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SUMMARY:Open Fields Lunch: Productive Habitats 2024 / HRC
DTSTART:20240924T121500
DTEND:20240924T140000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Víctor Muñoz Sanz\, Anna Karla De Almeida Milani (HRC
 )\, Elena Calafati (LAB-U)\nOffering opportunities for interdisciplinary d
 iscussions around urbanization\, the Open Fields Lunches aim to foster 
 new collaborations within the EPFL scientific community.\nEach meeting wil
 l be moderated by a member of the HRC or its affiliated laboratories\, and
  will consist of a presentation by an international expert in the fiel
 d\, followed by presentations by two EPFL researchers interested in sh
 aring and discussing their research. The seminar will conclude with a deba
 te open to all the lunch participants.\n\nProductive Habitats: Shaping Urb
 an Environments Through Capital and Industry\nThe Productive Habitats Open
  Field Lunch 2024 invites EPFL scholars to critically examine the profound
  influence of companies in shaping urban environments over the last three 
 centuries. Through their extractive activities and industrial dominance\, 
 corporations have not only molded cities\, towns\, and entire regions\, bu
 t have also left an indelible mark on the spatial\, environmental\, and so
 cio-political landscapes. \n\nThis interdisciplinary dialogue\, hosted by
  the Habitat Research Center\, will explore both the decline and potential
  resurgence of these corporate-driven settlements. By investigating the r
 elationships between market forces\, corporate governance\, and societal w
 ell-being\, this event aims to offer fresh perspectives on the intersectio
 n of capitalism and the built environment.\n\nAt this occasion\, we will w
 elcome Prof. Víctor Muñoz Sanz from the Department of Urban Design at
  TU Delft (Netherlands) that will bring how Bata company built and adminis
 trated a "Networked utopia" of towns and settlements in different countrie
 s and production sites. \n\nVíctor Muñoz Sanz is an assistant professor
  of urban design at TU Delft\, where he conceptualizes\, leads and develop
 s critical research on the architecture and urbanism of the past\, present
  and future of work. His research looks at the interplay of the design of 
 productive landscapes with technology and management\, and aims to questio
 n the role of urban design in enabling new urban economies and inclusive f
 orms of work. He is the author of the book Una Rápida Compañera (2024)\,
  and co-editor of  Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture (2020)\,  R
 oadside Picnics: Encounters with the Uncanny (2022)\, and Automated Landsc
 apes (2023). Víctor qualified as an architect at the School of Architectu
 re of Madrid (ETSAM\, 2006)\, and holds a master’s of architecture in ur
 ban design\, with distinction\, from Harvard University Graduate School of
  Design (2011)\, and a PhD cum laude in architecture from Universidad Poli
 técnica de Madrid (2016).\n\n\nEPFL Research presentations:\n\n\n	Elena C
 alafati\, Laboratory of Urbanism EPFL\n	Production and real estate. Siemen
 s’ construction of the city\n\n \n\n\n	Anna Karla de Almeida Milani\, H
 abitat Research Center EPFL\n	Company towns never died\n\n\n\n 
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