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Philosopher, Honorary Professor – Institute of Geography and Sustainability, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne.A member of the Eco-Century Project Scientific Council, Dominique Bourg has participated in numerous Fondation Braillard Architectes events, such as Designing Transition I and is a guest expert at the Transition Workshop.Read +

Duncan Baker-Brown BSc. DipArch FRSA ARB RIBA Founder of BakerBrown, Climate Literacy Champion at the School of Architecture & Design University of Brighton Founder of BakerBrown, Climate Literacy Champion at the School of Architecture & Design University of BrightonDuncan is an architect, academic and environmental activist. Author of "The Re-Use Atlas: a designer's guide towards a circular economy", he has been practicing, researching and teaching for over 25 years in the field of sustainable development and closed loop systems. He recently founded BakerBrown, an architecture and consulting firm created to address the enormous demands presented by the climate and ecological emergency and the challenges of designing in a post-COVID world. Over the years, Duncan's practice has won numerous awards, including the RIBA National Awards and a special award from the Stephen Lawrence Prize for the Brighton Waste House - the prize money has since been used to create a student award for closed-loop circular design at the University of Brighton, where Duncan teaches.Duncan has worked on projects as diverse as the Greenwich Millennium Village in London, the RIBA's "House of the Future," the award-winning Brighton Waste House, and he recently designed a new building for the Glyndebourne Opera House, which will be constructed from waste streams and organic materials grown on site. Duncan is currently working on zero carbon social housing projects with Brighton & Hove District Council, where he recently led the drafting of the soon to be published Circular Economy Roadmap.Duncan is currently the principal investigator of two EU Interreg research programs focused on construction waste reuse, deconstruction and reconstruction of buildings. It is organizing a summer school for August 2021, which will be based in Brighton. It will ask teams of students from across northern Europe to focus on reusing materials from deconstructed buildings in the neighborhood. Called "School of Re-construction", Duncan is working on this project with Rotor DC from Brussels, Bellastock from Paris and the Brighton & Hove City Council.He is an experienced public speaker. It also writes academic papers, organizes exhibitions and symposia, and hosts workshops in the UK, Europe and sometimes further afield. These events test ideas about the important role of the built environment in positively contributing to the existential challenge that the climate and ecological emergency poses to all sections of society, especially the disenfranchised.Guest expert at the TRANSITION WORKSHOP since 2021.

Sarah Barth is an architect MSc ETH and founder of the Atelier für Architektologie. She has taught and researched at the chair of urban history of Prof. Vittorio M. Lampugnani at ETH Zurich and was an assistant to Prof. Harry Gugger at EPFL. Harry Gugger at the EPFL. Since 2018 she is a board member of "Architektur Dialoge" and since 2021 member of the board of the”Stif-ung für preisgünstigen Wohnraum Basel-Stadt”. She is a member of the Monument Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Sarah Barth is a founding member of Countdown 2030, a collective that advocates a change in architecture in times of the climate crisis.Since 2021, guest expert at the Transition Workshop.

Associate Professor – Consumer Decision and Sustainable Behavior Lab – University of GenevaRead +

Carmen de Jong is a professor of hydrology at the University of Strasbourg, France. Her research focuses on assessing the vulnerability and resilience of mountain and groundwater-fed river landscapes to hydrological extremes and anthropogenic impacts, supported by citizen observation. Her main focus is on floods and droughts and the environmental impacts of ski resorts. She received her M.S. in physical geography from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, her Ph.D. on sediment and riverbed dynamics in the Rockies and Alps from FU Berlin, Germany, and her Habilitation in geography on water balance, droughts, and floods in the High Atlas and Alps from the University of Bonn, Germany. Previously, she was a professor of mountain science at the Mountain Center of the University of Savoie and a postdoctoral researcher at ETH and WSL in Zurich, Switzerland, and at the University of Bonn, Germany. 

Peter Droege heads the Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development, the global consulting and research organization for the rapid transition to regenerative communities, cities, regions and infrastructure. He is also president of Eurosolar, the European association for renewable energy, and general president of the World Council for Renewable Energies.Peter Droege, winner of the European Solar Prize for Education, established the Chair of Sustainable Spatial Development at the University of Liechtenstein while holding a joint chair in the School of Engineering and the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia. An inaugural member of the Zayed Future Energy Award jury and an expert commissioner for cities and climate change for the World Future Council, he also served on the steering committee of the Urban Climate Change Research Network hosted by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University and CUNY. He has taught and conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Architecture and Planning, at the University of Tokyo as the Chair of Urban Engineering at the Center for Research in Advanced Science and Technology, and as the Lend Lease Chair of Urban Design at the University of Sydney.Professor Droege is the author or editor of numerous books, including Intelligent Environments (Elsevier 1997), Urban Energy Transition, 1st Edition: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Power (Elsevier 2008), The Renewable City (Wiley 2006), 100% Renewable - Energy Autonomy in Action (Earthscan 2009 and Routledge 2014), Climate Design (ORO Editions 2010), Regenerative Region: Energy and Climate Atlas of Lake Constance (oekom verlag 2014), Regenerative Räume (oekom verlag 2017), Urban Energy Transition 2 - Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions (2918), Intelligent Environments - Advanced Systems for a Healthy Planet (2022) and Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems.Contributions Keynote speaker at the Transition Workshop since 2020Member of the Project Atlas team of the Geneva Seminar 2016-2017Geneva Seminar 2016-2017

Specialist in climate governance and migration, director of the Hugo Observatory at the University of Liège, teacher at Sciences-Po and the Sorbonne FR (2020)François Gemenne is a specialist of environmental geopolitics and migration governance at the University of Liège, where he is a FNRS senior research associate and the Director of the Observatoire Hugo. He also heads the Observatory on Defence and Climate of the French Ministry of Defence, jointly with Julia Tasse at IRIS. He is a lead author for the IPCC and he also lectures on climate change and migration policies in different universities, including Sciences Po and Sorbonne University in Paris.His research deals mostly with environmental and migration governance. He has worked in particular on populations displaced by environmental changes and the policies of adaptation to climate change, as well as on asylum and migration policies. He has conducted field studies in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, Tuvalu, China, Kyrgyzstan, the Maldives, Mauritius, as well as in Japan after the Fukushima disaster .He is currently coordinating two important European research projects: MAGYC, on migration governance and asylum crises, as well as HABITABLE, on migration induced by climate change. He also coordinated the DEVAST project, one of the first international projects to examine the social and political consequences of the Fukushima disaster. Furthermore, he has been involved in a large number of international research projects on migration and environmental changes, including EACH-FOR, HELIX, EDGE, MISTY and MECLEP, for which he was the global research coordinator.n 2015, he was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to pursue research at Princeton University. He has also been a guest professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Economics in Bratislava, and has spent research stays at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, the University of the South Pacific in Suva (Fiji) and the Australian National University in Canberra.He has also been the scientific advisor of the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, in Paris. He has consulted for several organisations, including the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the British government (Foresight). In 2010, he was awarded the ISDT-Wernaers Prize for achievement in the communication of science to the general public.He holds a joint doctorate in political science from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Liege (Belgium). He also holds a Master’s degree in Development, Environment and Societies from the University of Louvain, as well as a Master of Research in Political Science from the London School of Economics, where he also taught. In 2008, he was awarded a post-doctoral scholarship from the AXA Research Fund. He has published in leading journals, including Science and Global Environmental Change, and has authored several books, amongst which ,2 atlas Atlas of Environmental Migration with D. Ionesco et D. Mokhnacheva, Routledge 2016 Atlas de l’Anthropocène, with A. Rankovic et l’Atelier de Cartographie de Sciences Po (Presses de Sciences Po 2019).He is also the director of the Politics of the Earth series at Presses de Sciences Po, a leading French academic publisher, and the President of the Board of the NGO Climate Voices, which seeks to connect youth from the global North and the global South around climate issues.He teaches in 2022 during the Theory Masterclass of the Transition Workshop online training.

Holder of two master’s degrees, one in environmental engineering and the other in sustainability, her career oscillates between fieldwork and theory, naturals sciences and social sciences, academic world and operational reality.After being project manager for sustainable constructions and urbanisation for years in Paris, she entered the Competences Centre for Sustainability of the University of Lausanne in 2020. She is currently in charge of projects which aim to guide ecological transition policies. In particular, she experimented the downscaling of the Doughnut’s Theory of the economist Kate Raworth (2017) to local scale:  the cross-border territory of the Grand Genève in 2021, then to the University of Lausanne in 2022.Furthermore, her research focuses on common lands in the mountains and their role in nature conservation. 

Head of the Digital Earth Unit (GRID-Geneva) & Senior Lecturer in Earth Observations – Institute for Environmental Sciences- University of GenevaSince 2020, guest expert at the Transition Workshops.Read +

A detailed analysis of the architectural theories and projects that contributed to the construction of cities and landscapes in the 20th century reveals two opposing tensions: on the one hand, the choice to support the economic exploitation of natural resources; on the other, the refusal to do so in the name of an early ecological awareness. These two tendencies not only manifested themselves in the form of the contrast between different professional groups and cultural movements, but even as sometimes indistinguishable parts of the biography of the same author. Faced with these ambivalences, digging into the vestiges of modernity is now more necessary than ever to reinvest the capital that architectural theories and projects have accumulated along the complex path of industrial society.

Dr. Alexandre Hedjazi is a lecturer at the University of Geneva – Institute of Environmental Sciences and Academic Deputy Director of the “Global Environmental Policy Programme”.Since 2021, guest expert at the Transition Workshop.Read +

Physicist by training, Pierre Hollmuller holds a PhD in Science from the University of Geneva, as well as a Master of advanced studies in energy from EPFL. His research and teaching career focuses on the analysis of innovative energy systems, in actual condition of use. He is currently head of the Energy Systems Group at the University of Geneva, and coordinates a pluri-annual Research Partnership with SIG (public energy utility). In parallel to his academic career, he has participated in the foundation and development of several NGOs in the field of energy and community empowerment. His credo, in the field of energy as elsewhere, is that efficiency is the fruit of an iterative process of innovation and training, which needs to be supported by objective analysis and documentation. He has coordinated some 20 research projects and has over 100 publications to his credit.Guest expert at the Transition Workshop since 2021.

Aquatic biologist by training who completed his doctorate on the aquatic plants of the shores of Lake Geneva under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Bernard Lachavanne, Anthony Lehmann very quickly became passionate about the contribution of cartographic and statistical tools to the analysis of our environment. He did a post-doctorate in New Zealand on ferns, then worked at the Swiss Center for Wildlife Cartography in Neuchâtel, before returning to the University of Geneva, seconded to the United Nations Environment Program. He is currently associate professor at the University of Geneva, vice-director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences where he directs the enviroSPACE laboratory which explores various solutions to better understand and manage natural resources in a more sustainable perspective (www. .unige.ch/envirospace).Guest expert at the Transition Workshop since 2021.

Pioneer of ecology since the 1970s, and in parallel with his beginnings in politics, René Longet is also committed to the rights of indigenous peoples. Member of the Socialist Party, he joined the National Council (1982) where he distinguished himself by his humanist commitment. Mayor of the city of Onex between 1999 and 2011, he was also an editor for the Swiss WWF, a member of the Swiss delegation to the UN world summits on sustainable development and a member of the board of directors of SIG since 2012. .

Architect, founder & partner of MVRDV architecture agency, RotterdamGuest expert at the Transition Workshop since 2022.

efore becoming responsible for the development of geothermal energy for the GIS, Michel Meyer was director of the soil and waste geology service (GESDEC) of the Canton of Geneva and geologist cantonal, where he was in charge of the application of the legal bases in the themes of hydrology, polluted sites, gravel pits and landfills, natural hazards, soil protection and Waste Management.Since September 2011: Head of geothermal development at SIG: Organization and development of activities. Implementation of the cantonal GEothermies program(www.geothermies.ch).2007 - 2011 : Director of the geology, soil and waste service (GESDEC) of the Canton of Geneva and cantonal geologist: In charge of the application of the legal bases in the fields of hydrogeology, polluted sites, gravel pits and landfills, natural hazards, soil protection and waste management.2001 - 2007 : Geologist at the cantonal geology service of the Canton of Geneva2000 : Thesis on the geology of the Geneva basin

Guillaume de Morsier is an architect and urban planner graduated from EPFL based in Lausanne. In 2010, he founded with Valentin Kunik the office KUNIK DE MORSIER ARCHITECTES which allowed them to develop a practice operating at the intersection of architecture, art and science. In 2012, they initiated the urban think-tank PARALLEL SPRAWL to study peripheral European territories. In 2018 the project was supported by the Future Architecture Platform, and in 2019 it was exhibited at SAM in Basel. They were recently nominated for the Swiss Art Awards 2020.Tutor at Transition Workshop since 2020.

Yupar Myint has more than 18 years of experiences in building up entrepreneurship programmes and international collaborations. She is currently Head of Entrepreneurship at the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge. She also serves as a mentor and Programme Director at the IECT Hermann Hauser Summer School, Austria. She was previously a Programme Director and Director of International Development at CfEL, Cambridge Judge Business School. She has a special interest in the role of social capital in developing entrepreneurial skills/ mind sets, the creation of innovative ideas and new ventures. She has developed a widely used methodology for analysing entrepreneurship clusters. he has her MBA from Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK in 2002.Guest expert at the Transition Workshop since 2022.

Robert Sadleir is the Director of Bureau Haus Ltd, a firm designing resilient systems for transition. He commenced his career in humanitarian operations with United Nations agencies before shifting focus to risk management and sustainability as head of sustainable infrastructure at the consulting arm of Lloyd’s Register in London. Subsequently, he became involved in developing standards on Sustainable Communities and Smart Cities for the International Standards Organisation and the International Electrotechnical Commission. He is an economist trained at the University of Sydney, The Graduate Institute, Geneva and Harvard University. e is a scientific committee member of the Braillard Architectural Foundation and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London.Guest expert at the Transition Workshop since 2020.

Martin A. Schlaepfer is a Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity and Sustainability at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research interests are in the valuation of nature and biodiversity for conservation, with a recent focus on trees and non-native species. Guest expert at the Transition Workshop since 2021.Bibliography:

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Landscape architect, founder of H+N+S Landscape ArchitectsDirk Sijmons (1949), landscape architect, studied at Delft University of Technology. He worked at the Nature Conservation unit of the Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Social work from 1977 until 1981. From 1981 until 1984 he was head of the strategic policy development and research coordination unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries. From 1984 until 1990 he was head of the Landscape Architecture Department of the Dutch Forestry Commission. From 1990 until 1993 he was coordinator of the Landscape Architecture study program of the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. In 1990 he was one of the three founders of H+N+S Landscape Architects. At H+N+S he is mainly responsible for regional plans.I Chez H+N+S, il est principalement responsable des plans régionaux. Guest expert at the Transition Workshop 2022.Read +

Director of ILEK (Institute of Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design).Mies van der Rohe Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.Co-founders of the German Sustainable Building Council DGNB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen e.V.) and Chairman between April 2008 and June 2010.Guest expert at Transition Workshop since 2020.

Michèle Tranda-Pittion is an EPFL architect and holds a doctorate in the art of building and urban planning from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. Lecturer at UNIGE, she teaches « the design and management of territorial projects » and shares the follow-up of students during the first territorial project workshop of the Master in Territorial Development (MDT). She is also responsible for the TOPOS urban planning office in Geneva.Tutor at Transition Workshop since 2020.Expert for Greater Geneva Consultation.

An urban planner by training and in post for 10 years within the urban planning office of the canton of Geneva, I work more particularly on the development of new districts, their planning in the preparatory phases of building permits as well as on various space projects public. Also responsible for the ecological transition division of the urban planning office, we strengthen our tools for adapting projects to climate issues and unite initiatives to put the ecological transition at the center of our analyzes and our decisions.

Architect, urban planer, director of Habitat Research Center (EPFL)professor at IUAV VeniceGuest expert at the Transition Workshop since 2020.Read + 

Member of the Scientific Council (ECP) since 2021.Guest Expert at Transition Workshop since 2020.Mathis Wackernagel is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and President of Global Footprint Network. He completed a Ph.D. in community and regional planning with Professor William Rees at the University of British Columbia, where his doctoral dissertation developed the Ecological Footprint concept. Mathis also earned a mechanical engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.Mathis also graduated from the EPFL with a degree in mechanical engineering. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than a hundred universities. He previously served as director of the Sustainability Program at Redefining Progress in Oakland, California, and ran the Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad at Anáhuac University in Xalapa, Mexico.Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability, including Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth; Sharing Nature’s Interest; Der Footprint: Die Welt neu vermessen; Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget; and WWF International’s Living Planet Report.Mathis’ awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP), an honorary doctorate from the University of Berne in 2007, a 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2006 WWF Award for Conservation Merit and 2005 Herman Daly Award of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics. He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures (www.enrichlist.org). ohn Elkington identified Mathis among the “Zeronaut 50” Roll of Honor, i.e., leading pioneers who are driving the world’s most significant problems to zero. From 2011 to 2015, Mathis was also the Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Visiting Professor at Cornell University.

Research fellow, School of architecture of NancyTutor at Transition Workshop since 2022