9, 16, 30 October; 27 November 2025, 13∶45 – 15∶30 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E7.
Your TikTok scroll, a robotaxi’s U-turn, a nation’s tax records – every byte lives somewhere in the cloud, gulps megawatts, and silently redraws territory. My CLOUD sets out to puncture the gaseous metaphor. With four guest speakers from architectural geography, digital-economy sociology, environmental history, and speculative design, we aim to locate the cloud’s physical footprint, legislate who owns and governs it, historicize the infrastructures that birthed it, and reimagine the futures it could enable.
09. 10.: Yiqiu Liu (ETH Zürich)
16. 10.: Flora Mary Bartlett (Linköping University)
30.10.: Marina Otero Verzier (Harvard GSD and Columbia GSAPP)
27. 11.: Alfredo Thiermann (EPFL)
Organisation
Prof. Milica Topalović, Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies
Contact: Jakob Walter