Atlas of Emergency
Architectures of Emergency
The Atlas of Emergency appears as a research methodology within the thesis Architectures of Emergency. This thesis seeks to investigate the current operationalization of the Emergency understood as a symbolic object constructed through spaces and times that have been subtracted and impoverished. However, the Emergency also starts with actions and means that integrate spatial navigation codes within the operational socio-ecologies of attention to social support infrastructures. These procedures are designed from an " emergency embodiment", defined as collective operations based on responsibility and care towards an inhabited environment.
Finding a methodology to investigate these spatial navigation codes from Emergency seems necessary. On the one hand, confronting architectural tools with Emergency operations allows us to generate relationships, and recompose the events, and their tangible effects. On the other hand, architectural practices, from their collective processes, can actively operate in the co-construction of methods and meanings. What kind of definitions and methodologies will be necessary for the collective representation of Emergency? From what examples can we draw? What are their imaginaries and what architectures do they generate?
The Atlas of Emergency is born from the search for these methodologies, from a new perspective with the construction of a theory of Emergency rooted in spatial practices and enriched by an interdisciplinary environmental reading.
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Architectures of Emergency
The Atlas of Emergency appears as a research methodology within the thesis Architectures of Emergency. This thesis seeks to investigate the current operationalization of the Emergency understood as a symbolic object constructed through spaces and times that have been subtracted and impoverished. However, the Emergency also starts with actions and means that integrate spatial navigation codes within the operational socio-ecologies of attention to social support infrastructures. These procedures are designed from an " emergency embodiment", defined as collective operations based on responsibility and care towards an inhabited environment.
Finding a methodology to investigate these spatial navigation codes from Emergency seems necessary. On the one hand, confronting architectural tools with Emergency operations allows us to generate relationships, and recompose the events, and their tangible effects. On the other hand, architectural practices, from their collective processes, can actively operate in the co-construction of methods and meanings. What kind of definitions and methodologies will be necessary for the collective representation of Emergency? From what examples can we draw? What are their imaginaries and what architectures do they generate?
The Atlas of Emergency is born from the search for these methodologies, from a new perspective with the construction of a theory of Emergency rooted in spatial practices and enriched by an interdisciplinary environmental reading.
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Participants
Estefania Mompean Botias
Ph.D. candidate at ALICE laboratory at EPFL (2021-2025). Her research explores the Emergency conditions, the study of their ambivalences, examining the new connotations of regulation that the Emergency States are acquiring, and identifying how architecture and urban studies respond to these situations.
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Estefania Mompean Botias
Ph.D. candidate at ALICE laboratory at EPFL (2021-2025). Her research explores the Emergency conditions, the study of their ambivalences, examining the new connotations of regulation that the Emergency States are acquiring, and identifying how architecture and urban studies respond to these situations.
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