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SUMMARY:10th Rencontres de l'EDAR: Autonomy and Abstraction
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Les Rencontres de l'EDAR is the annual meeting of the Doctoral
  program in Architecture and Sciences of the City\, aimed at gathering the
  entire EDAR community. Its 10th edition\, organized in collaboration with
  the Institute of Architecture\, will be entitled Autonomy and Abstraction
  and will deal two fundamental dimensions of scholarly inquiry. The two 
 days event\, open to the public\, will be structured in the form of themat
 ic sessions alternating with keynotes and round tables.\n\nAbstraction wil
 l be approached in its classical philosophical meaning\, consistent with t
 he view that understanding requires the mind to grasp the universal apart 
 from the particulars in which it is embodied. In this sense\, abstraction 
 is the mental operation through which the essential structure of a subject
  is drawn out from its contingent features\, allowing researchers to disce
 rn the general principles that render their object intelligible. This conc
 eptual withdrawal does not negate the concrete but clarifies what endures 
 beyond the variability of specific instances.\n\nAutonomy will be presente
 d as a distinct yet complementary notion: the capacity of a discipline to 
 reflect upon itself through its own internal laws and modes of reasoning. 
 It entails a temporary suspension of external frameworks so that the disci
 pline may be understood from within\, according to the coherence of its co
 ncepts and the logic that shapes its questions. While abstraction deals wi
 th the apprehension of universal principles\, autonomy has to do with the 
 conditions under which these principles operate within a disciplinary hori
 zon.\n\nOnce defined as separate notions\, abstraction and autonomy will b
 e brought into constructive relation\, for both require a measured intelle
 ctual distance that enables the essential to be articulated. In this conte
 xt\, participants will be invited to suspend\, for a moment\, the temporal
  and spatial dimensions that ordinarily situate their work\, in order to c
 oncentrate on the internal logics that define it. The possibility of abstr
 action and autonomy will be explored not as a doctrine but as an open inte
 rpretative field through which doctoral researchers may examine their subj
 ects at the level of foundational assumptions and operative laws.\n\nThese
  Rencontres will emphasise that both abstraction and autonomy admit multip
 le interpretations\, each opening further avenues for reflection. Their pl
 urality will form the ground of the collective discussion. Participants wi
 ll therefore be encouraged not only to explore but to present the internal
  laws and guiding principles that structure their research\, testing how t
 heir projects appear when considered within a horizon freed\, temporarily\
 , from external contingencies.\n\n\n12 May 2026\, AAC 120\n\n8:30     
    Introduction: Elena Cogato Lanza (EDAR) and Nicola Braghieri (LAPIS)\
 n9:00        KEYNOTE. "Abstraction and Autonomy in Architecture" by
  Pier Vittorio Aureli (TPOD) and debate.\n\n10:15      Coffee Break\n\
 n10:45-12h35 SESSION 1. Between structures and practices\nChloé MONTAVON 
 (LASUR)\, La Place des Jeunes Femmes Dans l’Espace Public.\nConstantinos
  MARCOU (TPOD)\, Beds by the Sea: Horace Gifford’s Fire Island Villas.\n
 Sofía GONZÁLEZ JIMÉNEZ (LASUR)\, Digital Motility: Rethinking Mobility
  Beyond the Physical.\nDebate with Sarah NICHOLS (THEMA) & Alfredo THIERMA
 NN (HITAM)\n\n12:35      Lunch break\n\n13:45-15:05 SESSION 2. Visuali
 zations\nFilippo FANCIOTTI (LAPIS)\, The Autonomy of Digital Visualization
  for Decoding Analog Abstraction.\nElla NEUMAIER (HITAM)\, Functions of a 
 Flowerpot: (Col)lapsed “Image-Worlds” at BASF Agricultural Testing Sta
 tion Limburgerhof.\nDebate with Vincent KAUFMANN (LASUR) & Stefana PARASCH
 O (CRCL)\n\n15:10-16:30 SESSION 3. Statistics as abstraction\nMartin PEIKE
 RT (FAR)\, Abstraction as a Condition for Autonomy? Architecture Competiti
 ons in Switzerland Through the Lens of Quantitative Analysis.\nLucie PALAN
 CHÉ (LASUR)\, Acceptabilité Sociale de Mesures Pour Réduire l’Utilisa
 tion de la Voiture à Genève.\nDebate with Claudia BINDER (HERUS) & Aziza
  CHAOUNI (SONO).\n\n16:30 Coffee break\n\n17:00-18:30 LECTURE. "Who creat
 es abstractly?" by Martin RUEFF (Department of Modern French Language and
  Literature\, University of Geneva).\n\n\n\n13 May 2026\, AAC 020\n\n8:45-
 10:35 SESSION 4. Flows and Mobilities\nJules GRANDVILLEMIN (LASUR)\, Auton
 omy and Abstraction of Geography and Sociology to Frame Sustainable Mobili
 ty Potential.\nGa In SIM (LDM)\, Friction as Form: Abstraction and Autonom
 y in Neighborhood Circular Urbanism.\nClément Luc RAMES (LASUR)\, Approxi
 mating complex sociotechnical systems.\nDebate with Florence GRAEZER BIDEA
 U (HAT) & Elena COGATO LANZA (Lab-U).\n\n10: 35 Coffee break\n\n11:00-12h2
 0 SESSION 5. Which Autonomy for Architecture ?\nReda BERRADA (LAPIS)\, Co
 unter-Abstraction: the Persistence of Vernacular Architecture in Moroccan 
 Archival Memory.\nTiffanie PARÉ (THEMA)\, Autonomy and Abstraction in Con
 struction Bureaucracy: the Case of Zschokke in the Twentieth-Century Infra
 structural Landscape.\nDebate with Jerôme BAUDRY (LHST) & Isabella DI LEN
 ARDO (LASUR).\n\n12:20  Welcome aperitif for Professor Cammy Brothers (at
  Espace Copernic)\n\n13:30-15:20 SESSION 6. Models and Institutions\nTheod
 ora GIOVANAZZI (TPOD)\, Privacy Codified: Domestic Space\, Typology\, and
  Social Hierarchy from Serlio’s Book VI to the Fuggerei in Early Modern 
 Europe.\nMatthieu GAUTROT (LASUR)\, L’Expérimentation d’Instruments d
 ’Action Pour la Transition des Mobilités : Rôle de la Philanthropie Co
 ntributive.\nClara RICHARD (HITAM)\, The Ceremonial Object becomes Secular
 : An-Sky’s Collection in St Petersburg\nDebate with Lucia OYARZUN (ALICE
 ) & Cammy BROTHERS (CHAART).\n\n15:20 Coffee break\n\n15:45-17:05 SESSION 
 7. Matter for Abstraction\nDamien GILLIARD (IBOIS)\, Ecosystem-Aware Round
 wood Architecture.\nElif EREZ HENDERSON (RIOT)\, Re-Inscribing\, Re-Valuin
 g\, Re-Using Timber: Infrastructural Translations of Salvaged Timber Build
 ing Materials.\nDebate with Paolo TOMBESI (FAR) & Nicola BRAGHIERI (LAPIS
 ).\n\n17:05-17:20 Conclusion
LOCATION:AAC 1 20 & AAC 020 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==AAC%201%2020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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