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SUMMARY:ETHZ/EPFL Summer School 2025 Movement Matters: Exploring Transitio
 ns in Architecture Research
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250623
DTSTAMP:20260313T053211Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof Dr. Florian Dombois\, Dr. Alice Hertzog\, Prof Dr. Alice
  Twemlow\nIn Imaginary Homelands\, Salman Rushdie writes\, “We are all m
 igrants from a country called the past” (Rushdie\, 1992). Rushdie sugge
 sts that the movement and transitions we experience are not only spatial b
 ut also temporal. The summer school aims to explore the fluidic nature of
  belonging\, identity\, and architectural materials which are central con
 cepts in placemaking. The Summer School invites the participants to consid
 er architecture as a dynamic process shaped by movement and transitions a
 cross human and non-human actors\ninstead of static constructs. We aim to 
 highlight movement as both a source and a method in architecture research
 . We look at movement through three lenses: a) movement in identity and so
 cio-cultural behaviour b) movement of artifacts like waste\, building mat
 erials as a technological questions and c) movement of more-than-human el
 ements like land\, water\, flora and fauna in relation to environmental qu
 estions. \n\nThe first part borrows the conceptual framework of Deleuze a
 nd Guattari’s notion of becoming and looks at the contingent relationsh
 ip between migration\, cultural identity and placemaking. Participants wil
 l be invited to reflect on positionality and situated knowledges in archi
 tecture research\, exploring how their subjectivities\, shaped by migrati
 ons across socio-cultural landscapes\, influence and inform their individu
 al research methods. The second part of the summer school will focus on t
 he agency of movement in the making of urban landscapes. Participants wil
 l reflect on the ways material artifacts are entangled with questions of t
 echnology and science\, through movement. How do materials influence noti
 ons of infrastructure and forms of power? Finally\, controlling natural r
 esource flows was central to empire expansion\, shaping both landscapes an
 d political contexts. Thus\, the last part centers the environmental elem
 ents to understand how movement of non-human entities and actors shape hu
 man systems. Participants will explore how these more-than-human flows in
 tersect with human infrastructures\, and how this entanglement continues t
 o shape contemporary urban and\nrural landscapes.\n\nThe Summer School inv
 ites participants to take part in four workshops and three guest lectures 
 that explore the above-mentioned topological modalities of movement. The 
 Summer School initiates a conversation about privileging movement as a me
 thod in architecture research. We envision a non-hierarchical peer-to-peer
  working environment where participants bring their methodological streng
 ths\, such as writing\, drawing\, photography\, or performative practices
  and advance their own research and practice looking through the lens of 
 movement and transitions.
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