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Much of what architecture students learn in the studio is «tacit knowledge.» They develop the skills and sensibilities of architectural and urban design with practice, often under the supervision of instructors and peers, not by studying textbooks. Yet, despite its importance, we know relatively little about how this tacit form of knowing is transmitted. Within the research network TACK / Communities of Tacit Knowledge, we tried to open up the «black box» of knowledge production in the design studio.
Design Research Studios (DRS) are an education format directed to Bachelor and Master students in Architecture at ETH Zurich that integrate studies conducted by post-graduate researchers on complex issues like flood and urban heat. They offer an opportunity to develop landscape designs connecting people and their environment with the goal to strengthen societal and ecological resilience. The DRS in Madagascar is the last of a series of DRS led by Prof. Christophe Girot in collaboration with Prof. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey within Future Cities Lab (FCL) research programmes. Previous DRS dealt with urban cooling in Singapore and urban floods in Jakarta.
How we spend our 24-hour days varies over time, be it by changes in one’s personal life or external forces like modifications to the built environment or government-level restrictions, as was the case during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. TimeUse+ is a novel survey methodology to collect data on individuals’ time use, travel, and expenditure behaviour to understand these shifts.
«… it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; … what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories». D.J. Haraway
In September 2022, a group of 18 architects met in the village of Tschlin in the Swiss Alps. In a non-hierarchical learning format, researchers and spatial practitioners came together to experiment with the ways we perform writing.
This is a selection. Find a complete list in the ETH Zürich Research Collection.
Die Fotografische Langzeitbeobachtung Schlieren 2005–2020 zeigt, wie sich das Schweizer Mittelland entwickelt.
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 58, Issue 4, December 2022 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Urban landscapes face significant challenges, as they must transform towards sustainability while remaining resilient. Urban landscape transformation is a complex task for landscape designers.
Across the different vernaculars of the world’s urban majorities, there is renewed bewilderment as to what is going on in the cities in which they reside and frequently self-build. Prices are unaffordable and they are either pushed out or strongly lured away from central locations.
Sustainable Construction | Hygrothermal Specialisation starts in September 2023, application until 31 July 2023.
It is time to go beyond sustainability. Alternative solutions out of local resources such as earth, bio-based, and reused materials are emerging all over the world and are triggering regenerative output.
ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE | Application until 30 June 2023 (2nd round).
The MAS focuses on the assessment of housing challenges and on the affordability, effectiveness and sustainability of a wide range of housing and neighbourhood development strategies pursued by municipalities, cooperatives, local governments, non-governmental and governmental authorities and international organisations in different countries and contexts.
ETH RAUM | Bewerbung bis 30. Juni 2023 (2. Runde).
Der MAS in Raumentwicklung befasst sich mit der Gestaltung und der Nutzung unseres Lebensraums und den sich darin abspielenden gesellschaftlichen, politischen, ökonomischen und ökologischen Prozessen.
ETH RAUM | Bewerbung bis 30. Juni 2023 (2. Runde).
Das CAS in Raumentwicklung und Planungspraxis behandelt die aktuellen und zukünftigen Herausforderungen der Raumentwicklung sowie zielführende Methoden und Verfahren für eine innovative Planungspraxis. Der Studiengang ist als Denklabor für raumrelevantes Handeln und Entscheiden konzipiert.
ETH RAUM | Bewerbung bis 1. Dezember 2023.
Das CAS in Raumentwicklung und Prozessdesign vermittelt Expertise und innovative Formate der Prozessgestaltung. Dabei steht der Mensch im Zentrum: Eine designorientierte Haltung, agile Vorgehensweisen und kollaborative Methoden bilden die Grundlage, um räumliche Veränderungsprozesse anzugehen.
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Conference and exhibition «Unausgesprochenes Wissen / Unspoken Knowledge / Le (savoir) non-dit».
19-21 June 2023 | ETH Hönggerberg, Stefano-Franscini Platz 5, Zürich
Tacit knowledge is a key characteristic of architecture culture.
NEW: anytime after 25 June | Musée de la Reconstruction d’Agadir, Morocco, and online.
30. Juni 2023, ab 14:00 Uhr | Zollhaus, Zollstrasse 121, 8005 Zürich.
Raumplanerische Interdependenzen zwischen Ober- und Untergrund. Strategien für eine vertikal-integrierte Raumentwicklung. Veranstaltungswebseite
13. Juli 2023, 18:00 Uhr | Vernissage | case studio VOGT, Stampfenbachstr. 59, 8006 Zürich.
Anmeldung erwünscht, bis am 3. Juli 2023 an event@vogt-la.ch.
In seiner Anthologie Landschaft geht der Soziologe Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) von einem problematisierten Landschaftsbegriff aus. Er fragt: Warum sehen wir die Umwelt als Landschaft und unter welchen Umständen?
25 August 2023, 8:30-18:00 | Conference | ETH Zürich, HIB 52 Open Space, Hönggerberg.
Ausstellung 09.06.2023 bis 24.09.2023 // Mittwoch bis Sonntag 14:00 – 18:00 Uhr | Zentrum Architektur Zürich (ZAZ), Höschgasse 3, Zürich.
6–8 September | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT E 51, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27.
10.1.24; 7.2.24, jeweils 18:30 | Öffentliche Vorlesungsreihe | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIB Open Space 1 + 2.
4.-6. Oktober, ab 09:00 Uhr | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIB Open Space 1+2.
Die MAS Studierenden präsentieren nach zweijährigem Weiterbildungsstudium ihre Masterarbeiten. Plus
18, 19, 20 October 2023, colloquium and exhibition.
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 to urbanisation. It also addresses new conceptual instruments that scholars of planetary urbanisation have been developing and reflect on emerging design approaches related to territories of extended urbanisation.
9 January – 20 November 2023 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H 35.3 or HIL H 40.4 and online.
4. März–26. November | Ausstellung im Museum Burghalde Lenzburg.
6. bis 8. December 2023 | ETH Zürich, Centre and Hönggerberg.
Photographs and presentations of all three days
This colloquium brings together transport planning researchers and practitioners to reflect on the growth processes of western or industrialized societies by identifying, assessing, and operating their transport infrastructures.
Transport planning as a discipline and practice has supported the growth processes of western or industrialized societies by identifying, assessing, and operating their transport infrastructures. In the last 150 years it was able to solve the capacity problems arising from population and industrial growth by using some of the growing national incomes to build more or better infrastructures for the growing number of vehicles. The challenges and the time frame of the greenhouse gas (GHG) accumulation change the way our societies should respond both in terms of our speed and in terms of the scale of our actions.
This colloquium brings together transport planning researchers and practitioners to reflect on these issues. The range of issues and suggestions can help to formulate strategies strong enough to fulfill the commitments which our societies have entered.
Day 1 brings together former students and researchers of the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT). Younger academics will present on day 2, while more senior researchers and practitioners will conclude on day 3. They will reflect on their ongoing work and on their experiences. They will draw their conclusions for our policy making and planning. The open discussions during and at the close of the colloquium will help defining our agendas for the future.
Kay Axhausen, ETH Zürich; Milos Balac, ETH Zürich; Oded Cats, TU Delft; Francesco Ciari, Polytechnique Montreal; Richard Emmerink, Schiphol Airport; Alex Erath, FHNW Muttenz; Martin Fellendorf, TU Graz; Pieter J. Fourie, Dr. sc. ETH, FCL Singapore; Daniel Hörcher, Imperial College London; S. Hörl, System X, Paris; P. M. Jones, UCL London; Matthias Kowald, FH Rhein-Main, Wiesbaden; Allister Loder, TU München; Tanvi Maheshwari, Monash University Melbourne; Arnab Majumdar, Imperial College London; Rolf Moeckel, TU München; Kai Nagel, TU Berlin; O. A. Nielsen, DTU Lyngby; Robert Schlich, SBB; Yoram Shiftan, Technion Haifa; Lijun Sun, McGill University Montreal; Martin Tschopp, ARE
Silvia Converso, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Landschaftsarchitektur
Claudia Gebert, Koordinationsstelle NSL, Chefredaktion
Klearjos Papanicolaou, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau
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)
