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53 | März 2022: Agency

Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser

«Agency» lässt sich nicht mit einem Begriff ins Deutsche übersetzen, es wird «Agentur», «Vertretung», «Vermittlung» oder auch der englische Begriff «Agency» selbst verwendet und kann in Richtung «Selbst-Bewusstsein», «Fähigkeit» oder gemeinschaftliche Aktionen gehen. Diese Diversität finden Sie in diesem Newsletter wieder.

In diesem Sinne: viel informatives Lesevergnügen!

Understanding «the how» of Transforming Urban Neighbourhoods with Serious Games

Dr. Nicolas Salliou & Johann Schuur | chair Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS)

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 of multi-stakeholder discussions triggered by the game. More

L200 entrance showcasing two explanatory panels including the question «What is this?» (Was ist das?) and the main motto «Also your Space» (Auch Dein Raum)

Rhythmic Transformations: the L200 Hybrid Space in Zurich

Ileana Apostol & Panayotis Antoniadis | Sociology, chair Christian Schmid & Architecture and Urban Transformation, chair Freek Persyn

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 enables peer-learning and is an ideal laboratory for spatial design students.

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© Robert Catalano

Agency in a Contemporary World: Towards an Actor-centred Planning?

Ana Perić | Spatial Development and Urban Policy (SPUR), Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann

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 address complex urban problems, can recognising individual differences be crucial for dealing with power imbalances?

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Kurzmeldungen

Denise Scott Brown (1931 - ) in Las Vegas, 1966, photo Robert Venturi.

The City in Theory – Her Agency

Dr. Cathelijne Nuijsink & Dr. Léa-Catherine Szacka | chair Tom Avermaete, History and Theory of Urban Design

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 of these female protagonists as both an inspiration source and as designers, this seminar sets out to make a correction to the existing, male-dominated histories and theories of urban design.

Repository

History and Theory of Urban Design, Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete

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 work on the ‘Urban elements’ and the the SESC exhibition in Sao Paolo/Zurich.

Temporary Camp for the Reincorporation of Excombatants in Tierragrata, Colombia. Photo credits: Daniela Sanjinés, ETH Zürich

«School of Architecture for Reconciliation» Nominated for KITE Award

Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

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 4 May 2022, along with other nominees, the project is being presented in an exhibition with ceremony and apero. Further information about this project.

Urban Research Incubator

Urban Research Incubator at ISTP Inaugurates New Interactive 3D Platform

Dr. Micheal Walczak, Dr. David Kretzer, Dr. Stephanie Briers | Architecture and Urban Design, Prof. Hubert Klumpner

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 a transdisciplinary dialogue with a broad group of actors, furthering their vision of policy relevant urban research rooted in real societal challenges.

Publikationen

This is a selection. Find a complete list in the ETH Zürich Research Collection.

Eveline Althaus, Marie Glaser, Leonie Pock

Generationenwohnen

Die Idee des Generationenwohnens hat heute hohe Konjunktur. Das praxisorientierte Forschungsprojekt untersucht ausgewählte Generationenwohnprojekte in längerfristiger Perspektive.

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Cover Landscript Girot
Christophe Girot, Albert Kirchengast (Editors)

Landscript 6: Landscape Analogue. About Material Culture and Idealism

The difficulty of reconciling our basic needs with the long history of cultural landscapes, in all their inherent beauty and sufficiency, has become clear. With our deep trust in modern technology, in progress and in a demanding global lifestyle we have become a real threat to our world.

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Diego Cruciat: Tagliamento from Monte di Ragogna. CC BY-SA 3.0
Anna Scaini, Ana Stritih, Constance Brouillet, Chiara Scaini

Mapping Citizen Preferences and Priorities for an Alpine River Landscape

Rivers hold diverse meanings, values, and relationships to people. So far, though, the relationship between rivers and local populations still played a marginal role in river management.

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cover of publication Avermaete OASE 109
Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds (eds.)

Theme Issue ‘Modernities’, OASE 109. Journal for Architecture

The history of architecture is often read in terms of periods that each have their own zeitgeist and movements that each have their own architectural language. What happens if we depart from this zeitgeist concept and use a cyclical history model instead?

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Fig. 10. Observed and predicted bike traffic counts in Zurich (left) and Basel (right) from 1.1.2019 until 1.5.2021.
Beda Büchel, Alessio Daniele Marra, Francesco Corman

COVID-19 as a Window of Opportunity for Cycling: Evidence from the First Wave.

As in virtually every other city around the world, Swiss cities of Zurich and Basel saw changes in everyday mobility patterns with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that ensued.

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Figure 2. Test area (in red), Zurich Switzerland. The highlighted network in gray indicates the road segments where data is collected and processed. The traffic light symbols indicate the five implemented traffic control systems.
Alexander Genser, Noel Hautle, Michail Makridis, Anastasios Kouvelas

An Experimental Urban Case Study with Various Data Sources and a Model for Traffic Estimation

Any traffic management strategy relies on an accurate estimation of the current traffic state within a network at any give time.

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Joris Van Wezemael, Paul Schneeberger

Dezentralschweiz

Die Coronakrise hat uns von einem Tag auf den anderen vorübergehend sesshaft gemacht. Home office hat unser Verhalten als Pendlerinnen und Pendler radikal verändert. Diese Umkehr des Mobilitätsverhaltens ist der Ausgangspunkt dieser Publikation.

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disP 57/3, September 2021

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2021 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

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Redaktionsteam

Isabelle Fehlmann, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Landschaftsarchitektur
Bojana Papic, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau
Claudia Gebert, Koordinationsstelle NSL, Chefredaktion
Maarten Van Strien, Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung (IRL)
Jan Westerheide, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau
Caroline Winkler, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT)

  • 56 | Dezember 2022: Trans-disziplinarität
  • 55 | September 2022: Ort / Place
  • 54 | Juni 2022: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
  • 53 | März 2022: Agency
  • 52 | Dezember 2021: Risiko / Risk
  • 51 | September 2021: Umwelt im Wandel / Transitional Environments
  • 50 | Juni 2021: Nothilfe / Emergency Aid
  • 49 | März 2021: Future Cities Lab Global
  • 48 | Dezember 2020: Communication | Mediation
  • 47 | September 2020: Umgang mit Krisen / Adaption to Crisis
  • 46 | Juni 2020: Partizipation II / Participation II
  • 45 | May 2020: Partizipation I / Participation I
  • 44 | Dezember 2019: Methoden / Methods
  • 43 | September 2019: Verdichtung / Density
  • 42 | Juni 2019: Politik und Raum / Politics and Space
  • 41 | April 2019: Urbane Qualität / Urban Quality
  • 40 | Dezember 2018: Technologie beeinflusst Verhalten / Technology Influences Behaviour
  • 39 | Oktober 2018: Öffentlicher Raum / Public Space
  • 38 | Juni 2018: Big Data in der Forschung / Big Data in Research
  • 37 | März 2018: Arbeiten im internationalen Umfeld / International Context Work
  • 36 | Dezember 2017: Geräuschkulissen
  • 35 | September 2017: Ressourcen
  • 34 | Juni 2017: Ein Blick in die Zukunft
  • 33 | März 2017: Ein Blick zurück
  • 32 | Dezember 2016: Infrastrukturen
  • 31 | September 2016: Bezahlbar wohnen
  • 30 | Juni 2016: Vogelperspektive
  • 29 | März 2016: Unter der Oberfläche
  • 28 | Dezember 2015: Stadt und Nahrung
  • 27 | September 2015: Abschlussbericht Future Cities Laboratory FCL
  • 26 | Mai 2015: Nationalfondsprojekt 65, Neue Urbane Qualität: Abschlussberichte
  • 25 | März 2015: Mapping
  • 24 | Dezember 2014: Energie(wende)
  • 23 | September 2014: Resilienz
  • 22 | Juni 2014: Aktivitäten des NSL-Mittelbaus
  • 21 | März 2014: Informelle Siedlungen
  • 20 | Dezember 2013: Visualisierungen
  • 19 | September 2013: Bahn und Raumentwicklung
  • 18 | Juni 2013: Verdichtung
  • 17 | März 2013: Weiterbildung am NSL
  • 16 | Dezember 2012: Nationalfondsprojekt 65: Neue Urbane Qualität
  • 15 | September 2012: Inter- und Transdisziplinarität
  • 14 | Juni 2012: Wissenstransfer
  • 13 | März 2012: Projekte des Future Cities Laboratory in Singapur
  • 12 | Dezember 2011: Wasser / Landschaft
  • 11 | September 2011: Infrastrukturen
  • 10 | Juni 2011: Risiko
  • 09 | März 2011: Analyse unseres Verhaltens in den Städten
  • 08 | Dez. 2010: Alpenraum und Nord-Süd Transversale
  • 07 | Sept. 2010: Daten sammeln, archivieren, zur Verfügung stellen
  • 06 | Juni 2010: Mobilität
  • 05 | März 2010: Bilder und Videos
  • 04 | Dez. 2009: Gesellschaft / Soziologie
  • 03 | Sept. 2009: Nachhaltigkeit
  • 02 | Juni 2009: Städtebau
  • 01 | März 2009: Weiterbildung am NSL

Chairs

Prof. Dr. Bryan T. Adey
Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen
Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Prof. Maria Conen
Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman
Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein
Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard
Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert
Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann
Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas
Prof. Freek Persyn
Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid
Prof. Milica Topalovic
EiR PD Dr. Joris Van Wezemael
Prof. em Dr. h. c. Günther Vogt
ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

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