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disP 59/3, September 2023

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 59, Issue 3, September 2023 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Eva Heinen (Bild: TU Dortmund, Uwe Grützner)

Prof. Dr. Eva Heinen appointed as Full Professor of Transportation and Mobility Planning

Professor Eva Heinen (*1981), currently Full Professor at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, was appointed as Full Professor of Transportation and Mobility Planning in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Eva Heinen’s interdisciplinary research looks at mobility and transportation at the intersection of sustainable development, More

Portrait Martina Voser. Quelle: live.nzz.ch (Bild: Marc Schwarz)

Martina Voser Appointed Full Professor of Landscape Architecture

Martina Voser, currently owner and member of the Executive Board of mavo Landschaften gmbh and Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich, is now Full Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Department of Architecture. Martina Voser is regarded as one of the leading figures in Swiss landscape architecture and has More

LUS Doctoral Crits

15 December 2023, 13:30 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, ONA G41, Neunbrunnenstr. 50.

NSL Colloquium Planetary Urbanisation: Video now Online!

You missed the keynote speech of Roberto Luís Monte-Mór about extended urbanisation in the Brazilian Amazonia? Or you would like to pick and see one of the panels only? The choice is: New Urban Vocabularies, Concepts of Extended Urbanisation, Agrarian Urbanisms, Urban Design and Territories of Extended Urbanisation, More

Extended Urbanisation. Tracing Planetary Struggles NOW OPEN ACCESS DOWNLOAD!

One year after the first publication by Birkhäuser, the book is now available for download in the open access version.

Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison NOW OPEN ACCESS DOWNLOAD

One year after the first publication by Birkhäuser, the book is now available for download in the open access version.

Aerial View of Zurich 1903, Foto by Eduard Spelterini, Baugeschichtliches Archiv

City of Codes

The city of Zurich is a testament to the incredible power of urban codes and their influence on urban form. From the mid-nineteenth onwards, these codes, such as building laws, norms, standards, or even municipal constitutions, shaped and reshaped the city into what it is today. The research More

Foto von Günther Vogt in seinem Case Studio in Zürich. (Bild: Giuseppe Micciché)

An Advocate of Public Space

Günther Vogt is one of the most sought-​after landscape architects of our time. He has opened the eyes of an entire generation of architects to public space. After 18 years as an ETH professor, he is now retiring.

Taleb, N. N., Philosophy- 'Antifragility' as a mathematical idea. Nature, 2013 Feb 28; 494(7438), 430-430

Antifragile Urban Mobility: Traffic Control Beyond Resilience

Explore the future of urban mobility with ETH Zürich’s Antigones project. Pioneering antifragility in traffic control, it transcends resilience, adapting to disruptions for efficient and disruption-resistant road networks. Antifragile frameworks can recognize early disruptions and mitigate the negative impact on users and society.

Prozent neuer Stellenangebote, die Home office anbieten (Daten: Hansen et al., 2023, www.wfhmap.com)

Wie verändert sich das Verkehrsgleichgewicht durch Home office?

Während der COVID-Pandemie haben die Menschen ihr Verkehrsverhalten fundamental angepasst mit Verlagerungen vom öffentlichen Verkehr hin zu Individualverkehr. Insbesondere das Fahrrad erlebte einen regelrechten Boom während dem ersten Lockdown. Home office wurde zum ersten Mal global getestet und dies äusserst erfolgreich: die Pandemie hat die Home office Verbreitung More

disP 59/2, June 2023

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 59, Issue 2 (2023) is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Climate change, Shared Autonomous Vehicles and Work-from-home trends as examples of future uncertainties in urban planning. Source: Freepik

Adaptive Urban Planning for an Uncertain Future: Infrastructure Interventions for the Technological Shift in Transportation

Planning cities to adapt to the future is challenging due to complex interactions between mobility, infrastructure, and land use. This challenge is exacerbated by the need to study future uncertainties such as ever-shifting demographics and industrial landscape, increased environmental and climatic changes, disruptive and unpredictable technological development, and More

Conceptualisation of Urban Development Pathways: Navigating Towards Resilient and Adaptive Urban Landscapes © ETH Zürich

Escape Determinism – Unlocking Desirable Urban Development Pathways

Look around you – what do you see? Unique urban landscapes with specific characteristics, identities, and landmarks? Or homogenous urban landscapes repeating similar shapes, materials, colours, and functions? Currently, homogeneity dominates the day-to-day realities of the European population, of which 74% already lives in urban landscapes. Homogeneity is More

Kreisdiagramm zum Thema Akzeptanz für urbane Verdichtung im Raumplanungsprozess © Gabriela Debrunner, ETH Zürich.

Zwischen Wolkenkratzern und Zustimmung? Über Akzeptanz für urbane Verdichtung aus raumplanerischer Perspektive

Seit in Kraft treten des revidierten Raumplanungsgesetzes (RPG) auf 1. Mai 2014 sind alle 26 Schweizer Kantone und über 2130 Gemeinden dazu verpflichtet, ihre «Siedlungsentwicklung nach innen» zu lenken. Politik und Behörden müssen folglich ihre bestehenden Siedlungen verdichten, um Zersiedlung zu verhindern und den Flächenverbrauch pro Kopf zu More

Poster Community-led Landscape Resotration 2024, contains the same information as within this contribution.

Community-led Landscape Restoration 2024: Call for Applications

Application deadline: 10 February 2024 | Working sessions: 7 March, June, September, December 2024. The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zurich is delighted to announce the Community-led Landscape Restoration 2024 working group, a transdisciplinary series open to citizen groups, activists, academic researchers, and policy More

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Biocultural Cartographies

24 & 25 November 2023 | talk & walk | Zürich.

17 Professorinnen und Professoren sind von den Studierenden und Doktorierenden der ETH Zürich für ihren Einsatz zur Förderung von Start-​ups und Innovation in der Schweiz ausgezeichnet worden. (Bild: ETH AI Center)

Adrienne Grêt-Regamey ist Dandelion Award Winner 2023

17 Professor:innen für Start-​up-Förderung geehrt.

Hausfassaden in Zürich. Foto von Leonie Pock, ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

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.

Menschen gehen von der Tramstation weg, dem Trottoir entlang. © Martina Koll Schretzenmayr, ETH Zürich

Die Zentren der Zürcher Agglo und die Transformation der Rückseiten

Die Zukunft einer Stadt entscheidet sich in ihrer Agglomeration. Aber wie kann die Zentrumsentwicklung in der Agglomeration gelingen? Das zeigt der disP-Autor Simon Grimm am Beispiel der Stadt und Agglomeration Zürich auf. Dieser Artikel erschien in der disP – The Planning Review und ist über diesen Link bis More

Urban Research Seminar

29.11.2023, 12:00 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H 35.1. Urban Research Seminar is a new initiative hosted by D-BAUG with the aim of building a bottom-up network that brings together early career researchers and their ongoing urban research projects across ETH Zürich.

NSL Colloquium: Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes

26-28 February 2025, ETH Zürich (exact location TBA). 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 attempt to maintain otherwise.

More Than Human Cinema

7.11. | ETH Zürich Hönggerberg and L200, Zürich. Featuring innovative experimental documentaries reflecting on various aspects of the built environment, this film series will take place over three dates across the Autumn 2023 Semester.

Planetary Urbanisation – Agendas for Action | Agrifutures Zürich – Agroecological Projects

Vernissage: 5. Oktober, 19:00 | Ausstellung: 6. Okt – 17. Dez 2023 | ZAZ BELLERIVE, Zentrum Architektur Zürich, Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich.

Dokumentarfilmprojekt «Generationenwohnen» (Arbeitstitel), 2023 © ETH Wohnforum, Leonie Pock.

Generationenwohnen

30. September, 14:00–16:00 | Dialogweg 6, 8050 Zürich (Treffpunkt: Hauseingang) | Filmscreening.

Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems (DRRS)

Registration: MOOC anytime; next CAS/MAS planned from November 2023.

CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials: Essentials

Registration until 15 October 2023. The CAS essentials (January 2024 to June 2024) offers knowledge and skills to question our conventional construction techniques and promote regenerative materials from resource extraction to end of life of the building materials, through a territorial approach grounded in Switzerland and neighbouring countries.

MAS ETH in Housing

Applications: 1 January – 30 April 2024. This programme aims at contributing to finding solutions to the challenges of housing construction in Switzerland, Europe, and low and middle-income countries worldwide through high-level multidisciplinary training and research.

EPFL ETH MAS Urban and Territorial Design

Application: Mid-December 2023 – 30 April 2024. The MAS UTD deploys the urban and territorial project as the crucial field of knowledge production across scales, based on social and environmental equity and justice and a deeper understanding of the cultural and ecological dimensions of territories.

CAS in Raumentwicklung und Prozessdesign

Im Kontext der urbanen Transformation verschwimmen die Grenzen unserer Stadt-, Quartiers-, und Immobilienentwicklung zunehmend. Es braucht neue Verfahrenskombinationen, um die Ziele einer nachhaltigen Stadtentwicklung zu erreichen.

BAB – Intercantonal Coordinated Monitoring of Construction Outside Building Zones

Pilot regions, the federal government and the Chair of Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) are jointly drafting which questions and indicators related to building outside building zones should be answered or recorded in the cantons in the future in the scope of a monitoring (BAB). The More

LVML-Integration into Design++ at the ETH Zurich

The Large-Scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab (LVML) becomes part of Design++, the Center for Augmented Computational Design in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. It opens its usage to Design++ members to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and supports knowledge integration and co-creation to advance planning and design tools and workflows. Contact: More

Typical landscape of Antananarivo: A flood plain specialised in rice production with urbanisation on hills © Nicolas Salliou, ETH Zürich

Documenting and Promoting Multifunctional Agro-urban Landscape for Resilient Cities: a Case Study in Antananarivo

Antananarivo serves as a prominent example of how urban agriculture can effectively provide essential services for creating sustainable and resilient cities, specifically addressing food security and flood control challenges. The FCL Global research project has made significant contributions through landscape designs that prioritise and advance these crucial services, More

Untersuchte prioritäre Vogelarten, sowie Karte mit Schutzzone «grün» mit hohem Potential für Prioritätsarten und niedriger Nutzungsintensität, und Förderzone «orange» mit hohem Potential für Prioritätsarten und hoher Nutzungsintensität («orange») und deren Landnutzung.
(Quellen: Vögel Noëlle Klein, Hintergrundkarte: Swisstopo, FOEN, Swiss Parks Network, SITG, Geodaten Kantone)

Fokusgebiete für den Schutz und die Förderung von Vogelarten der Schweizer Landwirtschaft

Die landwirtschaftliche Nutzung beeinflusst die Artenvielfalt, die zu schützen eine Herausforderung darstellt. Eine Studie hat potenzielle Verbreitungsgebiete prioritärer Vogelarten (Artverbreitungsmodelle) mit der landwirtschaftlichen Nutzungsauswirkung (Ökobilanzierung) verbunden. Basierend darauf wurde eine räumlich explizite Karte mit Fokusgebieten für den Erhalt und die Förderung dieser Arten produziert.

Julian Lewis: 'U3 (East teaching unit)  – Student drawing about life at edges and atmosphere. Source: https://www.arc.usi.ch/en/feeds/12881

Symposium ‘Drawing the Urban’

16–17 November | USI, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio. This symposium will investigate the multiple ways in which recent and current urban conditions are represented, analysed, and informed, through drawings.

‘Baukultur und Recht’

Third Annual Colloquium Stiftung Baukultur | 8 November (ganztägig) | Aula Magna, University of Fribourg.

Inputreferat «Generationenwohnen – ein Wohnmodell mit Potenzial»

Schweizer Wohntage | 6. November, 18:30 | Stadtbibliothek Biel, Dufourstr. 26, 2503 Biel, 3. Stock. Was bedeutet Generationenwohnen und wodurch zeichnen sich Wohnprojekte aus?

Sectional drawing through a chestnut orchard in November showing not only tree and grass layer of the system, but also moments such as leaf raking and burning as well as fruit harvesting and drying © Chair of Being Alive, ETH Zürich, 2023

Peeling out the Details of Chestnuts in Castasegna, Bregaglia, Switzerland

The landscapes dominated by chestnut trees in the southern alpine valleys are among the traditional agroforestry systems of Switzerland and have long been the main source of food for the local population. These complex socio-ecological systems provide a great learning space for landscape architects and planners, as chestnut More

10 Jahre RPG 1

2. November, 14:00 – 17:00 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, HG E3. Das Inkrafttreten der Revision des Raumplanungsgesetzes jährt 2024 zum zehnten Mal.

Grossformatige Buchstaben: SUDHT

Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT)

1–3 November | Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Architecture of Territory: MY WEATHER

Lecture Series | Thursday 7.12., 10:00 – 12:00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA Fokushalle E7. This lecture series sets up an agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism to territorial scales, corresponding to the increasing scales of contemporary urbanisation.

LUS Talks 2023

12.10.-6.12., 18:30-19:30 | ETH Zürich, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, Design in Dialog Lab & L200, Langstr. 200, Zürich. The LUS Talks is a public lecture series, which addresses critical questions in the field of landscape and urban studies.

Plakat FCL Conference and Exhibition 2023

Future Cities Laboratory Global Conference and Exhibition

12 – 13 October | ETH Zurich, Rämistr. 101. It is no longer enough to promote innovative science and design, we need to move from research to action. Keynotes: Peter Sloterdijk, Pierre de Meuron, Momoyo Kaijima and others.

A Mettmenstetten recipe: Incorporating old and rare varieties cultivated on local grounds. Image from Tasting Grounds, a project by Xiang Lin, Nabila Larasati Pranoto, Maria Jose Castañeda Valbuena, and Emma Kaufmann LaDuc © ETH Zürich

Agroecological Repair – Food, Territory and Agriculture in the Canton of Zürich

On the highlands, across crop rotation plains and within the drained valley floors the «Agriterritories» of Zurich require immediate action for design to take back its political role within the rural. The ETH Zürich studio Agroecological Repair – Transformative Practices for the Zürich Territory (spring 23) was part More

2+2+1: Eine Debatte über zeitgenössische Landschaftsarchitektur

21. November 2023, 18:00 | L 200, Langstr. 200, Zürich.

Portraitfoto von David Kaufmann

«Unser Ziel ist es, Lösungsansätze für die rasante globale und schweizweite Urbanisierung zu finden.»

David Kaufmann ist für die nächsten zwei Jahre neuer Direktor des Netzwerks Stadt und Landschaft (NSL). Seine Prioritäten sind die Stärkung der ETH Zürich im Bereich der nationalen und internationalen Stadtforschung sowie die Förderung von Synergien zwischen den Stadtforschungsgruppen der ETH in Forschung, Lehre und Engagement für die More

Informationsveranstaltung MAS CAS Raumentwicklung

05. Oktober 2023, 18:30-20:00 Uhr | ETH Zentrum, Gebäude LEE, Hörsaal E 101. Informationsveranstaltung des Weiterbildungsprogramms MAS CAS in Raumentwicklung der ETH Zürich mit anschliessendem Apéro. Organisation Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung, ETH RAUM. Contact: Lidija Honegger.

Opening of the ‘Large-scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab – LVML’

3 October 2023, 16:00–18:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H 40.9 (Foyer).

Open House Zürich, Quartierrundgang

26. September 2023, 18:15–19:15 | Idaplatz Zürich (Treffpunkt: Brunnen). Mehr Wohnraum in Städten «10-Minuten-Nachbarschaften».