

Inmoviles, pero no quietos. La sedentarizacion de los saharauis como estrategia de adaptacion y respuesta a la supervivencia. Sobre la posibilidad de un nomadismo inmovil / Immobile but not Motionless. The Sahrawi Sedentarization as a Strategy of Adaptation and Response to Survive; on The Possibility of an Immobile Nomadism

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

The nomadic/sedentary polarities are today questioned as Western constructions. Its deconstruction is necessary in contexts where nomadic populations become refugees for climatic, political and/or economic reasons. This is the case with Sahrawis’ exile in ...

2021

Undrawn Spatialities. The Architectural Archives in the Light of the History of the Sahrawi Refugee Camps

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

What happens if architectural knowledge is not mediated through drawing or does not produce any type of record? How can an architectural archive exist and make sense in a context where the circulation of knowledge and the emergence of spatialities leave no ...

2021

Imagining with and in Space: Structural support as a cognitive device in architectural education

Dieter Dietz, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Aurélie Dupuis, Darío Negueruela Del Castillo

In this paper, we will argue that the structure of the spatio-temporal pedagogical set-up and the elaboration of an evolutionary support for operations of cognition and imagination are powerful in transforming learning cultures. We develop this argument in ...

2020