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Students step into the many lives of Naples

Published:02.03.26 — ENAC Week is a mandatory course for all ENAC students in the bachelor’s program. Last year, a group went to Naples and participated in a pedagogical role play for the first time, designed to enhance their understanding of how cities evolve over time.

EPFL's Murten Terapixel Panorama in 360° splendor for the first time

Published:25.02.26 — To mark the 550th anniversary of an event that altered European history, the largest digital image of a single object ever produced – a 1.6-trillion-pixel digital twin of the Murten Panorama – is now on show at the Bern History Museum. The historic physical painting has only been seen once, for six months, in the last 120-years. The digital twin is a restaging of the original, created and transformed through advanced computational processes.

“Cartography is a continuously changing visual dialect”

Published:09.01.26 — What can hundreds of thousands of historical maps tell us about power, culture, and how ideas spread? Through his PhD research, Rémi Petitpierre of the Time Machine Unit research group (TMU) at EPFL explores how maps, and the visual languages behind them, transform across centuries.

Sculptures at EPFL confront the illusion of mastering nature

Published:25.11.25 — Tremblement, a series of eight sculptures by Geneva-based artist Séverin Guelpa installed at the Rolex Learning Center, uses architectural materials to reflect on territory, solidarity, and the necessity for human beings to accept their inability to control nature.

“Do we want our lives to be documented from A to Z?”

Published:06.11.25 — From supermarket checkouts to Olympic stadiums, video surveillance is becoming smarter, more pervasive, and increasingly controversial.