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 More
The acoustic quality of outdoor spaces is receiving increasing attention in planning and design disciplines. Yet, it is very difficult for non-experts in acoustics to include the effects of landscape changes on the so-called soundscape in their daily work. In the Innovedum project «Unity App for Soundscape Design More
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 More
Multi-disciplinarity is on the agenda for the contemporary architectural debate, and Researching Otherwise – edited by ETH-based scholar Nitin Bathla – takes a broad look at the topic. Divided into three chapters dedicated to transdisciplinary, sensory, and restitutive methods, the book presents pluriversal research projects, which range from More
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 More
The publication features scholarly articles and interviews from leading experts working in various fields anchored in urban design and architecture. Each piece in the volume addresses the challenges and opportunities prompted by the SDG11, and by extension, the climate crisis. As a whole, the volume illuminates and showcases More
The NSL Colloquium will take place February 26-28 2025 at ETH Zürich and publishes an open call for submissions until November 8, 2024. The colloquium will investigate the relationship between the design and maintenance of living systems, seeking to cultivate practices, terminology, and theoretical insights into approaches that More
Martina Voser was a Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich from 2021. At the end of 2023, she was appointed Full Professor of Landscape Architecture. She talks about the profound changes that the Swiss landscape is facing and how her chair can develop the necessary transformation processes together with More
Methodological, epistemic, and ontological borders have long prevented landscape and urban studies from engaging in transdisciplinary dialogue, sensuousness, and affect. Researching Otherwise uncovers possibilities for deploying sensory, collaborative, and restitutive methodological tools to craft spaces for producing knowledge from pluriversal worlds. These methods connect researchers and their objects More
The Schelling Architecture Foundation awards the Schelling Architecture Prize biannually. In 2024, under the guiding principle of “Deep Transformations – Earth, Landscape, Architecture” the board of trustees has nominated three offices that leave classic professional profiles behind: Bureau Bas Smets from Brussels, LOLA Landscape Architects from Rotterdam and More
The website «Open Access ETH Studio Basel» presents a selection of publications by the ETH Studio Basel as open access. ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute, was founded in 1999 as an institute of urban research at the ETH Zürich Department of Architecture by architects Roger Diener, Jacques More
Professor Hubert Klumpner’s chair designed the first AI-supported 4D model for Sarajevo. It takes spatial and temporal dimension into account in urban planning and was the basis for public hearings. “To map the complexity of the city, we need new methods, processes and technologies,” says Klumpner.
Digital Twins for Europe’s Future Mobility 4 – 6 September 2024 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E3 and HIT. Today’s design reflects the car-oriented consensus, which was formulated between the 1930’s and 1950’s and adopted around the world since then. The climate crisis challenges this orientation and asks More
Landscape systems are intricate and challenging to illustrate effectively. The BeingAliveLanguage, a groundbreaking software integrated into Rhino/Grasshopper, revolutionizes the visualization of soil-centric information. Developed by ETH Zurich’s “Chair of Being Alive,” this tool empowers designers and planners to create expressive, automated illustrations that support decision-making processes.
Sociology professor Christian Schmid will retire this year. In an interview with Andres Herzog, he looks back on his time at the ETH Studio Basel, which sparked discussions with the book “Switzerland: An Urban Portrait” and whose publications will be freely available online as Open Access from May.
The Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo (UTPS) aims to support the modernisation of the integrated urban planning system in Sarajevo Canton, and the creation of better conditions for sustainable climate resilient socio-economic development. The project is supported by the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and corresponds with Switzerland’s foreign policy strategy More
This EU Horizon project focuses on the impact of policies to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 on the access to adequate and affordable housing. Climate change and the environmental crisis pose challenges that must be addressed in a rapid and decisive way. The green transition is expected to More
The pilot issue of DELUS was launched at ONA DiD Lab in the autumn of 2023. It offers a range of diverse insights into landscape and urban questions. It introduces new methods to unpack multiple worlds and narrate manifold stories. The contributions range from unravelling histories of land-body More
The garden located in Huertos Familiares, Tiltil, Chile, investigates how soil modification through changes in land-management practices can establish a ecological and social capacity in the community, and create opportunities for the emergence of a new type of public garden in the com¬munity of Tiltil. Tiltil, which already More
The garden is located in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, a neighbourhood which suffered from extensive damage in 2005 during the city’s most severe weather-related disaster, Hurricane Katrina. The garden is a collection of five interconnected 10mx40m housing lots, which had homes on them prior to More
The garden of the XXI century in Zurich is located at the north-facing edge of Campus Hönggerberg, directly next to the HIT building. It is enclosed by roads on three sides and a day-care centre on the fourth side. With a size of roughly 1,000 m2 and a rectangular More
As part of the Garden of the XXI Century research, the project in Senan, Spain, investigates how a simple practice of modifying the soil through the carefully managed grazing of horses can build ecological and social capacities in a rural area with limited resources. Based on the regenerative More
On June 15, 2022, a fire burned 2,683 hectares of forest and agricultural land around the villages of La Clua de Maià and Alos de Balaguer in the municipality of Baldomà, a region of La Noguera north of Catalunya, Spain. Concerned about the intensity of the fire and More
Teresa Galí-Izard is professor of the Chair of Being Alive and director of the Master of Landscape Architecture at ETH. She is a principal of Arquitectura Agronomia, a landscape architecture firm based in Barcelona. Teresa is the author of “The Same Landscapes. Ideas and Interpretations” and trained as an agronomist at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
DELUS began its journey in 2021, born from a shared vision between the LUS doctoral fellows Sara Frikech and Johanna Just to highlight the research endeavours of the Institute and establish a platform to establish dialogues on pressing topics within the field of landscape and urban studies.
Situated at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urban studies, DELUS seeks to become a platform for exchange. It co-operates with research based at LUS and far beyond, connecting designers, artists, scientists, scholars, and students; dealing with landscape and urban questions; and giving visibility to emerging topics, concepts, and projects in these fields.
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Applications until 30 April for autumn 2024. The Master‘s degree programme in Landscape Architecture is aimed at students with a Bachelor‘s degree in architecture or landscape architecture from a university or Swiss University of Applied Sciences with at least 180 ECTS or equivalent.