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SUMMARY:MAS ETH EPFL UTD - Urban and Environmental Theory Session #5
DTSTART:20211202T180000
DTEND:20211202T193000
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DESCRIPTION:Greet De Block\, Erik Swyngedouw\nThe Habitat Research Center
  is very pleased to continue next Thursday the cycle of Urban and Envir
 onmental Theory Sessions\, associated to the MAS ETH EPFL in Urban and Te
 rritorial Design. Over the fall semester\, these public sessions address
  the challenges of spatial\, social and energy transition through variou
 s contributions: from human geography\, urban studies\, spatial design\, 
 environmental studies and system thinking. With a focus on territorial re
 alities and scales\, these moments also constitute a place for debate. E
 ach session concludes with questions from the audience\, in which you a
 re warmly welcome to participate.\n\nURBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY SESSIO
 N #5\nEcological design for whom? Politicizing the urbanization of nature
 \nGreet De Block\, Professor of Urban Studies Institute\, Centre for Urban
  History\, University of Antwerp\nErik Swyngedouw\, Professor of Human Geo
 graphy\, University of Manchester\nintroduced by Paola Viganò\n \nTHURSD
 AY 02.12.2021 - 18:00-19:30 \nEPFL Foyer SG (Covid certificate or EPFL te
 mporary pass required)\nand ZOOM registration here \n \nFor this fifth 
 session\, Paola Viganò will welcome Greet De Block and Erik Swyngedou
 w to better understand these questions around ecological design and oth
 er key challenges.\n\n \n\nGreet De Block is trained as an architect a
 nd urban planner. Her teaching and writing focus on infrastructure and te
 chnology as driving forces of urbanization\, mobilizing history to provi
 de insight in\, and critical reflection on\, the current urban condition a
 nd related design theories and practices. Recent publications advance an 
 interdisciplinary approach linking urbanism withengineering\, political 
 geography\, philosophy\, and landscape studies\, to explore the (dis)conne
 ctions between ecological design and socio-political agendas.\n\nErik S
 wyngedouw is a human geographer\, Professor at the University of Manchest
 er and member of the Manchester Urban Institute. He graduated both in Agri
 cultural Engineering and Urban and Regional Planning from Leuven\, and hol
 ds Honorary Doctorates from Malmo University in Sweden and Roskilde Univer
 sity in Denmark. His thesis entitled "The production of new spaces of prod
 uction" has been completed under the supervision of David Harvey in 1991. 
 Erik Swyngedouw also taught at the University of Oxford and Ghent. His int
 erests focus on political-ecological issues related to water\, transformat
 ion of nature and urban governance. The figure of the Post-Democratic City
  will be leitmotiv of its contribution "Promises of the Political: The dep
 oliticized politics of post-democratic urbanization".\n 
LOCATION:Archizoom SG 1212 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201212 https://e
 pfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wrcOCgrT4sGNdNNcWjs01ySqaomCEYz0Zm
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