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SUMMARY:8th Rencontres de l'EDAR: Images and Numbers
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Fabienne Kilchör\, Professor of Data Visualization at Univers
 ity of Bern\, co-founder of the graphic design agency Emphase. Paolo Tass
 inari\, professor on Master in Science Communication at SISSA of Trieste\,
  co-founder of the graphic design agency TassinariVetta. Sebastien Fasel\,
  co-founder of the graphic design agency Emphase. EPFL Discussants: Salva
 tore Aprea (ACM) & Jérôme Baudry (LHST). Coordination by Nicola Braghi
 eri (EPFL Lapis) and Elena Cogato Lanza (EPFL EDAR).\nLes Rencontres de
  l’EDAR is the yearly EDAR event adressed to the Doctoral program in Ar
 chitecture and Sciences of the City community.\nIts eighth edition\, entit
 led “Images and Numbers: Scientific Data Visualisation”\, will invite 
 doctoral students to reflect on the role of graphics and images in the con
 struction of scientific communication\, referring to their own experience 
 as young scholars.\n\nIn the specific field of research in architecture an
 d urban sciences\, the visualisation of quantitative data through infograp
 hic tools has been accompanied since the first treatises\, by the more con
 ventional use of images to convey ideas. Plans\, sections\, elevations\, p
 erspectives\, maps and panoramas first\, photographs and diagrams later\, 
 have fuelled an incessant debate on how to coherently represent scientific
  discourse. A debate on how to communicate\, to transmit\, to demonstrate
 \, but also on how to achieve a practical outcome. The emancipation of arc
 hitecture from a mechanical art into a liberal discipline required a ser
 ious philosophical reflection on the presumed superiority of numbers\, inc
 orruptible by their nature\, over images\, the source of dangerous trom
 peries.\n\nArchitecture and urban planning publications have demonstrated 
 how iconography is not a decorative and accessory entity to the discourse
 \, but rather formulates a discourse in and of itself. The looming presenc
 e of figures\, drawings and geographical maps has imposed the definition 
 of specific layout codes which have defined the birth and affirmation of a
  precise ‘literary genre’\, that of the architectural book. Images ar
 e not only an essential part of the communication around forms of the  b
 uilt environment\, but also of the transmission of the intellectual debate
  linked to its history and destiny.\n\nThe current proliferation of ‘u
 ser friendly’ tools for the manipulation of images\, for the layouts of
  texts and for the figuration of statistical data\, has been accompanied 
 by the dematerialization of the book and in particular of the paper doctor
 al thesis. The entire scientific community is hence urged to reflect not 
 only on important ethical and practical issues\, but also on social and ae
 sthetic ones.\n\nDebating on Data Visualisation seems particularly appro
 priate in a context where “disseminating  scientific knowledge” is o
 ne of the missions of our school\, and where the SNF is explicitly committ
 ed to promoting the encounter between research and society\, namelyby def
 ending the principle of free access to research results. Images and number
 s are intrinsically linked to the role of scholars as scientists\, intelle
 ctuals and\, perhaps\, artists.\n\nThe 8th Les Rencontres de l’EDAR wil
 l reflect on this role\, opening a discussion on the issues raised by Dat
 a Visualisation specifically within the disciplines at EDAR\, straddling b
 etween humanities and applied sciences\, and more broadly in light of EPFL
 ’s social and scientific mission. On this occasion\, the New EDAR v
 isual identity proposals submitted to the Open consultation launched by E
 DAR in February 2024\, will be exhibited and commented by their authors\
 , the consultation's jury\, and the audience.\n\n\n8:00 New EDAR visual 
 identity proposals Exhibition & Welcome coffee\n\n8:30 Introduction. Ni
 cola Braghieri (LAPIS) & Elena Cogato Lanza (EDAR)\n\n8:40-9:45 New ED
 AR visual identity. Jury’s expert: Fabienne Kilchör\, Professor of D
 ata Visualisation at the University of Bern. Presentation of the proposals
  and debate.\n\n9:45 Break\n\n10:15-11:40 Images\, Numbers\, and Letters.
  Lectures by Fabienne Kilchör & Sebastien Fasel\, co-founder of the desi
 gn agency Emphase\, and by Paolo Tassinari\, Professor of Science Communi
 cation at SISSA Trieste University and co-founder of the design agency Tas
 sinariVetta.\n\n11:40-12:50 Debate. Faculty Discussants: Salvatore Aprea
  (ACM) & Jérôme Baudry (LHST)\n\n12:50 Ending Words.
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