(s)Pace: Infrastructure of Emancipatory Practice

Anika Gercke

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Briana-Stefania Prelicz

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Arthur Benjamin Adrien Tessier

EPFL emphasizes education, research, and innovation, yet employability quietly shapes much of student life. Students are often guided toward meeting immediate industry expectations, sometimes at the expense of exploration and autonomy. Seeking to challenge this dynamic to create different rhythms and priorities, through solidarity, alternative use of campus spaces, and a temporal ROSCA, we propose a 6 month buffer. Mobilizing collective agency, this new center would allow students to engage with their studies on their own terms.

Files
napTech (PDF), cuisineTech (PDF), cleanTech (PDF)
Team
Unit:
RIOT
Teachers:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Assistants:
Elif Erez Henderson, Antoine Iweins D'Eeckhoutte, Nathalie Marj
Infos
Year:
2026
Period:
Y3 (BA), Y1 (MA), Y2 (MA), Spring
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction, Society, Structure
Copyright:
CC BY Licence
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