International PhD Seminar: Environmental Histories of Architecture / DAD, LAB-U, LHST

A dialogue has started in recent years between architectural research and environmental history. This doctoral seminar aims at exploring the heuristic value of further interweaving these fields. How does environmental history, in all its diversity, bring new insights to the study of architecture and of urban and built spaces more generally? Conversely, to what extent can urbanism and architectural history, broadly conceived, enrich historiographies concerned with the reciprocal relationships between human societies and the natural world?
The seminar will provide an opportunity for PhD students and more experienced researchers from the fields of history and architecture to exchange. Furthermore, the seminar will deal with transversal issues, for instance the new archives and sources mobilised by environmental history, the move away from an author-centred approach of architectural history, and the interdisciplinary nature of environmental studies. 

Programme:

Monday June 8 (AAC 132 and SG Foyer, EPFL)

9:15-9:45 Introduction  

9:45-11:30 Climate & Energy
Presentations and discussion with Daniel A. Barber (TU Eindhoven), Abdulrahman El-Taliawi (Politecnico di Torino), Foivos Geralis (Princeton University), Leo Paulmichl (Universität Kassel)  and Margarida N. Waco (ETH Zürich).

11:30-13:00 Lunch 

13:00- 14:45 Materials, Resources & Waste
Presentations and discussion with Sarah Nichols (EPFL),
Riccardo Acquistapace (EPFL), Thiago Maso (TU Eindhoven) and 
Chenchen Yan (Princeton University). 

Break 

15:00-16:45 Risk & Pollution
Presentations and discussion with Alexandre Elsig (Université de Neuchâtel), Jules Calage (EPFL), Vasileios Chanis (EPFL), Menghe Heloise Guo (TU Eindhoven) and Jana von Wyl (ETH Zürich).

Break 

17:30-19:00 Public Lecture at SG Foyer 
“Thermal Practices”, Daniel A. Barber (TU Eindhoven)

Tuesday June 9 (AAC 132, EPFL) 

9:00-10:45 More-than-human
Presentations and discussion with Sofia Nannini (Politecnico di Torino), 
Capucine Foquin (EPFL), Giorgia Greco (Politecnico di Torino), Dimitris Hartonas (Princeton University) and Stefan Sauter (EPFL). 

Break 

11:00-12:45 Spatial & Temporal Scales
Presentations and discussion with Filippo De Pieri (Politecnico di Torino), Clément Cattin (EPFL), Iegor Vlasenko (EPFL), Alexander Rusnak (EPFL) and  Yosuke Nakamoto (ETH Zürich).

13:00-14:30 Lunch 

14:30-16:00 Closing lecture
 “Choosing the right places, telling the wrong stories: bringing environmental histories on the shore of a pond”,
Filippo De Pieri (Politecnico di Torino).

16:00-16:30 Conclusion

Participants PhD

• Riccardo Acquistapace, LAPIS, EDAR, EPFL
• Jules Calage, LHST, EDAR, EPFL
• Clément Cattin, LAST, EDAR, EPFL
• Vasileios Chanis, LAPIS, EDAR, EPFL
• Abdulrahman El-Taliawi, DAD, Politecnico di Torino
• Capucine Foquin, ALICE, EDAR, EPFL
• Foivos Geralis, Architecture, Princeton University
• Theodora Giovanazzi, TPOD, EDAR, EPFL
• Natalia Gómez Mateu, ALICE, EDAR, EPFL
• Giorgia Greco, DAD, Politecnico di Torino
• Menghe (Heloise) Guo, AHT, TU Eindhoven
• Dimitris Hartonas,  Architecture, Princeton University
• Thiago Maso, AHT, TU Eindhoven
• Yosuke Nakamoto, GTA, ETH Zürich
• Ella Neumaier, HITAM, EDAR, EPFL
• Leo Paulmichl, HTA, Uni Kassel
• Tiffanie Paré, THEMA, EDAR, EPFL
• Alexander Rusnak, DHLAB, Digital Humanities, EPFL
• Stefan Sauter, HITAM, EADR, EPFL
• Iegor Vlasenko, LAB-U, EADR, EPFL
• Margarida N. Waco, GTA, ETH Zürich
• Jana von Wyl, GTA, ETH Zürich
• Chenchen Yan, Architecture, Princeton University