School Lecture Series: Rocío Calzado / EPFL Architecture
Event details
| Date | 16.09.2025 |
| Hour | 18:30 › 20:00 |
| Speaker | Rocío Calzado |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | French, English |
ROCÍO CALZADO
The Great Together
Amid a housing crisis, Europe moves beyond demolition to seek alternatives for modernist housing heritage. The Great Together documentary follows large estates and explores through transformation, maintenance, privatisation and demolition, how utopia collided with local politics, markets and community. As part of the research “Beyond Demolition: The Care of Architecture”, it frames architecture as an instrument of public policy and explores how networks and communities enact collective housing buildings.
Rocío Calzado is a Spanish architect and political scientist, currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and teaching as an associate lecturer at the École d'Architecture de la Ville & des Territoires Paris-Est. Her academic research focuses on maintenance practices in architecture, particularly within the field of social housing.
Rocío is a co-founding partner of docar films, a documentary film collective dedicated to narrating urban and architectural controversies. Her filmmaking practice centers on European social housing, demolition, maintenance, and housing rights.
This lecture is part of the School Lecture Series
COMMUNITY VOL.1
Community is an ambivalent concept. It involves both gathering through shared customs and exclusion. Some claim that inclusive communities do not exist. Recent history shows people more often unite through exclusion than inclusion. However, communities are not sealed. Philosopher Roberto Esposito explains that community 'is not a property or territory to defend but a void, a debt, and a gift to others, reminding us of our otherness.
This lecture series explores the topic of community through architecture. How does architecture explore, define, or enable communities? Can architects collaborate directly with communities, bypassing institutional entities? How can design convey a collective experience? Seven emerging and established architectural figures respond to these questions through their work, which spans film, exhibitions, and communitarian buildings.
The Great Together
Amid a housing crisis, Europe moves beyond demolition to seek alternatives for modernist housing heritage. The Great Together documentary follows large estates and explores through transformation, maintenance, privatisation and demolition, how utopia collided with local politics, markets and community. As part of the research “Beyond Demolition: The Care of Architecture”, it frames architecture as an instrument of public policy and explores how networks and communities enact collective housing buildings.
Rocío Calzado is a Spanish architect and political scientist, currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and teaching as an associate lecturer at the École d'Architecture de la Ville & des Territoires Paris-Est. Her academic research focuses on maintenance practices in architecture, particularly within the field of social housing.
Rocío is a co-founding partner of docar films, a documentary film collective dedicated to narrating urban and architectural controversies. Her filmmaking practice centers on European social housing, demolition, maintenance, and housing rights.
This lecture is part of the School Lecture Series
COMMUNITY VOL.1
Community is an ambivalent concept. It involves both gathering through shared customs and exclusion. Some claim that inclusive communities do not exist. Recent history shows people more often unite through exclusion than inclusion. However, communities are not sealed. Philosopher Roberto Esposito explains that community 'is not a property or territory to defend but a void, a debt, and a gift to others, reminding us of our otherness.
This lecture series explores the topic of community through architecture. How does architecture explore, define, or enable communities? Can architects collaborate directly with communities, bypassing institutional entities? How can design convey a collective experience? Seven emerging and established architectural figures respond to these questions through their work, which spans film, exhibitions, and communitarian buildings.
Practical information
- General public
- Free