Elena Cogato Lanza
Maître d'enseignement et de recherche
elena.cogatolanza@epfl.ch 41 21 693 62 14 http://lab-u.epfl.ch
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Domaines de compétences
History and Theory of urbanism,
Theory of contemporary landscape and urban design, Mapping, Nature and City, Interdisciplinary issues in Urbanism
Theory of contemporary landscape and urban design, Mapping, Nature and City, Interdisciplinary issues in Urbanism
Mission
Maître dEnseignement et de Recherche at the EPFL, ENAC (School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering), Architecture Section, Lab-U (Laboratory of Urbanism).
Member of EDAR Doctoral Program Board.
Associate publisher at Metispresses and director of architecture and urbanism collection vuesDensemble (since 2005).
President of the Board of Fondation Braillard Architectes, Geneva.
Member of EDAR Doctoral Program Board.
Associate publisher at Metispresses and director of architecture and urbanism collection vuesDensemble (since 2005).
President of the Board of Fondation Braillard Architectes, Geneva.
Biographie
EDUCATION
2000 PHD ès sciences at the Department of Architecture EPFL Lausanne. (Thesis: L'urbanisme en devenir: réseaux et matériaux de l'aménagement urbain à Genève dans les années trente).
1990 Laurea in Architettura at the Institute of Architecture, University of Venice (Italy).
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2018 Lecturer at Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, UNIL Lausanne.
Since 2007 Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche at the EPFL, ENAC Faculty, at the Laboratory of Urbanism.
2006 Lecturer at the Institute of Geography, University of Neuchâtel.
2000-2007 Research associate and Lecturer at the EPFL, Department of Architecture.
2001-2009 Associate foreign scientist at LOUEST (Laboratoire Organisations Urbaines: Espaces Sociétés Temporalités, UMR CNRS 2410, France).
2000 Maître de Conférence, Section 24 « Aménagement de l’espace, urbanisme » of the French Council of Universities.
1995-2006 Research associate at the Fondation Braillard Architectes, Geneva.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSABILITIES
Since 2018 Member of the Scientific Committee of the EPFL Research Center HABITAT.
Since 2017 Member of the Committee of the Doctoral School EDAR.
Since 2017 Member of the Scientific Committe of the CAS Thèmes et Echelles de l’Urbanisme, in the frame of the MAS-Continuing Education in Urbanism, EPFL - University of Geneva.
Related to these activities, are other roles in the academy: Member of the Library Commission at the EPFL (since 2013) Member of the Research Commission at the ENAC Faculty (2009-1015), Member and/or President of the PhD final exam and Phd admission exam juries for the Doctoral Schools of University of Venice, KU Leuven, Université de Grenoble, Université de Louvain-La-Neuve and EPFL.
APPROVED RESEARCH PROJECTS
I have a 20 years of experience in interdisciplinary research projects, involving principally the domains of architecture, landscape, environmental engineers, and sociology. My most important research experience relates to the SNF Sinergia "Post-car world. A trans-disciplinary multi-dimensional Simulation" as Partner Leader (Main Leader: Prof. Jacques Lévy), and as Main Leader of the Sub-Project C: "Urbanity. Configuring a Post-Car world" (2013-2017). Others projects to be mentioned: "Urban gardening and human wellbeing in the greater Lausanne area" (Partner leader; ENAC Exploratory Grant 2016-17) ; "Territory in the Crisis" (Partner leader; Compagnia di San Paolo 2013-15) ; "1 km Well-being. The Urban Landscape Observatory" (Partner leader; Swiss cooperation project in architecture, CEPF and CUS Funding 2009-2011); "Résistance et projet. Du destin des Grottes (1930-2030)" (Partner leader; partnership EPFL and Fondation Braillard Architectes).
Currently, I’m co-leading the Joint Project "City and Production in the frame of crisis" (Compagnia di San Paolo and Politecnico di Torino) and leading the research project "Designing an interdisciplinary research and education concept in Ecological Habitat" (ENAC Exploratory Grant).
SUPERVISION OF JUNIRO RESEARCHERS AT PHD AND POSTDOC LEVELS
Currently, I am super-vising 2 and co-supervising 2 Phd theses, after supervising 2 (end 2017) and co-supervising 2 (end 2017-2018). I supervised 1 Post Doc fellowship (2009).
TEACHNING ACTIVITIES
I am currently teaching in the following fields: History and Theory of urbanism, Theory of contemporary landscape and urban design, Cultural representation of nature, Interdisciplinary issues in Urban and Land Planning. My present classes at EPFL are: Theories of Urbanism I and II (bachelor); UE J Territory and Landscape (master seminar). After being responsible of interdisciplinary education in ENAC-EPFL (Cours ENAC, 2006-08; ENAC Week, 2004-17), I have been increasingly involved in Post graduate education. Namely, I am member of the Board of the CAS Thèmes et Echelles de l’Urbanisme, in the frame of MAS Continuing Education in Urbanism EPFL-UNIGE (Since 2018), after being co-responsible of PhD class Concepts and Theory 1 (EDAR-EPFL 2014-2017). Recently I chaired the Scientific committee of the Doctoral Seminar Comparing habitat in the frame of swissuniversities (2017) and co-coordinated the International Masterclass Territories in the crisis (EPFL-Polytchnique of Turin-University of Venise, 2016).
RECENT MEMBERSHIPS IN PANELS, BOARDS, ETC. AND INDIVIDUAL SCIENTIFIC REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2019 Member of the Research Commission of the Ecole Nationales Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble.
2018 President of the Steering Committee of the international Greater Geneva.
2016 Reviewer for the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (Italy), in the frame of the Evaluation of Research Quality for the years 2011-2014.
Since 2015 Scientific expert for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, Belgium), as reviewer for New research project proposal.
2012-2015 Member of the selection committe for the « Prix Victor and Hélène Barbour » in literary and aesthetical critique, Faculté des Lettres of the University of Geneva.
2011 Scientific expert for the Agence Nationale de Recherche (France), in the frame of the Program Sociétés Innovantes. Innovation, économie, modes de vie.
Since 2011 Member of the international scientific committee of the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme (Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, France).
2010-2012 Member of the Swiss Committee Europan; President of Scientific Selection committe of Europan 10, Swiss section, Inventer l’urbanité, Concours européen de projets innovants.
2008-2009 Member of the Scientific Committee for the international research-development program « Grand Pari de l’Agglomération Parisienne », French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
2004-2009 Scientific expert for the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (DAPA-BRAUP) in the frame of the interdisciplinary research programs « L’architecture de la grande échelle » and « Art Architecture Paysage ».
EDITORIAL BOARDS. Member of the International Editorial Boards of Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère (since 2017), the series Landscripts, Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETHZ-Jovis Publisher, Berlin (since 2012), of the journal Les Carnets du Paysage, Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, Versailles et Marseille (since 2010). Finally, I am Associate Publisher of the publishing house Metispresses in Geneva and Director of the series “vuesDensemble” and “vuesDensembleEssai” (2008on).
ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, FELLOWSHIPS IN RENOWED ACADEMIES
Since 2015 President of the Board of the Fondation Braillard Architectes, Geneva; member of the Board since 2010.
2010-2012 Member of the Board of Utopiana, interdisciplinary artistic plateform, Geneva.
2000-2002 Member of the European Association of Urban History.
ORGANISED CONFERENCES
I have regularly been a member of Scientific Committee of national and international scientific conferences and symposia, such as: International Symposium Brussels Ecosystem (october 2019), International PhD Seminar U&U Urbanism & Urbanisation (XIX-2018, and VIII-2015), Journées Biennales des Géosciences de l’Environnement de l’UNIL (2018), International Symposium Latsis 2015 (2015), and, before, ERAU European Symposium on Research in Architecture, Urban and Landscape Design (2005), and European Association of Urban History (2002 and 2000).
PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS
1991–1992 Swiss confederation Fellowship at the University of Geneva. Grant of the Swiss Confederation – Conseil de l'Europe.
2000 PHD ès sciences at the Department of Architecture EPFL Lausanne. (Thesis: L'urbanisme en devenir: réseaux et matériaux de l'aménagement urbain à Genève dans les années trente).
1990 Laurea in Architettura at the Institute of Architecture, University of Venice (Italy).
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2018 Lecturer at Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, UNIL Lausanne.
Since 2007 Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche at the EPFL, ENAC Faculty, at the Laboratory of Urbanism.
2006 Lecturer at the Institute of Geography, University of Neuchâtel.
2000-2007 Research associate and Lecturer at the EPFL, Department of Architecture.
2001-2009 Associate foreign scientist at LOUEST (Laboratoire Organisations Urbaines: Espaces Sociétés Temporalités, UMR CNRS 2410, France).
2000 Maître de Conférence, Section 24 « Aménagement de l’espace, urbanisme » of the French Council of Universities.
1995-2006 Research associate at the Fondation Braillard Architectes, Geneva.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSABILITIES
Since 2018 Member of the Scientific Committee of the EPFL Research Center HABITAT.
Since 2017 Member of the Committee of the Doctoral School EDAR.
Since 2017 Member of the Scientific Committe of the CAS Thèmes et Echelles de l’Urbanisme, in the frame of the MAS-Continuing Education in Urbanism, EPFL - University of Geneva.
Related to these activities, are other roles in the academy: Member of the Library Commission at the EPFL (since 2013) Member of the Research Commission at the ENAC Faculty (2009-1015), Member and/or President of the PhD final exam and Phd admission exam juries for the Doctoral Schools of University of Venice, KU Leuven, Université de Grenoble, Université de Louvain-La-Neuve and EPFL.
APPROVED RESEARCH PROJECTS
I have a 20 years of experience in interdisciplinary research projects, involving principally the domains of architecture, landscape, environmental engineers, and sociology. My most important research experience relates to the SNF Sinergia "Post-car world. A trans-disciplinary multi-dimensional Simulation" as Partner Leader (Main Leader: Prof. Jacques Lévy), and as Main Leader of the Sub-Project C: "Urbanity. Configuring a Post-Car world" (2013-2017). Others projects to be mentioned: "Urban gardening and human wellbeing in the greater Lausanne area" (Partner leader; ENAC Exploratory Grant 2016-17) ; "Territory in the Crisis" (Partner leader; Compagnia di San Paolo 2013-15) ; "1 km Well-being. The Urban Landscape Observatory" (Partner leader; Swiss cooperation project in architecture, CEPF and CUS Funding 2009-2011); "Résistance et projet. Du destin des Grottes (1930-2030)" (Partner leader; partnership EPFL and Fondation Braillard Architectes).
Currently, I’m co-leading the Joint Project "City and Production in the frame of crisis" (Compagnia di San Paolo and Politecnico di Torino) and leading the research project "Designing an interdisciplinary research and education concept in Ecological Habitat" (ENAC Exploratory Grant).
SUPERVISION OF JUNIRO RESEARCHERS AT PHD AND POSTDOC LEVELS
Currently, I am super-vising 2 and co-supervising 2 Phd theses, after supervising 2 (end 2017) and co-supervising 2 (end 2017-2018). I supervised 1 Post Doc fellowship (2009).
TEACHNING ACTIVITIES
I am currently teaching in the following fields: History and Theory of urbanism, Theory of contemporary landscape and urban design, Cultural representation of nature, Interdisciplinary issues in Urban and Land Planning. My present classes at EPFL are: Theories of Urbanism I and II (bachelor); UE J Territory and Landscape (master seminar). After being responsible of interdisciplinary education in ENAC-EPFL (Cours ENAC, 2006-08; ENAC Week, 2004-17), I have been increasingly involved in Post graduate education. Namely, I am member of the Board of the CAS Thèmes et Echelles de l’Urbanisme, in the frame of MAS Continuing Education in Urbanism EPFL-UNIGE (Since 2018), after being co-responsible of PhD class Concepts and Theory 1 (EDAR-EPFL 2014-2017). Recently I chaired the Scientific committee of the Doctoral Seminar Comparing habitat in the frame of swissuniversities (2017) and co-coordinated the International Masterclass Territories in the crisis (EPFL-Polytchnique of Turin-University of Venise, 2016).
RECENT MEMBERSHIPS IN PANELS, BOARDS, ETC. AND INDIVIDUAL SCIENTIFIC REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2019 Member of the Research Commission of the Ecole Nationales Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble.
2018 President of the Steering Committee of the international Greater Geneva.
2016 Reviewer for the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (Italy), in the frame of the Evaluation of Research Quality for the years 2011-2014.
Since 2015 Scientific expert for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, Belgium), as reviewer for New research project proposal.
2012-2015 Member of the selection committe for the « Prix Victor and Hélène Barbour » in literary and aesthetical critique, Faculté des Lettres of the University of Geneva.
2011 Scientific expert for the Agence Nationale de Recherche (France), in the frame of the Program Sociétés Innovantes. Innovation, économie, modes de vie.
Since 2011 Member of the international scientific committee of the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme (Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, France).
2010-2012 Member of the Swiss Committee Europan; President of Scientific Selection committe of Europan 10, Swiss section, Inventer l’urbanité, Concours européen de projets innovants.
2008-2009 Member of the Scientific Committee for the international research-development program « Grand Pari de l’Agglomération Parisienne », French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
2004-2009 Scientific expert for the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (DAPA-BRAUP) in the frame of the interdisciplinary research programs « L’architecture de la grande échelle » and « Art Architecture Paysage ».
EDITORIAL BOARDS. Member of the International Editorial Boards of Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère (since 2017), the series Landscripts, Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETHZ-Jovis Publisher, Berlin (since 2012), of the journal Les Carnets du Paysage, Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, Versailles et Marseille (since 2010). Finally, I am Associate Publisher of the publishing house Metispresses in Geneva and Director of the series “vuesDensemble” and “vuesDensembleEssai” (2008on).
ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, FELLOWSHIPS IN RENOWED ACADEMIES
Since 2015 President of the Board of the Fondation Braillard Architectes, Geneva; member of the Board since 2010.
2010-2012 Member of the Board of Utopiana, interdisciplinary artistic plateform, Geneva.
2000-2002 Member of the European Association of Urban History.
ORGANISED CONFERENCES
I have regularly been a member of Scientific Committee of national and international scientific conferences and symposia, such as: International Symposium Brussels Ecosystem (october 2019), International PhD Seminar U&U Urbanism & Urbanisation (XIX-2018, and VIII-2015), Journées Biennales des Géosciences de l’Environnement de l’UNIL (2018), International Symposium Latsis 2015 (2015), and, before, ERAU European Symposium on Research in Architecture, Urban and Landscape Design (2005), and European Association of Urban History (2002 and 2000).
PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS
1991–1992 Swiss confederation Fellowship at the University of Geneva. Grant of the Swiss Confederation – Conseil de l'Europe.
Publications
Publications Infoscience
Publications and Lectures
Les espaces de l'effort
Post-Car World, Futurs de la ville-territoire; Genève: Métis Presses, 2021-04-09. p. 224.Changer de vie par-delà la prise de conscience
Post-Car World, Futurs de la ville-territoire; Genève: Metis Presses, 2021-04-09. p. 224.Mobilités du futur: une transformation progressive des fondamentaux
Post-Car World - Futurs de la ville-territoire; Genève: MétisPresses, 2021-04-06.Impromptu conservation: Symbiosis between tangible and intangible. The case of Thua Thiên Hue, Viet Nam
From the Page to the Screen: Entanglements between Heritage and Media, Geneve, Suisse, December 1, 2020.Table 1, Break out session
Research in Architecture, Architecture Council of Switzerland (online conference), November 4, 2020.Entre Mots et Dessins : le thème vertical dans les archives Braillard
Verticalité. Journées européennes du patrimoine, Genève, Suisse, Septembre 12-13, 2020.Session A "Social Justice"
7th World Urbanisms seminar, Leuven, Belgique (online conference), June 24, 2020.“The Golden Age of Capitalism” in Northern Mediterranean: Workers’ Housing Programs, 1945-1973
gta Doctoral Reviews, Zürich, Switzerland (online conference), May 28, 2020.Pratiques et perspectives pour la ville productive
Pratiques et perspectives pour la ville productive, Lausanne, Suisse, Avril 29, 2020.La leçon de Wahlen
Pratiques et perspectives pour la ville productive, EPFL Lausanne, Switerzland, Avril 29, 2020.Prendre un lieu pour un autre. Premières notes sur les essais genevois d’André Corboz, 1963-2007
Matières. 2020.Brussels ecosystems in space. Solving the paradox between non-spatial eco-system and design distance criterion
Designing Brussels Ecosystem. Metrolab Brussels MasterClass II; Bruxelles: UCL Bruxelles, 2020. p. 210-217.Agriculture métropolitaine. La métropole comme ressource pour le dessin de la sécurité alimentaire
Dessiner la Transition. Dispositifs pour une métropole écologique; Genève: MetisPresses, 2020. p. 279.Territories in Time: Mapping Palimpsest Horizons
Urban Planning. 2020-01-01. DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i2.3385.Revitalisation d'une architecture viticole au Tessin
2020Reconstruction, non-construction. Réappropriation du bourg d’Amatrice après le séisme
2020Barre-Boulevard: Haussmannisation de la banlieue, (Villejuif - Cachan)
2020Une architecture pour la vieillesse à Zeebruges
2020Entre la rue et la roche. Réinterprétation d’une architecture locale: fragment de ville au pied de la muraille de Bellinzone
2020La fabrique de sol. Valoriser les déchets de chantier d'un parc pour refonder son sol. Grand parc du projet Praille Acacias Vernets (PAV), Genève
2020Une fromagerie coopérative à Chermignon (VS)
2020Marginalité territoriale dans le centre du Portugal: un projet pour Penalva de AlvaVers une nouvelle habitabilité par la restauration d’un paysage patrimonial
2020Variations sur une grille. Dépasser le paradigme de l'automobile à l'échelle d'un quartier (Los Angeles, USA)
2020Campus du bois au Col des Roches (CH - FR). Une plate-forme transfrontalière de formation et de loisirs
2020Un séchoir à fruits dans la Broye
2020Une brasserie artisanale à Red Hook, New York. Intervention pour une reconnexion sociale et urbaine
2020"The land, that's our library". Habitations saisonnières à Mutawintji, Australie
2020Les grands projets urbains entre global et local : une étude de cas comparative de Casablanca et de Genève à travers les logiques de marché et les résistances locales.
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7940.La mémoire collective et l'espace. Traces, récits et expériences autour d'un paysage urbain romain
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10263.Les formes architecturales du Commun
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8550.The politics of participation in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an analysis of knowledge, values and power at the science-society interface
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7407.Dessiner la nature à l’ère de la sécurité
Entre Terre et Eau. Renaturation de la Haute Seymaz; Gollion: Infolio, 2020. p. 332.From Self-Sufficiency to Food Security. Notes on the Swiss Experimental Heritage
From self-sufficiency to food security, Zurich, Suisse, Octobre 29, 2019.De l’autosuffisance à la sécurité alimentaire. Notes sur l’expérience suisse en vue d’une transition territoriale
1000 écologies, Genève, Suisse, Octobre 10, 2019.Journée d’étude "Écrire l’espace urbain" – Session 1 : Diagnostic et prospective
Ecrire l'espace urbain, Genève, Suisse, Septembre 20, 2019.Un tournant radical sur les bords du Léman
Paris, France, Septembre 18, 2019.Comparing habitats. Reframing comparison in the “post - disciplinary” era
Comparing habitats: Reframing comparison in the “Post-disciplinary” era; Lausanne: Contour journal for interdisciplinary research in architecture, design and planning, 2019-09-12.Comparing habitats: Reframing comparison in the “Post-disciplinary” era
http://contourjournal.org.Architecture, système agricole et construction
Dessiner des (éco)systèmes agro-urbains résilients. Urbanisme, architecture et agriculture au défi du changement climatique, Agadir, Maroc, Septembre 09-10, 2019.Projet et Subsistance : systèmes agro-urbains en transition
Dessiner des (éco)systèmes agro-urbains résilients. Urbanisme, architecture et agriculture au défi du changement climatique, Agadir, Maroc, Septembre 09-10, 2019.Urban Territories in Transition. The Greater Geneva Consultation
Milano Arch Week. Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, Milan, Italie, May 21-26, 2019.Carouge et le principe de la proximité
Invention de Carouge 50 ans après. Entre histoire, théorie et ethnographie urbaines, Fondation Braillard Architectes, Université de Genève, Genève, Suisse, Mai 21-23, 2019.André Corboz, un portrait intellectuel
Invention de Carouge 50 ans après. Entre histoire, théorie et ethnographie urbaines, Genève, Suisse, Mai 21-23, 2019.Politique des infrastructures. Permanence, effacement, disparition
Cycle de rencontre "Un auteur, un éditeur", École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris - Val de Seine, 28 mars 2019.L’agriculture métropolitaine comme hypothèse de recherche : le cas de la métropole lémanique
Urbanisme, architecture, agriculture au défi des changements climatiques et environnementaux, Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat (Maroc), 15 mars 2019.Final Debate
Designing Brussels Ecosystem, ULB, UCL, metrolab.brussels, Bruxelles, 8.02.2019.Dall’autosufficienza alla sicurezza alimentare: una transizione per l’urbanistica svizzera
Territorio e produzione. A cura di Cristina Bianchetti; Macerata: Quodlibet, 2019.Épilimnion
2019La perception des grands ensembles.Réhabilitation du quartier de la Levratte (Nyon)
2019Une revalorisation urbaine et paysagère de la cité de Prora (D)
2019Centre de tri et traitement des châtaignes à Boschetto, Vallemaggia (TI)
2019La poétique des petits gestes (Patras, GR)
2019Monuments d’un temps: requalification de la base pour sous-marins de Bordeaux en centre de données (F)
2019Entre ville et nature, d’une enclave industrielle à une nouvelle centralité par la perméabilité, Delémont (JU)
2019Marrakech Oasis.Infrastructures sociales pour l’oued Issil (Maroc)
2019Striptown Detroit: un scénario de revitalisation du tissu urbain, social et économique de Metropolitan Detroit par le redéploiement de ses strips
2019Quartiers résidentiels périurbains en transition : Comparaison multicritère de scénarios prospectifs à l'horizon 2050
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9664.Transport à câble aérien en milieu urbain: pertinence et pratique
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8744.De Smart à Responsive, les enjeux de la planification urbaine à l'ère du numérique: Les expériences de Genève et Singapour
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9038.Steps to an ecology of territorial knowledge
Brussels Ecosystem, Brussels, in the frame of metrolab.brussels (UCL and ULB) FEDER, Final Round Table, 18-19 October 2018.Habitats in Time. Opening Words
Habitats in Time. Mapping Palimpsest Horizons, Swissuniversities Phd Seminar, EPFL, 12-14 december 2018.Revisiting Analogy
"Every Map is a filter". Revisiting André Corboz: methods, challenges, potentials, Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio, 29 octobre 2018.Agriculture métropolitaine : analyse territoriale à Grande Echelle à la lumière d’une hypothèse de recherche
Master en développement territorial, Atelier développement régional (T406275), Université de Genève, Genève, 9 october 2018.Le C.I.A.M. de 1928 au Château de La Sarraz
2018-09-25.Agriculture métropolitaine. Une hypothèse de recherche
Séminaire "On Cross border land use and ecosystem services", organisé par le Lab-U, EPFL, EPFL, 16 avril 2018.Agriculture métropolitaine lémanique. Une hypothèse de recherche
"Dessiner la Transition. Outils et dispositifs pour le projet de la métropole écologique", cycle de séminaires organisé par la Fondation Braillard Architectes, LOCI-Bruxelles et Metrolab Brussels, Session 3 "La transition par l'alimentation", OMPI, Genève, 22 mars 2018.Post Car World: Un monde sans voiture
"Dessine-moi une ville", l'Autre Salon, organisation de Actif Trafic, Genève, Uni-Mail, 8-18 mars 2018.Carouge ville contemporaine
Unité d'Enseignement D "Territoire et Société", "Mémoires et Programmations Urbaines", EPFL, 9 mars 2018.Agricultura Metropolitana
"City & Production Days", séminaire du Joint Project EPFL-Polito "City and Production in the crisis frame", Castello del Valentino, Politecnico di Torino, 20-21 février 2018.Agriculture métropolitaine comme phénomène et comme projet: éléments pour une stratégie cartographique
Journées Biennales des Géosciences et de l'Environnement, UNIL, Session "L'agriculture urbaine transforme-t-elle la ville", Lausanne, 12-16 février 2018.Commons / Alternative Economies
U&U, 9th International Phd Seminar in Urbanism and Urbanization "On Reproduction. Re-imagining the political ecology of urbanisme", Session G, Ghent University, Department of Architecture and urban Planning, 7-9 January 2018.Space, Time, and Democracy: Three Coordinates for a Tradition
The Horizontal Metropolis between Urbanism and Urbanisation; Zug: Springer, 2018.Industrie culturelle Desurmont. Réactivation d’une friche industrielle dans la métropole lilloise (F)
2018Une cave à vin au pied de la "Combe d’Enfer" (VS)
2018"Et in Arcadia ego", une nouvelle forme pour l’espace des défunts à Genève
2018"A Home through Timescale". Un hospice en ville de Lausanne au service des nouvelles temporalités du mode de vie contemporain
2018Vers “un jardin métropolitain” pour Lausanne (VD)
2018Un paysage agricole urbain pour le bassin genevois: une alternative à la construction de la ville à côté de la ville
20186789. Detroit Techno Assembly Line: un musée de la musique électronique à Detroit (USA)
2018Creuser l’infrastructure: requalification de la partie Sud-Ouest du pôle de Cornavin
2018"Leuka": un centre pour le quartier, une destination pour la ville. Réhabilitation de l’ancien complexe ferroviaire du Pirée (Grèce)
2018Là-haut. Un centre de retraite scientifique à Isérables (VS)
2018Jardins Laboratoires. Parc agricole à Villiers-le-Bel, France
2018Du brutal au pittoresque. Un projet de logement social à Londres
2018Le rond-point de la Maladière, une friche réappropriée
2018Après Alptransit: nouvel avenir pour les vallées du Gothard. Des infrastructures reconnectées au territoire
2018Logement de masse
EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8736.Agriculture Métropolitaine. Une hypothèse de recherche
Cartographier les usages. Représenter les territoires, organisé par LOCI-UCL et metrolab Brussels, LOCI Saint-Gilles, Bruxelles, 7 mai 2018.La ville comme palimpseste. Théorie de l'urbanisme et matière de la ville
Formation Continue ESII, DIP-Genève, "Histoire et sciences humaines", Genève, 3.03.2018.A New Look at Civic Design: Park Systems in America
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8095.Session 1. Le sol des villes
Ecological Urbanism, Metrolab Brussels, UCL et ULB, Belgique, mars 29, 2017.Un tournant radical sur les bords du Léman
Penser l’au-delà de la société de l’automobile, journée d'étude dans le cadre de la recherche Sinergia PostCarWorld, EPFL, Suisse, Octobre 3, 2017.Dessiner l'espace du changement. Les architectes Braillard à Genève
Trentenaire de la Fondation Braillard Architectes, OMPI, Geneva, Suisse, September 9, 2017.Three reasons why we have organized Comparing Habitats
Comparing Habitats, International Doctoral Seminar, Habitat EPFL Center and EDAR Doctoral School, Morges, June 12th-14th, 2017.Historique des surfaces d'assolement
Les petites fugues. A qui profitent les surfaces d'assolement? Journée Richard Quincerot 2017, Nyon, September 12, 2017.One Square kilometre of Well-being. Notes on Visual Experimentation in the Contemporary Urban Landscape
OASE. Journal for Architecture. 2017.Echelles suisses du projet durable. Introduction
Inégalités urbaines. Du projet utopique au développement durable; Genève: MetisPresses, 2017. p. 237-241.Automobility Beyond Car
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8189.Ambiguïtés de la « ville créative »
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7801.Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a "Horizontal Metropolis"
Urban Planning. 2017. DOI : 10.17645/up.v2i1.871.Recherche
Research Projects
2018-2019
Main Leader of the research project "Designing an interdisciplinary research and education concept in Ecological Habitats", in partnership with Lasur (Mer Luca Pattaroni), Far (Prof. Paolo Tombesi), HETS-SO (Prof. Marc Breviglieri), Global Heritage Fund (Dr. Salima Naji et David Gouery).
ENAC Exploratory Grant 2018.
Since 2018
Partner Leader of the research project "City and Production in the frame of crisis". Main Applicant : Professor Cristina Bianchetti, Politecnico di Torino.
Funded by Compagnia di San Paolo and Politecnico di Torino Joint Project Proposal (JPP).
2016-2017
Partner Leader of Urban gardening and human wellbeing in the greater Lausanne area. Partner Leaders : Phd Romano Wyss, HERUS, and Professors Alexandre Buttler, ECOS ; Christof Holliger, LBE ; MER Luiz Felippe de Alencastro, GR-CEL / IIE.
ENAC Exploratory Grant 2016.
2013-2017
Main Leader of the sub-project "Urbanity. Configuring a Post-Car world", in the frame of the main project "Post-car world. A trans-disciplinary multi-dimensional Simulation". Leader of the main project: Prof. Jacques Lévy. Partners: EPFL, ETHZ, USI.
Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, Synergia.
Since 2013
Partner Leader of the research project "Social Housing. Frankfurt and Vienna". Main Leader: Professor Luca Ortelli, LCC-EPFL.
Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, Division 1.
2013-2015
Partner Leader of the research project Territory in the Crisis. Main Leader: Professor Cristina Bianchetti, Polytechnique of Turin).
Funded by Compagnia di San Paolo in the frame of “Projects of internationalisation of research”.
2009-2011
Partner Leader of the research project "1 km Well-being. The Urban Landscape Observatory". Main Leader: Professor Christophe Girot, NSL-D-ARCH, ETH Zurich.
Funded by “Swiss cooperation project in architecture”, CEPF and CUS Funding.
2008-2012
Main Leader of the research project "Résistance et projet. Du destin des Grottes (1930-2030)". Partner Leader: Luca Pattaroni, Senior scientist EPFL ENAC Lasur.
Partnership EPFL and Fondation Braillard Architectes.
2004
Principal Investigator, Frictions et Transitions Projets pour l’avenir du canton de Neuchâtel. Partnership Fédération Neuchâteloise des Entrepreneurs and EPFL (INTER ENAC EPFL).
2003-2006
Research associate, research project "Plans et projets, Quelle articulation des échelles territoriales de l’urbanisme?" Main Leader: Professor Gilles Novarina, Town Planning Institut of Grenoble.
Funding: PUCA, French Ministry of Equipment, request for proposals « Concevoir et réaliser. Echelles et temporalités des projets urbains ».
2001-2003
Research associate to the network “Complexité-Cité”, Equipe de Développement Urbain, UMR 5600 “Environnement Ville Société”, INSA in Lyon.
2000-2001
Principal Investigator, "Nature et interdisciplinarité. Analyse du Mandat d’étude pour la revitalisation de l’Aire".
Fondation Braillard Architectes, Geneva.
1996-1997
Research assistant, research project "De l'Analyse sociale au projet urbain". Main Leaders: Profs. Gilles Barbey and Jean-Bernard Racine ; Partner Leaders : Pascal Amphoux and Ola Söderström.
Funded by Fonds UNIL-EPFL 1996.
1994-1995
Research associate, research project "Invention et usages de la cité d’entreprise d’Ugine". Leader : Ola Söderström.
Fondation Braillard Architectes, Geneva.
1992-1993
Research associate in the sub-project "Swiss Extensive Urbanisation" under the direction of A. Léveillé, Ecole d'Architecture of Geneva. Main Project : "Transformation of urban habitat", Leader : Professor Bernardo Secchi.
European research, association with Universities of Geneva, Groningen, Leuven, Porto, Thessalonique, Florence, Pescara, Venice.
1991-1992
Swiss confederation Fellow, research project : "Plans directeurs de Genève 1935-1936", at the Ecole d'Architecture of Geneva.
Grant of the Swiss Confederation – Conseil de l'Europe.
SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION OF ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
2018
Member of the Scientific committee of the International Conference Brussels Ecosystem in the frame of metrolab.brussels (UCL and ULB) FEDER, Brussels 18-19.10.2018.
2018
Member of the Scientific committee of the Session L’agriculture urbaine transforme-t-elle la ville?, in the frame of the Journées Biennales des Géosciences de l’Environnement, Université de Lausanne, 12-16 février.
2016
Member of the Scientific committee of the symposium Recherche et projet: productions spécifiques et apports croisés, in the frame of the inter-school seminar “Villes, territoires, Paysage”, organised at ENSA Lille, 17-18 november. Chair de la session 6 : « Le projet comme outil d'enquête et production de connaissance », ENSAP Lille.
2015
Member of the Scientific committee of the International Symposium LATSIS 2015 The Horizontal Metropolis, organised at EPFL by Lab-U in collaboration with EDAR Doctoral School, 12-14 october.
2015
Member of the Scientific Board of the First Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar /Première Journée d’étude Bernardo Secchi, organised by Fondation Braillard Architectes, 22th September, Sicli Pavillon Geneva.
2014
Member of the Scientific committee of the International Symposium The Narrative of Landscape, organised by Lab-U EPFL, Archizoom EPFL, Journal Topos, 7-9 october.
2013
Member of the Scientific committee of the conference Faire des histoires ? Du récit d’urbanisme à l’urbanisme fictionnel : faire la ville à l’heure de la société du spectacle, 11th septembre 2013, Fondation Braillard Architectes.
2012
Member of the Scientific committee of the conference Paysage en partage. Sensibilités et mobilisations paysagères dans la conduite de projet urbain, 25th april 2012, Fondation Braillard Architectes.
2012
Scientific coordinator of the seminar L’affiche dans la ville. Coment l’affichage peut-il “faire espace public”? organised by LCC-ENAC, LASUR-ENAC, Contrepoint Projets urbain agency, and fastt architects associés agency, EPFL, the 30th octobre.
2005-2006
Scientific coordinator of the seminar series « Penser l’espace. L’imaginaire de l’urbain en actions», directed by professor Jacques Lévy. Partnership: Chôros-ENAC-EPFL, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, The Directorate of Architecture and Heritage (France) and the Fondation Braillard Architectes.
2005
Membre du comité scientifique du Colloque international ERAU (European Symposium on Research in Architecture, Urban and Landscape Design), L’espace de la grande échelle en question, organisé par le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Direction de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, 23-25 novembre, Ecole d’Architecture de Lille.
2003
Coordination du programme de conférences et d’animations Désirs d’architecture, pour la Fondation Braillard Architectes à Genève, premier semestre 2003.
2002
Sixième Conférence internationale d’Histoire Urbaine Power, Knowledge and Society in the city, pour l’Association Européenne d’Histoire Urbaine, Edinburgh 5-7.09.2002. Coordination scientifique de l’atelier «The value of practice and knowledge in building the Second Postwar city» avec Patrizia Bonifazio (Université de Turin).
2000
Cinquième Conférence internationale d’Histoire Urbaine European Cities: Networks and Crossroads, pour l’Association Européennne d’Histoire Urbaine, Berlin 31.08-2.09.2000. Coordination scientifique de l’atelier «Theory and practice in building the 20th century city: models, images, case studies» avec Patrizia Bonifazio (Université de Turin) et Paolo Scrivano (Université de Milan-Bovisa).
1998–1999
Participation au séminaire d’Histoire des villes organisé à Lyon par Pierre-Yves Saunier, chercheur CNRS, et financé par le Pôle lyonnais du PIR Villes/ Maison Rhône-Alpes.
1997
Coordination du colloque Pratiques et Projets. Analyser les pratiques sociales et concevoir le projet architectural et urbain, à l’Institut Kurt Bösch, Sion, les 2-4 octobre 1997. Organisation: Fondation Braillard Architectes, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Université de Lausanne, Université de Genève.
Enseignement & Phd
Enseignement
Architecture
Programmes doctoraux
Doctorants
Declève Marine Nicole Anne Antoinette Paul, Galbiati Giuseppe, Karatas Basoglu Sila, Nguyen Yen Phi, Villaret Marine Françoise Jeannine,A dirigé les thèses EPFL de
Bahrami Farzaneh , Hajji Kamil , Negueruela Del Castillo Darío , Porotto Alessandro , Skjonsberg Matthew ,MAS
Lecturer and Member of the Board of the CAS "Thèmes et Echelles de l’Urbanisme" https://www.unige.ch/formcont/cours/cas-themes-echelles-urbanisme in the frame of MAS Continuing Education in Urbanism EPFL-UNIGE.