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«Agency» lässt sich nicht mit einem Begriff ins Deutsche übersetzen, es wird «Agentur», «Vertretung», «Vermittlung» oder auch der englische Begriff «Agency» selbst verwendet und kann in Richtung «Selbst-Bewusstsein», «Fähigkeit» oder gemeinschaftliche Aktionen gehen. Diese Diversität finden Sie in diesem Newsletter wieder.
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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 of multi-stakeholder discussions triggered by the game. More
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 enables peer-learning and is an ideal laboratory for spatial design students.
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 address complex urban problems, can recognising individual differences be crucial for dealing with power imbalances?
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 of these female protagonists as both an inspiration source and as designers, this seminar sets out to make a correction to the existing, male-dominated histories and theories of urban design.
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 work on the ‘Urban elements’ and the the SESC exhibition in Sao Paolo/Zurich.
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 4 May 2022, along with other nominees, the project is being presented in an exhibition with ceremony and apero. Further information about this project.
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 a transdisciplinary dialogue with a broad group of actors, furthering their vision of policy relevant urban research rooted in real societal challenges.
This is a selection. Find a complete list in the ETH Zürich Research Collection.
Die Idee des Generationenwohnens hat heute hohe Konjunktur. Das praxisorientierte Forschungsprojekt untersucht ausgewählte Generationenwohnprojekte in längerfristiger Perspektive.
The difficulty of reconciling our basic needs with the long history of cultural landscapes, in all their inherent beauty and sufficiency, has become clear. With our deep trust in modern technology, in progress and in a demanding global lifestyle we have become a real threat to our world.
Rivers hold diverse meanings, values, and relationships to people. So far, though, the relationship between rivers and local populations still played a marginal role in river management.
The history of architecture is often read in terms of periods that each have their own zeitgeist and movements that each have their own architectural language. What happens if we depart from this zeitgeist concept and use a cyclical history model instead?
As in virtually every other city around the world, Swiss cities of Zurich and Basel saw changes in everyday mobility patterns with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that ensued.
Any traffic management strategy relies on an accurate estimation of the current traffic state within a network at any give time.
Die Coronakrise hat uns von einem Tag auf den anderen vorübergehend sesshaft gemacht. Home office hat unser Verhalten als Pendlerinnen und Pendler radikal verändert. Diese Umkehr des Mobilitätsverhaltens ist der Ausgangspunkt dieser Publikation.
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2021 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Isabelle Fehlmann, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Landschaftsarchitektur
Bojana Papic, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau
Claudia Gebert, Koordinationsstelle NSL, Chefredaktion
Maarten Van Strien, Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung (IRL)
Jan Westerheide, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS), Städtebau
Caroline Winkler, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT)