University of Lausanne
Institute of geography and sustainability
Mouline - Géopolis 3514
CH-1015 Lausanne
Research projects
 | Sports for the planet? The sustainability of major sports events Major sports events such as the Olympic Games, the Rugby World Cup and the World Athletics Championships have become ... | 2024-2028 |
 | Thinking with the Global Easts The decolonial turn has led to a fundamental rethinking of the colonial imprints on theories and structures of knowle... | 2022-2040 |
 | Cultural flagships: pathways, practices and politics of a global urban type This project examines cultural flagships such as iconic museums, libraries and concert halls as constituting an emerg... | 2020-2024 |
| Paris 2024, Los Angeles 2028: A turnaround for the Olympics after the crisis? In this project we propose to investigate whether the preparations for the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 and Los Angele... | 2019-2022 | |
| Mega-events as urban interventions: growth and impacts The costs and infrastructural requirements of mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup put them ... More... | 2017-2019 | |
| Making, being and becoming rat: Rethinking the city's relationship with nature My research project examines how cities and citizens enact their relationship to nature through the... | 2017-2022 | |
| "Fanatic Energy in the Wrong Places": Potemkin Neoliberalism and Domestic Soft Power in the 2018 Men's Football World Cup in Russia Mega-events like the World Cup have a documented history of profound effects on the cities that host them. Proponents... | 2016-2019 | |
| Hazardous planning: improvising the Olympics This project is about planning the unplannable: mega-projects that stretch over several years, sometimes decades, and... | 2016-2019 |