100%, Zurich, fixed-term. The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at the ETH Zurich Department of Architecture invites applications for two doctoral fellowship positions. The fellowship will start on 1 October 2026, with a 100% workload, based in Zurich, and is fixed-term for three-and-a-half years. Job description
12 & 13 March 2026 | ETH Zürich, ONA, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, Zürich Oerlikon. The Spring 2026 NSL Colloquium Designing Moments of Learning: International Forum on Pedagogies for Urban Transformation will bring together specialists from various disciplines to reconceptualise urban planning as a process of collective learning.
During the last year, members of the Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation (also known as NEWROPE) have documented and systematised the chair’s teaching experiments – to set examples and to invite others to explore and perform “Working on Transformation” themselves. The examples revolve around pedagogical experiments, with Continua
100%, Zurich, fixed-term. The doctoral programme at the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich, offers two fellowship positions to start on 1 October 2026. This programme focuses on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in a wider context of cultural history, including Continua
La ricerca di Philippe Vandenbroeck si concentra sull’intersezione tra immaginazione, trasformazione urbana e paesaggi contesi attraverso un caso di studio esplorativo di un sito minerario storico nel Limburgo belga. Il caso di studio esamina l’ex miniera di Winterslag, nei pressi di Genk, una regione profondamente plasmata dall’attività di Continua
La tesi di dottorato Aprire una scatola e scoprire un mondo completamente nuovo: ricerca-azione sul rapporto tra produzione e territorio a Kuklen, Bulgaria esplora le dinamiche spaziali della produzione globale e il rapporto sempre più complesso tra produzione e territorio. Si focalizza sulla Zona Economica della Tracia (Trakia Continua
La presenza della biodiversità nelle città è associata a molteplici benefici, dall’adattamento climatico al benessere sociale. Questi aspetti sono stati ampiamente studiati, ma nella progettazione di spazi pubblici la biodiversità è spesso trattata in termini meramente quantitativi: estensione delle aree verdi, numero di alberi, quantità di specie diverse. Continua
How can urban areas shaped by both humans and non-humans be investigated and connected? This doctoral project explores naturecultural places in five European cities through first-person action research, engaging directly in their daily life. The aim of this approach is to understand how this model of urban transformation Continua
Abraumhalden sind ein charakteristisches Landschaftselement ehemaliger Kohlebergbaugebiete. In Flandern und im französischen Norden werden sie Terrils genannt. Lange Zeit galten sie als Randzonen, wurden häufig abgetragen und als Erholungsflächen umgenutzt oder in Grün-Blau-Netzwerke integriert. In Einzelfällen bleiben sie als Zeugnisse des industriellen Erbes erhalten.
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 Continua
New Ruralities (NERU) is an Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships programme, which brings together six design units within the universities of ULB (Brussels), POLITO (Torino), UDC (La Coruña), UMinho (Braga), UACEG (Sofia) and ETH (Zürich). The Newrope chair is participating on behalf of ETH. The partnership’s aim is to generate Continua
Spaces of global production are formed by a diverse set of spatial figures that result from and support a global division of labor. Spaces of global production include multinational manufacturing networks, industrial agglomerations, plantations, logistics corridors, and special economic zones.
Rooted in the tension between concrete locations and global networks, between movement and stillness, space and place, and between clusters and dispersed zones, global production landscapes are challenging to understand. Where do these production spaces originate? Who owns, designs, and manages them? Due to the opaque nature of Continua
Il numero pilota di DELUS è stato presentato presso ONA DiD Lab nell’autunno del 2023. Offre una varietà di spunti diversi relativi a questioni urbane e legate al paesaggio. Presenta metodi nuovi per decifrare svariati mondi e narrare storie variegate. I contributi spaziano dallo svisceramento di storie di Continua
This article is a reflection on an action research project with stakeholders of a special economic zone in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The article describes the process of engagement from the perspective of the workers and the managers of three international factories, with the aim to discover moments and entry Continua
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.
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
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
The second volume in the ‘Chapters’ series from Brussels-based architecture firm 51N4E focuses on how design processes can be shaped through dialogue. First, it investigates their work together with two design-focused consulting firms, endeavour (Antwerp) and Denkstatt (Basel), wherein all three explore the boundaries of architecture, advocating openness Continua
Production and manufacturing have shaped nations, cities, and urban environments worldwide. The rise of China as the leading global industrial power, the phenomenon of radical automation or the new cutting-edge developments in Silicon Valley, California, have for some time attracted the focus of academic study. Contrastingly, the form Continua