Department / Institute: Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS)
Cultural Laboratory Seoul. Emergence, Narrative and Impact of Culturally Related Landscape Meanings
This dissertation project examines the emergence, narrative, and translation of traditional landscape meanings in contemporary landscape architecture projects. It uncovers a complex web of meanings, ideologies, and conflicts grounded upon different cultural and historical interpretations. On this basis, the dissertation argues for a mediating approach in landscape architecture Mehr
SRF Kultur: Publikation «Mutation und Morphose. Landschaft als Aggregat». Die Sammlung als Werkzeug
Ein regelrechtes Kuriositätenkabinett hat der Landschaftsarchitekt Günther Vogt gesammelt, ein Puzzle der Welt, die er in seinem Buch Mutation und Morphose entfaltet. «Das Sammeln ist eine Möglichkeit, sich die Welt zu erklären», schreibt der Landschaftsarchitekt Günther Vogt darin. In diesem wuchtigen Buch gibt er Einblick in die kollektive Entwurfsarbeit Mehr
From Collective Learning to Collective Action. Where Social Psychology and Design Thinking Meet
Spatial design is often confronted with an immense diversity of transformation processes. As a designer it is often difficult to fully acknowledge this immanent complexity and find a position to intervene. How can we answer questions as ‘With whom do I collaborate? How does personal transformation play a Mehr
Caring for Diversity. Local Practices of Countering Exclusion in Urban Housing
Access to and the safeguarding of suitable and affordable housing is difficult for disadvantaged groups in Swiss cities as such groups often include people with few professional qualifications, various kinds of handicaps, and few financial resources. Among them are migrants and refugees, elderly people, and the «working poor», Mehr
Co-creating Public Lighting Technology and Policy for Informal Settlements
The transdisciplinary research project «Virtual Environments as a Decision-making Tool for Public Lighting in Bogotá» focuses on lighting technology and its performance in Bogotá’s densifying urban environments. New lighting approaches are co-created together with informal settlement dwellers and tested with Colombian policy-makers through a Virtual Environment.
Landscape In-Between: A River and a Backyard
Addressing the former industrial area of Acetati in Verbania (IT), on the northern Italian shore of Lago Maggiore, the project sets out to explore the ambiguous nature of contemporary residual landscapes. With an attitude of carefully collecting and radically exposing materials, flows, historical layers and traces of production, Mehr
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2020
BIS AUF WEITERES GESCHLOSSEN: Ausstellung und Begleitveranstaltungen «Frau Architekt» im ZAZ
ABGESAGT Belgrade Unbuilt / Negrađeni Beograd. Discovering Nature in the Era of the Anthropocene
Summer 2020, Belgrade, Serbia | 6 international design workshops on architecture and territory. Workshop 1: 21 April–25 April 2020 with Bas Princen. Workshop 2: 29 June–4 July 2020 with Momoyo Kaijima. Workshop 3–6: (tbc). A series of consecutive research and design workshops dedicated to the future of Belgrade’s Mehr
Sessions on Territory – Beyond Techno-fix
ACTION! On the Real City: Filming the (un)Real City
On Mondays, 10:00–12:00 | Elective course | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, ONA E16, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50. Lecturers: Hubert Klumpner, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Michael Walczak. The course develops new forms of urban literacy in learning from the complex, real-life city.
Sociology: Memories of Zurich West
Rijeka European Culture Capital 2020: Have a Seat
Wouldn’t it be Nice if Architects Started Dreaming About Building Less
POSTPONED: Prospective Visions for Greater Geneva Region. Inhabiting the City-Landscape of the 21st Century
24 March | Inhabiting the City-Landscape of the 21st Century | Geneva. Initiated by the Braillard Architectural Foundation in October 2018, the Greater Geneva Consultation has charged seven interdisciplinary teams to rethink the cross-border metropolis to respond to the challenges of the ecological transition.
CANCELLED: Fábrica de Cultura: BAQ Inauguration
16 March, 18:00 | BAQ Fabrica de Cultura, Barranquilla, Colombia. With guests including Ambassador Raymond Furrer (SECO), this event will inaugurate the newest building emerging from the research of the Klumpner Chair – the Fábrica de Cultura: BAQ, in Barranquilla, Colombia.
CANCELLED: Olafur Eliasson
Inscriptions in Relation. Sitting Matters – Imagining social relations by designing public space
14–16 February | Exhibition | Palais de la Porte Dorée, 293 Avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris, France. Sitting or seating, the provision of a seat or seating, the arrangement of material for a seat as one of the most basic human activities in private or public urban environments is the point of departure Mehr
ETH Wohnforum BBL Events: Prishtina: the Arrival and Departure City of Kosovo Diaspora
Screening of the Documentary Film PUSH Followed by a Discussion on the «Mehr bezahlbare Wohnungen» Initiative
Designing with the Form of the Landscape
A new approach in landscape design uses point cloud modeling to integrate spatial, aesthetic and quantitative features of the landscape. The method is applicable in any location and thus makes it useful to a wide range of topics, whether in the context of cultural, agricultural or urban landscapes, Mehr
Mutation und Morphose. Landschaft als Aggregat
Wer aus der Distanz betrachtet, was wir «Landschaft» nennen, wird erkennen, dass es sich dabei um ein Artefakt handelt, um einen Lebensraum, von Menschen geschaffen als Teil der gebauten Stadt. Die Gestaltung dieses Raums ist eine Disziplin von zunehmender Bedeutung. Günther Vogt hat sich mit VOGT Landschaftsarchitekten und Mehr
Call for Papers: Public Space – the Real and the Ideal
Call for papers by 6th January 2020. The aim of the conference is to stress ideas and ideals on public space, both in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, as well as in (political) philosophy, against the background of the continuous development of technology, from smart phone to smart Mehr
Walking in the Territory
Can we, as researchers of the territory, still investigate and learn about our built and the unbuilt environments through direct experience? Can we rely merely on digital cartographies, or should we still be explorers who embark on journeys of discovery? We have tried to answer these questions by Mehr
Collective Actors and the Production of the City: Urban Commons in Research
In her book Governing the Commons (1990), political economist and Nobel prize winner Elinor Ostrom identified spaces and infrastructures as ‘common resources’ fostered by groups of citizens in order to resist top-down governance and commodification. Today, the notion of the ‘urban commons’ appears as an index for historians Mehr
KELLER EASTERLING Medium Design
27.11.2019, 14.30–16.00 | ONA Focushalle E7, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, 8050 Zürich (Oerlikon). In conversation with Marc Angélil, Arno Brandlhuber, Charlotte Malterre Barthes, and Milica Topalović. KELLER EASTERLING is an architect, professor at Yale, and one of the most eloquent theorists of architecture and design. In ‘Medium Design’ (Strelka Press, 2018) Easterling argues that design tools are often inadequate to Mehr
New Master of Science ETH in Landscape Architecture
We offer a new two-year master’s programme in landscape architecture at the department of architecture of ETH Zurich with a focus on the design and planning of open spaces and landscapes. This master’s programme in landscape architecture, initiated by Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard, Prof. Christophe Girot and Prof. Günther Mehr
Neue Professorin für Landschaftsarchitektur am LUS
The Professionalization of a Social Movement: Housing Cooperatives in Uruguay
Uruguay’s housing cooperatives‘ approaches and achievements are increasingly a source of inspiration for housing movements across the world. At present, in a country with a population of only about 3.5 million people, there are over 2,000 housing cooperatives providing affordable and good quality housing to approximately 30,000 households. Mehr
Projects on Territory: Dichte Geschichte
Die Debatte um Dichte in der Schweiz ist nicht neu. Tatsächlich ist sie älter und stärker verwurzelt im Fachdiskurs als oft angenommen wird: sie entbrannte stets in Phasen starken Bevölkerungswachstums, das oft mit der unkontrollierten Zersiedelung des Kulturlandes und erhöhter Landspekulation einherging. Noch bevor das Wort «Dichte» im Mehr
Housing Challenges in Europe
Architecture of Territory: Territorial Design in Histories, Theories and Projects
On Thursdays, 10:00–12:00 | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, ONA Fokushalle E7 | Lecture Series. This lecture series sets up the agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism from their focus on the city, or the urban in the narrow sense, to wider territorial scales, which correspond to the increasing scales of Mehr
Housing Challenges in the Global South
CANCELLED: Mutation und Morphose. Landschaft als Aggregat | Mutation and Morphosis. Landscape as Aggregate
Tackling the Global Housing Challenges: Relevance and Replicability of Housing Cooperatives. Approaches and Strategies
6 December, 9:00–17:30 | International Conference | Zentrum für Architektur ZAZ (Museum Bellerive), Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich. Celebrating 100 years of housing cooperatives in Switzerland, the ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE in collaboration with the Association of Swiss Housing Cooperatives (WBG Zürich) are hosting an international conference with the aim to address the Mehr
Launch Party LUS: Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies
2019–2020 MAS ETH in Housing: Kick-off Event
Mobilität neu denken: Erste Nationale Mobilitätskonferenz
«Mit einer intelligenten Verkehrspolitik in die multimobile Zukunft», lautet der Titel der vom Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung ARE verfassten Medienmitteilung zur ersten Nationalen Mobilitätskonferenz, die Ende August in Bern stattfand. Mit einer Open Session daran teilgenommen haben Miriam Lüdi und Sibylle Wälty. Sie zeigten auf, wieso eine Abstimmung der Mehr
The Grand Projet, Understanding the Making and Impact of Urban Megaprojects
25 September 2019, 18:00-19:00 | The Grand Projet Book Launch & Exhibition Opening | ETH Zürich, Hauptgebäude, im Lichthof, Erdgeschoss (HG E Nord), Rämistrasse 101, Zürich | exhibition open 25.9. to 4.10.2019. At this book launch and exhibition opening, The Grand Projet team at the ETH-Future Cities Laboratory presents the Mehr
Future Cities: Actions
24-25 September 2019 | Zurich. The FCL conference ‘Future Cities: Actions’ will feature outcomes of research conducted at the Future Cities Laboratory since 2015, when the second phase of the programme began. In particular, the conference will focus on actions and FCL’s contribution to sustainable future cities.
One new institute replaces three others: the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS)
The Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) has been founded as part of the Department of Architecture, with the Professors Christophe Girot, Hubert Klumpner, Freek Persyn, Christian Schmid, Milica Topalovic, and Günther Vogt. It replaces the three previous Institutes for Urban Design (ISB), Landscape Architecture (ILA) and the Contemporary City Institute (CCI).
Cartographies of Planetary Urbanisation
July 2019 | Fondazione Innovazione Urbana, Bologna. Cartographies of Planetary Urbanisation is a joint exhibit by Milica Topalovic, Prof. of Architecture and Territorial Planning, ETH Zürich; Christian Schmid, Chair of Urban Sociology, ETH Zürich and Neil Brenner, Urban Theory Lab, Harvard GSD.
Strategies Towards Inclusive Cities
15 July: Call for Papers. 17 and 18 October | Affordable Housing Forum Symposium 2019 in Tarragona, Spain. The 4th Affordable Housing Forum is an international and interdisciplinary symposium organised by the UNESCO Housing Chair of the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona (Spain) and the ETH Wohnforum Mehr
Land nutzen! Wie Städte gerechter wachsen und lebenswert bleiben können
Um Arbeit, Freizeit und Wohnen möglichst nahe zu verbinden, zieht es immer mehr Menschen in Städte und ihre Agglomerationen. Vielerorts wird in die Fläche expandiert, die Schweiz hingegen möchte das prognostizierte Arbeitsplatz- und Bevölkerungswachstum vor allem durch die Transformation bereits bebauter Flächen absorbieren. Eine schwierige Aufgabe, zumal das Mehr
«To Realise Breakthroughs in Urban Projects is to set them up as Learning Environments»
With Freek Persyn a new and experimental way of looking at and practicing urbanism came to the NSL. We questioned him on his notion on urban transformation, on his «radical openness to learn from others», his experiences in Albania, and the new «Design in Dialogue Lab» for students Mehr
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2019
Urbane Qualitäten: Lernen von der Langstrasse
Urbane Qualitäten sind heute in der Schweiz zu einem wichtigen Thema geworden. Fragen der Verdichtung, des Umgangs mit der Zersiedlung, der nachhaltigen Entwicklung, aber auch die steigende Nachfrage nach urbanem Wohnen und Arbeiten haben die Frage aufgeworfen, wie sich heute urbane Quartiere neu bauen lassen. Dabei lässt sich Mehr
Neues EU-Projekt PuSH am ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE
PuSH, a large, innovative European research project, has achieved funding from the EU HERA programme Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe (2019–2022). Distinguished researchers and non-academic partners from Denmark, Switzerland, Norway and Italy have achieved success in the face of fierce international competition, receiving €1 million from the Mehr
NACH ZÜRICH. Kontroversen zur Stadt. Ein Anarchiv
Ausstellung 4. April – 25. August 2019 | Mittwoch bis Sonntag 14:00 – 18:00 Uhr. Was ist Zürich? Die Ausstellung Nach Zürich beleuchtet Meilensteine der Stadtentwicklung: die Anlage der Parks am See unter der Leitung von Arnold Bürkli, der genossenschaftliche Wohnungsbau des Roten Zürich, die Modernisierung der Nachkriegszeit Mehr