Publications

This article encourages us to reflect on the existence of undisciplined rhythms, that is to say the personal manners to flow that come into tension with the tone of a given situation ...

This paper proposes a return visit. It describes an ethnographic field investigation in La Duchère, a public housing estate in Lyon concerned by an urban renewal programme, during the 2000s. Taking a ...

This paper offers a discussion about the integration of the « techniques of the body » within a geography of action. The main idea is to define « skills » as the ...

The economics of urban rhythms tell us that cities are characterized by a double scarcity, that of time for individuals, that of space for the community. The former, because of the increase ...

How to explain the existence of thousands of homeless people on the streets, whose residentialization of the public space causes the death of hundreds of them each year ? Why does the ...

Chaque année, la revue EspacesTemps.net organise ses Printanières, une rencontre collective et interdisciplinaire autour de son projet éditorial et scientifique.  Cette année, les Printanières auront lieu les 9 et 10 mai à l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne dans la salle GC B110. ...

The body is an "object" whose status is problematic since at least Antiquity in the "Western tradition". First approached by philosophers, whose representations are historically differentiated, it was then invested by other ...

Un nouveau regard sur le civic design Avant l’émergence du projet industriel d’aménagement urbain (urban design), essentiellement axé sur la technologie et l’économie, il existait un projet social d’aménagement civique (civic design) ...

À l’occasion du 50ème anniversaire de l’EPFL, ArtLab célèbre le campus et son histoire par une exposition en deux volets intitulée Infinity Room. Ce titre fait référence au concept d’∞ et honore ...

As polysemous and intangible as the notion of "rhythm" might be, one must note its capacity to make diverse disciplines (such as geography, literature, biology, dance, sociology or economy) work and speak ...

Depuis plus de deux siècles, des objets sont créés en institutions psychiatriques et autres lieux de soin. Ils sont de toutes sortes, dessins, peintures, modelages et sculptures, écrits, tapisserie, etc., et de ...

Skin is a marker of historically constructed social and cultural norms, and embodies the tensions that may exist between what individuals and societies consider "normal" and "abnormal". If white skin in China ...

This text explores the links between walking rhythms and rhythms related to fluctuations in tonalities and intensity of ambiances. It hypothesizes a correlation between walking gaits, the variations in pedestrian attentionality and ...

De janvier 2012 à octobre 2015, l’Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS 6590 « Espaces et Sociétés » (ESO), le Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Qualifications (CEREQ) accompagné de la Plateforme Universitaire des ...

Conventional statistical data rarely provide information on the different "present populations" that coexist in cities and in regions so as to be able to separate, for example, tourists from permanent residents. It ...