STUDIO EPFL
Autumn 2021

Network of Care: Through An Isotropy of WalkEce Emanetoglu, Caio Fialho, Akshar Gajjar, and Fotis Panagopoulos

“…any framework that seeks to separate nature and society into discrete realms is utterly disabling for a radical and liberatory politics.”
Alex Loftus. Everyday Environmentalism. 2012.

The territory of Greater Geneva, as natural as it looks, is a landscape of manicured, managed, and productive nature. The current trend of urbanism and lifestyle has increasingly distanced humans from various ecosystem services and functions. Climate challenges are hence as much a social issue as they are ecological and technological.

The ‘Network of Care’ proposes a socio-ecological project where Care is a reciprocal act between nature and culture at territorial scale. The project sets into action a context specific movement which identifies spaces of ecological distress and produces opportunities of care that spread education and awareness in the society leading to social consolidation.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank everyone who supported our research project by patiently answering our questions and providing us with information. Special Thanks to: Luca Rossi, Andréa Finger Stitch, Marina Garlatti, Prof Anthony Lehmann, Derek P. T. H. Christie, and all the interviewees from site visits who shared their valuable experiences and knowledge with us.

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ETH Zürich D-ARCH

Programme Director
Milica Topalović, Assoc. Professor
Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planinng

Programme Co-ordinator
Dr. Nancy Couling

EPFL ENAC

Programme Director
Paola Viganò, Professor
Habitat Research Center

Programme Co-ordinator
Dr. Tommaso Pietropolli