spatial justice – circular economy – food sovereignty – city-territory – alpine Lake Geneva metropolis
Paola Viganò and the Habitat Research Center (HRC) team address the Greater Geneva and the city-territory that encompasses it through a new “biopolitical” approach of soils and work, themes rarely present in the territorial projects carried out so far. It will first be a matter of surveying the territory to build the first transitional cross-border Atlas, and then of imagining scenarios for 2050. Faced with a shortage of resources, including soil, and in this unbalanced socio-spatial context, new forms of work need to be imagined. A project where the transition is an opportunity to reinvent a communal agglomeration.
Team:
Habitat Research Center HRC, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
with the University of Neuchâtel, the Product-Life Institute, the Earth-Nature-Environment Institute – HEPIA – HES-SO Geneva, the University of Bern, the University of Groningen and the Catholic University of Louvain.
Team leaders
- Prof. Paola Viganò, architect, urban planner – HRC-EPFL – LAB-U
- Prof. Vincent Kaufmann, urban sociology and mobility analysis professor – HRC-EPFL – LASUR
- Dr. Roberto Sega, architect, urban planner – team coordinator for the Greater Geneva – HRC-EPFL
- Prof. Pascal Boivin, agricultural engineer – HEPIA–HES-SO Genève
- Prof. Olivier Crevoisier, territorial economy professor – University of Neuchâtel
Collaborators
- Prof. Alexandre Buttler, HRC-EPFL – ECOS
- MER. Luca Pattaroni, HRC-EPFL – LASUR
- Ass. Prof. Corentin Fivet, HRC-EPFL – SXL
- Dr. Martina Barcelloni Corte, scientific collaborator – HRC-EPFL
- Dr. Shin A. Koseki, researcher – HRC-EPFL
- Dr. Matthew Skjonsberg, architect – HRC-EPFL
- Dr. Thomas Guillaume, scientific collaborator – HRC-EPFL
- Dr. Qinyi Zhang, scientific collaborator – HRC-EPFL
- Marine Durand, assistant – HRC-EPFL
- Tommaso Pietropolli, assistant doctoral student – HRC-EPFL
- Irène Desmarais, architect – HRC-EPFL
- Eloy Llevat Soy, assistant doctoral student – Polito – HRC-EPFL
Subcontractors
- Prof. Walter R. Stahel (Product-Life Institute)
- Jonathan Normand (B Lab Switzerland)
- Isabel Claus, Atelier Paysage Isabel Claus
- Ass. Prof. Farzaneh Bahrami – University of Groningen
- Ass. Prof. Chiara Cavalieri – Catholic University of Louvain
- Dr. Delphine Rime – University of Bern
- Marie Velardi, Atelier Marie Velardi
