Department / Institute: Prof. Hubert Klumpner
UN-Habitat Executive Director Anacláudia Rossbach
Manual for Designing Urban Imaginaries Colombia
Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanization
If planetary urbanization has reoriented urban research beyond the city, a key question remains: how are these uneven and often inaccessible territories to be sensed, documented, and understood? We suggest that the answer lies in a co-constitutive engagement between urban theory and sensory registers of film and other More
Arquiteturas Film Festival Guest Programme
Designing Urban Imaginaries Tour 2026
Open Call – DELUS Issue 2
«Not Just Roads»
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 More
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) More
Urban Design Toolbox Catalog (UDTC) Platform: An E-learning Space For Exchanging Design Strategies
Cities consume more than two thirds of global energy, produce over 70% of CO₂ emissions, and are primary sites of inequality. Yet, due to their territorial competencies and entanglement with socio-ecological challenges, they also hold unmatched potential for climate action and social transformation. To harness this potential, students, More
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 More
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2026
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 More
East–West Divan Urbanism: 100 Ideas for Dialogue
LUS Lecture Series
Digital Pedagogy for Data-driven Unsolicited Urban Design
As urban environments evolve with increasing complexity, urban planning must adapt by often responding to unsolicited demands rather than to commissioned, structured work. This paper explores the integration of digital tools – including Digital Twins – into the architectural curriculum at ETH Zurich, aiming to bridge the gap More
Asunción Futura. Aportes y proyectos conceptuales en la franja costera norte de aunción del Paraguay
El proyecto apunta a trabajar en la reconversión y puesta en valor de cuatro sectores específicos: el Centro Histórico de Asunción, el Parque Caballero, la Reserva Ecológica del Banco San Miguel y la Bahía de Asunción y la creación del Distrito Eco-Inclusivo a ser ubicado entre el Cauce More
LUS Doctoral Seminar: More-Than Methodologies: Explorations in Landscape and Urban Research
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2025
Jerusalem Divan Urbanism: 100 Ideas for Dialogue
LUS Doctoral Crits Autumn 2025
Digital Pedagogy for Data-driven Unsolicited Urban Design
As urban environments evolve with increasing complexity, urban planning must adapt by often responding to unsolicited demands rather than to commissioned, structured work. This paper explores the integration of digital tools – including Digital Twins – into the architectural curriculum at ETH Zurich, aiming to bridge the gap More
Book Chapter: ‘Case Study – AI-powered Digital Twin for Sarajevo Urban Plan’
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 More
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025
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 More
LUS Doctoral Crits Spring 2025
100 Ideas for the Western Balkans: Belgrade Underground Opening
InternationaI Cooperation Forum Switzerland
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 More
LUS Doctoral Crits HS24
Digitale Zwillinge für unsere Städte
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 More
Brasilândia Design Studio at University of St. Gallen Latin America Week
Transitioning to Sustainable Cities and Communities
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
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2024
Digital Twin für Sarajevo
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.
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
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
Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo (UTPS)
The Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo (UTPS) aims to support the modernization of the integrated urban-planning system in Sarajevo Canton, and the creation of better conditions for a 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 (2020-2023). More
LUS Doctoral Crits AS 2024 & Book Launch
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2024
100 Ideas for the Western Balkans: Designing Urban Imaginaries
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
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 for designs which emphasize the micro-mobility. More
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
4 – 6 September 2024 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E3 and HIT. VIDEO NOW ONLINE! Today’s design reflects a 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 for designs that More
LUS Doctoral Crits
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.