Newsletter Ausgabe: NL 69
69 | March 2026: Designing with and for Many
Dear Readers, Designing with and for many means recognizing that urban transformation is shaped by diverse actors, knowledge, and interests. The articles in this issue explore how citizens, students, researchers, and planners can actively contribute to imagining and shaping urban futures – from participatory visualization in Sarajevo to More
Grüne Infrastruktur im Spannungsfeld von Aufwertung und Verdrängung: Erkenntnisse aus dem EU-Projekt ReHousIn
Im EU-Horizon-Projekt ReHousIn wird analysiert, wie städtische Klimaanpassungsstrategien die Bezahlbarkeit des Wohnens beeinflussen und mit entsprechenden Marktentwicklungen verflochten sind. Auf Basis von Expert:inneninterviews zeigt die Studie, dass klimabezogene Anpassungen Markterwartungen prägen und durch Aufwertung soziale Folgen nach sich ziehen können.
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
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Density, Densification, and Travel Perspectives from Zurich and Cambridge
Co-Creative Streetscape Transformation: Specifying User Requirements for Integrated Modelling and Visualization Tools
Urban streetscapes need a redesign to meet pressing challenges associated with climate change and environmental degradation. This requires collaboration among a range of stakeholders. A user requirement study has specified what modelling and visualization tools are needed to support the co-creative design. These tools should facilitate cross‑disciplinary integration, 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
The Fragile Nature of Road Transportation Networks
Major cities worldwide experience problems with the performance of their road transportation networks, and the continuous increase in traffic demand presents a substantial challenge to the optimal operation of urban road networks and the efficiency of traffic control strategies. The operation of transportation systems is widely considered to More
Transform Fragile Traffic Networks with Antifragile Solutions
With urbanization and centralized economic activities, recent years have witnessed steady population growth in major cities around the globe. For example, the population in the city of Zurich has increased by 16% between 2000 and 2020, which certainly leads to an ever-growing traffic demand, potentially more traffic accidents, More
Infoveranstaltung CAS Zukunft der Raumentwicklung
CAS Zukunft der Raumentwicklung
LUS Doctoral Crits Spring 2026
18 May 2026, 8:50-15:00 | L200, Langstrasse 200, 8005 Zürich. The LUS Doctoral Crits provide a dedicated platform for doctoral researchers from within the Institute and beyond to present their work and receive constructive feedback from LUS professors, the wider academic community, and invited guests. This public event More
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
CAS Regenerative Materials Public Lectures
Zürich. Dialoge zur Verdichtung / Dialogues on Densification
Sessions on Territory x LUS Talks – Conservation: Objectives and Critique of Practice
Global Urban Policy. A Framework for Analyzing State and Society
Between Streets and Screens. Digital Video Activism and the Right to the City
Between Streets and Screens offers a comparative ethnography of digital video activism in Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town in the early 2010s. Focusing closely on the practices of filming protests and police violence, the book shows how eyewitnesses and activists navigate the fine line between power and More
ETH Forum Wohnungsbau 2026: Grün und bezahlbar? Wohnraum zwischen Klimazielen und sozialer Nachhaltigkeit
9. September 2026 | ETH Zürich. In ganz Europa wächst die Besorgnis über die steigenden Wohnkosten und die zunehmende Kluft zwischen Einkommen und Wohnkosten, insbesondere in städtischen Gebieten. Umwelt- und energiepolitische Massnahmen zur Förderung von energetischen Sanierungen, Verdichtung und naturbasierten Lösungen wurden als Faktoren identifiziert, die zu steigenden More