Lecture Series on "The Future of the Past"

Organized by SwissEngineering, in partnership with Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (PPUR), Le Cercle Littéraire de Lausanne and PONT12, this series of lectures on « The Future of the Past » ended on 7 September with a talk by Emmanuel Rey. The purpose of the series was to ask four authors from PPUR to share their thoughts on the notions of memory, continuity and evolution in their respective fields. Speakers were Gilbert Coutaz (Archives in Switzerland, between the past and the future), Jacques Lucan (Comments on the current status of architecture), Frédéric Kaplan (Venice Time Machine) and Emmanuel Rey (From urban wastelands to sustainable neighbourhoods).