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SUMMARY:Alexandre Monnin / ARCHIZOOM
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DESCRIPTION:Alexandre Monnin Charlotte Malterre-Barthes\nIf any building d
 esigned according to the currently dominant architectural principles is 
 ‘zombie’\, non-living\, as it is based on technologies and energies th
 at will soon be exhausted or too costly for the planet\, how can we rethin
 k our relationship with buildings and technology? What are the possible at
 titudes between the usual categories of cutting-edge technology\, high-tec
 h\, and its antonym\, low-tech?\n\nAs part of the lecture series for the e
 xhibition Beyond High Tech Low Tech\, we are delighted to welcome Alexandr
 e Monnin\, Doctor of Philosophy\, for a lecture entitled Impure Tech\, mod
 erated by Prof. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes.\n\n—\n\nAlexandre Monnin he
 ads the “Strategy & Design for the Anthropocene” Master of Science pro
 gram\, run jointly by ESC Clermont BS and Strate Ecole de Design in Lyon. 
 He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon
 -Sorbonne\, with a thesis on the philosophy and architecture of the Web. C
 o-initiator of the ecological redirection movement with Diego Landivar and
  Emmanuel Bonnet\, he published with them Héritage et Fermeture (Éditio
 ns Divergences\, May 2021)\, edited Écologies du Smartphone with Laurence
  Allard and Nicolas Nova (Bord de l’eau\, 2022)\, and more recently publ
 ished Politiser le Renoncement (again with Éditions Divergences\, April 
 2023)\, and a Majeure about negative commons in Multitudes (n°93\, Winter
  2023).\n\nCharlotte Malterre-Barthes is an architect\, urban designer\,
  and Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology—E
 PFL\, where she leads the laboratory RIOT. Malterre-Barthes’ interests f
 ocus on urgent aspects of contemporary urbanization\, material extraction\
 , climate emergency\, and social and spatial justice. In 2020\, when app
 ointed Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, she
  started the initiative ‘A Global Moratorium on New Construction\,’ in
 terrogating current development protocols (forthcoming 2024\, Sternberg Pr
 ess & MIT Press). A founding member of the Parity Group (Meret Oppenheim 
 Prize 2023) and of the Parity Front\, activist networks dedicated to equal
 ity in architecture\, Malterre-Barthes holds a Ph.D. (ETH Zurich) on the p
 olitical economy of commodities and the built environment. \nThis spring\
 , Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (RIOT-EPFL) and Olaf Grawert (Station+ ETHZ) 
 will conduct a joint studio on labor and class struggles in architecture u
 nder the theme ‘Stop Building: Fix the Office.’ \n\n 
LOCATION:Archizoom Gallery https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201212
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