Agrarian Urbanism and the Politics of Food and Land
Urban farming and agrarian struggles are reshaping cities and urbanising landscapes. In Zurich and beyond, agroecological initiatives, political food movements, and global urbanisation projects reveal how urban and agrarian worlds are entangled and enmeshed – offering new ways to rethink planning, property, urban ecology, and the future of Plus
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025
Das neue NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025 ist da!
At the Ends of Autobahn Urbanism
For a century, highways have shaped cities, economies, and national identities. But in November 2024, Swiss voters rejected a CHF 5 billion highway expansion, signaling a shift away from infrastructure-led urbanisation. As nations worldwide double down on highway-driven growth, Switzerland’s moratorium invites us to rethink mobility, territorial organisation, Plus
LUS Doctoral Crits Spring 2025
23. May 2025, 9:00-13:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, building: HIT, room: F12.
Planetary Urbanisation and the 21st Century Agrarian Question
24. – 28. March 2025 | Colloquium | American Association of Geographers, Detroit.
Review of DELUS Journal for Landscape and Urban Studies: Chasing Water
The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies is young and evolving. While it builds on a rich research history across various chairs, its identity still continues to take shape through its doctoral community, lecture series, and biannual research colloquia. In this context, it is particularly noteworthy that the Plus
LUS Doctoral Crits HS24
4 December 2024, 09:00 – 13:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT F 12. The autumn semester crits will follow a condensed format, featuring five presentations. We are honoured to welcome Prof. Dr. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes from EPFL as our external reviewer.
DAM Book Award 2024 for «Researching Otherwise»
Multi-disciplinarity is on the agenda for the contemporary architectural debate, and Researching Otherwise – edited by ETH-based scholar Nitin Bathla – takes a broad look at the topic. Divided into three chapters dedicated to transdisciplinary, sensory, and restitutive methods, the book presents pluriversal research projects, which range from Plus
«Der Begriff der alpinen Brache war eine Provokation»
Der Soziologieprofessor Christian Schmid wird dieses Jahr emeritiert. Im Interview mit Andres Herzog blickt er zurück auf seine Zeit am ETH Studio Basel, das mit dem Buch «Die Schweiz: ein städtebauliches Porträt» für Diskussionen gesorgt hat und dessen Publikationen ab Mai als Open Access online frei zugänglich sind.
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2024
Das neue NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2024 ist da!
ETH STUDIO BASEL Open Access: Public Launch
7 May 2024, 16:00–19:00 | with Apéro | ETH Zürich, main building, HG F30 Audimax.
Abschlussvorlesung / Final Lecture Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid: No Condition is Permanent
2 May 2024, 18:15–19:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E3.
The Agrarian Question: From Colonialism to Urban Agriculture
on Thursdays, spring semester 2024, 15:45-17:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL D 10.2
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, Plus
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.
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.
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 – Aufruf zur Tat | Agrifutures Zürich – Agrarökologisches Gestalten
Ausstellung: 6. Okt – 17. Dez 2023 | ZAZ BELLERIVE, Zentrum Architektur Zürich, Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich.
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2023
Das neue NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2023 ist da!
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.
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.
Lively Cities
Book Launch and Doctoral Colloquium, 26. & 27.10 2023 | Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities – human and nonhuman – that make up the material politics of city making.
Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methods for Landscape and Urban Research
LUS Methodology Seminar, autumn 2023 | on fridays, 10-12, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 67.
Planetary Urbanisation: Agendas for Research and Action
18, 19, 20 October 2023, colloquium and exhibition. Link to the video of this event The conference debates themes including patterns and processes of urbanisation in agricultural territories, processes of extractivism, and the role of infrastructure, movements of people, goods and resources, and the state space in relation Plus
31st INURA Conference – The Right to the Planet
29-31 May 2023 | ETH Zürich. Since 1991 the INURA conference has been combining urban research and action using a very successful format: A few days in a city guided by local groups, when the INURA conference creates opportunities for local and international exchanges, and a few days Plus
More Than Human Cinema: The Two Sights
3 April 2023, 19:00 | L200, Langstrasse 200, Zurich. The screening will feature THE TWO SIGHTS with director Joshua Bonnetta in presence for a Q and A.
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2023
Das neue NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2023 ist da!
Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space
25 May, 18:30 – 20:00 (NEW TIME!) | Hochparterre Bücher AG, Schöneggstrasse 27, 8004 Zürich. Discussion with: Ileana Apostol, Stefan Kipfer, Alvaro Sevilla Buitrago, Christian Schmid, Nitin Bathla. This book presents an encompassing, detailed and thorough overview of Lefebvre’s theory of space and of the urban.
Film des NSL Kolloquiums jetzt online: Städtische Verdichtung und Verdrängung
Sie haben das Kolloquium verpasst? Die Filmaufnahme ist jetzt online! Wir befinden uns in einer der grössten Abbruchwelle der Stadt Zürich. Diese dramatische Entwicklung polarisiert, die sozialen Auswirkungen auf die Stadt Zürich (und anderswo) muss diskutiert werden. Erreichen wir das erwünschte Ziel mit Abbrüchen von erschwinglichem Wohnraum? Wie Plus
Unearthing Traces
Archival power, silences, and absences profoundly shape and structure postcolonial landscapes, spaces, and urban environments by controlling bodies, histories, and interactions.
Podcast: On Peripheralisation.
A discussion with Shubhra Gururani, Christian Schmid, Michael Lukas, Giulia Torino, Metaxia Markaki, and Faiq Mari How do «peripheries» form? And how does urbanization generate processes of peripheralization? Today, novel patterns of urbanization are crystallizing in agricultural areas and in remote landscapes, challenging inherited conceptions of the urban Plus
The Agrarian Question: From Colonialism to Urban Agriculture
Lectures, Spring Semester 2023 | Thursdays 16:00-18:00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, ONA E7 Fokushalle.
Writing Urban Landscapes of the Anthropocene
LUS Methodology Seminar, Spring Semester 2023. Fridays, 11:45-13:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 67.
Doctoral Crits of the Institute of Urban and Landscape Studies LUS
8. December 2022, 13:00-17:30 | ETH Zurich, ONA building, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, Zürich.
Sudamérica LUS Talks
20 October 2022, 18:30 (2 December: 17:30) | ETH Zürich, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, ONA Fokushalle (E7), Zürich. This year, the LUS Talks will engage diverse perspectives from practitioners and theorists addressing South America’s complex social and ecological landscapes.
Film, Architecture, and Urban Studies
19th – 21st of October 2022 | International Symposium | Zurich. Falma Fshazi, Newrope Chair, Prof. Freek Persyn, and Nitin Bathla, Chair of Sociology, Prof. Christian Schmid
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2022
Das neue NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2022 ist da!
Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space
Starting 23 September on Fridays, 12:00 – 14:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HCP E 47.2 | Elective Course / Urban Theory Seminar.
Writing Landscapes, Writing the Urban
Methodology Seminar | Starting 22 September on Thursdays, 14:00 – 16:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, Rote Hölle, HIL E67.
Methoden der Stadtforschung: 21 Years of Urban Sociology
PROGRAMM GEÄNDERT! 22. September bis 8. Dezember 2022, jeweils Donnerstag, 13:45 – 15:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E1. Diese Vorlesungsreihe vermittelt einen Rückblick auf die Arbeit der Dozentur Soziologie am D-ARCH und einen aktuellen Überblick über sozialwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung.
«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 Plus
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 Plus
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2022
Das neue NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2022 ist da!
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.
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
Gründung upZ (urban publics Zürich)
upZ (urban publics Zürich) fördert den Dialog zwischen Stadtforschung, Stadtgesellschaft und Stadtpolitik. Sie verfolgen zwei Ziele: Erstens wollen sie international ausgerichtete urbane Forschung und Praktiken in Zürich verankern und weiterentwickeln. Zweitens wollen sie Verbindungen zwischen städtischen Akteuren in Forschung, Politik, Aktivismus, Hochschulen und Zivilgesellschaft stärken, um den öffentlichen Plus