Publications related to Cultural imperialism

Counterculture as a Financial Asset: The Commodification of LX Factory in Lisbon

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

In recent decades, European cultural policies have become inseparable from urban policies, with culture becoming both the new promotional tool for cities aiming to be ‘creative’ (Vanolo, 2008; Vivant, 2009) and the source of unprecedented real estate profi ...

2023

Gospel of the Marseille Docker - Nicholas Derybolsky from 1952

Sila Karatas

This text, accompanied by a ‘gospel’ that I made by montaging the US-recorded captions, is an attempt for re-narrating Marshall Plan’s discourse on the working class, aka the so-called ‘free labor’ of the US against the ‘communist labor’ of the “Soviet thr ...

EPFL Press2023

The Paris/Geneva Divide. A Network Analysis of the Archives of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations

The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) is often framed as a step in the constitution of a “League of Minds” – a place where scientists and writers reign, and a necessary part of a successful and harmonious “League of Nations” – but ...

De Gruyter2022

A Third Way Alternative; Critical Assessments from the Model of the Yugoslav City

Jana Konstantinova

This dissertation aims to demonstrate the development, meaning and significance of cultural infrastructure in the cities of Skopje, Belgrade and Sarajevo (1945-1991). In the historic context, culture became the fundamental critical tool with which to yield ...

EPFL2021

Painting by Numbers: Computational Methods and the History of Art

Leonardo Laurence Impett

This thesis presents a new methodology for computational art history, in the tradition of Distant Reading from literary criticism. This method is based on operationalisation, the transcription of a concept or theory from cultural history into an algorithm. ...

EPFL2020

The Advent of the Sharing Culture and its Effect on Product Pricing

Thomas Alois Weber, Maryam Razeghian Jahromi

Empirical observations suggest that consumers' propensity towards sharing varies with culture and the individuals' socio-demographic characteristics. In an economy with overlapping generations of heterogeneous consumers, we study optimal dynamic selling by ...

2019

Stakeholders’ Perspectives to Support the Integration of Ecosystem Services in Spatial Planning in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

Integrating the concept of ecosystem services (ES) into spatial planning is an opportunity to make land use and management choices that maximize the delivery of multiple ES. The assessment of social demand can be useful for the identification of priority a ...

2019

Ambiguïtés de la « ville créative » : néolibéralisation, condition urbaine et puissances politiques de l'art

Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

Art and culture have a renewed role in the contemporary city. Theories relative to the creative class, the creative economy and the creative city are both descriptive and prescriptive; they focus on the role of culture in the urban production process and, ...

EPFL2017

Rethinking the house form in poor areas : researching a pedagogical methodology to improve self-build housing in Angola by creating a culturally and ecologically sensitive expert system

Joana Rosa Ferreira Leite dos Santos Aleixo

Studying housing requires a multidisciplinary approach in order to come up with comprehensive solutions for physical, social and cultural needs. This thesis intends to bring those needs into the process of creating the house, by proposing a methodology to ...

EPFL2016

Le facteur séisme dans l'architecture vernaculaire : un décryptage entre déterminants culturels, types de structures et ressources cognitives parasismiques

Milo Hofmann

A large part of ancient built environments in earthquake prone areas have been accomplished exclusively thanks to the experience that their builders developed over centuries of practice. Several of the resulting techniques have showed a satisfactory perfor ...

EPFL2015

Multidisciplinary design of suitable assistive technologies for motor disabilities in Colombia

Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano

raumatic or pathological brain lesions often result in motor disabilities that have strong personal and social effects. Assistive technologies can support this population, potentially improving their autonomy and promoting their participation in society. H ...

2014

Long-term programming of enhanced aggression by peripuberty stress in female rats

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana

Human literature has linked adverse early life experiences with an increased risk to develop violent behaviors in both boys and girls. We have previously shown that male rats submitted to stress during the peripuberty period display as adults abnormal aggr ...

Elsevier2013

Verso un'oggettività della bellezza. L'insegnamento dei Grigioni

Stefano Zerbi, Luca Conti, Marco Svimbersky

Contemporary society is based on a perpetual evolution of personal opinions and likings. The transmission of knowledge is questioned, but if the education and teaching about a critical vision is considered an essential instrument, so the schools and the ma ...

2010

Nondestructive Characterization by Advanced Synchrotron Light Techniques: Spectromicroscopy and Coherent Radiology

Giorgio Margaritondo

The advanced characteristics of synchrotron light has led in recent years to the development of a series of new experimental techniques to investigate chemical and physical properties on a microscopic scale. Although originally developed for materials scie ...

2008