Workshop on Asian Urban peripheries
On December 2023, a workshop on “Asian Urban peripheries” was organized by the research group at EPFL. The workshop featured nine speakers from Swiss universities, including Yimin Zhao (UZH and Renmin University of China), Florence Graezer Bideau (EPFL), Thierry Theurillat (HEG-Arc), Helena Roux (EPFL), Mengke Zhang (EPFL), Yiqiu Liu (ETHZ), David Gogishvili (UNIL), Sylvie Tram (…)
Workshop on the Anthropocene and Public Space in China
On October 11th, 2023, a workshop took place at EPFL with Jérémy Coeval, a French architect and scholar specialised on the Urban Anthropocene. The one-day workshop had a dual focus. First, we explored the intersection between recently promoted policies of ecological civilisation, and the application of the Anthropocene concept in China. Second, we aimed to (…)
Workshop on the Recreational City with Christophe Gibout
On April 4th, 2023, the research team organized a workshop at EPFL inviting Christophe Gibout, to exchange on recreative practices in an of the urban space. Christophe Gibout is a Professor in Planning and Urbanism at the University of Dunkerque, France, and part of his work tackles issues related to public space, from the perspective (…)
Workshop between EPFL and PoliTO
On Sep 13th 2022, associated PhD candidates from EPFL and PoliTO met online and in Lausanne for a half-day workshop as the continuation for the Turin workshop in July, with the participation of professors from China Room research center of PoliTo.After the first round of workshops in person in July in Turin, this second one (…)
Webinar workshop, Tsinghua University and Politecnico di Milano
Florence took part of the international webinar workshop Dialogue on Winter Olympic Games: From Beijing to Milan: Design Innovations for Sustainability, organized by Tsinghua University with the collaboration of Politecnico di Milano, in May 12 2022. She presented a contribution with the title “Uses of Cultural Heritage: The iconic case of Shougang”. This contribution was (…)
Virtual workshop about ongoing projects run by Beijing22
On October 22nd 2021, a workshop was held with our cultural association’s partner Beijing22, led by Ana Eschbach and Antonie Angerer. Due to the difficulty of accessing China since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, this workshop took place in a virtual format. Its aim was twofold.First, to share the findings of the (…)
One-day workshop with Nicolas Godelet
On November 1st, the EPFL team met Nicolas Godelet in Lausanne for a one-day workshop, with the participation of associated PhD candidates from ETHZ and PoliTO, in person or by zoom.Nicolas Godelet, as an architect and founder of Ng-Lab, has been involved in the renovation project of Shougang since the beginning in 2006. His long-term (…)
Kick-off Meeting
The kick-off meeting for this project was organised on December 9, 2020, with the participation of the EPFL team members, Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Theurillat, Helena Roux & Zhang Mengke, as well as all the partners, including Zhang Li (Brian) from Tsinghua University, Michele Bonino from PoliTO, Christian Schmid from ETH Zurich, Wu Fulong from (…)
Sino-swiss workshop
On October 28th, 2019, the research team took part in all-day meeting with different departments related to urban planning and city conservation at the Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design. The purpose of this meeting was to share approaches to urban planning in each context (China and Switzerland), and discuss current related projects. (…)