Understanding a Place by Looking at its Soil
Doing fieldwork – such as the study of soil, vegetation, or other living systems – is an essential task in the discipline of landscape architecture. It helps to understand and translate the existing conditions of a place to uncover its potential for future transformations. The Chair of Being Continua
Städtische Verdichtung und Verdrängung
9. Februar 2023, 17:00–18:45 Uhr | ZAZ BELLERIVE Zentrum Architektur Zürich, Höschgasse 3, Zürich. Expert:innen, Politiker:innen und Aktivist:innen diskutieren über die sozialen Auswirkungen der anhaltend raschen Verdichtung der Stadt Zürich. Diese erfolgt oft durch den Ersatz von preiswertem Wohnraum durch neue Wohnungen, die für einkommensschwächere Menschen nicht mehr erschwinglich sind. Am 25. Januar 2023 eröffnet Continua
False Clouds
9 September – 20 October | National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Urban Design Studio Sarajevo, BiH.
Der Traum vom Ferienhaus
11. September 2022, 10:30 | Kantonsbibliothek Graubünden, Karlihofplatz. Welche Spuren haben «Der Traum vom Ferienhaus» in audiovisuellen Dokumenten hinterlassen?
Der möblierte Berg: Rigi Kaltbad-First gestern, heute und morgen
24. September 2022, 14 bis 17 Uhr | Bergkirche Rigi Kaltbad.
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.
Jennifer Duyne Barenstein wird Leiterin des ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE
Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein übernimmt die Leitung des interdisziplinären Forschungszentrums ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE. Sie tritt die Nachfolge von Dr. Marie Glaser an und bringt langjährige internationale Leitungserfahrung mit. Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin ist seit sechs Jahren am ETH Wohnforum tätig und spezialisiert auf sozioökonomische und kulturelle Aspekte des Continua
Sprungbrett – Impulse im Wohnungsbau
15. September, 17:30–20:15 | PROGR, Bern. Neudenken des Schweizer Wohnungsbaus: Clusterwohnen auf dem Dorf und mehr.
Master of Science ETH in Landscape Architecture
Apply now for Autumn 2023! The ETH Master‘s degree programme in Landscape Architecture is aimed at students with a Bachelor‘s degree in architecture or landscape architecture from a university or a Swiss university of applied sciences with at least 180 ECTS or equivalent. A motivation letter and a portfolio are Continua
Fieldwork Week in Cima Città. Join us!
15. – 19. August 2022, registration deadline: 31.7.2022 | Cima Città, Valle di Blenio, Ticino. An open invitation to join the Chair of Being Alive for a week of getting their hands dirty.
disP 58/1, March 2022
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2022 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Calculate or co-create?
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder – yet how do we find consensus on a shared amenity such as a neighbourhood? We took a stroll with two ETH architects to discover how they see their role as mediators between the conflicting priorities of urban consolidation, Continua
Eine kurze Geschichte des Bauens ausserhalb der Bauzone
Warum gibt es in der Schweiz eine Trennung zwischen Baugebiet und Nicht-Baugebiet? Was waren die Beweggründe, das Bauen ausserhalb der Bauzone streng zu reglementieren? Welche Akteure setzten sich für die Trennung ein und wie lief der politische Prozess ab? Antworten gibt diese kurze Geschichte des Bauens ausserhalb der Continua
Öffentliche Schlusspräsentation Basel West – St. Louis, MAS in Raumplanung 2021/23
26. August 2022, 8:30-12:00 | Markthalle Basel, Salon.
disP 57/4, December 2021
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 57, Issue 4, December 2021 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
4D Geo-designing Urban Transformation: Final Reviews
6 July 2022, 13:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E67.
An Agent-based Digital Twin for Sarajevo
To support and enable the Urban Transformation of the City of Sarajevo through quantitative, data-driven assessments and novel 4D digital aesthetics, we apply digital twins and large-scale, agent-based, and bottom-up simulations.
Application of Machine Learning Classifiers in Train Route Scheduling
How much are common machine learning classifiers, such as Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) better in forecasting than traditional discrete choice models? To which extent is it worth to sacrifice the improved interpretability of the latter to achieve a higher prediction Continua
Tentacular Writing. A Peer-to-Peer Writing Retreat
11–16 September 2022, public final presentations: 16 September | Tschlin, Graubünden | an ETH Zurich / EPFL Summer School for doctoral students. «It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; [it matters] (…) what thoughts think thoughts» (Haraway, 2016).
Imaginaries Exhibition
The Imaginaries exhibition edition, previously at the 2021 MAK Vienna Biennale, will travel to the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) Shenzhen, China from August to November 2022. The central theme is architectural responses and strategies in the context of global climate change.
Platforms and Urbanism: Challenges for Urban Governance
Digital platforms are increasingly present in everyday urban life. This has meant an increasing infrastructuralisation of digital platforms, creating opportunities, but also challenges for cities and governments. During COVID-19, delivery platforms and delivery workers became a staple of urban landscapes, but what has this meant for urban governance?
Festival «Sonic Topologies»
Das Festival Sonic Topologies erkundet die Zürcher Klanglandschaft in vielfältigen Hörerlebnissen. Vom 24. bis 26.6. finden Konzerte, Vorträge und Workshops im Alten Botanischen Garten, Reservoir Lyren, Wärmebad Käferberg und am Zürichsee statt. Internationale Expert*innen aus Klangkunst, Klangarchitektur und akustischer Ökologie entfalten die Akustik dieser Orte und eröffnen neue Continua
Archetypes of Socio-ecological-technological-systems for Managing Ecological Infrastructure
The Valpar.CH project assesses the current state of the ecological infrastructure (EI) as well as the basis for a functioning EI in the future. To examine EI and communicate results, we delineate archetypes by clustering socio-economic, ecological, and technological indicators using machine-learning techniques. Within the boundaries of the Continua
Eine neue Schweizer Landschaftstypologie mit Deep Learning
Die Identifizierung und Definition von Landschaftstypen ist nicht nur für die Übertragbarkeit von Landschaftsplanungs- und Managementstrategien unerlässlich, sondern auch eine Anforderung der von der Schweiz ratifizierten Europäischen Landschaftskonvention. Landschaftstypologien werden in der Regel von Expert:innen oder mit Hilfe sogenannter unsupervised clustering Techniken erstellt. Die letztgenannten Methoden haben jedoch Continua
ETH Eisenbahnlabor
21. und 22. Mai 2022 | Tag der offenen Tür | Hangar des Airforce Center, Flugplatz Dübendorf.
«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 Continua
Agreement on Realisation of ‘Sarajevo Urban Transformation Project’ Signed
The agreement was signed by Prof. Hubert Klumpner from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), Prof. Dr. Rifat Škrijelj, Rector of the University of Sarajevo (UNSA), Prof. Dr. Adnan Pašić from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo (UNSA) and Faruk Muharemović, Director of the Continua
Alpine Landschaften im Wandel: Infrastruktur, Kultur und Klima
Symposium 12. – 13. Mai 2022. Forschungsworkshops, runde Tische und Keynote. Öffentlicher Anlass, Anmeldung bis 29. April 2022. Klimawandel, Energiewende, Urbanisierung und Industrialisierung haben und werden enorme Auswirkungen auf die alpine Landschaft haben. Am Schnittpunkt Europas gelegen, müssen die Veränderungen dieser recht fragilen Umwelt durchleuchtet werden.
Urban Research Incubator at ISTP Inaugurates New Interactive 3D Platform
The Urban Research Incubator at ISTP, researching public lighting, segregation, and security in two cities of the Global South (Cape Town and Bogota) created an interactive multi-user platform, making their research, policy briefs, and multimedia and immersive content more available. In doing so, they continue to engage in Continua
ETH Zurich – Center for Sustainable Future Mobility
6 May 2022, registration deadline 15. April 2022, 08:00 | Kick-off Symposium | ETH Zürich, Centre, HG E3. The Center for Sustainable Future Mobility (CSFM) has been established at ETH Zurich in order to promote research on sustainable and future-proof traffic and transport systems.
«School of Architecture for Reconciliation» Nominated for KITE Award
The first phase of this school, organised by ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE, has been nominated for the prestigious KITE Award for Innovation in Learning and Technology, which honours the extraordinary efforts of teaching staff during the enforced remote teaching phase and showcases excellent examples of online teaching practice. On Continua
disP 57/3, September 2021
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2021 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Agency in a Contemporary World: Towards an Actor-centred Planning?
The interrelationship between structure and agency has long been in the centre of the planning debate: the structuralist perspective focused on a regulatory structure as an arena for the manoeuvre of rational actors, while network-oriented post-structuralism exceeds such a rigid duality. However, as both approaches fail to fully Continua
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 Continua
Eine Geschichte des gemeinschaftlichen Wohnens – Modelle des Zusammenlebens
29. März 2022, 18–19.30 Uhr | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT H 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27.
Repository
www.avermaete.repository.ethz.ch is an open repository for the chair’s education, research, and publication activities. Next to the chair’s Instagram account, the website informs and inspires students and professionals using graphic material and represents each team member. The website also contains a virtual exhibition space on, for example, the student Continua
MAS Urban and Territorial Design 2022/23
Call for applications: 28 February to 31 May 2022 | ETH Zürich D-ARCH LUS and EPFL ENAC HRC joint programme.
The City in Theory – Her Agency
This seminar follows the work and life of a series of «female professionals» (architects, politicians, urban designers, journalists, editors, curators, philanthropists, etc.) in the post-war era who started to critically engage in discussions on urban design and actively contribute to the design of cities. By fully acknowledging the contributions Continua
Understanding «the how» of Transforming Urban Neighbourhoods with Serious Games
Transforming an urban neighbourhood for the better: Should it answer to societal and ecological needs; and be attractive and politically feasible; and sustainable? We developed a serious game for Hochdorf (Luzern, Switzerland) and Sompasaari (Helsinki, Finland) to investigate such tradeoffs. Here, we present some key lessons from observations Continua
Laufen Manifesto Global Meeting
22 – 24 July 2022 | Laufen, Germany. Building on the 2013 «The Laufen Manifesto», which called for the development humane design culture, this event will discuss the relevance of the ideas of the original Manifesto and encourage scrutiny, actions, and decisions on methods and goals with relevant leaders in the urban Continua
Under the Landscape. Boulouki – Itinerant Workshop on Traditional Building Techniques
26 – 29 June 2022 | Symposium | Santorini and Therasia, Greece. Keynote: Prof. Teresa Gali-Izard.
Sonic Topologies
24 to 26 June 2022 | Old Botanical Garden, Zurich (festival centre). The interdisciplinary symposium and sound festival «Sonic Topologies» explores the relationship between place, sound, and knowledge. Researchers, architects, and artists develop site-specific sonic contributions at different locations in the city of Zurich, which explore the acoustic, ecological, social, or historical characteristics Continua
Agriculture de Non-Agir
5 May 2022, 12:45 – 15:30 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E 25. Lecturers: François Léger, Researcher, AgroParisTech & Prof. Teresa Gali-Izard.
Reflective Practitioners. Berichte und Reflexionen aus der Raumplanungspraxis
10./17./24./31. Mai, jeweils 17:30 – 19:00 Uhr, danach Apéro | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg.
Dezentralschweiz
30. November 2022, 18:00-20:00 | Ort: ETH Zürich, Zentrum, LEE D 101. Welche Lehren ziehen wir aus der Covid-Krise als Feldversuch für eine nachhaltigere Stadtlandschaft Schweiz?
Tête-à-Tête Lectures: Material Commons
9 March, 5 April, 3 May 2022 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT 31.1.
The City in Theory: Her Agency
Selected Thursdays 2022, 15:45 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HPT C 103.