Critical Walking: A Methods Seminar
19 February – 7 May 2026 | ETH Zürich. This doctoral seminar has a twofold aim: (1) to develop an in-depth understanding of walking practices and critical walking methodologies across diverse contexts and geographies through theory sessions; and (2) to practise critical walking in walking seminars as a Mehr
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2026
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NSL Colloquium: Working on Transformation – An International Forum on Urban Planning as Learning
12 & 13 March 2026 | ETH Zürich
Working on Transformation
During the last year, members of the Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation (also known as NEWROPE) have documented and systematised the chair’s teaching experiments – to set examples and to invite others to explore and perform „Working on Transformation“ themselves. The examples revolve around pedagogical experiments, with Mehr
Working on Transformation
The publication Working on Transformation documents and systematises the teaching experiments, undertaken by NEWROPE over the past six years.
LUS Doctoral Seminar: More-Than Methodologies: Explorations in Landscape and Urban Research
Fridays, 10:00-12:00 | ETH Zürich, HIL E 67
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2025
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Engaging with Naturecultural Places: Action-Research in Five Sites Across Europe
How can urban areas shaped by both humans and non-humans be investigated and connected? This doctoral project explores naturecultural places in five European cities through first-person action research, engaging directly in their daily life. The aim of this approach is to understand how this model of urban transformation Mehr
A Century of Urban Futures: Archives, Vectors, and Perspectives (1950-2050)
10-11 September 2025 | Symposium | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIB Open Space 2.
Wiederbelebung marginaler Räume: Eine Praxis der imaginativen Aktivierung
Abraumhalden sind ein charakteristisches Landschaftselement ehemaliger Kohlebergbaugebiete. In Flandern und im französischen Norden werden sie Terrils genannt. Lange Zeit galten sie als Randzonen, wurden häufig abgetragen und als Erholungsflächen umgenutzt oder in Grün-Blau-Netzwerke integriert. In Einzelfällen bleiben sie als Zeugnisse des industriellen Erbes erhalten.
Symposium – Stories from Naturecultural Places
26 May 2025, 13.00–17.30 and 27 May 2025, 09.30–14.00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon ONA E 25 Design in Dialogue Lab, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, 8050 Zürich.
LUS Doctoral Crits Spring 2025
23. May 2025, 9:00-13:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, building: HIT, room: F12.
Review of DELUS Journal for Landscape and Urban Studies: Chasing Water
The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies is young and evolving. While it builds on a rich research history across various chairs, its identity still continues to take shape through its doctoral community, lecture series, and biannual research colloquia. In this context, it is particularly noteworthy that the Mehr
LUS Doctoral Crits HS24
4 December 2024, 09:00 – 13:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT F 12. The autumn semester crits will follow a condensed format, featuring five presentations. We are honoured to welcome Prof. Dr. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes from EPFL as our external reviewer.
New Ruralities (NERU)
New Ruralities (NERU) is an Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships programme, which brings together six design units within the universities of ULB (Brussels), POLITO (Torino), UDC (La Coruña), UMinho (Braga), UACEG (Sofia) and ETH (Zürich). The Newrope chair is participating on behalf of ETH. The partnership’s aim is to generate Mehr
DELUS Issue 1
DELUS Issue 1 adopts a water-centric lens through the notion of Chasing Water and presents a collection of writings forming an anthology.
Creating a Situated and Multilayered Understanding of Global Production Space Through Collective Interventions
Rooted in the tension between concrete locations and global networks, between movement and stillness, space and place, and between clusters and dispersed zones, global production landscapes are challenging to understand. Where do these production spaces originate? Who owns, designs, and manages them? Due to the opaque nature of Mehr
DELUS Issue 0
Die Pilotausgabe von DELUS wurde im Herbst 2023 im ONA DiD Lab lanciert. Sie bietet eine Reihe von Einblicken in Fragestellungen zu Landschaft und Stadt und stellt neue Methoden vor, um multiple Welten zu enthüllen und facettenreiche Geschichten zu erzählen. Die Beiträge reichen von der Enträtselung der Geschichte Mehr
LUS Doctoral Crits
15 December 2023, 13:30 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, ONA G41, Neunbrunnenstr. 50.
More Than Human Cinema
7.11. | ETH Zürich Hönggerberg and L200, Zürich. Featuring innovative experimental documentaries reflecting on various aspects of the built environment, this film series will take place over three dates across the Autumn 2023 Semester.
LUS Talks 2023
12.10.-6.12., 18:30-19:30 | ETH Zürich, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, Design in Dialog Lab & L200, Langstr. 200, Zürich. The LUS Talks is a public lecture series, which addresses critical questions in the field of landscape and urban studies.
Lively Cities
Book Launch and Doctoral Colloquium, 26. & 27.10 2023 | Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities – human and nonhuman – that make up the material politics of city making.
Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methods for Landscape and Urban Research
LUS Methodology Seminar, autumn 2023 | on fridays, 10-12, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 67.
More Than Human Cinema: The Two Sights
3 April 2023, 19:00 | L200, Langstrasse 200, Zurich. The screening will feature THE TWO SIGHTS with director Joshua Bonnetta in presence for a Q and A.
Writing Urban Landscapes of the Anthropocene
LUS Methodology Seminar, Spring Semester 2023. Fridays, 11:45-13:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 67.
Doctoral Crits of the Institute of Urban and Landscape Studies LUS
8. December 2022, 13:00-17:30 | ETH Zurich, ONA building, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, Zürich.
Sudamérica LUS Talks
20 October 2022, 18:30 (2 December: 17:30) | ETH Zürich, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, ONA Fokushalle (E7), Zürich. This year, the LUS Talks will engage diverse perspectives from practitioners and theorists addressing South America’s complex social and ecological landscapes.
Film, Architecture, and Urban Studies
19th – 21st of October 2022 | International Symposium | Zurich. Falma Fshazi, Newrope Chair, Prof. Freek Persyn, and Nitin Bathla, Chair of Sociology, Prof. Christian Schmid
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2022
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Writing Landscapes, Writing the Urban
Methodology Seminar | Starting 22 September on Thursdays, 14:00 – 16:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, Rote Hölle, HIL E67.
Kalkulieren oder co-kreieren?
Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters – doch wie finden wir einen Konsens, wenn es um ein geteiltes Gut wie die Nachbarschaft geht? Auf einem Stadtspaziergang erklären zwei Architekt:innen der ETH, wie sie ihre Rolle im Spannungsfeld von Verdichtung, Funktionalität und Schönheit wahrnehmen. Artikel im ETH Globe (online).
Rhythmic Transformations: the L200 Hybrid Space in Zurich
A centrally located hybrid community space in Zurich, at Langstrasse 200, by the name L200, is being shaped since 2018 through a co-creation process, a series of self-organization experiments with an action-oriented participatory design process. By bridging a multitude of social worlds in a small lively place, L200 Mehr
Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies: Towards Sensory, Creative, and Imaginative Methodologies
Starting 24 February 2022 on Thursdays, 10:00 – 12:00 | Methodology Seminar | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA Design in Dialogue Lab.
MOCK-UP
28. August – 31. Oktober 2021 | Ausstellung | S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Basel.
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2021
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ETH-EPFL Summer School: Transects Through Alpine Water Landscapes
16-21 August 2021 | Application deadline PROLONGED: 1 July | Villa Cassel, 3987 Riederalp, Kanton Wallis.
The Things Around Us
16 September 2020 – 14 February 2021 | Exhibition | Canadian Centre for Architecture. Elements of the Design in Dialogue Lab of ETH’s NEWROPE Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation are exhibited at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal as part of ‘The Things Around Us’.
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2020
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Collective Learning in Action
10/11 November | Workshop | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, Design in Dialogue Lab & online. Spatial design is often confronted with an immense diversity of transformation processes. As a designer, it is often difficult to fully acknowledge this immanent complexity and find a position to intervene.
From Collective Learning to Collective Action. Where Social Psychology and Design Thinking Meet
Spatial design is often confronted with an immense diversity of transformation processes. As a designer it is often difficult to fully acknowledge this immanent complexity and find a position to intervene. How can we answer questions as ‘With whom do I collaborate? How does personal transformation play a Mehr
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2020
Das neue NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2020 ist da!
Wouldn’t it be Nice if Architects Started Dreaming About Building Less
20 October 2021, approx. 17:40–19:00 | Inaugural lecture Freek Persyn | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, Audimax (HG F 30).
Launch Party LUS: Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies
CANCELLED 13 November, 17:00 | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL H 40.9. Presentation, guest speaker, and apéro.
2019–2020 MAS ETH in Housing: Kick-off Event
26 September, 15:00–19:00 | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIT H 22.1. 17:30–18:30: Guest lecture by MAS in Housing alumni Susanne Schmid: «A History of Collective Livings: Forms of Shared Housing». Followed by an Apéro.