Water Designs:
l’eau dessine la ville
Exhibition from 15 June to 28 October 2024
From Monday to Friday, from 9:30 am Ă 5:30 pm
Archizoom, SG building, EPFL
Water design is of major importance today. The risks associated with water and climate change are a cause of global concern. Cities and territories are becomming the âwater laboratoryâ in which to shape the socio-ecological transition. Water is about life, space and power relations.
EVENTS
Vernissage Friday 14 June 6.30pm
Opening lecture
Address by Natacha Litzistorf
Mayor in charge of Housing, the Environment and Architecture
Introduction to the exhibition by Professor Paola ViganĂČ
Lecture Monday 23 September 6.30pm, en
Design with Nature
Anne Whiston Spirn
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Night of the Museums Saturday 21 Septembre 2pm-midnight
The Flon Trial with Affluent Collective 6pm, Guided Tours of the exhibition 4 & 8.30pm
Round Table Monday 14 October 6.30pm, en
With Kelly Shannon, Chiara Cavalieri, Taneha Bacchin
Moderation by Habitat Research Center
Closing Lecture Monday 28 October 6pm
Professor Paola ViganĂČ, on the occasion of Bernardo Secchi Day lecture series
Exhibition tours on demand
[email protected]
Exhibition supported by
The recurring emergence of water-related questions in a range of disciplinary fields such as spatial design, political ecology, hydrology, social sciences, and humanities, demonstrates the evolving interest that this element plays in the discourse of urban planning. By offering an initial genealogy of water in territorial planning, the exhibition explores the complex history of this relationship, whose cultural, technical, political and economic perspectives vary according to the knowledge and fields from which it is observed.
The exhibition presents projects carried out at EPFL in the ENAC faculty and the works of Lausanne Jardins, together with explorations by contemporary architects and artists. It echos the cultural event Lausanne Jardins 2024 âBetween Water and Usâ which questions the capacity of gardens to strengthen the resilience of contemporary cities and their ability to adapt to the challenges of climate change, loss of biodiversity and finite resources.
Curated by Archizoom and Habitat Research Center, EPFL
FRIEZE
Susanne Ahn, Judith Bax, Peter Bergv, Inge Bobbink, Bosch Slabbers Landscape, Matthijs Bouw, Combination Noorwaard, Conseil diplomatique des bassins versants, Dilip da Cunha, Robbert de Koning, Bruno de Meulder and Kelly Shannon, Camille de Toledo, Georges Descombes, Julie Donofrio, Matthieu Duperrex, Arun P. Elhance, Malin Falkenmark, Harold N. Fisk, Marino Gatto, Patrick Geddes, Christophe Girot, Groupement Superpositions, Jim Harrison, Norris Hundley, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Ipv Delft, Maria Kaika, Ailton Krenak, Yvana Kuhn, Frederic Law Olmsted, Aldo Leopold, Phil Lewis, Anuradha Mathur, Ian McHarg, Kerry McWalter, Han Meyer, Maria Mies, Steffen Nijhuis, Platte River Development Committee with Kenneth R. Wright, ElisĂ©e Reclus, Rijkswaterstaat, Andrea Rinaldo, Ignacio RodrĂguez-Iturbe, FrĂ©dĂ©ric Rossano, Marin Schaffner, Viktor Schauberger, Vandana Shiva, Dirk Sijmons, Murugesu Sivapalan, Erik Swyngedouw, Sybrand Tjallingii, Erik van Eekelen, Lodewijk van Nieuwenhuijze, Paola ViganĂČ and Bernardo Secchi with Lorenzo Fabian, Charles Waldheim, West 8, Anne Whiston Spirn, Mark Winsor, World Water Forum, Kongjian Yu
EXPLORATIONS
Francis AlĂżs, Anna CarratalĂ (Laboratory of Environmental Virology LEV, EPFL), Gilles ClĂ©ment, Collectif Affluent, Collectif Bassines Non Merci and Les SoulĂšvements de la Terre, Renaud Defrancesco, Environmental Chemistry Laboratory (EPFL) with Faculty of Geosciences (UNIL) and Social Computing Group (IDIAP & EPFL), Fragmentin, Freudiger, IC Eau, Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies EPFL (Prof. Emmanuel Rey, Dr. Sara Formery, Dr. Martine Laprise, Dr. Judith Drouilles, Dr. Sergi Aguacil, ClĂ©ment Cattin, Pascal Michon), Laboratoire dâUrbanisme EPFL (StĂ©phanie Amstutz, Julien Audemars, Messaouda Bounemer and Killian Worreth, Philip BuÌrgi, Daniela GalvĂĄn Ortiz, Marina Garlatti, Olivier Lalancette, Loan Laurent, Chiara Lombardi Dellamonica, Ada Massarente, Francesco Montresor, Erwan Möri, Alessandra Patarot, Federico Sebastian Reichel, Ricardo Silva Aguiar), LĂ©manscope and LĂ©XPLORE plateforme (Center for Limnology, EPFL), Fabian Marti, Carmen Perrin with Jacques Demierre, JuÌrg Conzett and Georges Descombes, Pool is Cool, Reporterre and Off Investigation, rrreefs (Marie Griesmar, Ulrike Pfreundt, Hanna KuhfuĂ, Josephine Graf), Studio Paola ViganĂČ with ULiĂšge and Yellow Window, Truwant+Rodet+, Marie Velardi
LAUSANNE JARDINS 2024
La riviĂšre augmentĂ©e (ClĂ©ment Ringot, Jacopo Fochi, Ken Sangberg, Lucas Lerchs), EAUtopia (Memoscape landscape design; Elena Moretti, Claudia Mezzapesa, Isabella Mori, Laura Maccioni, Atelier Officina Chiodo Fisso; Alessio Verdolino, Emanuele Ricchi Atelier), Jardin dâAisance (TRIBU architecture, EYAB, Jardins Permanents, ANECO), Les Beaux Dimanches (Daniel Duque, Luisa Fernanda SĂ enz, Iriles Yataghene, Pierre Godest, Esteban Lena), Traite-moi bien! (Amandine MuÌller, Gwendoline Zlizi, SĂ©bastien Jobin, and the students of the class ES-T JPAY, Centre dâenseignement professionnel de Morges with Florent LiĂšvre), Eau voleur! (Service des parcs et domaines; Philippe Petoud, Philippe Tendon, SĂ©bastien Liardon, Damien Junod), LâArĂȘte (AnaĂ«lle Centeno, Benjamin Senften, JaĂŻro Mugnai, Emmanuel Larue), Paysages disparus, les Ăźles forel (Nancy Couling, Ralf Steeg, Sara Gerber, Maude Sauvage, Ivo Stotz), Pierrot (Charlotte Dubois, Projet de Master, ECAL / Ăcole cantonale dâart de Lausanne), Totora (Florian DuÌrig, Guillaume Capt, AndrĂ© Schlaepfer), Mirador (Victoria Guffroy, NoĂ© Chassot with Adrien Rovero â ECAL / Ăcole cantonale dâart de Lausanne), Infiniment Peu (Sowatorini Landschaft â Philipp Appel, Felix Dalisdas, Sebastian Sowa, Bastian ten Haaf, Gianluca Torini), Jardin de circulation, jardin de pluie (Habitat Research Center, EPFL â Paola ViganĂČ, Tommaso Pietropolli, Loan Laurent with the collaboration of Luca Rossi, Murielle Thomet, ZoĂ© Daeppen, JĂ©rĂŽme Pellet, RĂ©my Poisot, Vincent Osselin), Recto-Versant (Marine de CarbonniĂšres, Carmen Perrin, Aureliano Ramella, Lorenzo Ramella), Flon Bleu (Service des parcs et domaines â Alexandre Audonnet, Coline Beguim, Christophe Paschoud, Thomas Waltensperger), Au dessus du gazon, le brouillard (Luciano Antonietti, Alice Fiorini, Basil Merz, Flore SchĂ€rrer, Katia Schmit, Sylvie Viollier), Rives oubliĂ©es (NoĂ«lle Bollinger, Ostschweizer Fachhochschule, with Andrea Cejka, Markus Huber and Roger Aeschbach), Surface (Coralie Berchtold, Max Leiss, Yann Junod), Terrain dâherbes, jardins de jeu (8000.agency; ElmÄs; SĂ©bastien Lacomblez), Bateaux de-ci, de-lĂ (SiĂąn Sprenger and landscape architecture students with Andrea Cejka, Markus Huber and Roger Aeschbach â Ostschweizer Fachhochschule), Natures contre-cultures (Nadia Elamly, Marion Fonjallaz, Morgane Hofstetter, Janus Lafontaine Carboni, Lucas Peyronel), GiĂĄ The (Arianna Frascoli, Shugo Hama, Jovan Minic, Shunri Nishizawa, Clara Werneck), Jardin Nautique (Margot Bluteau, Nicolas Delucinge, Gazel Thibault, Vanessa Giroux, SĂ©bastien LabbĂ©), Runway Rain (Saida BruÌckner, Dominic Fritschi, Alessio De Gottardi, Sven Högger, GĂ©raldine Recker, Fabian Tobias Reiner), Lâeau sous nos pieds (Phileas Erembert, SĂ©bastien Mathyer avec Cassie Vernet, Enzo Dal Mas, Marouchka Moritz and SĂ©bastien Rivas, Haute Ă©cole du paysage, dâingĂ©nierie et dâarchitecture), Lâheure du GrĂšbe (Service des parcs et domaines â Fanny Allienne, RĂ©mi Desarzens, Romain Latapie, Jeremy Pamingle), Dune du Vent Bleu (GRUE â Marie AllĂ©aume, NathanaĂ«lle BaĂ«s-Cantillon, Rodolphe Raguccia), MĂ©lusine au jardin (Camille DelĂšgue, GuÌnther Galligioni, Martin Koenig), Archipelago (DU Studio â Steffen HĂ€gele, Tina KuÌng; Dr. Dieter Ramseier, Ăcole polytechnique fĂ©dĂ©rale de Zurich; Tayio Onorato; Dr. Christopher Robinson, EAWAG), Jardin sur lâeau (Jana Hartmann, Dennis HĂ€usler), Le Jardin dâEole (Mathieu Lucas, Valentin Calame, Nessim Kaufman), Craquelures dans le rĂ©el (Fujan Fahmi & Michael Mosch, Ilse Cardenas & Diego Escamilla, Federico Lepre, Lucia Espinosa de los Monteros, Gonzalo Peña), Forest Project (Yufei He, James Horkulak, Lewis Horkulak, Pan Hu), Revivre (Service des parcs et domaines â Robert Popescu, Francesc Clarena, Jacques Pache), Les Bains dâAtlantis (MG AssociĂ©s â ThĂ©o Lambert, Pablo Gabbay, Pierre MĂ©nĂ©trey, Floriane Jungo; Pascal Yerly), Bains Olympiques (Kristina Bartova, Daniel Markov, Petra Babkova, Tomas Babka, Veronika Dlabac, Frantisek Dlabac), Affleurement (SPIN â Carlotta Montefoschi, NiccolĂČ Cau, Giulia Tasselli), Delta (LR Architectes, Profil Paysage, T/Rex Architecture), Le Cercle des oiseaux (En-Dehors â Romain Legros, Swann Cherpillod; ellipsearchitecture â Yannick Claessens, Mattia Pretolani; Julien Mercier, Christophe Guberan), Ă flots (Diego Soluoguren)
CURATORIAL TEAM
Habitat Research Center: Prof. Paola ViganĂČ, Tommaso Pietropolli, Loan Laurent, Hugo Silva Costa avec Matthew Skjonsberg
Archizoom: Roxane Le Grelle, Cyril Veillon
SCENOGRAPHY
SolĂšne Hoffmann
EXHIBITION SET-UP
Marie Bourdon, Arthur Douillet, Léa Guillotin, Emilie Hamel, Léo Perrin-Livenais, Julia Petrachenko, Carolina Pichler, Lalie Porteret, Maël Zahaf
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Sophie Wietlisbach
ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND PROOFREADING
Patrick Lennon
FRENCH TRANSLATION AND PROOFREADING
Anne Lemoine
PRODUCTION
Atelier La Grange (Stéphane Louis and Gianni Musio)
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Mathilde de Laage, Monique Keller, RĂ©my Poisot, Lorette Coen, Vincenzo Artico, Giovanni de Cesare, Tony Arborino, Paolo Perona, Mathias Kondolf, Marie Griesmar, Sara Formery, Rosalie Le Grelle, Paul SteinbruÌck, Centre Pompidou, Radosava Tatic, lâAtelier Maquettes de lâEPFL