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SUMMARY:New Climates in... Lausanne - Hidden Rivers #4 - Waters Seminar Se
 ries
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Sandra Soares Frazao\, (Professor\, UCLouvain) Ton
 y Arborino\, (Chief of the Protection contre les Crues du Rhône - SPCR
  department)  Qinyi Zhang (Studio Paola Viganò)  Annelies de Nijs 
 (Agence Ter)   Discussants: Sarem Sunderland (Ph.D. ETH\, LUS program) 
 Elena Longhin (PostDoc\, IUAV) Andrea Aragone (Ph.D. student\, IUAV)\nTh
 e next New Climates in... Lausanne continues the exploration of Hidden Riv
 ers as an initiative linking the Habitat Research Center at EPFL and t
 he Laboratory of Urbanism’s Waters Seminar series. Such an internationa
 l exchange platform aims to address water environmental issues between s
 cholars and experts\, across practice and scientific fields. The next an
 d fourth Waters Seminar will take place on February 3\, 2022\, from 1
 4:30 to 17:30\, online via Zoom. \n \nWe as a human species have always
  been designing and inhabiting within the hybridity of nature and technolo
 gy across all water bodies in the world i.e. lakes\, rivers\, watercourses
 \, and more. The contemporary design profession in urbanism\, landscape\,
  and engineering is constantly reconstructing its relationship with water 
 nature through increasingly techno-managerial systems established via inno
 vative technology\, often creating more anthropogenic processes on top of 
 what has already been done and controlling water flow through intervention
 s in blue & green infrastructure systems\, water hydraulics\, water storag
 e\, drainage\, and irrigation. \n \nThe growing presence of the technolo
 gical aspect of the design evokes criticisms. As a reaction to the impact
  of climate change\, the notion of Techno Nature has been employed to prom
 ote advanced techno-managerial approaches in mitigating water disasters in
  flooding\, drought\, and sea-level rise.  However\, the technical and m
 anagerial rationale has led to highly engineered urban projects paradoxica
 lly resulting in further ecological degradation e.g. river erosion from al
 tered embankments accelerating flooding impacts. Furthermore\, a river sta
 te of the Anthropocene whereby altered water flow has become a priori the
  catalyst for territorial fragmentation and uneven geographical developmen
 t.\n \nThe Waters Seminar No. 4 explores challenges raised by the techno-
 managerial approach to water territorial management by looking at large-sc
 ale infrastructural projects proposed and managed over time in the Europea
 n context.  To include water management and water access as it pertains t
 o waterworks in dams\, irrigation systems for agrarian purposes\, and rive
 r hydraulics\, all of which have in a sense transformed water nature and i
 ts natural flows.  By exploring inter-disciplinary approaches to water in
 frastructure projects\, the debate shall be centered on the integration of
  landscape\, urbanism\, and engineering approaches to current challenges f
 aced by climate change and territorial implementation.  To answer the que
 stion of how the social\, economic\, and political issues could also be ad
 dressed in water projects to open discourse in Political Ecology.\n\nThrou
 gh an exchange between issues across social\, political\, ecological and u
 rban realms\, the aim is to reimagine the future of urban rivers\, however
  regenerated\, revitalized or otherwise\, through the gaze of the multiple
  actors involved for a more social ecological transition across these terr
 itorial rivers.\n\n \nWaters Seminar No. 4\, Program\n\n \n\n14:30 Welco
 me & brief Introduction\n\n \n\nSESSION 1\n\n \n\n14:40\,  Sandra Soar
 es Frazao\, Professor at UCLouvain\n\nNatural disasters… Less and less 
 natural… But positive human interventions are possible!\n\n \n\n15:05\,
  Tony Arborino\, Expert in river management Sion-Valais-Swiss\n\nThe fu
 ture of rivers: how to go from INFRASTRUCTURE to STRUCTURE\, from TECHNOLO
 GY to NATURE\, from DEATH to LIFE? The example of the 3rd correction of 
 the Rhone.\n\n \n\n15:30\, Joint discussion with panel\, Sarem Sunderla
 nd (Ph.D. student ETH\, LUS program)\n\nElena Longhin (PostDoc\, IUAV)
  and Andrea Aragone (Ph.D. student\, IUAV)\n\n \n\nBreak\n\n \n\nSESSI
 ON 2\n\n16:00\, Qinyi Zhang\, Architect/ Urbanist at Studio Paola Vig
 anò \n\nWater in the construction of a technonature\, a case study in Ov
 er De Ring\, Antwerpen\n\n \n\n16 :25\, Annelies de Nijs\, Architect/ 
 Urbanist at Atelier Horizon\n\nCreating room for water and energy along t
 he ring road in Antwerp\, Belgium\n\n \n\n16:50\, Joint discussion with 
 panel\, Sarem Sunderland (Ph.D. student ETH\, LUS program)\n\nElena Lo
 nghin (PostDoc\, IUAV) and Andrea Aragone (Ph.D. student\, IUAV)\n\n \
 n\nConclusions
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