9th Rencontres de l'EDAR: Original Knowledge
Event details
| Date | 13.05.2025 › 14.05.2025 |
| Hour | 08:30 › 18:00 |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Les Rencontres de l'EDAR is the annual meeting of the Doctoral program in Architecture and Sciences of the City, aimed at gathering the entire EDAR community.
The 9th edition, organized in collaboration with the Institute of Architecture, is entitled Original Knowledge and focuses on the ways in which EDAR research meets the criterion of producing original scientific knowledge.
The primary function of scientific research within academic institution is to systematically increase current knowledge. Originality is an essential aptitude of the good scholar, who is able to identify new subjects of investigation, develop innovative forms of inquiry, interweave different disciplines, and disseminate her/his findings through wider channels. More schematically, originality can be based, on the one hand, on methodology (state of the art, nature of the data, survey tools, interdisciplinarity, etc.), and on the other hand on results and/or their operational horizon.
Originality will be addressed in the context of cumulative knowledge, of innovation, or of approaches that update old technical knowledge; moreover, according to EDAR disciplines, it will be framed within the relationship between design and research . The "possibility of originality" will be measured in light of the new challenges and potential of digitalisation. The socialisation of original knowledge will be questioned too.
SCHEDULE
13 May 2025
8:30 Welcome Coffee
9:00 Introduction: Elena Cogato Lanza (EDAR) and Nicola Braghieri (LAPIS)
9:30 Keynote: Françoise Fromonot, Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Belleville
Detective stories : Investigation as method, metaphor and medium
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Keynote: Filippo De Pieri, Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Head of the Doctoral Research Programme in Architecture,
Finding oneself in unusual positions: a research travelogue
11:30 Round Table and Debate
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00-15h30 SESSION 1. New data
Martin Peikert (FAR), Original Data on Architecture Competitions – from Beliefs to Evidence.
Wenxiu Du (URBDEMO), Internal Migration and its Impacts on Fertility Behaviour Over Development Stages.
Jules Grandvillemin (LASUR), Mobility Potential: towards an Accessibility Indicator accounting for the Individual Ability to Move through Motility.
Debate with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (RIOT) & Marson Korbi (TPOD)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 SESSION 2. Soil turn
Summer Islam (RIOT), Groundwork: Building Landscape Resilience Towards Biobased Construction.
Ella Neumaier (HITAM), The Construction of Soil. An Architectural History of Nitrate between Atacama and Germany.
Clément Cattin (LAST), Urban sloping Sites as an untapped Opportunity to diversify Housing in Switzerland.
Debate with Caterina Franco (LAB-U) & Paolo Tombesi (FAR)
17:30-18:00 Intermediate Debate
20:00 Dinner
14 May 2025
8:15 Welcome Coffee
8:45-10:15 SESSION 3. Scales
Clément Rames (LASUR), A Multi-scalar Approach to Mobility Transitions.
Yegor Vlasenko (LAB-U), Decentralisation as an Agent of Resilience? Comprehending Urbanisation and WartimePlanning in Ukraine.
Simon Ladino Cano (HERUS), Towards Lifestyle Decarbonization: A Participatory Modeling Framework to Identify Sensitive Intervention Points.
Debate with Jerôme Baudry (LHST) & Pier Vittorio Aureli (TPOD)
10:15 Coffee break
10:45-12h15 SESSION 4. In-between
Eloïse Vo (ALICE), Spectralities of the Dolphin House: Echolocation as a navigational Tool.
Eleni Skevaki (CRCL), Interacting With Construction Robots.
Emma Larcelet (LAPIS), Lines in Dimensions: Archeology of Wireframe.
Debate with Caterina Franco (LAB-U) & Sophie Delhay (DC-LAB)
12:15 Lunch Break
13:45-15:15 SESSION 5. As Found
Farzaneh Eskandary (TPOD), Design Automation and Construction Rationalization of Timber Structures inspired by vernacular Techniques.
Jolanda Devalle (TPOD), Architecture, Anthropology, and Domestic Space: A Long Durée Perspective.
Chloé Joly-Pottuz (FAR), Engage, Document, Articulate, Recommend.
Debate with Mathias Lerch (URBDEMO) & Florence Graezer Bideau (CDH-HAT)
15:15 Coffee break
15:45-17:15 SESSION 6. (In)equalities
Theodora Giovanazzi (TPOD), The Birth of Social Housing: The Scuole Grandi’s pro Amore Dei Dwellings in Venice, 15th-17th centuries.
Dorothee Bekendorff (URBDEMO), The Polarization of Urban Migration: How Inequality and Education Shape Migrant Destinations.
Constantinos Marcou (TPOD), Beds for Two: Joe Orton's and Kenneth Halliwell’s Bedsit.
Debate with Alfredo Thiermann (HITAM) & Lucía Jalón Oyarzun (ALICE)
17:15-18:00 Final Debate and Conclusion
The 9th edition, organized in collaboration with the Institute of Architecture, is entitled Original Knowledge and focuses on the ways in which EDAR research meets the criterion of producing original scientific knowledge.
The primary function of scientific research within academic institution is to systematically increase current knowledge. Originality is an essential aptitude of the good scholar, who is able to identify new subjects of investigation, develop innovative forms of inquiry, interweave different disciplines, and disseminate her/his findings through wider channels. More schematically, originality can be based, on the one hand, on methodology (state of the art, nature of the data, survey tools, interdisciplinarity, etc.), and on the other hand on results and/or their operational horizon.
Originality will be addressed in the context of cumulative knowledge, of innovation, or of approaches that update old technical knowledge; moreover, according to EDAR disciplines, it will be framed within the relationship between design and research . The "possibility of originality" will be measured in light of the new challenges and potential of digitalisation. The socialisation of original knowledge will be questioned too.
SCHEDULE
13 May 2025
8:30 Welcome Coffee
9:00 Introduction: Elena Cogato Lanza (EDAR) and Nicola Braghieri (LAPIS)
9:30 Keynote: Françoise Fromonot, Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Belleville
Detective stories : Investigation as method, metaphor and medium
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Keynote: Filippo De Pieri, Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Head of the Doctoral Research Programme in Architecture,
Finding oneself in unusual positions: a research travelogue
11:30 Round Table and Debate
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00-15h30 SESSION 1. New data
Martin Peikert (FAR), Original Data on Architecture Competitions – from Beliefs to Evidence.
Wenxiu Du (URBDEMO), Internal Migration and its Impacts on Fertility Behaviour Over Development Stages.
Jules Grandvillemin (LASUR), Mobility Potential: towards an Accessibility Indicator accounting for the Individual Ability to Move through Motility.
Debate with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (RIOT) & Marson Korbi (TPOD)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 SESSION 2. Soil turn
Summer Islam (RIOT), Groundwork: Building Landscape Resilience Towards Biobased Construction.
Ella Neumaier (HITAM), The Construction of Soil. An Architectural History of Nitrate between Atacama and Germany.
Clément Cattin (LAST), Urban sloping Sites as an untapped Opportunity to diversify Housing in Switzerland.
Debate with Caterina Franco (LAB-U) & Paolo Tombesi (FAR)
17:30-18:00 Intermediate Debate
20:00 Dinner
14 May 2025
8:15 Welcome Coffee
8:45-10:15 SESSION 3. Scales
Clément Rames (LASUR), A Multi-scalar Approach to Mobility Transitions.
Yegor Vlasenko (LAB-U), Decentralisation as an Agent of Resilience? Comprehending Urbanisation and WartimePlanning in Ukraine.
Simon Ladino Cano (HERUS), Towards Lifestyle Decarbonization: A Participatory Modeling Framework to Identify Sensitive Intervention Points.
Debate with Jerôme Baudry (LHST) & Pier Vittorio Aureli (TPOD)
10:15 Coffee break
10:45-12h15 SESSION 4. In-between
Eloïse Vo (ALICE), Spectralities of the Dolphin House: Echolocation as a navigational Tool.
Eleni Skevaki (CRCL), Interacting With Construction Robots.
Emma Larcelet (LAPIS), Lines in Dimensions: Archeology of Wireframe.
Debate with Caterina Franco (LAB-U) & Sophie Delhay (DC-LAB)
12:15 Lunch Break
13:45-15:15 SESSION 5. As Found
Farzaneh Eskandary (TPOD), Design Automation and Construction Rationalization of Timber Structures inspired by vernacular Techniques.
Jolanda Devalle (TPOD), Architecture, Anthropology, and Domestic Space: A Long Durée Perspective.
Chloé Joly-Pottuz (FAR), Engage, Document, Articulate, Recommend.
Debate with Mathias Lerch (URBDEMO) & Florence Graezer Bideau (CDH-HAT)
15:15 Coffee break
15:45-17:15 SESSION 6. (In)equalities
Theodora Giovanazzi (TPOD), The Birth of Social Housing: The Scuole Grandi’s pro Amore Dei Dwellings in Venice, 15th-17th centuries.
Dorothee Bekendorff (URBDEMO), The Polarization of Urban Migration: How Inequality and Education Shape Migrant Destinations.
Constantinos Marcou (TPOD), Beds for Two: Joe Orton's and Kenneth Halliwell’s Bedsit.
Debate with Alfredo Thiermann (HITAM) & Lucía Jalón Oyarzun (ALICE)
17:15-18:00 Final Debate and Conclusion
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- EDAR Doctoral Program in Architecture and Sciences of the City, Institute of Architecture
Contact
- Elena Cogato Lanza, elena.cogatolanza@epfl.ch