Gianna Morgane Ledermann

EPFL IC IINFCOM LDM1
BC 121 (Bâtiment BC)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne

Office: BC 121
EPFLICIINFCOMLDM1

Website: https://ldm.epfl.ch/

EPFLETUEDOCEDAR

Gianna Ledermann is an architect (BSc & MSc Arch, ETH Zurich) and currently a doctoral researcher at EPF Lausanne (2021-present). She worked as a scientific assistant at ETH Zurich with Prof. Christian Kerez (2015-2019), where she was awarded the Rector's Input Fund for the innovative teaching format Studio Panorama (2019, during Prof. Kerez’s sabbatical leave). Her current research employs a historical and ecofeminist subsistence perspective to examine spatial forms of transformation and resistance on farms against the industrialization and commodification of agriculture. This research is strongly motivated, on the one hand, by her queer-feminist, radical teaching practice (DRAG(UE) elective EPFL, 2022-present) and her institutional activism within the DRAGlab (IA EPFL 2020-2023). On the other hand, by her engagement in peasant struggles with the agroecological cooperative Koopernikus (2021-present) and her work within the Coalition Terre (Uniterre, Association des petits paysans, et al., 2023-present), which aims to create legal and political structures for collective access to agricultural land in Switzerland. Gianna’s writings encompass collaborative, peer-reviewed, and self-published projects (Architecture and Culture, forthcoming 2025; Moins!, 2025, 2024; Nachglühen, 2022; Trans Magazin, 2021; Delphi, 2018). In 2024, she was awarded the Robert Gnehm Fund at EPFL.