Department / Institute : Prof. Milica Topalovic
The Production of Cloud: Territorial and Architectural Strategies for AI’s Socio-Environmental Footprint
How can planet-spanning and resource-hungry cloud infrastructure be designed, planned, and governed in more equitable and sustainable ways? The explosive growth of AI and its hunger for resource are profoundly reshaping our digital and physical territories. While cloud facilities like data centres are projected to triple by 2030—already Plus
The Production of Cloud
Data centres are among the most influential buildings of our time, yet the least designed. Behind the image of a weightless cloud lies a heavy reality: black boxes along infrastructure corridors, engineered for power, connectivity and security. Two ETH design studios investigate Switzerland’s expanding data centre landscape and Plus
Going to the Wild? Extended Urbanisation and the Production of a ‘Wilderness’ Frontier in the Mara-Serengeti
In this research, I seek to question and upset the dominant narrative in the planetary thesis of urbanisation. I seek to challenge the colonial roots and thinking contained therein. I do this by arguing that histories of the land and the everyday lives of people matter in centring Plus
The Maasai Savannah is a Relational Space
Often, when we speak about the savanna there is always a presupposition that we are talking about the wild. Standing in the outskirts of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya on community lands, and looking out towards the reserve, what was remarkable was the mix of livestock Plus
Disrupting the Corridor: New Scenarios for Water/Ground Mobilities
Urban Nature Archives. Photography and Extended Urbanisation in the Brazilian Amazon
Open Call – DELUS Issue 2
Critical Walking: A Methods Seminar
19 February – 7 May 2026 | ETH Zürich. This doctoral seminar has a twofold aim: (1) to develop an in-depth understanding of walking practices and critical walking methodologies across diverse contexts and geographies through theory sessions; and (2) to practise critical walking in walking seminars as a Plus
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2026
Sessions on Territory x LUS Talks – Conservation: Objectives and Critique of Practice
EPFL ETH Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design
LUS Lecture Series
Territories of Extended Urbanisation
Le concept d’urbanisation planétaire constitue aujourd’hui un thème très débattu. Les limites des espaces urbains ont formellement explosé et enserrent entre-temps de gigantesques territoires, bien au-delà des limites des principales méga-cités/méga-régions. Des modèles d’urbanisation inédits se cristallisent dans différents environnements et interrogent les représentations traditionnelles de l’urbain comme Plus
LUS Doctoral Seminar: More-Than Methodologies: Explorations in Landscape and Urban Research
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2025
LUS Doctoral Crits Autumn 2025
Architecture of Territory: MY CLOUD
Living Together: More-than-Human Ecologies for Architectural Thinking
Urban Agroecology on Uetliberg’s Foothills. A Research and Design Study with Grün Stadt Zürich
How can agriculture become part of Zurich’s urban future? This question guided the joint study conducted by the Chair of Architecture of Territory together with Grün Stadt Zürich (GSZ), the City of Zürich’s public green space department. Against the backdrop of the city’s projected 25% population growth by Plus
ECLAS Conference 2025: Agricultural Landscapes
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025
Informationsveranstaltung: MAS ETH EPFL in Urban and Territorial Design
EPFL ETH Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design
LUS Doctoral Crits Spring 2025
Sessions on Territory – Agency: Architecture in the Civil Service
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
Amazônía
Awaska Alpa_Woven Territory
14.10.2023–14.01.2024 | Exhibition | Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Awaska Alpa is a research project that critically explores the representation of Inga territory in the Andean Amazon of Colombia. During colonial times, the Spanish crown established the Indigenous resguardo (reserve) as a form of collective land tenure to “protect,” Plus
Nature conservation and Indigenous territories – Transitioning from the biological to the biocultural
The 16th Conference of Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) took place in Colombia during the last two weeks of October 2024. The city of Cali became the main stage for intergovernmental efforts to protect nature. A key outcome of the summit was recognising the Plus
LUS Doctoral Crits AS 2024 & Book Launch
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2024
ETH STUDIO BASEL Open Access: Public Launch
Sessions on Territory – Climate Anxiety and Mobilizing in Crisis: CLIMATE
LUS Doctoral Crits
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!
The Great Repair: Praktiken der Reparatur (DE/EN)
The Great Repair is an oxymoron. the title captures the convergence of two seemingly contradictory principles: the revolutionary ambition for systemic change and the evolutionary act of repair. Despite the justified (postmodern) skepticism toward revolution as a concept of rupture, we must not abandon our aspiration to bring about Plus
Biocultural Cartographies
More Than Human Cinema
Planetary Urbanisation – Aufruf zur Tat | Agrifutures Zürich – Agrarökologisches Gestalten
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2023
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.
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
Future Cities Laboratory Global Conference and Exhibition
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 Plus