63 | September 2024: Resources and Energy

Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies

Methodological, epistemic, and ontological borders have long prevented landscape and urban studies from engaging in transdisciplinary dialogue, sensuousness, and affect. Researching Otherwise uncovers possibilities for deploying sensory, collaborative, and restitutive methodological tools to craft spaces for producing knowledge from pluriversal worlds. These methods connect researchers and their objects of investigation in new ways to empower restitutive and regenerative futures “otherwise.”

Original contributions stem from research methods based on drawing, photography, sounding and listening, filmmaking, walking, and cartography. They reveal journeys of specialists and their companions while navigating through multi-species walks, engaging in cinematic and performative ways of knowing, submerging in ocean worlds, unsilencing bank vaults and troubled architectural histories, and exploring collaborative ethnographic investigations with refugees.

Renewable energies in the field of tension between social demands

The Swiss energy system is set to undergo a significant transformation through the integration of photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy installations, as outlined in the Energy Strategy 2050. However, these installations impact public perception of the landscape and may lead to conflicts with various socio-economic or ecological interests. Additionally, forests are increasingly considered as potential contributors to the energy transition. More

Housing Precarity in Six European and North American Cities: Threatened by the Loss of a Safe, Stable, and Affordable Home

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Increasing numbers of urban dwellers face housing precarity in cities worldwide. We conceptualize housing precarity as a multidimensional phenomenon, using five different dimensions: 1) housing affordability, 2) tenure security, 3) housing satisfaction, 4) neighborhood quality, and 5) community cohesion. More

Increasing realism in modelling energy losses in railway vehicles and their impact to energy-efficient train control

The reduction of energy consumption is an increasingly important topic of the railway system. Energy-efficient train control (EETC) is one solution, which refers to mathematically computing when to accelerate, which cruising speed to hold, how long one should coast over a suitable space, and when to brake. More

Against wastelanding: distributed design at the pace of soil in the Conca de Barberà

This paper proposes a methodology for designers to work in the extensive yet marginal landscapes that are produced as part of the process of agricultural intensification. More

Transitioning to Sustainable Cities and Communities

14 November 2024, 17:30 – 20:00 | Book Launch | ETH Zürich, Design in Dialogue (DiD) Lab, E25, ONA, Neunbrunnestrasse 50, 8050 Zürich Oerlikon.
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disP 60/1, March 2024

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 60, Issue 1, March 2024 is now available online at Taylor & Francis Online.

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