BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International PhD Seminar: Learning from the South: Cultural Lands capes and Transnational Dialogues on Urbanization in Transition / HRC DTSTART:20250610T134500 DTEND:20250611T180000 DTSTAMP:20260916T024154Z UID:fe03cd3cf73781f6a22bb3da9b52148159acad029c6b012f43bde52e CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Satish Kumar\, Armelle Choplin\, Sabina Favaro \nDownload the program\n\n\n10-11 June 2025\n10 June\, 14:00 – 19:30 CET\n11 June\, 9: 00 – 17:00 CET\n\nFoyer SG + Online\nEPFL\, Lausanne\nZoom ID: 611 040 7 0355\n\nThe Habitat Research Center International PhD Seminar Learning f rom the South explores how various global urban and cultural landscapes ad dress socio-ecological transitions. The seminar will take place on June 10-11\, 2025 in Foyer SG showcasing PhD research from India\, Brazil\ , Senegal\, China\, Ecuador\, Mali\, Colombia\, Uruguay\, Bolivia\, Lebano n\, and Iran and it’s open to the public.\n\nBy South\, this seminar re fers to diverse regions historically impacted by colonial legacies and une ven economic development\, such as South America\, Africa\, South and Sout heast Asia\, and the Caribbean\, recognizing the term’s contested nature and complexity. The transnational and interdisciplinary character of the seminar encourages participants to challenge existing paradigms and incorp orate diverse perspectives\, thereby enriching the discourse surrounding c ultural landscapes and urbanization transitions.\n\nCultural landscapes ca n be defined as “the combined works of nature and humanity” (UNESCO\, 1992)\, and embody the imprint of regional practices\, cultures\, and trad itions in architecture\, urban planning\, and social structures. By acknow ledging the relational nature of these environments\, designers are remind ed that every technical choice is also an ethical and political act - one that shapes not only spatial configurations but also the ways in which we relate to one another and to the Earth.\n\nFocusing on historical and cont emporary urban challenges\, this exploration centers on the notion of radi cal interdependencies (Escobar\, 2017)\, recognizing how indigenous and lo cal practices offer alternative ways of perceiving and shaping cultural la ndscapes. These landscapes are not merely physical environments but dynami c\, co-produced spaces where human agency and ecological systems are deepl y intertwined.\n\nAs global territories undergo rapid urbanization\, inves tigating the interconnections of humans and climate within these landscape s emerges as critically important. By emphasizing cultural landscapes\, th e course discusses how the built environment can translate indigenous and innovative actions to address the socio-ecological transition.\n\nBy obser ving how different urban and cultural landscapes deal with the socio-ecolo gical transition globally\, the seminar will engage the current PhD resear ch on both planetary and regional practices. It will also offer EPFL and i nternational PhD students different methodological and theoretical perspec tives on the Urbanization in Transition through a series of lectures by ke ynote speakers.\n\nWith the PhD Students \n\n Eleonora Aronis (Goldsmiths \, University of London\, UK)\n Sherin Assaf (University of Poitiers\, Fra nce)\n Diana Catalina Barrera Agudelo (Università degli Studi Roma Tre\, Italy)\n Clarisse Figueiredo de Queiroz (University of Pennsylvania\, USA) \n Felipe Flores (University of Oklahoma\, USA)\n Flore Ghichot (École Po lytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne\, Switzerland)\n Noélie Lecoanet (Éco le Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne\, Switzerland)\n Sofia Leoni (Poli tecnico di Torino\, Italy)\n Pietro Manaresi (Université Catholique de Lo uvain\, Belgium)\n Elvira Pietrobon (IUAV Venice\, Italy)\n Clément Rames (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne\, Switzerland)\n Marco Salaz ar Valle (University of Pennsylvania\, USA)\n Amrita Kaur Slatch (RWTH Aac hen University\, Germany)\n Shyam Sunder Sirimalla (École Polytechnique F édérale de Lausanne\, Switzerland)\n Nima Tabrizi (Delft University of T echnology\, Netherlands)\n Evelien Van den Bruel (Université Catholique d e Louvain\, Belgium)\n Alejandro Varela López (École Polytechnique Féd érale de Lausanne\, Switzerland)\n Yegor Vlasenko (École Polytechnique F édérale de Lausanne\, Switzerland)\n LOCATION:SG 294.22 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%20294.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR