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monographies

Robopoïèses: les intelligences artificielles de la nature (2e ed.) 2024, André Ourednik. Robopoiesis : the Artificial Intelligences of Nature (2nd revised and augmented edition), La Baconnière, Genève.
Robopoïèses: les intelligences artificielles de la nature 2021, André Ourednik. Robopoieses : the Artificial Intelligences of Nature (1st edition), La Baconnière, Genève.
Hypertopie 2019, André Ourednik. Hypertopia: from utopia to omniscience, La Baconnière, Genève
Wikitractatus 2014, André Ourednik. Wikitractatus, Hélice Hélas, Vevey.

PhD Thesis

L'habitant et la cohabitation PhD André Ourednik 2010, André Ourednik. Cohabiting the Models of the Inhabited Space, Thèse de Doctorat ès Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Master Thesis

La géographie cellulaire 2005, André Ourednik. Cellular Geography: towards a geographical epistemology of cellular automata, Thèse de Master, Université de Lausanne.

Papers

Volltext - Literaturmagazin - 2025 2025, André Ourednik. Die künstlichen Intelligenzen der Natur, in Volltext - Literaturmagazin, 2025/1, Wien, S. 30-40.
Le Courrier 2024, André Ourednik. Tomorrow, the Festival of the Automata, in Le Courrier, Genève, 10 mai 2024
Le Courrier 2024, André Ourednik. At the Periphery of the Galvanosphere, in Le Courrier, Genève, 20 septembre 2024
ACM : AI Beyon Deus ex Machina 2022, Jakub Mlynář, Farzaneh Bahrami, André Ourednik, Nico Mutzner, Himanshu Verma, Hamed Alavi. AI beyond Deus ex Machina – Reimagining Intelligence in Future Cities with Urban Experts, in CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Stress and emotional arousal in urban environments 2022, Marc Winz, Ola Söderström, Aïcha Rizzotti-Kaddouri, Steve Visinand, André Ourednik, Jennifer Küster, Barbara Bailey. Stress and emotional arousal in urban environments: A biosocial study with persons having experienced a first-episode of psychosis and persons at risk, in Health Place. 2022 Mar 11;75:102762.
Social Media Platforms are Failed Cities 2021, André Ourednik, Jakub Mlynář, Nico Mutzner, Hamed Alavi. Social Media Platforms are Failed Cities, in ACM Interactions, Volume 28, Issue 6, November - December 2021 pp. 62–66
Impossible territoire Kraïenski 2021, André Ourednik. The impossible territory and the maps of the boyar Kraiensky, in GeoAgenda No. 4/2021. pp. 13-15.
Helice_Helas_Bifurcations 2021, André Ourednik. The Bifurcation as a View of the Mind, in Bifuraction(s), Hélice Hélas, Vevey. pp. 287-300.
L’écologie documentaire et l’inconscient réticulaire des institutions 2021, André Ourednik. Documentary Ecology and the Reticular Unconscious of the Institutions, in Arbido, Revue professionnelle pour archivistes, bibliothécaires et documentalistes, volume 2021/4 'Le document, c'est quoi?'.
La Cinquième Saison 2019, André Ourednik. Between Art and Truth with Machine Learning, in La Cinquième Saison: Revue littéraire romande, volume 6, 'Portrait des robots', 2019.
Feeling like a state 2018, André Ourednik, Guido Koller, Peter Fleer, Stefan Nellen. Feeling like a State. The Sentiments Tide of Swiss Diplomacy through the Eye of the Algorithm, in Administory : Journal for the History of Public Administration, Volume 3: Issue 1, 31 Dec 2018, pp. 112–146
3D dasymetric map of Swiss Referndum results 2017, André Ourednik. The Third Dimension of Political Mapping: exploiting map interactivity for a better understanding of election and referendum results, in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, volume 44, 2017.
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research 2017, Riccardo Scarinci, Farzaneh Bahrami, André Ourednik, Michel Bierlaire. An exploration of moving walkways as a transport system in urban centers, in European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 17:2,
Andreas Duscha, MUC 2011 2016, André Ourednik. Drifts in the Syncretic Space: airports and their places of prayer, in État des non-lieux Archipel no. 38.
A Contrario no. 22 2016, André Ourednik. Auto-erotisms and Dromomanias, in A contrario, 2016/1 (n° 22), pp. 83-102.
A Cartographic Turn 2016, André Ourednik. Augmented Reality and the Places of Dreams, in Lévy, Jacques (dir.) A Cartographic Turn. Mapping and the Spatial Challenge in Social Sciences., EPFL Press & Routledge. pp. 299-320.
EspacesTemps.net 2014, André Ourednik. The Impossible Here, in EspacesTemps.net, 6.2014
Cacahouète spatiale 2013, André Ourednik. Great Tours Beyond the Kármán Line, in Alexandre Joly - La cacahouète spatiale Art&Fiction.
LeTemps 2013, André Ourednik. Teleworking or tele-spousing? Variations on mobility in Switzerland, in Le Temps, jeudi 17 janvier 2013
Visualisation de flux géographiques 2013, André Ourednik. Visualizing Geographical Flows, in Rapport pour la DATAR sous mandat du Laboratoire Chôros EPFL.
Perspectographe 2013, André Ourednik. Time and the Perspectograph: Geography on a Sheet of Paper, in Collage - Périodique d'urbanisme, d'aménagement et d'environnement n° 2/13.
LeTemps 2012, André Ourednik. The Islands of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in Le Temps, mercredi 6 juin 2012
LeTemps 2012, André Ourednik. Journey Beyond the Karman Line, in Le Temps, mardi 21 février 2012
Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza 2012, André Ourednik. Understanding the Ecumene through Interactive Mapping and Movement-Sensitive Population Indicators: the Case of the Canton Valais, Switzerland, in Lucrările Seminarului Geografic "Dimitrie Cantemir" n° 33, 2012.
Millepiani 39 2012, André Ourednik. The instinct, the machine, the imprint, (trad. Martina Tempestini) in Politica e istituzioni per una filosofia in divenire, Millepiani n° 39, Novembre 2012.
EspacesTemps.net 2012, André Ourednik. Mapping the diachronic reality of the inhabited space on 2D, in EspacesTemps.net, 27.2.1012
LeTemps 2011, André Ourednik. The Human Colony on Mars as a Social Issue, in Le Temps, vendredi 4 novembre 2011
Millepiani 37|38 2011, André Ourednik. The labyrinths of the environment and the scales of the subject, (trad. Stefano Vailati) in Usciti del Futuro, Millepiani n° 37|38, Novembre 2011, pp. 215-228.
Urbanisme, n° 378, Mai-Juin 2011 2011, Jacques Lévy, André Ourednik. The city they want, the city they make, in Urbanisme n° 378, Mai-Juin 2011.
Kafka et les territoires de l'espérance (version preprint révisée) 2011, André Ourednik. Kafka and the territories of hope, in Michael Jakob et Juan Rigoli (eds): Nouveaux territoires, Compar(a)ison, An International Journal of Comparative Literature, vol. 28., pp. 91-109.
Le sfide cartografiche. Movimento, partecipazione, rischio 2010, André Ourednik. Mapping the diachronic reality of space in two dimensions, in Emanuela Casti e Jacques Lévy (a cura di): Le sfide cartografiche. Movimento, partecipazione, rischio, Universtà degli Studi di Bergamo: il lavoro editoriale, pp. 65-77.
ICCSA 2009 LNCS 5592 2009, André Ourednik. Assessing the Impact of Individual Attitude towards Otherness on the Structure of Urban Residential Space: A Multi-actor Model, in O. Gervasi et al. (Eds.): Computational Science and its Applications — ICCSA 2009, Part I, LNCS 5592, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag,pp.189-204.
EspacesTemps.net 2009, André Ourednik. Daruma. Or ritual as an instrument of the future, in EspacesTemps.net, 6.2009
EspacesTemps.net 2009, André Ourednik. Conatus and the honey of John the Baptist, in EspacesTemps.net, 6.2009
EspacesTemps.net 2008, André Ourednik. Tomorrow, the vernacular world langage, in EspacesTemps.net, 6.2008
roceedings ECTQG'07 2007, André Ourednik. Interaction maximization and the observed distribution of urban populations: An agent-based model of humanity’s metric condition, in Proceedings of the 15th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG'07), Lausanne: UNIL, pp. 291-296 (unabriged version with figures in the conference CD).
revue internationale de géomatique 2007, André Ourednik. Retroactive segregation mechanisms, between an urban society and its space: an agent-based model, in Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Dynamiques urbaines et mobilités, vol. 17 no.2/2007, pp. 183-206.
EspacesTemps.net 2007, André Ourednik. LCD and parsley, in EspacesTemps.net, 10.2007
EspacesTemps.net 2007, André Ourednik. Right to life or barbarism, in EspacesTemps.net, 1.2007
Articulo, journal of urban research 2005, André Ourednik. Autopsy of a divine iteration, in Articulo, octobre 2005
Iowa road 2004, André Ourednik. Midwest, this Winter, in Irrégulier no. 6, Lausanne
2000, André Ourednik. Tool, a Long Waiting, in TWIN, Zürich

Reviews

Panthère noire dans un jardin 2015, André Ourednik. Critique of ‘Jean-François Haas, Panthère noire dans un jardin’, in Viceversa Littérature.
EspacesTemps.net 2010, André Ourednik. Territories and thinkers, in EspacesTemps.net, 8.2010
EspacesTemps.net 2006, André Ourednik. Xyloglossaries, in EspacesTemps.net, 2.2006

Translations

David Dunn, Extractions des espaces sauvages. Cybernétique de l’écoute, écologie sonore. 2011, André Ourednik. David Dunn, Wilderness Extractions., David Dunn, 2011, "Extractions des espaces sauvages. Cybernétique de l’écoute, écologie sonore. Textes 1981-2011."
(+ CD Espaces déserts), Lionel Bize, Francesco Gregorio, Samia Guerid, Aline Hostettler, Christian Indermuhle, Thibault Walter (éds.). Traduit de l’américain par Lionel Bize, Francesco Gregorio, Samia Guerid, Aline Hostettler, Christian Indermuhle, André Ourednik et Arno Renken 144 pages + CD

Posters

Les Nuits Suisses [détail] 2008, André Ourednik. Every minute of the world, at Journée de la recherche 2008, Session Poster, EPFL.

Student works

TIC = [TTI,TTC] 2004, André Ourednik. Travel and telecommunications: A study of the impact of phenomena related to tele-services and interactive tele-leisure on individual mobility, (sous la supervision du Prof. Giuseppe Pini, institut de géographie)
Sigmund Freud / Friedrich Nietzsche 2004, André Ourednik. The notion of "Pulsion" in the works of Nietzsche and Freud, (sous la supervision du Prof. Raphaël Célis, section de philosophie)
2004, André Ourednik. Philosophy of cellular automata, (sous la supervision du Prof. Michael Esfeld, section de philosophie)
2003, André Ourednik. Topomorphosis, (sous la supervision du Prof. Jean-Bernard Racine, institut de géographie)
Wilhelm Dilthey 2003, André Ourednik. Dilthey, (sous la supervision de la Prof. Ada Neschke, section de philosophie)