On Fridays, 10:00-12:00, autumn semester 2026 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E67.
This seminar explores methodologies that go beyond conventional approaches in landscape and urban research. By emphasising mobile, embodied, participatory, and artistic methods, we work across disciplinary boundaries and tackle pressing themes such as contested grounds and colonial infrastructures, speculative ethnography and climate futures, agroecological and seed futures, and the politics of naming and place, among others. The “more-than” in the course title reflects our commitment to exploring and expanding emergent methodologies, while also questioning, troubling, rethinking, and unlearning them as we engage with complex and contested issues and recognise that methods themselves are never innocent. Our ultimate objective is for participants to engage these pioneering methodologies and themes critically, contextualise them through key texts, and develop their own unique research approaches through in-class discussions and writing assignments.
18.09. Introduction: More-than methodologies
25.09. Counter-mapping for agroecological futures | Kenza Benabderrazik @ SAE Greenhouse Art-Lab
02.10. Uncertain grounds: Speculative ethnography for spatial research | Kathrin Eitel
09.10. Landscape, always: Mass housing from the ground up | Robin Hueppe
16.10. History in the Fields | Camila Medina Novoa
30.10. Global walkers in the wilderness: Embodigital approaches to understanding 19th– and early 20th–century mission/ary landscapes | Ernest Sewordor
06.11. The everyday life of global infrastructure | Giulia Scotto
13.11. Against north, south, east, and west | Santiago del Hierro
20.11. Every seed has a recipe| Gabriela Aquije Zegarra
27.11. Ethnographic inquiries into place-making | Alice Hertzog @ Völkerkundemuseum
04.12. Doc Crits at L200, Langstrasse 200, Zürich
Guest Reviewers: Lindsay Bremner, Charles Heller
Organisation
Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS)
Contact: Dr. Nazlı Tümerdem (coordinator LUS)