ETH Eisenbahnlabor
21. und 22. Mai 2022 | Tag der offenen Tür | Hangar des Airforce Center, Flugplatz Dübendorf.
«Not Just Roads» by Nitin Bathla and Klearjos E. Papanicolaou wins SAH Award for Film and Video
The SAH Award for Film and Video recognizes annually the most distinguished work of film or video on the history of the built environment. «Not Just Roads is a well-filmed, focused and nuanced take on the impact of highway building in contemporary India on the disenfranchised. The film brings More
Alpine Landscapes in Transformation: Infrastructure, Culture, and Climate
Symposium, 12 and 13 May 2022. Public event, registration until 29 April 2022. Research workshops, round tables and keynote. Climate change, energy transition, urbanization, and industrialization have and will have tremendous effects on the Alpine landscape. Located at the crossroads of Europe, the transformations of this fragile environment More
Urban Research Incubator at ISTP Inaugurates New Interactive 3D Platform
The Urban Research Incubator at ISTP, researching public lighting, segregation, and security in two cities of the Global South (Cape Town and Bogota) created an interactive multi-user platform, making their research, policy briefs, and multimedia and immersive content more available. In doing so, they continue to engage in More
ETH Zurich – Center for Sustainable Future Mobility
6 May 2022, registration deadline 15. April 2022, 08:00 | Kick-off Symposium | ETH Zürich, Centre, HG E3. The Center for Sustainable Future Mobility (CSFM) has been established at ETH Zurich in order to promote research on sustainable and future-proof traffic and transport systems.
Gehen, Sitzen, Schauen: Körper und Landschaft
4. Mai 2022, 18:30 Uhr | Buchvernissage | Ort: Never Stop Reading, Zürich. Ohne Gehen, Sitzen und Schauen gibt es keine Landschaft. Diese einfachen, grundlegenden Handlungen prägen unsere Beziehung zur Umgebung – und die Umgebung selbst.
«School of Architecture for Reconciliation» Nominated for KITE Award
The first phase of this school, organised by ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE, has been nominated for the prestigious KITE Award for Innovation in Learning and Technology, which honours the extraordinary efforts of teaching staff during the enforced remote teaching phase and showcases excellent examples of online teaching practice. On More
disP 57/3, September 2021
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2021 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Agency in a Contemporary World: Towards an Actor-centred Planning?
The interrelationship between structure and agency has long been in the centre of the planning debate: the structuralist perspective focused on a regulatory structure as an arena for the manoeuvre of rational actors, while network-oriented post-structuralism exceeds such a rigid duality. However, as both approaches fail to fully More
Rhythmic Transformations: the L200 Hybrid Space in Zurich
A centrally located hybrid community space in Zurich, at Langstrasse 200, by the name L200, is being shaped since 2018 through a co-creation process, a series of self-organization experiments with an action-oriented participatory design process. By bridging a multitude of social worlds in a small lively place, L200 More
Eine Geschichte des gemeinschaftlichen Wohnens – Modelle des Zusammenlebens
29. März 2022, 18–19.30 Uhr | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT H 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27.
Repository
www.avermaete.repository.ethz.ch is an open repository for the chair’s education, research, and publication activities. Next to the chair’s Instagram account, the website informs and inspires students and professionals using graphic material and represents each team member. The website also contains a virtual exhibition space on, for example, the student More
MAS Urban and Territorial Design 2022/23
Call for applications: 28 February to 31 May 2022 | ETH Zürich D-ARCH LUS and EPFL ENAC HRC joint programme.
The City in Theory – Her Agency
This seminar follows the work and life of a series of «female professionals» (architects, politicians, urban designers, journalists, editors, curators, philanthropists, etc.) in the post-war era who started to critically engage in discussions on urban design and actively contribute to the design of cities. By fully acknowledging the contributions More
Understanding «the how» of Transforming Urban Neighbourhoods with Serious Games
Transforming an urban neighbourhood for the better: Should it answer to societal and ecological needs; and be attractive and politically feasible; and sustainable? We developed a serious game for Hochdorf (Luzern, Switzerland) and Sompasaari (Helsinki, Finland) to investigate such tradeoffs. Here, we present some key lessons from observations More
Laufen Manifesto Global Meeting
22 – 24 July 2022 | Laufen, Germany. Building on the 2013 «The Laufen Manifesto», which called for the development humane design culture, this event will discuss the relevance of the ideas of the original Manifesto and encourage scrutiny, actions, and decisions on methods and goals with relevant leaders in the urban More
Under the Landscape. Boulouki – Itinerant Workshop on Traditional Building Techniques
26 – 29 June 2022 | Symposium | Santorini and Therasia, Greece. Keynote: Prof. Teresa Gali-Izard.
Sonic Topologies
24 – 26 June | Old Botanical Garden, Zurich (festival centre). The interdisciplinary symposium and sound festival «Sonic Topologies» explores the relationship between place, sound, and knowledge. Researchers, architects, and artists develop site-specific sonic contributions at different locations in the city of Zurich, which explore the acoustic, ecological, social, or historical characteristics of More
Agriculture de Non-Agir
5 May 2022, 12:45 – 15:30 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E 25. Lecturers: François Léger, Researcher, AgroParisTech & Prof. Teresa Gali-Izard.
Reflective Practitioners. Berichte und Reflexionen aus der Raumplanungspraxis
10./17./24./31. Mai, jeweils 17:30 – 19:00 Uhr, danach Apéro | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg.
Dezentralschweiz
NEUES DATUM: 20. Juni 2022 | Ort: ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, Siemens-Auditorium (HIT E 51). Welche Lehren ziehen wir aus der Covid-Krise als Feldversuch für eine nachhaltigere Stadtlandschaft Schweiz?
Tête-à-Tête Lectures: Material Commons
9 March, 5 April, 3 May 2022 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT 31.1.
The City in Theory: Her Agency
Selected Thursdays 2022, 15:45 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HPT C 103.
Sessions on Territory – Urbanism & the Countryside AGRICULTURE
28 February – 16 May 2022, 16:00 – 18:00 | Lecture Series | hybrid: ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E7 / Zoom.
Agrarian Questions Under Extended Urbanisation
Starting 24 February 2022 on Thursdays, 16:00 – 18:00 | Elective Course / Urban Theory Seminar | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, Fokushalle ONA E7.
Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies: Towards Sensory, Creative, and Imaginative Methodologies
Starting 24 February 2022 on Thursdays, 10:00 – 12:00 | Methodology Seminar | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA Design in Dialogue Lab.
ACTION! On the Real City: Filmmaking of the Future – Urban Experiments in New Media Technology
Starting on 21 February 2022 on Mondays, 10:00 – 12:00 | Elective course | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E16 / Online. Lecturers: Prof. Hubert Klumpner, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Dr. Michael Walczak.
Keep it Living
17 March 2022, 12:45 – 15:30 | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E 7. Lecturers: Tessa Peters, Director of Crop Stewardship, The Land Institute & Bonnie-Kate Walker, Research Associate, Chair of Being Alive.
Climate Corridors Sarajevo
11 April 2022 | Exhibition | work and event space «Urban Design Studio Sarajevo», Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Master of Science ETH in Landscape Architecture
Application open until 30 April 2022. We offer a new two-year master’s programme in landscape architecture at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich with a focus on the design and planning of open spaces and landscapes.
Robotic Landscapes – Designing the Unfinished
11 March 2022, 18:30 | Book Launch | Never Stop Reading, Spiegelgasse 18, 8001 Zurich. Book presentation, discussion with guests, and apero.
Fábrica de Cultura: School of Arts and Popular Traditions in Barranquilla, Colombia
27 January 2022 | Inauguration Event | City of Barranquilla, Colombia.
CAS/DAS ETH in Regenerative Materials
earth. bio-based. reused. Think regenerative ! It is time to go beyond sustainability. Alternative solutions out of local resources such as earth, bio-based and reused materials are emerging all over the world and are triggering regenerative output, thanks to their capacity to contribute to the restoration and improvement More
FCL Global Research Overture: Resilient Blue-Green Infrastructures
16 February, 17:00 SGT / 10:00 CET | Online. By Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Michiel van Breugel, and Nicholas Salliou.
Call for Lost Entries: Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition ARCHIVE
Did you participate in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition (1965-2020)? Help build an archive by submitting your competition entry.
Call for Papers – Wohnen erforschen
Für das Buchprojekt «Wohnen erforschen. Method(olog)ische Zugänge und forschungspraktische Reflexionen» suchen wir spannende Beiträge von Wohnforschenden.
Wohnforum Talks
1. März bis 24. Mai 2022 | «Fotografie, Video und Diskurs – visuelle Forschung zu Wohnen, Stadt und Architektur» | Vor Ort und per Zoom.
Call for Papers: RC21 2022
Deadline: 31 January 2022 | Conference: 24-26 August in Athens, Greece. Panel 26 Peripheralisation: The production of ex-centric places as an ordinary process of extended urbanisation. Conveners: Christian Schmid, Metaxia Markaki | ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo (UTPS)
Recently launched UTPS multifaceted project includes a currently establishing work and event space «Urban Design Studio Sarajevo»; a decentralized research and data collection laboratory «Studio Mobil», a digital twin of the whole City of Sarajevo using data-driven, large-scale, agent-based urban simulations for the new Sarajevo Urban Plan 2040 More
«The NSL provides a great platform.»
Hubert Klumpner ist für zwei Jahre neuer Leiter des Netzwerks Stadt und Landschaft (NSL). Er spricht von den bevorstehenden globalen Herausforderungen und deren Übersetzung in konkrete Projekte, die als logische Konsequenz von Studierenden der Bereiche Architektur, Städtebau und Raumentwicklung in Zusammenarbeit angegangen werden.
Irrigation Commons: What Lessons for Sustainable Risk Mitigation?
Swiss agricultural commons have overseen the management of pastures, forests, and water in the Alps for centuries. In Canton Valais, the historic irrigation systems have shaped the cultural landscape of the region as a whole. The resilience of these channels rests in part on their ability to mitigate More
Investing in Water Supply Resilience Considering Future Uncertainty and Management Flexibility
The infrastructure required to provide sufficient high quality drinking water to urban areas over long time horizons is highly uncertain. The use of the real options method, which accounts for future uncertainty and considers management flexibility over time, can significantly improve the evaluation of water supply resilience enhancing More
Mountain Forest Ecosystem Services at Risk
Mountain forests provide many essential ecosystem services, such as protection from natural hazards, carbon sequestration, habitats for rare species, and spaces for recreation. However, these forests are experiencing more and more natural disturbances, including windthrows, bark beetle outbreaks, and forest fires, which may jeopardize their capacity to provide More
Towards the Unfinished – Dynamic Design for Landscapes at Risk
The effects of climate change are leading to an increase in extreme natural events and danger in Alpine landscapes in Switzerland. Today, the Swiss territory is already being hit more often by floods, debris flows, and landslides. This increase in natural risks tells us about the fragile balance More