Agency / Agents of Urbanity International PhD Colloquium _ June 1-2 2015 _ room MXF1 June 1 08.30 09.00 10.00 10.50 11.10 12.45 14.15 15.15 16.30 16.45 18.00 19.30 June 2 09.00 10.00 10.50 11.05 12.45 14.15 15.15 16.30 16.45 contour.epfl.ch/agencyurbanity Reception and Institutional Welcome Keynote: Daniel Koch (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology) Patt, T. (EPFL) City and Model: Commingling of Formal and Informal Urban Agency Porotto, A. (EPFL) ‘U’rbanity and Construction of the City Coffee Break Vialle, A. (EPFL) Roundabouts and city limits: the agency of visual phenomena Bisson, B. (Université de Rennes 2) Urbanity in the discourse of researchers Lunch Keynote: Vera Bühlmann (ETH) Magnusson, J. (LTH, Lund University, Sweden) Investigating personal and impersonal materialities in the mediation of social exchange Rossano, F. (ETH) Isar Plan: the Wild as the New Urban? Luzarraga, A. (UPM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) hier und dort: call shops or contemporary Dasein Coffee Break Ethier, G. (McGill University) Connecting the Dots: How Digital Culture is Changing Urbanism Savic, S. (EPFL) Connectivity in action/form. A model for evaluating spatial impacts of wireless communication Break Welcome Dinner Keynote: Ignacio Farias (TUM, Technische Universität München) Kamalipour, H. (University of Melbourne) Emerging Urbanity: Learning from Informal Settlements as Assemblages of Permanent Temporality Peimani, N. (University of Melbourne) Assemblages of Transit Morphologies: Emergent Urbanity in Tehran Break Goeswein, V., DeWolf, C. & Fernandez, J. (MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Material flows and embodied carbon of residential buildings in African Cities Gil-Fournier, M. (UPM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Air conditioning assemblages Lunch Keynote: Nikos Salingaros (University of Texas, San Antonio) recorded lecture Mahzouni, A. (EPFL/KTH) How the energy transition in the built environment shapes a new urbanity: the case of Basel City Paulos, J. (ETH) Performing Urbanity: from circulating concepts to situated practices Coffee Conclusion of Colloquium with the support of the: Institute of Architecture (IA) Architecture and Sciences of the City Doctoral Programme (EDAR) EPFL Doctoral School (EDOC)