Workshops
Since 2015, HAT has promoted workshops in Switzerland and abroad, gathering scholars and professionals in an interdisciplinary approach.

2025
- Heritage infrastructures: materialities, flows and exchanges. International workshop organized with P. B. Larsen (UNIGE), Istituto Svizzero of Rome, 18-19 September 2025.
2024
- “Disentangling heritage and festivals: identities, expressions and folklorization”, with Peter Larsen (UniGE), Istituto Svizzero of Rome, 20-21 September 2024.
- Héritage, patrimoine, crise des savoirs, panel avec C. Barrère (LACTH, ENSAP-Lille), E. Eyebiyi (LASDEL & CREPOS) et M. Girard (INAMA, ENSA-Marseille), XXIIe Congrès international des sociologues de langue française (AISLF), Ottawa, 8-12 juillet 2024.
- “Héritage et patrimoine : mise en perspective,” Journées d’études avec C. Barrère (LACTH, ENSAP-Lille), E. Eyebiyi (LASDEL & CREPOS) & M. Girard (INAMA, ENSA-Marseille), EPFL, 21-22 mars 2024.
2023
- Héritage et patrimoine au prisme du conjonctif et du disjonctif, Journées d’études with C. Barrère (LACTH, ENSAP-Lille), E. Eyebiyi (LASDEL & CREPOS) & M. Girard (INAMA, ENSA-Marseille), ENSA-Marseille, June 15-16.
- Hidden (un)told heritage narratives and the politics of story-telling, International workshop organized with P. B. Larsen (UNIGE), Istituto Svizzero of Rome, May 15-16.
- Urban regeneration and industrial heritage. Between spatial practices and governance, Doctoral seminar organized with H. Roux & A. K. De Almeida Santos (Heritage, Culture and City Research group & LABU, EPFL) in collaboration with F. De Pieri (Department of Architecture and Design, PoliTO) & G. Setti (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, PoliMI), EDOC/EDAR, EPFL, February 23-24.
2022
- Héritage et patrimoine dans un monde en crise, Journées d’études with C. Barrère (LACTH, ENSAP-Lille) & M. Girard (INAMA, ENSA-Marseille), Université de Lille Nord de France, Villeneuve d’Ascq, November 27-28.
- Governing heritage and creativity: frictions, avenues and questions, International workshop organized with P. B. Larsen (UNIGE), Istituto Svizzero of Rome, April 4-5.
2021
- Interrogating heritage and creativity, Doctoral seminar organized with P. B. Larsen (CDH visiting scholar) with the collaboration of the Swiss Graduate Program in Anthropology/CUSO, EDAR and EDDH/EPFL, EPFL, November 5-6. è DéJà DANS LE RESEARCH HERITAGE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION NEXUS
- The heritage, creativity and innovation nexus: an international workshop, organized with P. B.Larsen (CDH visiting scholar), FNS, CDH, EPFL, November 4-5. => è DéJà DANS LE RESEARCH HERITAGE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION NEXUS
2019
- The invention of Carouge, 50 years after: crossing history, theory and urban ethnography, Doctoral seminar with E. Cogato Lanza (LABU, EPFL) in collaboration with the Università dell Svizzera Italiana (USI) & the Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio, the Department of Architecture and Design, PoliTO, the Fondation Braillard Architectes, Geneva, Fondation Braillard Architectes & UNIGE, May 21-23.
2018
- Mapping spaces for making, International workshop organized with M. Bolli, C. Renaud and M. Laperrouza (CDH), Xspace, Shanghai, China, March 3.
- Mapping spaces for making, Web-to-book binding workshop, International workshop organized with M. Bolli, C. Renaud and M. Laperrouza (CDH), Center for Urban Design and Architecture, Shenzhen, China, March 10.
2017
- Exploring urban memories: methodologies applied to research projects, International joint-PoliTO-EPFL doctoral seminar, organized with N. Braghieri and Y. Pedrazzini (ENAC, EPFL) and F. De Pieri (DAD, PoliTO), Castello del Valentino, Torino, June 27-28.
- Comparing habitats, International PhD Seminar, organized with E. Cogato Lanza (LABU, EPFL), M. Barcelloni Corte (LABU, EPFL) in collaboration with Habitat Research Center (EPFL) & the Institute of Geography and Sustainability, (UNIL), Morges, Maison d’Igor (VD), June 12-14.
- How to study makerspaces?, Internationl workshop organized by with M. Bolli, C. Renaud and M.Laperrouza (CDH), Atelier de Renens, Switzerland, May 17-19.
- Memory and the city: research approaches and methodologies, International joint PoliTO-EPFL doctoral school, organized with F. De Pieri and A. Armando (DAD, PoliTO), Castello del Valentino, Torino, February 6-7.
- Hybrid Cities: how the concept of hybridization helps us to understand the production of urban space, architecture and urbanism in the Global South, International workshop organized with S. Houllier, C. Iorio and Y. Pedrazzini (LASUR), Anna University, Chennai, India, January 24.
2015
- The architecture of expos, International workshop organized with M. Bonino & F. de Pieri (DAD, PoliTO), Universal Expo Milano, Swiss Pavilion, October 29.
- Mapping controversial memories project in Beijing, International workshop organized with H. Yan (Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage), Beijing Design week, September 25-28.
- Mapping controversial memories project: a multidisciplinary study of Beijing, Mexico City and Rome, International workshop organized with Y. Pedrazzini (LASUR), Istituto Svizzero di Roma, February 17-20.