«Not Just Roads»
28 May 2026, 19:30 – 21:00 | Film screening | Museum für Gestaltung, Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich.
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
Sarajevo Citizens Build Urban Imaginaries
What does collective planning, designing, and building really mean? When implementing new urban projects, architects face the challenge of visualizing planned changes for citizens. While diagrams, drawings, and renderings are standard, they often fail to communicate the physical reality of a project. The Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo (UTPS) Mehr
From Teaching to Active Learning: Co-designing a Toolbox for Inclusive and Regenerative Cities
How can architectural education enable students to move beyond receiving lecture content and toward the co-production of transferable urban design knowledge? The Urban Stories Lecture Series is developing an active-learning framework that links lectures, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, and an emerging e-platform. Students shift from passive recipients of content Mehr
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2026
Das neue NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2026 ist da!
Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanization
1. April, 19:00 | Book launch | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, gta Foyer, HIL D 50.5, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5. How do cinema and planetary urbanization shape each other amid ecological and democratic crises? This book maps shifts in visual culture since the late 1980s as filmmakers, photographers, and artists probe Mehr
East–West Divan Urbanism: 100 Ideas for Dialogue
Postponed | Exhibition | East Jerusalem, International Peace and Cooperation Center (IPCC).
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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Jerusalem Divan Urbanism: 100 Ideas for Dialogue
10 December 2025 (exhibition opening) – 31 January 2026 | in two key locations in Jerusalem.
International Cooperation Forum 2025 at ETH Zürich
At this year’s International Cooperation Forum, the Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo – including the first Urban Digital Twin for the Canton of Sarajevo was presented. The presentation took place during Session 4: Swiss Solutions for Smart Cities, in the presence of Swiss Federal Councilors Ignazio Cassis and Guy Mehr
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025
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Kigali Unplanned Neighbourhood Upgrading Tool (KUNUT)
Kigali, Rwanda, has emerged as a pioneer in urban and digital transformation. Kigali sets a new inversed model of city development that expands from its hilltops downwards to the vital wetlands. The Kigali Unplanned Neighbourhood Upgrading Tool (KUNUT) provides a research platform that integrates digital technology with ecological Mehr
LUS Doctoral Crits Spring 2025
23. May 2025, 9:00-13:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, building: HIT, room: F12.
100 Ideas for the Western Balkans: Belgrade Underground Opening
13. Februar – 13. March 2025 | Exhibition | Museum of Applied Art (MAA) Belgrade.
InternationaI Cooperation Forum Switzerland
27 & 28 February 2025 | ETH Zürich. This year, we have chosen to focus on the potential of economic growth and how Switzerland can help developing and partner countries to capitalise on that in a socially, environmentally and climate-friendly way.
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.
Digitale Zwillinge für unsere Städte
4-D-Modelle helfen, Städte zu verstehen und nachhaltig zu entwickeln. Am Forum des «Netzwerks Stadt und Landschaft» an der ETH Zürich wird dies anhand aktueller Forschung veranschaulicht. Artikel im Velojournal
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board: Video and Manifesto now online!
Did you miss the NSL Forum and Cycling Research Board «Digital Twins for Europe’s Future Mobility», on September 4th? The video link is now available on the event website! In addition, for a quick read and an overview of the workshops, you can download the «Collective Manifesto for Mehr
Brasilândia Design Studio at University of St. Gallen Latin America Week
21-24 October 2024 | St. Gallen, SQUARE, Guisanstrasse 20
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2024
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Digital Twin für Sarajevo
Die Professur von Professor Hubert Klumpner hat das erste KI-unterstütze 4D-Modell für Sarajevo entworfen. Es berücksichtigt auch die zeitliche Dimension in der Stadtplanung und war die Grundlage für öffentliche Anhörungen. «Um die Komplexität der Stadt abbilden zu können, brauchen wir neue Methoden, Prozesse und Technologien», sagt Klumpner.
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2024
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100 Ideas for the Western Balkans: Designing Urban Imaginaries
11 March – 8 April 2024 | Exhibition | Tirana, Albania, Pyramid of Tirana.
LUS Doctoral Crits
15 December 2023, 13:30 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, ONA G41, Neunbrunnenstr. 50.
Prof. Maria Conen und Prof. Dr. Elli Mosayebi erneuern das Direktorium des ETH Wohnforum
Die Departementsleitung Architektur der ETH Zürich hat Prof. Maria Conen und Prof. Dr. Elli Mosayebi ins Leitungsgremium des ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE gewählt. Sie treten ihre Position am 1. November 2023 als Nachfolgerinnen von Prof. Hubert Klumpner und Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid, langjährige Mitglieder des Direktoriums, an.
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.
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2023
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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.
Days of Architecture Sarajevo
15 September – 27 October | Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina. This year’s Days of Architecture festival in Sarajevo celebrates the upcoming 40th anniversary of the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic Winter Games.
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.
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2023
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Studio Mobil Sarajevo / Venice – The Architecture of Human and Environmental Rights
Biennale Venice, 17–19 May, Venice Biennale, Lido, Venice, IT.
Writing Urban Landscapes of the Anthropocene
LUS Methodology Seminar, Spring Semester 2023. Fridays, 11:45-13:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 67.
Tierrita. Film screening followed by a discussion
19 January 2023, 18-19:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 1. Ein Bild, das Baum, draussen, Gras, Säugetier enthält. Automatisch generierte Beschreibung. The documentary «Tierrita» by visual anthropologist Leonie Pock offers insights into the struggle of a small farming community for their land in rural Colombia.
How can Urban Policy-makers Leverage Science and Technology to Create Safer, more Inclusive Cities that Serve the Needs of all Citizens?
Two overarching technological methods including agent-based modelling and simulations, and visualisation technology are connecting and overlapping three urban themes of public lighting, segregation, and security in Cape Town and Bogotá. Within this common ground called Urban Research Incubator (URI), researchers collaborate on several projects.
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.
Bright environments: Daylight in Sustainable Building Design
25 August 2023, 8:30-18:00 | Conference | ETH Zürich, HIB 52 Open Space, Hönggerberg.
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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Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture 2022/23
18 December 2022 until 12 March 2023 | Shenzhen, China. The UABB is the only exhibition in the world to explore issues of urbanization.
False Clouds
9 September – 20 October | National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Urban Design Studio Sarajevo, BiH.
Writing Landscapes, Writing the Urban
Methodology Seminar | Starting 22 September on Thursdays, 14:00 – 16:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, Rote Hölle, HIL E67.