Publications

« Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there’s a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. »Beckett, Endgame (1957)Paleontology, as taught in schools and to the general public, sometimes produces ...

The Time Machine. When Frederic Kaplan presented his “Venice Time Machine” project at the TEDxCaFoscariU event1 in Venice in June 2013, he started with a Google satellite image showing the world, stressing ...

La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même est une œuvre de Marcel Duchamp. Exécutée en 1915, brisée, puis réparée en 1923, elle est également intitulée Le Grand Verre — d’où la ...

Various maps of the results of the 9th February 2014 Swiss vote “Against mass immigration” have been used in the debate that followed it. They offer the opportunity to question methodological decisions ...

La session de ce colloque nous amène à réfléchir sur le concept de capital spatial dans la perspective de trouver des formes de représentations aptes à faire ressortir le rôle de chaque ...

At a time when cities are competing as rivals with cultural landmarks, artistic events and prestigious labels to be more attractive, the famous Banksy and the alternative art scene insure the city’s ...

Des référentiels géographiques « sur étagère » au déluge de données géolocalisées. Pendant longtemps, la palette des référentiels géographiques disponibles pour les cartographes et autres géomaticiens consistait pour l’essentiel en des produits « sur étagère » ...

Le tremblement de terre à Haïti en 2010, ou celui qui a été suivi d’un tsunami à Tōhoku au Japon en 2011, ainsi que le Printemps arabe débuté entre 2010 et 2011 ...

The texts of this Traversal are position papers. They have been written in the prospect of a conference that will take place in July 2014, organised at Laval University, Quebec, by the ...

Following the 20th February movement and the vote of a new constitution on the 1st July 2011 in Morocco, parliamentary elections were held on 25th November 2011. Cartograms of electoral results show ...

Humour is at the same time universal and highly cultural. As such, it represents a highly valuable lense to study cultures. Literature on the topic has shown that in interindividual groups or ...

This paper focuses on the cases of several museums and memorials located within major cities (Berlin, Jerusalem, Montreal, Washington, Budapest and Paris). Building upon these examples, it explores the connections between the ...

The reports of a permanent rise of the urban population, a possible scarcity of oil in the future, a means of energy mainly used in the transportations of goods and an essential ...

The survey carried out on explicit representations of the future among the inhabitants of Geneva’s metropolitan area shows three major groups. The most substantial encompasses individuals that speak little about society as ...

International poor migrants have understood that they are not welcome in rich countries. Most of them — around 200 000 a year in France and 600 000 in Europe (OCDE 2013) — ...