Schatzkammer Wald: Lebensraum, Inspirationsquelle, Ressource
4. März–26. November | Ausstellung im Museum Burghalde Lenzburg.
Film des NSL Kolloquiums jetzt online: Städtische Verdichtung und Verdrängung
Sie haben das Kolloquium verpasst? Die Filmaufnahme ist jetzt online! Wir befinden uns in einer der grössten Abbruchwelle der Stadt Zürich. Diese dramatische Entwicklung polarisiert, die sozialen Auswirkungen auf die Stadt Zürich (und anderswo) muss diskutiert werden. Erreichen wir das erwünschte Ziel mit Abbrüchen von erschwinglichem Wohnraum? Wie More
Sessions on Territory: Urbanism in a Broken World: REPAIR
On Mondays, 16:00-18:00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E7. Sessions on Territory is a series of public debates on the political economy of architecture and territory.
Unearthing Traces
Archival power, silences, and absences profoundly shape and structure postcolonial landscapes, spaces, and urban environments by controlling bodies, histories, and interactions.
Podcast: On Peripheralisation.
A discussion with Shubhra Gururani, Christian Schmid, Michael Lukas, Giulia Torino, Metaxia Markaki, and Faiq Mari How do «peripheries» form? And how does urbanization generate processes of peripheralization? Today, novel patterns of urbanization are crystallizing in agricultural areas and in remote landscapes, challenging inherited conceptions of the urban More
Integrierte Abwicklungsmodelle aus Perspektive der Bauherrschaft
17. Mai 2023, 08:00 – 13:30 Uhr | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, HG F30, Audimax. Ziel der Tagung ist es, integrierte Abwicklungsmodelle aus Bauherrensicht auf den Prüfstand zu stellen.
Profile der Alpen: Landschaft, Landscape, Paysage – Talschaft: Abendgespräche
19. April 2023, 18:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL G 64.
Der Mann für die grossen Massstäbe
Christophe Girot hat die Landschaftsarchitektur in die digitale Welt gebracht und eine ganze Generation von Architekt:innen für grosse Massstäbe sensibilisiert. Nach über 20 Jahren als ETH-Professor wird er nun emeritiert. Artikel im ETH Newsletter
Ausstellung des Ideenwettbewerbs Stadthotel Triemli
12.-19.1.2023 | ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur Zürich, Höschgasse 3, CH-8008 Zürich.
The Agrarian Question: From Colonialism to Urban Agriculture
Lectures, Spring Semester 2023 | Thursdays 16:00-18:00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, ONA E7 Fokushalle.
Writing Urban Landscapes of the Anthropocene
LUS Methodology Seminar, Spring Semester 2023. Fridays, 11:45-13:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 67.
History and Theory of Architecture VIII: Seen from the South
Guest lecture, 28.4., 13:45–15:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 9.
Book Talk about «Migrants and Machine Politics. How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness»
15 February 2023, 16:00-17:30 | University of Zurich, KOL-G-210, Rämistrasse 71 8006 Zürich / hybrid.
Tierrita. Film screening followed by a discussion
19 January 2023, 18-19:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 1. Ein Bild, das Baum, draussen, Gras, Säugetier enthält. Automatisch generierte Beschreibung. The documentary «Tierrita» by visual anthropologist Leonie Pock offers insights into the struggle of a small farming community for their land in rural Colombia.
disP 58/3, September 2022
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 58, Issue 3, September 2022 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Tacit Knowledge in Architecture
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.
Colloquium on Sociology and Urban Studies
10 January 2023, 8:00–13:00 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, HG F30, Audimax, Rämistrasse 101.
ETH RAUM – Die neue Plattform der ETH zur Raumentwicklung geht online!
ETH RAUM ist die neue Plattform der ETH Zürich, mit einem breiten Angebot in der Raumentwicklung. In einem MAS und drei neuen CAS-Programmen stehen Raumentwicklung, Planungspraxis, Prozessdesign und die Stadt als Laboratorium der Zukunft im Zentrum. Das Bewerbungsfenster ist bis 30. April 2023 geöffnet. Die Programme starten im More
Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman zum ausserordentlichen Professor für Transportsysteme befördert
Francesco Corman beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung von Analyse-, Modellierungs-, Vorhersage- und Optimierungstools für öffentliche Verkehrssysteme und logistische Netze.
ETH Forum Wohnungsbau: 17. internationale Tagung «GENERATIONENWOHNEN – Von der Idee bis zur Umsetzung»
10. März 2023, 9–17 Uhr | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, Auditorium Maximum (Raum HG F 30). Wie leben wir in Zukunft? Klimawandel, Digitalisierung, Alterung, Vereinzelung – dies sind nur einige der grossen Herausforderungen, vor denen wir als Gesellschaft stehen.
MAS ETH in Housing
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 More
Unlocking a Multidisciplinary Discourse on Architecture and the City
This research project sets out to develop a new methodology of crossing disciplinary perspectives with the goal of unlocking a multidisciplinary historiography of architecture. It is based on the conviction that something fundamentally new can be learned from the exchanges that architects have had with other disciplines.
How can Urban Policy-makers Leverage Science and Technology to Create Safer, more Inclusive Cities that Serve the Needs of all Citizens?
Two overarching technological methods including agent-based modelling and simulations, and visualisation technology are connecting and overlapping three urban themes of public lighting, segregation, and security in Cape Town and Bogotá. Within this common ground called Urban Research Incubator (URI), researchers collaborate on several projects.
Critically Thinking and Acting on the Ground: An Interview with Christophe Girot
Christophe Girot started as visiting professor in 1999 shortly after the death of professor Dr. Dieter Kienast, he became professor at ORL and chair of landscape architecture at the ETH in 2001. He has substantially fostered and developed the discipline of landscape architecture within the Department of Architecture More
Difference in Urban Planning. Interdisciplinarity as an Approach to Understanding the Complexity of Contemporary Urban Societies
Cities attract people of diverse origins, religious practices, socioeconomic status, and everyday practices. As a result, urban planning is challenged to respond adequately to this demographic heterogeneity. These urbanization processes highlight the importance of placing difference at the centre of the urban planning agenda.
Doctoral Crits of the Institute of Urban and Landscape Studies LUS
8. December 2022, 13:00-17:30 | ETH Zurich, ONA building, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, Zürich.
Bright environments: Daylight in Sustainable Building Design
25 August 2023, 8:30-18:00 | Conference | ETH Zürich, HIB 52 Open Space, Hönggerberg.
Entdecken, wie sich Landschaften anhören
Knarzen des schimmernden Morteratschgletschers, Grollen in aschfahlen Dämmen und stetes Schwappen graublauer Zürcher Stauseen: Ludwig Berger erkundet mit Studierenden, wie man Räume mit dem Gehör erkunden kann. Im ETH-Podcast spricht der wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter über die klangliche Annäherung an die Landschaftsarchitektur, das Einfangen von Klängen und das Einspielen auf Schallplatten. Er More
Sudamérica LUS Talks
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.
Forecasting District-wide Pedestrian Volumes in Multi-level Networks in High-density Mixed-use Areas
19 October 2022, 11:00-12:00 (CET) | Zoomlink: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/63499711049, Registration
Film, Architecture, and Urban Studies
19th – 21st of October 2022 | International Symposium | Zurich. Falma Fshazi, Newrope Chair, Prof. Freek Persyn, and Nitin Bathla, Chair of Sociology, Prof. Christian Schmid
disP 58/2, June 2022
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2022 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
“Yes, but not like this!” – Why densification often lacks public acceptance
Densification is a fundamental principle of urban planning and development today. Nevertheless, it often encounters local resistance. A group of ETH researchers has now systematically investigated factors influencing public acceptance of densification, focusing on the canton of Zurich and six cities of global importance. One key factor: affordable More
Field Reconnaissance
As part of the design studio «Atomic Heart River», students in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) were asked to develop visionary concepts for the science campus of the future. In addition to point clouds, other design tools such as a GNSS drawing device and virtual reality applications More
Will E-Bikes Bring Amsterdam and Copenhagen to Switzerland?
Kick-off event | 23 November 2022, 13:30, aperitif around 18:00 | HG F 30 (Audi Max), ETH Zürich, Zentrum. Registration deadline 9 November.
Globescape: Understanding Place, Fostering Place-making
Unprecedented urbanisation is transforming productive agricultural land into standardised settlements in which people are losing their sense of place and the motivation to initiate change. How people feel about, interact with, or want different places to be shaped, has been systematically researched through the lenses of place and More
If you work in Zurich, you should be able to live there – but where exactly?
Much controversy surrounds the SBB Neugasse project in the city Zurich. It will be put to the vote for Zurich citizens on 25 September. On a 30-hectare site in a well-connected location, only 375 flats are envisaged. This means that there is not sufficient densification, not as much housing More
Landmanagement – Weiterentwicklung eines Instrumentariums
18. Januar 2023, 9:00 – 17:00 | ETH Zürich (Zentrum), Auditorium Maximum HG F 30. Das Landmanagement ist im Wandel. Schon heute werden seine Instrumente zur Förderung vielfältiger Funktionen des Raumes eingesetzt.
Inaugural Lecture Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard
1 December, 17:15 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, HG F 30. Prof. Galí-Izard defines landscape architects as translators of the potential of places defined primary by its geological and climatic conditions.
Von Bewegung, Video und Wolken
28. November – 3. Dezember 2022 | Ausstellung und Round Table Talks | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HXE C1.
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture 2022/23
18 December 2022 until 12 March 2023 | Shenzhen, China. The UABB is the only exhibition in the world to explore issues of urbanization.
Nature and Engineering: The Park of the Buttes-Chaumont
21 November, 16:00 – 18:00 | via Zoom. Lecturer: Antoine Picon – Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
«Incontri con il paesaggio»
17 November, 17:00 – 19:00 | Politecnico di Torino, Castello del Valentino, Torino.
Bibliothekseröffnung Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt
25. November 2022, 18:00 Uhr | Anmeldung bis 18. November | Case Studio VOGT, Stampfenbachstrasse 59, Zürich.
(RE)Acting/(EN)Acting: New Approaches in Landscape Architecture
18 October, 17:00 | Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO).
Architecture of Territory: MY ENERGY
Thursday 24.11./1.12., 10:00 – 12:00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E 7 + online. This lecture series sets up an agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism to territorial scales, corresponding to the increasing scales of contemporary urbanisation.
Between Activism and Academia: Research Justice in Unequal Cities
11 October, 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, HG E 7. Lecturers: Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles. Comments by Christian Schmid, ETH Zürich, Joanna Kusiak, University of Cambridge, and Hanna Hilbrandt, University of Zürich.
The [Seasonal] Arrival City: Designing for migrants’ ‘transient right to the city’
Buchvernissage 6. Oktober, 18:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27.
Bodies of Water – A Swiss Landscape Trilogy
Exhibition 4 – 14 October / Vernissage & Book Launch: 4 October, 18:00 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, HG Main Hall.