ENHR Konferenz «Unsettled Settlements: Housing in Unstable Contexts»
30. August – 2. September 2021 | Online aus Nicosia. Die ENHR Konferenz findet dieses Jahr online zu «Unsettled Settlements: Housing in Unstable Contexts» statt. Das ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE ist Teil der Workshop Group Session «Collaborative Housing».
ESA Konferenz «Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures»
31. August – 3. September 2021 | Online from Barcelona.
Luzerner Hotels rüsten sich für die Rückkehr der Gäste
12. September 2021, 10:30 – 12:00 Uhr | Luzern, Hotel Schweizerhof, Schweizerhofquai 3, Bringolfsaal. Europäische Tage des Denkmals 2021. Kommentierte Präsentation von historischem Bild- und Filmmaterial und Dokumenten. Live-Diskussion mit heutigen Exponenten.
Raumplanung: Böse Stadt, gute Landschaft?
30. August 2021, 19:00 bis ca. 21:00 Uhr | Alte Zentralwäscherei, Josefstrasse 219, 8005 Zürich (BlueLion). Podiumsdiskussion im Rahmen der Scientifica 2021 «natürlich.künstlich».
Metropolitane Landschaften: Case Study Berlin-Brandenburg
30. Januar bis 14. Februar 2022 | Winter School in Berlin.
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) Messung und Modellierung des Verkehrsverhaltens
100%, Zürich, befristet.
Alpine Landscapes in Transformation: Infrastructure, Climate, and Culture
12 and 13 May 2022 | Symposium | ETH Zurich, Centre. The image of the Alps is changing. Climate change, energetic 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 need More
NSL Forum: Pandemie? Mitten im Klimawandel. Was bedeutet das für die räumliche Entwicklung der Schweiz? Ein Dialog.
11. November 2021 | Volkshaus Zürich, Weisser Saal, Stauffacherstrasse 60, 8004 Zürich. In einem Dialog für Praxis und Hochschulen nimmt das Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft (NSL) der ETH Zürich eine Standortbestimmung für die räumliche Entwicklung in der Schweiz vor. Ausgangspunkt bilden Erkenntnisse aus der Pandemiesituation, Hintergrund der Klimawandel. Mit More
Two doctoral positions in urban science; measuring and modeling human behavior in cities
100%, Zurich, fixed-term.
Histories of Urban Design: Global Trajectories and Local Realities
15-17 November 2021, registration by 17 September | Conference | ETH Zürich, Department of Architecture.
Baukultur und die Stadt
10. November 2021, 9:00 – 18.00 Uhr | Erste Jahrestagung der Stiftung Baukultur Schweiz | ETH Zürich, Werner Siemens Auditorium, Gebäude HIT, Wolfgang-Pauli-Stasse 27, 8093 Zürich.
Symposium: Transitional Space – Japanese Houses Through Digital Scans
On a joint trip entitled «Transitions» in autumn 2019, students from the Kyoto Institute of Technology and the ETH Zürich investigated a series of houses and their relationship to the (urban) landscape in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo, using sound recordings and laser scanning. The Symposium was an opportunity to More
CLIMATE CARE: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures
28 May – 3 October 2021 | Vienna Biennale for Change 2021 | MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.
New Center for Augmented Computational Design at ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich has recently launched a new center for augmented computational design in architecture, civil engineering and construction. 24 professorships, including the NSL chair of Christophe Girot, are joining forces under the name Design++ to develop digitally enhanced design methods which support rational and intuitive decisions during the design More
The «Contact Zone» of Agadir’s 1960 Emergency Aid Programme
The reconstruction of the Moroccan city of Agadir in the immediate aftermath of the devastating 1960 earthquake is an exemplary yet much overlooked cross-cultural «contact zone» between local and international rescuers, experts, citizens, organizations, and governments. Studying why the development aid Morocco received was not unconditionally accepted, but More
Growing Schools Prototype: A Socio-Ecological Framework Addressing the Current Urbanization Challenges
Colombia has suffered an armed conflict for over 50 years. As a result, more than 1 million children lack access to education with a deficit of 3’000 schools and more than 8 Million civilians displaced from their homes. Growing Schools Prototype is a strategic up-scaling concept for replicating More
Reading a Forest, Documenting the Existing
Looking at the fields of wheat and orchards of almond blossoms around Senan, Spain, «crisis» is not the first word that comes to mind. The valleys appear tranquil and unchanging. However, like most rural landscapes in Spain, the area has transformed dramatically in the past decades.
Dwelling / Living & Urban Care | Nurturing & Urban Care
28. Mai – 3. Oktober 2021 | Vienna Biennale for Change 2021: Planet Love: Climate Care in the Digital Age im MAK Museum für Angewandte Kunst Wien.
Optimistic Suburbia 2 – Middle-class Large Housing Complexes
17 June, 16:30 (Lisbon, Portugal/GMT+1 | Online & face-to-face) | International Conference. Session 3 ‘Publicness in middle-class large housing complexes as a new way to examine the premises of cultural encounters and social integration’ Liv Christensen and Eveline Althaus. Language: English Registration necessary Further informationen and programme Optimistic More
«Geographies of Age» Altersfreundliche Lebensräume in der Stadt
2. Juni 2021, 16:30 – 17:30 | Online. «Altersfreundliche Stadtquartiere: Was bedeutet das in der Praxis? Die Kulturwissenschaftlerin Liv Christensen des ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE spricht im Rahmen der Impuls Mobilität-Veranstaltung «Planen für Jung und Alt» über den Zugang älterer Menschen zu städtischem Leben. Sprache: Deutsch Hinweise: Die More
Transitional Space – Japanese Houses Through Digital Scans
27th May 2021, 9:00-13:00 CET | Zoom: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/68199616818 デジタルスキャンでみる日本の家 A collaboration between the ETH Zurich and the Kyoto Institute of Technology KIT.
Projektstart: Historische Dynamik von Siedlungs- und Lebensraumnetzwerken
Während Siedlungsnetzwerke im vergangenen Jahrhundert wuchsen, schrumpften vor allem Lebensraumnetzwerke. Im neuen SNF-Projekt EMPHASES werden wir die Dynamik dieser Netzwerke im Schweizer Mittelland untersuchen, indem wir historische topographische Karten klassifizieren. Wir werden langfristige Regelmässigkeiten und plötzliche Veränderungen im Wachstum oder in der Schrumpfung dieser Netzwerke analysieren.
Neues Video über das Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung
Neben dem Lehrstuhl für Planung von Landschaft und Urbanen Systemen (Prof. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey) sind in den letzten Jahren zwei neue Forschungsgruppen im Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung entstanden: Raumentwicklung und Stadtpolitik (Prof. David Kaufmann) und Spatial Transformation Laboratories (PD. Dr. Joris Van Wezemael). Ein neues Video stellt die More
Common Water – The Alps
22 May to 21 November 2021 | 17th International Architecture Exhibition Venice: How will we live together? | Chair of Günther Vogt (ETH Zurich), VOGT Landscape Architects.
Worlds of Planetary Urbanization
22 May to 21 November 2021 | 17th International Architecture Exhibition Venice: How will we live together? | Neil Brenner (Urban Theory Lab-Chicago), Christian Schmid / Milica Topalović (ETH Zürich).
Radical Care
22 May to 21 November 2021 | 17th International Architecture Exhibition Venice: How will we live together? | Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, Prof. Klumpner and others.
Infoveranstaltung CAS Verkehrsingenieurwesen
Das Verkehrssystem verändert sich rasant. Neue Angebote setzen neue Massstäbe an Komfort. Neue technische Möglichkeiten stellen alte Praktiken in Frage, z.B. beim Fahrscheinverkauf oder bei der Lichtsignalsteuerung.
disP 56/4, December 2020
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2020 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Call for Contributions trans#39 Comfort
We are happy to invite you to propose contributions for the upcoming issue trans#39 Comfort. trans magazin is the bi-annual architecture journal of the Department of Architecture at th ETH Zurich. We are looking forward to hearing your proposals in English and German. Please send a brief abstract to trans@arch.ethz.ch by More
Introducing Ecosystem Services-Design Loop
Until recently, urban planners and designers gave little consideration to the multifunctional design of green spaces. This was partly because quantitative information about the extent of ecosystem benefits was not readily accessible to landscape professionals. Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), Singapore-ETH Centre has developed an ‘Ecosystem Services-Design Loop’ that More
New Agendas Under Planetary Urbanisation: Designing Sustainable Agri-Urbanisms
What is the future of the manifold agricultural territories across the world that support contemporary cities? While discussions on urban sustainability have focused on cities and urban regions, many agricultural territories are equally exposed to rapid and far-reaching urban transformation processes with massive social and environmental implications, opening More
New Civic Landscapes & Public Health
The course is organized around core principles of civic design, public health and landscape systems at the scale of the watershed – including riverine and wetland systems, steep slopes subject to erosion, soil stability and soil quality, and varied forests, meadows, wilds and productive landscapes. The overall structure More
Beschneiungsspeicher: erfassen, analysieren und beurteilen
Der Klimawandel verändert die Konditionen für die touristischen Regionen in den Alpen. Zahlreiche Speicherkapazitäten für die Produktion von Schnee wurden in den letzten Jahren gebaut oder sind projektiert. Diese artifiziellen Kleinstseen stellen massive Eingriffe in das sensible Gefüge der alpinen Landschaft dar. Das von den Toggenburg Bergbahnen geförderte More
Thinking Future Systems
FCL Global addresses the globally significant challenges of expanding urbanisation and aims to create a better understanding of the relationship between the city and its surrounding region, so as to make city-regions more sustainable. Following FCL Global’s Launch Event on 2 March 2021, FCL Global Co-Director Professor Sacha More
FCL Global Tana – Co-designing a Blue-green Future for the Agro-urban City of Antananarivo
The capital city of Madagascar, Antananarivo, is a high-altitude city. Traditionally, the Merina culture settled on hills dominating rice cultivation in the plains. However, urban growth is changing this landscape fast as city dwellers are more and more settling in the rice plain. This growth also raises the More
Form and Performance in Shaping Urban Landscapes
Digital technologies have become ubiquitous in current design practice for urban landscapes. Not only does the rapidly increasing extent and resolution of digital data help to study urban systems, but digital technologies have also enabled the inclusion of dynamic conditions in the design process. Understanding these conditions makes More
Oberstadt4D
The «Oberstadt4D» project supports the development planning of Baden’s Oberstadt district. This is to be transformed into a dense, urban residential quarter. The focus of the study is on the future building density, the structure of the buildings and the open spaces, as well as the relationship between More
Wohnforum Talks
16. März / 13. April / 11. Mai / 1. Juni, 13:30–15:00 | online. The Wohnforum Talks (formerly BBL) give invited guests and staff of the ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE the opportunity to share current areas of their research and to discuss ideas, concepts and results. The event will take More
Age-Talk: «Sackgeldjobs – Wie funktioniert das?»
8. April 2021, 11:00 | online. This April, the Age-Talk «Sackgeldjobs – Wie funktioniert das?» organised by the Age Foundation will take place on the occasion of the «Jugendjobbörse Winterthur». The guest will be social and cultural anthropologist Dr. Eveline Althaus (ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE), who will More
City & Housing – Perspectives on the Long-term Management of Housing Stock
19 March 2021, 18:00–19.30 | Online Webinar. The city of Zurich is growing. How can the creation of sufficient living space be ensured for all population groups in the future, and what challenges does this pose?
Athena Lecture Series
10 March 2021, 18:00–19:30 | Alexandra Lange: «Looking for Role Models in All the Wrong Places». ETH CASE organizes in collaboration with the Parity- and Diversity Group of DARCH a series of lectures by internationally recognized designers and scholars in the field of urban studies, architecture, urban design, More
Schwerpunkte 9 – On Authorship
7-8 June 2021. Schwerpunkte is a doctoral event organized by doctoral students from several institute at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich: the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta), the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) and the Institute of Design and Architecture (IEA). The More
Quantitative Evaluation of Highway Designs Considering Uncertainties in Future Mobility Patterns and Flexibility Using Real Options
Road owners are increasingly being confronted with the need to optimize highway design for an uncertain future. A recent research project at the Infrastructure Management Chair investigated the use of a real options-based method to evaluate alternative highway designs for a fictive case study based on the A15 More
TACK Talks: How to? A Guide Through Knowing
18:00–19:00 | online. We aim to examine the notion of mediating tacit knowledge from different perspectives, in conversations between the cultural institutions Het Nieuwe Instituut, Vlaams Architectuurinsituut, and Architekturzentrum Wien.
Sessions on Territory – Urbanism as Material Accumulation
Lecture Series | On selected Mondays, 16:00–18:00 | online Zoom link: 95007725252.
Sociology: Extended Urbanization – A Research Seminar
Elective Course Starting | 26 February on Fridays, 12:45–14:30 | online. Lecturers: Christian Schmid, Ileana Apostol, Lindsay Howe. Urban research is confronted today with urbanization processes that unfold far beyond the realm of agglomerations and urban regions.
ACTION! On the Real City: The Audiovisual Poetics of Circularity
Elective Course | Starting 22 February on Mondays, 10:00–12:00 | online. Lecturers: Prof. Hubert Klumpner, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Michael Walczak. Giving audiovisual form to the concept of ‘circular economy’, we will encourage students to think about the socio-economic relations that constitute our cities, through the use of digital More
Urban Policy Analysis: Theoretical and Empirical Developments
Panel at the 5th International Conference on Public Policy in Barcelona from 6–8 July 2021, registration until 28 June. This panel will explore theoretical and empirical developments of urban policy analysis.
Writing Model Histories
12 May, 10:00–13:00 | Colloquium | online. Invited Lecturers: Professor Dr. Thea Brejzek, School of Archi- tecture, University of Technology, Sydney; Professor Dr. Mari Lending, Oslo School of Architecture and Design; Dr. Matthew Wells, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich.