Publications
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2026
Patrimonialiser l’impermanent. Regards anthropologiques sur le campus de l’EPFL
2026.Participation à la Table-ronde [Elément blanc – Film et discussion]
2026.Patrimoine inclusif: lieux et voix invisibilisés
2026.Creativity and innovation in heritage bureaucracy: avalanche risk management as intangible cultural heritage in Switzerland
The Heritage, Creativity and Innovation Nexus: Critical Approaches and Interdisciplinary Perspectives; London: Routledge (United Kingdom), 2026. p. 162 – 180.The heritage, creativity and innovation nexus: an introduction
The Heritage, Creativity and Innovation Nexus: Critical Approaches and Interdisciplinary Perspectives; London: Routledge (United Kingdom), 2026. p. 1 – 12.Reconversion des anciennes usines et requalification patrimoniale
2026. Navigating exhausted landscapes, EPFL, Switzerland, 2026-03-25.Patrimonio inclusivo: voci e luoghi invisibilizzati
2026.Governing Heritage, Revitalizing the Rural: Policy Intersections in China
2026. Socio-technical transformations in Rural China, Crêt-Bérard, Switzerland, 2026-02-10.The Heritage, Creativity and Innovation Nexus: Critical Approaches and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
London: Routledge (United Kingdom), 2026.2025
Enjeux actuels du patrimoine culturel: perspectives anthropologiques
2025. Before and After: construire collectivement l’avenir du patrimoine culturel ? 1er Forum sur le patrimoine culturel de la Suisse, Dialogue Culturel National, Winterthur, Switzeland, 2025-11-27.From Folklore to Climate Adaptation: Rethinking Intangible Cultural Heritage through Avalanche Risk Management
2025. Anthropology & Sociology Conversation (2025), Geneva Graduate Institute, 2025-11-11.Moderation of the Poster Presentations “Intangible Heritage and Unseen Identities”
2025. A Future for whose Past? The Heritage of Minorities, Fringe Groups and People Without a Lobby., Ascona, Switzerland, 2025-10-21 – 2025-10-24.Minorities and the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. UNESCO’s international list and the Swiss Inventory
2025. A Future for whose Past? The Heritage of Minorities, Fringe Groups and People Without a Lobby., Ascona, Switzerland, 2025-10-21 – 2025-10-24.Patrimoine inclusif : lieux et voix invisibilisés
2025.A Future for whose past? The Heritage of Minorities, Fringe Groups and People without a Lobby
2025.Dal vapore all’algoritmo: patrimonio industriale e scenari urbani del progresso tecnologico
Rivitalizzazione del patrimonio industriale per nuovi scenari urbani; Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects Ticino, 2025. p. 64 – 69.Vers une patrimonialisation inclusive : une lecture critique des archives du Montreux Jazz Festival à l’aune des mémoires plurielles
2025. Enjeux éthiques et politiques de la patrimonialisation, Avignon, France, 2025-10-02 – 2025-10-03.Between corporate power and urban democracy: Dalmine’s spatial negotiations (1950-1994)
2025 Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, Buffalo, New York, USA, 2025-09-18 – 2025-09-21.Building Empire Otherwise: Towards an Urban Design History of Company Towns and Corporate Colonization in the Twentieth Century
2025 Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, Buffalo, New York, USA, 2025-09-18 – 2025-09-21.Heritage Infrastructures: Materialities, flows and exchanges: an introduction
2025. Heritage infrastructures: materialities, flows and exchanges, Rome, Italy, 2025-09-18 – 2025-09-19.Heritage infrastructures: Materialities, Flows and Exchanges
2025.Patrimoine inclusif : lieux et voix invisibilisés
2025.Anthropologie critique de la réalité virtuelle : entre médiation patrimoniale et rapports de pouvoir
2025. Table ronde: Les expériences immersives pour la recherche et la valorisation du patrimoine-FIFAN, Nyon, Suisse, 2025-09-03.Hidden histories of industrial heritage: micro-narratives from the company town of Dalmine, Italy
Unveiling hidden heritage: Narratives, politics, and agency; LetteraVentidue, 2025. p. 128 – 143.Introduction: From typology to an inclusive epistemology
Unveiling hidden heritage: narratives, politics and agency; Siracusa: LetteraVentidue, 2025. p. 1 – 19.Unveiling hidden heritage: Narratives, politics, and agency
Siracusa: LetteraVentidue, 2025.Resistance of the Stone and Fragmented Digital Collective Memory in Gulou, China
The Digitalisation of Memory Practices in China: Contesting the Curating State; Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. p. 99 – 119.Revitalizing Industrial Heritage: Mega-events and collective memory in public space transformation
2025. The 18th International Congress of TICCIH : Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montréal, Canada, 2022-08-28 – 2022-09-03.Hop on the train! – Interactive platform to explore the collection of Montreux Jazz Memories interviews and synthesize interconnected stories
2025
Invited guest on Final Critics of the course “ARCH2002-001 Architecture Studio 2”
2025.Les stories du Montreux Jazz Festival
2025. Table-Ronde: Les Stories du Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, 2025-07-13.Surveilled Domesticity, Michohistories of Modern Architectural History
Michohistories of Modern Architectural History 2025, Art History Department of the Goethe University Frankfurt, 2025-07-10.An Anthropological Perspective on Heritage: Connecting the Tangible and the Intangible
The (theoretical) discourse : A future for whose past ?, Museum Swiss Architecture, Basel, Switzerland, 2025-06-12.Learning from the South: Cultural Landscapes and Transnational Dialogues on Urbanization in Transition
2025.La gestion des risques d’avalanches: élément du patrimoine culturel immatériel au prisme du développement durable
Heritage for Sustainable Development, Genève, Suisse, 2025-04-02.Regards anthropologiques sur les lieux de sociabilité dans les villes
Urban Legends Porto – Théorie et critique du projet BA3 (Gay et Menzel), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-03-25.Governing by design: company towns and the biopolitical project
Workshop: Human Autonomy, Spatial Design, and the Future of Work, Delft, The Netherlands, 2025-02-25.À qui appartient le patrimoine culturel immatériel ? Whose Intangible Cultural Heritage?
A Future For Whose Past? – A Guidebook; Zurich: Hier und Jetzt (Switzerland), 2025. p. 430 – 444.Cultural Heritage and Urban Landscapes: an Anthropological Approach
World Architecture. 2025. Vol. 417, num. 03-04, p. 37 – 44.The authentic city: uses of industrial heritage in large-scale regeneration projects, a comparative analysis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.Peeing in Public, Planning and Norming the Network of Inclusive, Safe and Clean Public Toilets in Lausanne
2025.Reconfiguring the Mountains: Mechanisms and Practices of Chongli’s Extended Urbanization Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.Financialized Green State Entrepreneurialism and the Urbanization of Mountains: Chongli’s Consumption-based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2025. DOI : 10.1111/1468-2427.70036.La gestion du risque d’avalanche : vers un nouveau modèle pour penser le PCI
Le patrimoine vivant en situation d’urgence: Actes du 9e colloque international du CFPCI. 2025. Vol. 11, p. 13 – 22.2024
Dominant discourses framing the reuse of industrial heritage in the context of mega-events: a relationship matrix approach
Built Heritage. 2024. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 45. DOI : 10.1186/s43238-024-00154-z.Anthropological Insights into the Cultural Heritage and Urban Landscape
2024. 4th International Forum on Engineering Education & 2024 Tsinghua Design Science Conference, Shougang, Beijing, PRC, 2024-11-28 – 2024-11-29.Chair – Discussant: Panel Patrimoines, collectionneurs et transmetteurs
2024. Chinese Heritage Arenas. Territories and Heritage Practices in Contemporary Sinophone Worlds, Paris, France, 2024-11-21 – 2024-11-22.Les politiques du patrimoine : Archive documentaire et registre Mémoire du Monde de l’UNESCO – L’exemple du Montreux Jazz Festival
2024. Patrimoine(s) en question(s) – Rencontres de la FFA pour l’art 2024, Saint-Maurice, Suisse, 2024-10-10.Industrial heritage in the hosting of mega-events: assessing the potential for urban redevelopment and social change?
Built Heritage. 2024. Vol. 8, num. 1. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00157-w.Intersecting trajectories: Cultural heritage policies and rural revitalisation in China
2024. European Association for Chinese Studies, 25th biennial Conference 2024, Tallinn, Estonia, 2024-08-27 – 2024-08-30.Financialized ecological civilization and cultural consumption: extended urbanization in the mountains of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
35th International Geographical Congress 2024, Dublin, 2024-08-24 – 2024-08-30.The state-led approach to industrial heritage in China’s mega-events: capital accumulation, urban regeneration, and heritage preservation
Built Heritage. 2024. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 1 – 14. DOI : 10.1186/s43238-024-00144-1.Des héritages et des patrimoines : Critique et production des savoirs
2024. XXIIe Congrès international des sociologues de langue française (AISLF), Ottawa, Canada, 2024-07-08 – 2024-07-12.Héritage, patrimoine, crise des savoirs
2024. XXIIe Congrès international des sociologues de langue française (AISLF), Ottawa, Canada, 2024-07-08 – 2024-07-12.Exploring the Dominant Discourse in Mega-events Legacy and Industrial Heritage Reuse through a Relationship Matrix
(Industrial) Heritage, Mega-events and Urban Regeneration: Empirical Study on Discourses, Function and Spatial Experience, Torino, Italy, May 22, 2024.S’engager et transmettre en féministe : pour une éthique du care à l’université
Engagements: Penser la responsabilité de l’anthropologie avec Ellen Hertz; Neuchâtel: Éditions Alphil – Presses universitaires suisses, 2024.Résumé des interviews Montreux Jazz Memories
2024.La gestion du risque d’avalanches
Formation continue: Patrimoine culturel immatériel et développement durable, INP 2024, Musée de Salagon, France, 13-17 mai 2024.Anthropological Insights into the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Surrounding Beijing’s Forbidden City
Open Fields Lunch: Landscape Habitats, EPFL, Switzerland, April 9, 2024.Discovering perceived images of reused industrial heritage from user-generated photographs: Three mega-event reinforced industrial heritage transformation cases
2024. Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA) – 6th Edition, Pisa, Italy, 2022-12-05 – 2022-12-06. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-48517-6_6.Intangible culture in built heritage: Practices of heritage-making at international and national scales
Future Heritage, Kernfach Master FS24, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland, 2024-03-14.Towards a critical anthropology of the (de)creative turn in heritage
Anthropological Theory. 2024. DOI : 10.1177/14634996241227272.Chungking Express : Proximité physique et distance émotionnelle dans le Hong Kong des années 1990
Ecrans Urbains 2024 (Ville, architecture, paysage au cinéma), Lausanne, Suisse, 21 Février 2024.Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues
American Anthropologist. 2024. DOI : 10.1111/aman.13950.Discovering common perception of Beijing 2022 Big Air Venue through photos from WeChat Channel & Weibo: A computer-assisted approach
2024.Avalanche Risk Management: from science to practice and from the ground to research
Webinar ICH and climate change, Paris, France, January 18, 2024.La gestion du danger d’avalanches en patrimoine
Formation patrimoine culturel immatériel: PCI et gestion des ressources naturelles, Garae Ethnopôle, Carcassonne, France, January 9, 2023.2023
Financialized ecological civilization and cultural consumption: Mountain area development driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
« Trait d’Urbain » seminar, UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 30, 2023.Science and technology in the sustainabilization of ICH: the case of Avalanche Risk Management
2023. Special Forum on Safeguarding Living Heritage for Sustainability, UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office for East Asia and World Bank, Dunhuang, RPC, September 7, 2023.Urbanization Paradigm Shift in China’s Mountain Areas Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Financialized Ecological Civilization and Cultural Consumption
2023 RSA Annual Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 14–17, 2023.Platform-mediated live musical performance in China: New social practices and urban cultural spaces
Geoforum. 2023. Vol. 140, p. 103723. DOI : 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103723.Requestioning heritage narratives and the politics of storytelling
Hidden/(un)told heritage narratives and the politics of storytelling, Swiss Institute in Rome, Italy, May 15-16, 2023.The Leisure activities in community “vacant” lots: How the grassroots practices appropriate the public space in China
XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, RC21 Regional and Urban Development, Melbourne, Australia, June 25-July 1, 2023.Porter le temps : Mémoires urbaines d’un site horloger
Table ronde, Le Locle, Suisse, February 24, 2023.Introduction : urban regeneration and industrial heritage
Urban Regeneration and Industrial Heritage, EPFL, February 23-24, 2023.Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions
Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2023.Introduction : Héritage et patrimoine au prisme du conjonctif et du disjonctif
Journées d’études Héritage et Patrimoine, Marseille, France, June 15-16, 2023.The Governance of creative heritage and neo-aesthetics: between entertainment and politics in Asia
Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions; Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2023.Pluralizing creativities in heritage governance
Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions; Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2023.Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage
2023. 19th IUEAS-WAU World Anthropology Congress, Marginalities, uncertainties, and world anthropologies: enlivening past and envision future, New Delhi, India, October 14-20, 2023.2022
Analysis of Beijing 2022 Big Air Venue through data from WeChat Channel & Weibo
WeChat Ethnography: New Practices and Limits of an Emerging Research Method. Part 1, Geneva, Switzerland, October 7, 2022.WeChat as an unavoidable research tool for fieldwork, and its problems
WeChat Ethnography: New Practices and Limits of an Emerging Research Method, Geneva, Switzerland, October 7, 2022.The resistance of stone: thick and fragmented urban collective memory in Gulou
Digitalization of Memory in China, Bonn, Germany, 21-22 September 2022.The state-led use of industrial heritage in mega-events in China
TICCIH 2022 Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montreal, Canada, August 28 – September 3, 2022.Mega Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: A typological matrix between narratives and practices
TICCIH 2022 Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montreal, Canada, 28 August – 3 September 2022.Avalanche et UNESCO : rien à voir ?
Festival International du Film Alpin (FIFAD), Diablerets, Suisse, August 13-20, 2022.China’s extended urbanization driven by the ‘consumption city’ in the context of financialized ecological civilization
Transactions in Planning and Urban Research. 2022. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 1 – 15. DOI : 10.1177/27541223221101720.Porter le temps: mémoires urbaines du Locle et de la Chaux-de-Fonds
The production of urban memory: an interdisciplinary roundtable, Milano, Italy, May 26, 2022.Uses of Cultural Heritage: The iconic case of Shougang
Dialogue on Winter Olympic Games. From Beijing to Milan: Design Innovations for Sustainability, Virtual Event, May 12, 2022.Le Locle/La Chaux-de-Fonds: Public histories and industrial heritage in contemporary cities
Open Fields Lunch–Productive habitats, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 14, 2022.Governance of Heritage and Creativity: an introductory framework
Governing Heritage and Creativity: frictions, avenues and questions, Rome, Italy, April 4-5, 2022.Shougang ou la nouvelle icône du patrimoine industriel chinois
2022.Rumba congolaise et enjeux de l’inscription au patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’UNESCO
Table ronde at the Black Movies Festival, Genève, 27.01.2022.L’art d’accommoder les ancêtres de la nation : Analyse du processus patrimonial national des tombeaux musulmans dans le Sud-est chinois (Canton, Quanzhou et Yangzhou)
2022.Mega-Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: The making of public space between narratives and practices
2022. TICCIH 2022 Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montreal, Montreal, Canada, August 28 – September 3, 2022.Le levier du patrimoine culturel à l’occasion des JO 2022 pour un développement urbain plus qualitatif
2022.2021
Les anthropologues face aux “traditions vivantes”: l’exemple suisse
Colloque international Nommer / Normer : Approches pluridisciplinaires du patrimoine culturel immatériel, Paris, France, November 25-26, 2021.Reframing Heritage, Creativity and Innovation
Heritage, Creativity and Innovation Nexus: an international workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 4-5, 2021.La Suisse en inventaire : politiques de sauvegarde du PCI
Patrimoine culturel immatériel : Cadres international et national, réseaux, territoires, Vitré, France, 12-13 octobre 2021.Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022: ecological civilization as a new step for extended urbanization to enhance consumption
The 2021 annual conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development (RC21 Conference): Sensing the city, [Online edition] Antwerpen, Belgium, July 14-16, 2021.Explorer la micropolitique de transformation à Pékin : le patrimoine culturel vu à travers le prisme de la mémoire collective d’un quartier historique
Assises de l’Anthropologie des Mondes Chinois, Paris, France, Juin 16-18, 2021.Temporalité et savoirs urbains: une recherche située autour d’un processus patrimonial
Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d’un site horologer; Genève: MētisPresses, 2021.Une pluralité des formes patrimoniales pour une reconnaissance sur les listes de l’UNESCO, 2002-2020
Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d’un site horologer; Genève: MētisPresses, 2021.Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d’un site horloger
Genève: MētisPresses, 2021.Nurturing the socialist spiritual civilization: Interplay between anthropology and politics
Swiss Anthropological Association Annual Meeting Reviewing “the field”: contemporary debates and approaches to fieldwork, Ascona, Switzerland, April 22-24, 2021.Property rights redistribution and the spatial evolution of the Chinese danwei compound: a case study in Beijing
Journal Of Housing And The Built Environment. 2021. Vol. 36, p. 1585 – 1602. DOI : 10.1007/s10901-020-09810-z.Cultivating public space and yangge dance
Symposium XJTLU Public Space Forum, Suzhou, PRC, Live Zoom Event,Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions
People-Centered Methodologies for Heritage Conservation: Exploring Emotional Attachment to Historic Urban Places; London and New York: Routledge, 2021.Beijing from below stories of marginalized lives in the capitals center by Harriet Evans
The China Quarterly. 2021. Vol. 248, p. 1234 – 1236. DOI : 10.1017/S0305741021001272.Heritage as new social engineering in China: a re-colonializing perspective
Heritage and Decoloniality: the Geneva exchanges, Geneva, Suisse, October 21-22, 2021.Places in Common: An Ethnography of Public Gatherings in China
China Perspectives. 2021. num. 3, p. 75 – 76.2020
Innovators in Urban China: Makerspaces and Marginality with Impact
Urban Planning. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 68 – 77. DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i4.3218.The Social Life of Heritage-Making: Cultural Representations and Frictions
The Heritage Turn in China. The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.Le rôle des experts dans la création de l’inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel en Suisse
Le patrimoine culturel immatériel au seuil des sciences sociales. Actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, septembre 2012; Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2020.Le maker, construction d’une figure politique de l’innovation en Chine urbaine
EspacesTemps.net. 2020. p. 24 pages. DOI : 10.26151/espacestemps.net-t0f8-r859.Planning: from model to modules
Realtime: making digital China; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2020.La mémoire collective et l’espace. Traces, récits et expériences autour d’un paysage urbain romain
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.2019
Ville éphémère : la Fête des Vignerons aujourd’hui et demain
Ecosystème de Lavaux. Lavaux Patrimoine mondial, Grandvaux, Suisse, November 5, 2019.Cultural heritage, leisure and Beijing Olympic Winter Games 2022
Workshop at the Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, Beijing, PRC, October 28, 2019.Historic Urban Landscape as an opportunity for change? Evidence from Beijing
Globalized Heritage in Asia: regional articulations, silences, contestations, Université de Genève, Suisse, May 24, 2019.Entangled Memories in the Bell and Drum Towers in Beijing
ACC Lecture Architecture: conjectures and refutations, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, March 14, 2019.Vous avez dit: “traditions vivantes urbaines” en Suisse?
2019. Colloque international: Une approche interdisciplinaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel, Museum Fünf Kontinente, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Deutschland, Mars 7-8, 2019.2018
Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions
Association of Critical Heritage Studies 4th Biennal conference, Heritage Across Boarders, Hangzhou, China, September 1-6, 2018.Inventories without archives: the list of “Living Traditions in Switzerland”
Archiving Intangible Cultural Heritage & Performing Arts – a Symposium for Living Traditions, Artlab, EPFL, Lausanne, August 6-7, 2018.Politiques de la tradition. Le patrimoine culturel immatériel
Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2018.Resistance to places of collective memories: A rapid Transformation Landscape in Beijing
The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography; London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 259 – 278.Historic Urban Landscape in Beijing: The Gulou Project and Its Contested Memories
Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations; London: Routledge, 2018.2017
The Practices of World Heritage-Making: Chinese National Hegemony and UNESCO Narratives
Lecture series Master Degree in Architecture Construction City, Turin, Italy, May 17, 2017.Regards sur les politiques du PCI en Suisse
Patrimoine culturel immatériel; Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2017. p. 317 – 328.Heritage in the Making: a genealogy of successive attempts for UNESCO lists
Public Seminar Memory and the city: An ongoing collective research on the Unesco site of Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, June 27, 2017.Redéfinitions du patrimoine culturel par les marges : Résistances à la Recommandation sur les paysages historiques dans le quartier de Gulou, Beijing
Colloque International Le Patrimoine Mondial : une valeur universelle exceptionnelle ?, Centre des Monuments nationaux, Cité de Carcassonne, France, 4-5 Décembre, 2017.The thickness and fragmentation of urban collective memory: the “resistance of the stones” in Gulou, Beijing
International Symposium on Anthropology undergoing the evolution of communities, Beijing, PRC, September 23, 2017.Urban Scars, Ghosts and Collective Memories : Heritage and Resistance to Patrimonialization in Beijing and Mexico City
School of Architecture / Anna University, Chennai, India, January 27, 2017.Memory and historic urban landscapes: An interdisciplinary research in Mexico-City, Rome and Beijing
2017