Department / Institute: Prof. Milica Topalovic
The LUS Doctoral Programme – Call for applications
100%, Zurich, fixed-term. The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at the ETH Zurich Department of Architecture invites applications for two doctoral fellowship positions. The fellowship will start on 1 October 2026, with a 100% workload, based in Zurich, and is fixed-term for three-and-a-half years. Job description
Doctoral Fellowship in History and Theory of Architecture
100%, Zurich, fixed-term. The doctoral programme at the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich, offers two fellowship positions to start on 1 October 2026. This programme focuses on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in a wider context of cultural history, including Mehr
LUS Lecture Series
Territories of Extended Urbanisation
Das Konzept der planetary urbanization ist heute ein viel diskutiertes Thema. Die Grenzen der Stadträume sind förmlich explodiert und umfassen mittlerweile riesige Gebiete weit über die Grenzen der grössten Mega-City-Regionen hinaus. Neuartige Urbanisierungsmuster kristallisieren sich in unterschiedlichen Umgebungen heraus und hinterfragen überlieferte Vorstellungen des Städtischen als umfasste Zone Mehr
LUS Doctoral Seminar: More-Than Methodologies: Explorations in Landscape and Urban Research
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2025
LUS Doctoral Crits Autumn 2025
Architecture of Territory: MY CLOUD
Living Together: More-than-Human Ecologies for Architectural Thinking
Urban Agroecology on Uetliberg’s Foothills. A Research and Design Study with Grün Stadt Zürich
How can agriculture become part of Zurich’s urban future? This question guided the joint study conducted by the Chair of Architecture of Territory together with Grün Stadt Zürich (GSZ), the City of Zürich’s public green space department. Against the backdrop of the city’s projected 25% population growth by Mehr
ECLAS Conference 2025: Agricultural Landscapes
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025
Informationsveranstaltung: MAS ETH EPFL in Urban and Territorial Design
EPFL ETH Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design
LUS Doctoral Crits Spring 2025
Sessions on Territory – Agency: Architecture in the Civil Service
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
Amazônía
Awaska Alpa_Woven Territory
14.10.2023–14.01.2024 | Exhibition | Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Awaska Alpa is a research project that critically explores the representation of Inga territory in the Andean Amazon of Colombia. During colonial times, the Spanish crown established the Indigenous resguardo (reserve) as a form of collective land tenure to “protect,” Mehr
Nature conservation and Indigenous territories – Transitioning from the biological to the biocultural
The 16th Conference of Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) took place in Colombia during the last two weeks of October 2024. The city of Cali became the main stage for intergovernmental efforts to protect nature. A key outcome of the summit was recognising the Mehr
LUS Doctoral Crits AS 2024 & Book Launch
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2024
ETH STUDIO BASEL Open Access: Public Launch
Sessions on Territory – Climate Anxiety and Mobilizing in Crisis: CLIMATE
LUS Doctoral Crits
NSL Colloquium Planetary Urbanisation: Video now Online!
You missed the keynote speech of Roberto Luís Monte-Mór about extended urbanisation in the Brazilian Amazonia? Or you would like to pick and see one of the panels only? The choice is: New Urban Vocabularies, Concepts of Extended Urbanisation, Agrarian Urbanisms, Urban Design and Territories of Extended Urbanisation, Mehr
Extended Urbanisation. Tracing Planetary Struggles NOW OPEN ACCESS DOWNLOAD!
The Great Repair: Praktiken der Reparatur (DE/EN)
The Great Repair is an oxymoron. the title captures the convergence of two seemingly contradictory principles: the revolutionary ambition for systemic change and the evolutionary act of repair. Despite the justified (postmodern) skepticism toward revolution as a concept of rupture, we must not abandon our aspiration to bring about Mehr
Biocultural Cartographies
More Than Human Cinema
Planetary Urbanisation – Aufruf zur Tat | Agrifutures Zürich – Agrarökologisches Gestalten
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2023
EPFL ETH MAS Urban and Territorial Design
Application: Mid-December 2023 – 30 April 2024. The MAS UTD deploys the urban and territorial project as the crucial field of knowledge production across scales, based on social and environmental equity and justice and a deeper understanding of the cultural and ecological dimensions of territories.
Architecture of Territory: MY WEATHER
Lecture Series | Thursday 7.12., 10:00 – 12:00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA Fokushalle E7. This lecture series sets up an agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism to territorial scales, corresponding to the increasing scales of contemporary urbanisation.
LUS Talks 2023
Future Cities Laboratory Global Conference and Exhibition
Agroecological Repair – Food, Territory and Agriculture in the Canton of Zürich
On the highlands, across crop rotation plains and within the drained valley floors the «Agriterritories» of Zurich require immediate action for design to take back its political role within the rural. The ETH Zürich studio Agroecological Repair – Transformative Practices for the Zürich Territory (spring 23) was part Mehr
Lively Cities
Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methods for Landscape and Urban Research
Tentacular Writing – A Peer-to-peer Writing Retreat
«… it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; … what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories». D.J. Haraway In September 2022, a group of 18 architects met in the Mehr
The Great Repair: Politics of a Society of Repair – A Reader ARCH+
The modern capitalist era, with its emphasis on growth and progress and an economic system based on consumption, wastage, and resources being bled dry, has led to the ruthless exploitation of people and nature. As a counter to this, “The Great Repair” project puts forward the idea of a repair Mehr
Planetary Urbanisation: Agendas for Research and Action
18, 19, 20 October 2023, colloquium and exhibition. Link to the video of this event The conference debates themes including patterns and processes of urbanisation in agricultural territories, processes of extractivism, and the role of infrastructure, movements of people, goods and resources, and the state space in relation Mehr
More Than Human Cinema: The Two Sights
Master of Advanced Studies ETH EPF Urban and Territorial Design
ETH Zürich D-ARCH LUS and EPFL ENAC HRC joint master programme | Application until 31 May 2023. The Territorial Project for Social and Ecological Change Urban and territorial design has acquired a new meaning and urgency. From drivers of progress to the source of planetary hazards, the impacts of cities and Mehr
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2023
The Great Repair: Politiken der Reparaturgesellschaft
Sessions on Territory: Urbanism in a Broken World: REPAIR
Podcast: On Peripheralisation.
A discussion with Shubhra Gururani, Christian Schmid, Michael Lukas, Giulia Torino, Metaxia Markaki, and Faiq Mari How do «peripheries» form? And how does urbanization generate processes of peripheralization? Today, novel patterns of urbanization are crystallizing in agricultural areas and in remote landscapes, challenging inherited conceptions of the urban Mehr