Swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research 2015

We have great pleasure to announce that the GREEN DENSITY project, initiated and directed by Emmanuel Rey in the course of his academic activities within the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has won the Swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research 2015 (td-award 2015). Presented every two years by the transdisciplinary research network of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (td-net), with the support of the Mercator Foundation Switzerland, this prize is intended to reward outstanding research projects that address major society issues by using different scientific disciplines. On behalf of all the participants in the project, Emmanuel Rey was presented with the award on September 9, 2015, at the International Transdisciplinarity Conference held at the Congress Center, Basel.