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SUMMARY:Maps : instruments of architectural (dis)orientations
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DESCRIPTION:Frédérique Aït-Touati is a research fellow at the CNRS and 
 a member of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). He
 r books include Le Monde en images (2015) and Terra Forma: manuel de carto
 graphies potentielles (2019) /// Roger Paez is an architect\, founder of t
 he studio AiB and author of Operative Mapping: Maps as design tools (2019)
 .\nMaps : instruments of architectural (dis)orientation is the first semin
 ar of the ALICE series Surrounded by a fog of virtual images. Organized in
  2020-2021 by ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) at the ENAC /
  EPFL this online series seeks to explore and operationalize architectural
  research questions through a series of talks with international guest spe
 akers led by its grad and post-grad researchers around key topics of their
  work.\n\n-\nSurrounded by a fog of virtual images\, how do we orient ours
 elves? How do we articulate the dynamic assemblages of actual and virtual 
 entities\, of living and non-living things that constitute our environment
 ? How do we organize the multiplicity of agencies and emerging potentialit
 ies in order to set new spatial processes in motion? How do we make presen
 t the plural temporalities defining this collective production? In this fi
 rst Research Seminar we seek to address these questions by considering the
  role of maps and their (dis)orienting qualities in contemporary spatial p
 ractices.\n\nWhile maps have often been considered precise and objective r
 epresentations of the world\, the fascination and disquiet they produce in
  us lies in their endless potential to hint new orders\, relations\, narra
 tives and actions. While conceived to hold the world in a precise image\, 
 maps are actually always fuzzy\, rattling with potentialities and the move
 ment of the living. They reveal to us how to every movement of orientation
  and ordering there is a parallel movement of disorientation\, just as whe
 never we unsettle the existing frameworks and references\, new organizing 
 and orientating impulses emerge. Acknowledging the key role of this back a
 nd forth motion in our architectural practice requires a transformation of
  our tools and strategies.\n\nWhen architecture goes beyond representation
  and starts mapping\, it adds to its techniques and practices\, the abilit
 y to work with processes and fields\; to labour with an expanding field of
  material agencies to care and attend to the multilayered balances of the 
 environment\; to incorporate histories and plural temporalities to fully a
 nd justly relate to the complexity of our present.\n\nWith our guest speak
 ers\, Frédérique Aït-Touati\, historian and author of Terra Forma : Man
 uel de cartographies potentielles\, and Roger Paez\, architect and author 
 of Operative Mapping: Maps as design Tools\, we will dive further into the
 se active and activating instruments.\n\nTo join the lectures and conversa
 tion:\nhttps://epfl.zoom.us/j/85199389819\n\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/85199389819
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