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Sessions on Territory – Beyond Techno-fix

5 sessions on selected Mondays, 16:00–18:00 | Architecture of Territory, Prof. Milica Topalović Lecture Series | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, ONA Focushalle E7, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50.

ACTION! On the Real City: Filming the (un)Real City

On Mondays, 10:00–12:00 | Elective course | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, ONA E16, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50. Lecturers: Hubert Klumpner, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Michael Walczak. The course develops new forms of urban literacy in learning from the complex, real-life city.

Sociology: Memories of Zurich West

On Tuesdays, starting 21 February, 12:45–14:30 | Elective Course | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL C 10.2. Lecturers: Sandra Guinand, Christian Schmid.

Poster The Real and the Ideal

POSTPONED: Public Space: The Real and the Ideal

2 to 5 July 2021 | 5th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture | Monte Verità (near Locarno), Switzerland. Keynote speakers: Margaret Crawford, Sarah Whiting. The 5th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture examines public space and its architecture Plus

The four public housing towers called 'Hardau' in Zurich, Switzerland. Foto: © Roman Zwicky, zyrokrz.tumblr.com

Democracy, Populism, and the Just City (Followed by a panel discussion)

16 November, 18:30–20:30, Covid Certificate required / apéro cancelled | University of Zürich, (external building), RAI-H-041, Rämistr. 74. Keynote by Prof. Dr. Susan Fainstein (Harvard University).

The City Represented: Visions of Urban Living

14 May | 15:00–17:00 | Final Presentations Seminar | ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, HPT C 103 Lecturer: Dr. Cathelijne Nuijsink. This seminar takes a long-running international housing ideas competition from Japan to identify key topics in architecture culture.

Rijeka European Culture Capital 2020: Have a Seat

1 May–31 July | Exhibition | Delta 5, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia. Sitting in public space is one of the essential functions of being at ease and being able to interact with other members of society. In our cities of today, we often find that sitting has lost «form Plus

Freek Persyn

Wouldn’t it be Nice if Architects Started Dreaming About Building Less

20 October 2021, approx. 17:40–19:00 | Inaugural lecture Freek Persyn | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, Audimax (HG F 30).

POSTPONED: Prospective Visions for Greater Geneva Region. Inhabiting the City-Landscape of the 21st Century

24 March | Inhabiting the City-Landscape of the 21st Century | Geneva. Initiated by the Braillard Architectural Foundation in October 2018, the Greater Geneva Consultation has charged seven interdisciplinary teams to rethink the cross-border metropolis to respond to the challenges of the ecological transition.

CANCELLED: Fábrica de Cultura: BAQ Inauguration

16 March, 18:00 | BAQ Fabrica de Cultura, Barranquilla, Colombia. With guests including Ambassador Raymond Furrer (SECO), this event will inaugurate the newest building emerging from the research of the Klumpner Chair – the Fábrica de Cultura: BAQ, in Barranquilla, Colombia.

CANCELLED/POSTPONED!!! 9 March 2020, 18:00 | ETH Zurich, Auditorium Maximum: Lecture from Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Alcuin Stevenson, Studio Olafur Eliasson. © 2019, Olafur Eliasson

CANCELLED: Olafur Eliasson

9. März, 18:00 | Lecture | ETH Zürich, HG F 30 (Audimax). Ein neues Datum wird so bald wie möglich an dieser Stelle kommuniziert.

Inscriptions in Relation. Sitting Matters – Imagining social relations by designing public space

14–16 February | Exhibition | Palais de la Porte Dorée, 293 Avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris, France. Sitting or seating, the provision of a seat or seating, the arrangement of material for a seat as one of the most basic human activities in private or public urban environments is the point of departure Plus

Urban Policy Analysis, David Kaufmann

Toward an Urban Policy Analysis

A new Symposium called «Toward an Urban Policy Analysis» is out in PS: Political Science & Politics edited by David Kaufmann and Mara Sidney (Rutgers University). The Symposium aims to develop theoretical foundations for an urban policy analysis built from urban empirical work.

Locarno. Ozornsky CC/ BY-SA3.0

Public Space: The Real and the Ideal

5th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture. 2 to 5 July 2021 | Monte Verità (near Locarno), Switzerland.

ETH Wohnforum BBL Events: Prishtina: the Arrival and Departure City of Kosovo Diaspora

6 February, 12:30 – 14:00 | ETH Zürich Hönggerberg, HIT J 51. Lecturers: Dr. Gyler Mydyti, Post-Doctoral Researcher (Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship Holder) at the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zurich.

Screening of the Documentary Film PUSH Followed by a Discussion on the «Mehr bezahlbare Wohnungen» Initiative

30 January 2020, 18:00 – 20:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 6. Push by from director Fredrik Gertten and @WGFilm. Discussion moderated by Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, senior researcher at the ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE.

Designing with the Form of the Landscape, Philipp RW Urechj

Designing with the Form of the Landscape

A new approach in landscape design uses point cloud modeling to integrate spatial, aesthetic and quantitative features of the landscape. The method is applicable in any location and thus makes it useful to a wide range of topics, whether in the context of cultural, agricultural or urban landscapes, Plus

Cycling in Virtual Reality for Improved Bike Paths

Using Virtual Reality to Evaluate Cyclist’s Perceived Safety

Researchers at the Future Cities Laboratory are using virtual reality (VR) in cycling experiments to reveal users’ cycling behaviour and preferences in different environments. These insights can help planners understand and quantify the impact of infrastructure improvements in setting guidelines and prioritization of new infrastructure.

Tagung Landmanagement – Rück- und Ausblick

Der lebendige ländliche Raum ist eines der grossen Themen der Raumentwicklung. Hier treffen Tradition und wirtschaftliche Innovation, neue Rechtsgrundlagen und Emotionen aufeinander. Die 13. Landmanagement Tagung «Herausforderungen der baulichen Entwicklung im ländlichen Raum» bot den aktuellen und vielfältigen Themen aus Verwaltung, Forschung und Praxis eine Plattform. Auch der Plus

Biennale Public Space

Call for Papers: Public Space – the Real and the Ideal

Call for papers by 6th January 2020. The aim of the conference is to stress ideas and ideals on public space, both in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, as well as in (political) philosophy, against the background of the continuous development of technology, from smart phone to smart Plus

Zukunftsbild Wauwiler Ebene. Erarbeitet in der Landwirtschaftlichen Planung (LP+), 2019 © PLUS, ETH Zürich. | Zitate: «Die Produktion von Lebensmitteln stellt den Hauptbestandteil der landwirtschaftlichen Tätigkeit dar. Die Bewirtschafter sind stolz darauf, standortangepasst zu produzieren und vielfältige Produkte anzubieten.» | «Landwirtschaftliche Bauten können im erforderlichen Umfang realisiert werden. Es findet laufend eine Koordination mit der Archäologie, der Naherholung und anderen Nutzungen statt. Eine hohe Siedlungsqualität ist auf der 2019 bestehenden Siedlungsfläche erreicht.» | «Ein vielfältiges, vernetztes Lebensraummosaik mit Feuchtgebieten ist ein Fundament der ‹Landschaftsperle Wauwiler Ebene› und der hohen Biodiversität in der Wauwiler Ebene.» | «Für Familien ist der Ausflug in die Wauwiler Ebene ein Erlebnis. Dafür bilden die Leistungen der Landwirtschaft das Fundament und die Bevölkerung schätzt diese Leistungen.» | «Die Bewirtschafter profitieren vom Wissen früherer Generationen. Dies – kombiniert mit aktuellem Know-how – ist eine Stärke der Wauwiler Ebene. So ist die Wauwiler Ebene ein Vorbild beim Umgang mit der Ressource Wasser sowie bei der Koordination der Themen Wegenetz und Freizeitnutzung.»

Backcasting – vom Übermorgen zum Heute: Modellgestützte Landschaftsplanung

Partizipative Planungsprozesse leben von einer gemeinsamen Vision der Beteiligten. Sie hilft, den Prozess und die Diskussionen konstruktiv zu gestalten. Es bleibt jedoch offen, welche Schritte und Massnahmen zur Erreichung der Vision erforderlich sind. Am Fall Wauwiler Ebene wurden diese Fragen mit der Methode des Backcastings beantwortet und Handlungsschwerpunkte Plus

Zürich Walkabout: Roaming through the Unbuilt (photo: Nazlı Tümerdem)

Walking in the Territory

Can we, as researchers of the territory, still investigate and learn about our built and the unbuilt environments through direct experience? Can we rely merely on digital cartographies, or should we still be explorers who embark on journeys of discovery? We have tried to answer these questions by Plus

Prof. Michael Neuman, Sustainable Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster.

Are Integrated Infrastructure Networks Governable in Contemporary City Regions?

Guest: Prof. Dr. Michael Neuman, Professor of Sustainable Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster. The very possibility of governance that is critical — in terms of providing robust human rights, meaningful participative democracy, equitable distribution of wealth, goods and services, and strong environmental Plus

Die Anzahl Fahrzeuge, die eine Stadt erträgt, bevor der Verkehrsfluss ins Stocken gerät, lässt sich künftig anhand der Infrastruktur abschätzen. Im Bild: Rosengartenstrasse, Zürich. (Bild: Keystone/Ennio Leanza)

Wie das Strassennetz die Verkehrsleistung bestimmt

ETH-​Forschende zeigen auf, dass sich die Verkehrskapazität von Städten anhand der Struktur ihres Strassennetzes vorhersagen lässt. Mit diesem Wissen können Stadtplanerinnen und Stadtplaner künftig quantitativ bestimmen, wie bauliche Eingriffe die Verkehrsleistung beeinflussen. Artikel in den ETH News

Paolo Mendes da Rocha, MMBB Arquitetos. Sesc 24 de Maio, 2000-2017 © Claudia Kim

Collective Actors and the Production of the City: Urban Commons in Research

In her book Governing the Commons (1990), political economist and Nobel prize winner Elinor Ostrom identified spaces and infrastructures as ‘common resources’ fostered by groups of citizens in order to resist top-down governance and commodification. Today, the notion of the ‘urban commons’ appears as an index for historians Plus

Visualisation of eqasim generated MATsim agents in action in the centre of Paris/Zurich.

Eqasim: An Open-source and Extensible Platform for Building Agent-based Models

Agent-based models in transportation model individual travelers and their interaction in the transport system on a micro-level. A natural advantage of agent-based models are flexibility and the ability to model emergent behavior. Work at IVT has produced a new software package, eqasim, that drastically simplifies the design of Plus

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KELLER EASTERLING Medium Design

27.11.2019, 14.30–16.00 | ONA Focushalle E7, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, 8050 Zürich (Oerlikon). In conversation with Marc Angélil, Arno Brandlhuber, Charlotte Malterre Barthes, and Milica Topalović. KELLER EASTERLING is an architect, professor at Yale, and one of the most eloquent theorists of architecture and design. In ‘Medium Design’ (Strelka Press, 2018) Easterling argues that design tools are often inadequate to Plus

Film still from Blade Runner (1982) Los Angeles. © and Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/10/2/16375126/blade-runner-future-city-ridley-scott

Future-proofed Urban Areas: Real Options in Urban Planning

The societal needs for infrastructure change drastically over time depending on a large variety of factors, which are very difficult to predict. It is in the face of this massive uncertainty, that urban planners are expected to make infrastructure decisions. To minimize the service risks over time, the Plus

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Zurich, a Sanctuary City?

28 October 2019, 18:00 – 19:30 | ETH Zurich, Leonhardstrasse 21, LEE E 101. This event is part of the series of events «Sanctuary Cities in Switzerland?», which takes place in Zurich, Berne and Geneva. The speakers in these events outline the developments in urban migration policies in support of Plus

Poster Master ETH in Landscape Architecture

New Master of Science ETH in Landscape Architecture

We offer a new two-year master’s programme in landscape architecture at the department of architecture of ETH Zurich with a focus on the design and planning of open spaces and landscapes. This master’s programme in landscape architecture, initiated by Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard, Prof. Christophe Girot and Prof. Günther Plus

Der Stadtschreiber

Marc Angélil hat die Architekturlehre an der ETH entscheidend mitgeprägt, sowohl als Professor wie auch als Vorsteher des Departements. Seit Jahren forscht er zu politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Treibern der globalen Verstädterung. Im Rahmen seiner Emeritierung wirft er nochmals einen kritischen Blick auf aktuelle Urbanisierungstrends. Gespräch mit Prof. Plus

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disP 55/3, September 2019

Zuwanderung und Stadtpolitik (Immigration and Urban Policy). disP – The Planning Review, Volume 55, Issue 3, September 2019 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Teresa Galí-Izard

New Professor for Landscape Architecture at the LUS

Professor Teresa Galí-Izard (*1974), currently Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School, Cambridge, USA, has been appointed as Full Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS).

Sanctuary Cities in der Schweiz?

28. Oktober 2019, 18.00 – ca. 19.30 | ETH Zürich, LEE E 101, Leonhardstrasse 21, Zürich. Dieser Anlass ist Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe «Sanctuary Cities in der Schweiz?», die in Zürich, Bern und Genf stattfindet. Dabei werden städtepolitischen Entwicklungen zugunsten von irregulären Migrantinnen und Migranten in amerikanischen, europäischen und Schweizer Plus

MAS/DAS/CAS in Raumplanung 2019/21

Die Gestaltung unseres Lebensraumes und ein fachübergreifendes Verständnis für technische, ökonomische, rechtliche, soziale und ökologische Dynamiken der Raumentwicklung stehen im Zentrum dieser Weiterbildungsprogramme. Nebst Lernmodulen in verschiedenen raumrelevanten Disziplinen und der Arbeit an interdisziplinären Studienprojekten wird Planung als strategisches Problemlösungs- und Gestaltungsinstrument vermittelt. Das Bewerbungsverfahren für das MAS- und DAS-Programm 2019/21 ist abgeschlossen. Bei freien Plus

Anastasios Kouvelas

«In the Next Few Years, There Will be More Automation in Mobility.»

Anastasios Kouvelas now leads the group Traffic Engeneering (SVT) at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT). He thinks the shift from human driven to automated cars is like the shift from horse-car traffic to automobiles. Learn more about his views on the future of our daily road Plus

Projects on Territory: Dichte Geschichte

Die Debatte um Dichte in der Schweiz ist nicht neu. Tatsächlich ist sie älter und stärker verwurzelt im Fachdiskurs als oft angenommen wird: sie entbrannte stets in Phasen starken Bevölkerungswachstums, das oft mit der unkontrollierten Zersiedelung des Kulturlandes und erhöhter Landspekulation einherging. Noch bevor das Wort «Dichte» im Plus

Housing Challenges in Europe

Selected Thursdays | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg | Public Lecture Series.

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gta Invites

Four sessions on selected Wednesdays, 12:00–13:00 | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL D 57.1 (gta Ausstellungen hall) | Lecture Series. The «gta Invites» lecture series brings guests from outside the gta institute in dialogue with members of its staff to discuss forms and methods of research, and other frameworks for the organization of Plus

Architecture of TERRITORY

Architecture of Territory: Territorial Design in Histories, Theories and Projects

On Thursdays, 10:00–12:00 | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, ONA Fokushalle E7 | Lecture Series. This lecture series sets up the agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism from their focus on the city, or the urban in the narrow sense, to wider territorial scales, which correspond to the increasing scales of Plus

Housing Challenges in the Global South

23 September – 2 December 2019, 14:00–16:00 | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL F 10.3 | Public Lecture Series.

CANCELLED: Mutation und Morphose. Landschaft als Aggregat | Mutation and Morphosis. Landscape as Aggregate

Im Rahmen von 20 Jahre Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten, Zürich. 9. März, 18:00–23:00, Buchpräsentation um 20:30 Stampfenbachstrasse 57, 8006 Zürich. Mutation und Morphose bietet auf fast 800 Seiten einen einmaligen Einblick in Günther Vogts Arbeitsweise.

Tackling the Global Housing Challenges: Relevance and Replicability of Housing Cooperatives. Approaches and Strategies

6 December, 9:00–17:30 | International Conference | Zentrum für Architektur ZAZ (Museum Bellerive), Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich. Celebrating 100 years of housing cooperatives in Switzerland, the ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE in collaboration with the Association of Swiss Housing Cooperatives (WBG Zürich) are hosting an international conference with the aim to address the Plus

Launch Party LUS: Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies

CANCELLED 13 November, 17:00 | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL H 40.9. Presentation, guest speaker, and apéro.

Writing Commons Histories, Avermaete

Methodological Workshop: Writing Commons Histories

9 October, 14:00–16:00 | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL D 75.1 | By registration only. This methodological workshop discusses how the historiography of the city could be articulated through the lens of citizen action and common resources. What sets of collective actors, both organized or informal, emerge as alternative topics of research? What methodological Plus

Photograph Bas Princen. Bas Princen and Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Model for a Tower (Babel), Dilbeek BE, 2019.

Terrestrial Tales: 100+ Takes on Earth

4–13 October, Exhibition | ETH Zurich, Zentrum, main hall Video installation by Jenny Rodenhouse showing 100+ takes on Earth based on a ‘call for globes’ at ETH Zurich.

Marc Angélil

Tales of Territory: Anthropocene, Urbicene, Capitalocene

3 October 2019, 17:15 | ETH Zurich, Zentrum, Auditorium Maximum HG F30. Farewell Lecture of Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil

2019–2020 MAS ETH in Housing: Kick-off Event

26 September, 15:00–19:00 | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIT H 22.1. 17:30–18:30: Guest lecture by MAS in Housing alumni Susanne Schmid: «A History of Collective Livings: Forms of Shared Housing». Followed by an Apéro.

Impressionen von der 1. Mobilitaetskonferenz im Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern. (Manuel Lopez)

Mobilität neu denken: Erste Nationale Mobilitätskonferenz

«Mit einer intelligenten Verkehrspolitik in die multimobile Zukunft», lautet der Titel der vom Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung ARE verfassten Medienmitteilung zur ersten Nationalen Mobilitätskonferenz, die Ende August in Bern stattfand. Mit einer Open Session daran teilgenommen haben Miriam Lüdi und Sibylle Wälty. Sie zeigten auf, wieso eine Abstimmung der Plus

Spatial Planning Policy Analysis

Densification policies are at the core of the current revisions of the Swiss Spatial Planning Act. This new research project at the group of Spatial Development and Urban Policy (SPUR) analyzes the effects of densification policies on the housing market and the socio-economic population composition by making use Plus