Memento College of Humanities

Conferences - Seminars

22MAY

Alternative modernity: silent departures that contemporary Chinese architecture takes

Conférence organisée par le Collège des Humanités (CDH), Archizoom et l'école doctorale EDAR. En collaboration avec la Section romande de la Société Suisse-Chine (SRSSC). Alternative modernity suspends the domination of megacities, goes back deep into the Chinese rural areas where the first traces of home-grown modernity originated, and tries to explore the scenarios of modernity ... Read more about "Alternative modernity: silent departures that contemporary Chinese architecture takes"

By Zhang Li, Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean, School of ...

Cultural events

23MAY

18:30-21:00 ArtLab - Montreux Jazz Café

ArtLab Jams! Concert au Montreux Jazz Café

Always Know Monk: Yves Marcotte (contrebasse) Shems Bendali (trompette) Zacharie Canut (saxophone) Nathan Vandenbulcke (batterie) L’année 2017 verra le centenaire de la naissance du pianiste et compositeur Thelonious Monk. Et bien que sa musique ait été écrite entre les années 40 et 60, elle continue de fasciner les jazzmen de toutes générations et de toutes ... Read more about "ArtLab Jams! Concert au Montreux Jazz Café"

By Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (HEMU)

30MAY

21:30-22:30 Place SG

ORLANDO Performantive installation

Opéra d’un genre nouveau, ORLANDO est une installation vidéo immersive et itinérante, une expérience associant mouvement conscient, photographie, architecture et performance musicale live. En septembre 2017 à l’EPFL+ECAL lab, un workshop réunissait une vingtaine d’étudiants, architectes et chercheurs pour imaginer un dispositif scénographique léger, facilement reconstructible en des lieux variés pour le projet ORLANDO de ... Read more about "ORLANDO Performantive installation"

By Julie Beauvais, chorégraphe; Horace Lundd, photographe, Christophe Fellay, musicien, Laboratoire ...

31MAY

21:30-22:30 Place SG

ORLANDO Performantive installation

By Julie Beauvais, chorégraphe; Horace Lundd, photographe, Christophe Fellay, musicien, Laboratoire ...

Exhibitions

09MAY

23SEP

07:00-23:59 Rolex Learning Center - Patios extérieurs

Haus am Gern: Fireplace

Le duo d'artistes bernois Haus am Gern (Barbara Meyer Cesta & Rudolf Steiner) a installé une septantaine de feux en plexiglas découpé et miroitant sous les voûtes du Rolex Learning Center. Une invitation à regarder l'espace de manière décalée, de voir les creux, les vides, les marges. Le Rolex Learning Center captive par les puissants ... Read more about "Haus am Gern: Fireplace"

By Haus am Gern: Barbara Meyer Cesta et Rudolf Steiner

Sporting events

01MAY

30JUN

Bike to Work

On May 1st, the challenge Bike to Work 2018 begins for a new edition until June 30th. In 2017, 646 students and members of staff formed 191 teams and covered 189,000 km, the equivalent of traveling almost five times round the Earth. It is our turn to take up the challenge and break this record! ... Read more about "Bike to Work"

Miscellaneous

27FEB

29MAY

18:15-21:00 Octanis Microverse

Open Night @ Octanis

At Octanis, we develop pragmatic, open source and low cost solutions to practical problems. Currently, we are working on developing digital nestboxes for barn owls and a rover that takes measurements of the snow surface in Antarctica. We share experiences and tools, and make rapid incremental progress while embracing failure. Above all, we accept everyone ... Read more about "Open Night @ Octanis"

Call for proposal

04JUN

[BRIDGE I RESEARCH FUNDING]

Aim: BRIDGE is a joint programme conducted by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI). It offers new funding opportunities at the intersection of basic research and science-based innovation, thereby supplementing the funding activities of the two organisations. Bridge Proof of Concept projects support young researchers (see eligibility ... Read more about "[BRIDGE I RESEARCH FUNDING]"