Habitat Research Center

02/02/2024

🎬 La rediffusion de la troisième édition des Conversations de l’Atlas est disponible dès maintenant !

🌿 En 2020, la ville de Paris a décidé la réalisation d’un Atlas des paysages parisiens afin d’identifier et de qualifier les paysages dans le but de garantir une meilleure prise en compte du paysage dans les projets urbains.

🌍 Afin de nourrir cet Atlas, le CAUE de Paris a proposé un cycle de 3 conférences ouvertes au grand public. Après avoir abordé le lien entre le paysage urbain parisien et sa géographie, puis s’être intéressé à la notion de village à Paris, cette dernière conférence s’attache aux enjeux contemporains d’adaptation au changement climatique.

🎤 Intervenantes :
• Carine Saloff-Coste, directrice des espaces verts et de l'environnement, Ville de Paris
• Nathalie Blanc, géographe
• Elisabetta Cereghini, paysagiste et historienne des jardins
• Paola Viganò, architecte-urbaniste

👉🏽 Pour visionner la conférence : https://www.caue75.fr/content/conversation-atlas-03

30/01/2024

[CALL FOR APPLICATIONS]
MAS ETH EPFL in Urban and Territorial Design 2024 - 2025
Call for applications February 1-April 30, 2024
https://mas-utd.arch.ethz.ch/

The Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design (MAS UTD) is accepting new applications from February 1-April 30 for the 2024-2025 academic year. The joint MAS programme bridges the ETH Zurich and EPFL and is part of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at the ETH Zurich D-ARCH and the Habitat Research Center (HRC) at the EPFL ENAC. Participants of his one-year, full-time postgraduate programme receive a 60 ECTS joint degree, the “MAS ETH EPFL UTD.”

The Territorial Project for Social and Ecological Change
The future of the urban engages social and environmental imaginaries, which now extend beyond-the-city and beyond-the-human. Rather than an object, the territory becomes a subject in dialogue with other subjects, and space becomes an agent of socioecological change. The urban and territorial project is understood as a possibility to explore common epistemic horizons and new biopolitical paradigms. The MAS programme embraces such a transition as a field of critical and imaginative investigation based on the principles of social and environmental equity and justice. Engaging with notions of transformation, reuse, regeneration, reparation, and transition of habitats and ecologies, the MAS deploys the urban and territorial project as the crucial field of knowledge production across scales.

For further information concerning the programme, tuition fees, scholarships, and how to apply, please contact us:

Tommaso Pietropolli - EPFL
MAS UTD - EPFL Programme Coordinator
[email protected]
[email protected]

Nancy Couling - ETH
MAS UTD - ETHZ Programme Coordinator
[email protected]

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17/04/2023

Open Fields Lunch - Healthy Habitats
To be hosted both in Zoom and in person

Cities, climate change, and health: what can academia do in this landscape?

The Habitat Research Center is pleased to open its three research fields to discussion during three lunch seminars on Healthy Habitats, Productive Habitats, and Landscape Habitats. Offering opportunities for interdisciplinary discussions around urbanization in Transition, the Open Fields Lunches aim to foster new collaborations within the EPFL scientific community.

Following the launched call, we are happy to announce the selected speakers for the first Open Fields Lunch on Healthy Habitats:

Dr Gemma Moore
Senior Research Fellow in Evaluation, Bartlett School Env, Energy & Resources, Faculty of the Built Environment.

The discussion will be moderated by Anna Pagani, SNSF Postdoc.Mobility Fellow and a Research Fellow at University College London in the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources.

We look forward to seeing you there, if possible in person (better) or via Zoom.

Sandwiches will be offered at the event.

16/03/2023

📣 Conversation de l'Atlas #1 - Le socle de Paris

📅 Jeudi 6 avril 2023 à 19h au Pavillon de l'Arsenal

🗺️ Dans le cadre de la production du futur Atlas de paysages, le CAUE vous invite à (re)découvrir les grandes structures de paysage qui ont façonné Paris.

🌊Comment le paysage parisien s’appuie sur sa géographie et comment celle-ci nourrit les projets de paysage ? Le bassin parisien, la vallée de la Seine, l'eau, le relief, les mouvements d’air et la végétation sont autant de clés pour le comprendre.

🗨️ Pour aborder ce « socle de Paris », quatre intervenants sont conviés à cette première Conversation de l'Atlas :

• Gilles Vexlard, paysagiste
• Michel Desvigne, paysagiste
• Jacqueline Osty, paysagiste
• Paola Viganò, architecte-urbaniste

👉 Inscription gratuite : http://bit.ly/42gVphi
➕ Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur le projet d'Atlas de paysages de Paris, rendez-vous sur www.paysages-paris.fr

Partenaires
EPFL Fédération Française du Paysage IDF Préfecture de la région d'Île-de-France, préfecture de Paris Ville de Paris Habitat Research Center

05/10/2022

01/07/2022

22/05/2022

CALL FOR PAPERS
6th Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar

The Transition as a Project: Space, Life, Politics
October 3 and 4, 2022 - Pavillon Sicli, Geneva

Abstracts to be submitted before May 25, 2022, 12 PM
via email to: [email protected]

The fragility of the current climatic, health and geopolitical international context violently confirms the urgency to question the intersection between space, life, and politics. For this purpose, the 6th Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar invites scholars, practitioners, and stakeholders working on (one of) these three dimensions to engage in a board reflection on the interdisciplinary need for transition. Transition as a project that involves swift and profound transformations, invites us to discuss its range, methods, tools, values and terms, on the basis of various field experience and research works to be presented during the working seminar.
To take part in this crucial event to be held in Geneva on October 3 and 4, abstracts should be sent before May 25. The 6th Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar will take place at the Pavillon Sicli, in the framework of the Quinzaine de l’Urbanisme and in the presence of Saskia Sassen, Mathis Wackernagel, Arturo Escobar, Steward Pickett, Michiel Dehaene, Panos Mantziaras and Paola Viganò.
Organized by the Braillard Architects Foundation and the Habitat Research Center, with the collaboration of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of Ghent University, it also intends to extend the introductory debate inaugurated in the framework of the Venice Biennale’s conference "Meetings on Architecture" curated by Hashim Sarkis in 2021.

More info here: https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/habitat/bsd22/

10/05/2022

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The Habitat Research Center is pleased to open its research field ‘Landscape Habitats’ to discussion on the 19th of May from 12.15 –13:30 (CET).

On this occasion, we are delighted to welcome the presentation of Andréa Finger-Stich, researcher and environmental consultant. Andréa Finger-Stich research focuses on biological connectivities in forests and urban ecosystems, in relation to biodiversity enhancement, climate change and socio-cultural perceptions of natural environments.

Andréa Finger-Stich insights on the qualities and stakes of the "lisières urbaines" - urban edges - will be followed by two presentations by EPFL researchers.

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𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 (150 – 200 words) to [email protected] before May 12th. Presentations should last no longer than 12-15 mins and will be followed by a wider debate with all the lunch participants. Research in progress or pathways for future research are very welcome.

The discussion will be moderated by Elena Longhin, Postdoctoral Researcher at Università Iuav di Venezia and an upcoming member of the Habitat Research Center.

More information:
On the application: https://www.epfl.ch/.../domains/habitat/open-fields-lunch/
On the event: https://memento.epfl.ch/.../open-fields-lunch-landscape.../

12/04/2022

EPFL Campus Piéton
Living Lab Lunches
11.04, 12.04 & 13.04.2022
12:15 - 13:15
Avenue Piccard / Route des Noyerettes

The first three Living Lab Lunches propose to the EPFL community to react to more or less radical or realistic hypotheses coming from several ongoing academic activities.
* On Monday 11.04 and Tuesday 12.04, the design hypothesis from the Studio Viganò (EPFL Architecture) are proposed for discussion.
* On Wednesday 13.04, the works from the AR-264 course Analyse territoriale et urbaine and the UE Poly-trees: trajectoire des espèces (EPFL Architecture and ENAC) are both the support of spontaneous interactions between students, teaching team and EPFL users.

Where ?

* If the weather conditions are favorable: at the intersection of Avenue Piccard and Route des Noyerettes, between the big tree and the rocks sculpture.
* In case of rain: under the large roof covering Avenue Piccard, on level 2, Satellite side.

Launched at the beginning of the spring semester of 2022 by the Vice Presidency for responsible Transformation (VPT), the Campus Piéton initiative proposes to interrogate the future of the EPFL campus, starting by questioning the configuration of its open spaces, towards a greener and more pedestrian environment. A first perimeter of reflection includes the Avenue Piccard and the Route des Noyerettes. While a participative and design study mission is being co-animated together with the two ENAC laboratories Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace (Alice) and the Laboratory of Urbanism (Lab-U), the Habitat Research Center (HRC) is also involved in the coordination of a Campus Living Lab bringing together research projects, designers, users and stakeholders.

Faculté de l'environnement naturel, architectural et construit ENAC - EPFL


Photo Credit Niels Ackermann