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SUMMARY:Positions: Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis / EPFL Architect
 ure
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230530
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CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:With last year’s exhibition “Positions” focusing on arch
 itecture studios\, EPFL Architecture initiated a new format that aims to p
 rovide an insight into the department’s multifaceted culture. As educati
 on and research in architecture are closely interwoven\, “Positions” w
 ill this year highlight research activities conducted at EPFL Architecture
 \, and will run in parallel with the “End of Year Show” featuring stud
 ios and projets de master exhibitions and juries.\nThe exhibition that sha
 ll take place in the Archizoom gallery in the summer months will invite a 
 national and international public to discover research undertaken at EPFL 
 Architecture.\n\nThe theme of this year’s exhibition is Transcalar Prosp
 ects in Climate Crisis.\nThe accelerating climate change challenges our di
 scipline\, as the building industry accounted for 37% of energy and proces
 s-related CO2 emissions in 2021 according to the 2022 Global Status Report
  for Buildings and Construction released during COP27. With the post-pande
 mic rebound\, the sector’s global energy consumption and CO2 emissions h
 ave reached an all-time high\, and we are therefore not on the path to dec
 arbonization by 2050. The urge for solutions puts our discipline under gro
 wing pressure\, and requires from architects to position themselves: how s
 hould we respond to the fact that architecture\, broadly speaking\, causes
  ecological harm? What are our discipline’s capacities and abilities for
  immediate action or long-term policies? What can research in architecture
  question\, affect\, and promote in terms of design process\, horizon of r
 eferences\, or aesthetic experience? How can disciplinary and transdiscipl
 inary skills\, tools and methodologies contribute to ENAC’s three main s
 trategic axes\, Climate Change\, Urbanization\, and Digitalization?\n\nAga
 inst this background\, EPFL Architecture convenes laboratories\, professor
 s and PhD students\, independent researchers and design activists at EPFL 
 to share their perspectives at different scales\, from material scale to b
 uildings to cities and territories. This transcalar survey of ideas and me
 thods for addressing issues like material uses\, land and soil degradation
 \, environmental justice or circular economy\, intends to bring together v
 arious vantage points from fields such as construction\, theory\, sociolog
 y\, history\, aesthetics\, and urbanism\, in order to question what techni
 cal solutions\, architectural typologies or urban practices may be able to
  allow for new prospects in view of the climate emergency.\n\nWith contrib
 utions from the laboratories ALICE\, CRCL\, EAST\, FAR\, IBOIS\, LAB-U\, L
 AST\, LDM\, LIF\, LIPID\, RIOT\, SXL\, TEXAS\, THEMA\, URBES\, UE-GC and U
 E-F\, and studio Baukunst.\n\nDates\nMay 30 - July 28\, 2023\n\nOpening ho
 urs\nMonday to Friday from 9:30 to 17:30\nSaturdays\, Sundays and bank hol
 idays closed\n\nExhibition by EPFL Architecture\nDirection: Jeffrey Huang 
 (IA)\, Dieter Dietz (SAR)\n\nScenography and preamble\nMartin Fröhlich (E
 AST)\, Lara Monti (EAST)\, Laura Trazic (EPFL Architecture)\n\nProject coo
 rdination\nLara Monti\, Laura Trazic\n\nIn collaboration with Archizoom\nS
 olène Hoffmann\, Roxane Le Grelle\, Beatrice Raball\, Cyril Veillon\n\nEx
 hibition set-up\nAntoine Angeard\, Emma Bailly-Maitre\, Sofia Canali\, Est
 her Chatelain\, Joanna Druey\, Dorian Fabbro\, Basil Ferrand\, Justus För
 ster\, Laurent Jacoby\, Nour Keller\, Zoé Kirschfink\, Sean Pasquier\, Ca
 terina Solini\, Arno Wust\n\nImage credit\nGeoGAMI project\, SXL\n\n 
LOCATION:SG 1212 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201212
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