Teaching CoursesFoundations of digital humanities (EN)This course introduces the core concepts and methodologies of Digital Humanities, integrating both theoretical and practical perspectives. Students learn to work with large-scale cultural datasets, acquiring the tools and techniques required for their processing, analysis, and interpretation.Urban digital twins (EN)This course explores urban digital twins through theory and hands-on modeling. Students build dynamic models integrating real-time, historical, and predictive data. A project on the EPFL campus using real data serves as the case study.Digital humanities (FR)This course explores how the Humanities are being transformed in the age of AI and big data. Each session focuses on the future of a specific discipline (history, philosophy, art history). Students develop a digital prototype (Vibe coding) to accelerate research and training in SHS.Historical Document and Media Processing (EN)This course introduces historical document processing, focusing on concepts and methods that enable the transformation of digitised materials into searchable information. Grounded in machine learning and document processing, it also covers data curation and copyright considerations.
