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Projektstart: Digitale Nachbarschaften

Online-Tools für die nachbarschaftliche Vernetzung gewinnen weltweit an Popularität, nicht zuletzt seit Covid-19. Das interdisziplinäre SNF-Projekt «Digitale Nachbarschaften – Lokale Online-Räume und ihr Potenzial für soziale Inklusion» nimmt den Einfluss digitaler Netzwerke auf nachbarschaftliche Beziehungen unter die Lupe und identifiziert ihr Potenzial für eine inklusive Nachbarschaft. Damit soll Plus

Neue Gastdozentin Landschaftsarchitektur: Maren Brakebusch

Maren Brakebusch ist Gesamtbüroleiterin bei Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten und steht der Geschäftsleitung der vier Bürostandorte in Zürich, London, Berlin und Paris vor. Sie studierte Landschaftsarchitektur an der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Nebst Jury- und Vortragstätigkeiten unterrichtet sie seit 2017 Architekturstudierende an der School Of Architecture in Potsdam. An der ETH Zürich Plus

© Eveline Althaus, ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

Generationenwohnen – von Erfahrungen innovativer Wohnprojekte lernen

Die Idee des Generationenwohnens hat heute hohe Konjunktur. Immer mehr Wohnprojekte setzen sich zum Ziel, das Zusammenleben und die Solidarität zwischen den Generationen zu fördern. Hierzu spielt Kommunikation eine zentrale Rolle und immer wieder gilt es zwischen unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zu vermitteln. Ein neues Forschungsprojekt am ETH Wohnforum nimmt Plus

Aktualisierung Raum+ Kanton Obwalden

Raum+ schafft sachliche Grundlagen zur Übersicht von freien Baulandreserven. Im Kanton Obwalden wurde 2016 eine Ersterhebung durchgeführt. Im Sommer 2020 wurde der gesamte Perimeter aktualisiert. Dabei sind die Gespräche mit den Gemeindevertreter*innen ein zentraler Ansatz der Methode. Die aktualisierten Daten sind auf der Raum+-Plattform aufgeschaltet und stehen den Plus

The urban scale model of the project of Les Halles is presented to the public, Paris, 1968. (Photo by Georges Melet/Paris Match via Getty Images)

Exploring Urban Scale Models

Urban scale models are crucial for communicating urban design ideas between various stakeholders, from those directly involved in a project – e.g. client, developer, contractor, municipality – to the broader public. However, our knowledge about this tool is limited. Understanding the shifting role of urban design from the Plus

Beispiele für Pflanzentransfers des Botanischen Gartens Zürich von Amerika nach Europa im Zeitraum 1858 bis 1874. Die Sendungen wurden entweder in London verkauft oder weiter nach Zürich spediert. © Dunja Richter, ETH Zürich

Von San Francisco bis Moskau. Der Botanische Garten Zürich als ein Drehkreuz im globalen Pflanzenhandel des 19. Jahrhunderts

Wie gelang es dem Botanischen Garten der Universität Zürich, in einem Land ohne Häfen, Kolonien und fernab der grossen Gartenbauzentren, durch Handel und Austausch neue Pflanzen einzuführen, in der Gartenkultur zu verbreiten und sich als Akteur im globalen Pflanzenhandel des 19. Jahrhunderts zu profilieren? Damit beschäftigt sich die Plus

An example result of the optimization framework embedded in a decision support system. In the output map, the blue pixels represent the proposed new residential areas in Singapore that minimize loss of UES and maximize compactness. On the left hand side of the user interface, the iterations and the final trade-off curve are displayed. © Sergio Wicki

Participatory Multi-objective Optimization for Planning Dense and Green Cities

In many cities around the world, urban ecosystem services (UES) are under pressure. With a growing urban population, the pressure on UES in the remaining open spaces increases. The planning of new residential areas to accommodate urban dwellers increasingly requires the consideration of UES, especially when taking into Plus

3D DSS for Supporting the Planning of Electric Power Systems

In a cooperation between the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation (IKG) and the Chair of Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) a 3D Decision Support System (3D DSS) has been developed as a communication tool to support the planning of power lines. Now the 3D DSS has Plus

Territories of potentials for Geneva region in 2050: bi-national metropolis (pink); global-local territories (dark magenta); post-fossil infrastructures (purple); metropolitan countryside (yellow); agri-landscape rooms (green); vital streams and canopies (blue); mountain parks (brown). © Team Grand Genève et son sol: ETH Zürich Architecture of Territory Prof. Milica Topalović, Uni.Lu FHSE Prof. Florian Hertweck, and Raumbureau Rolf Jenni. Cartography: Karoline Kostka and Nikos Katsikis. Illustration Karoline Kostka and Muriz Djurdjevic.

Bringing the Land Back into the City – Possibilities for Ecological Transition in Geneva

With a fast population increase and a high housing demand projected to continue in the coming decades, Geneva encounters a profound challenge. Since decades, the city has been spilling over across the national border. Urban growth and land consumption in the Canton and in the French part of Plus

Passengers’ thinking and actual delay in case of incomplete information of railway delays © IVT, ETH Zurich

Communicating Railway Delays and Adjusted Timetables: the Role of Incomplete Information to Passengers in Railway Operations

In case of railway delays, train operating companies update the planned timetable to the actual disturbed conditions to keep offering high quality services to travellers. Passengers face an adjusted service, and corrective actions (a disposition timetable). This communication is often assumed to be perfect, complete and immediate, which Plus

Marseille © 2019 ETH Zürich, Professur Günther Vogt

Master of Science ETH in Landschaftsarchitektur

Bewerbungsfrist: 1. Nov. – 15. Dez. 2021 & 1. – 30. April 2022

landscape landscape urbanism Teresa Gali-Izard

LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPE URBANISM the garden of the XXI century

Teresa Gali-Izard: Michael Hough/Ontario Association of Landscape Architects Visiting Critic. 23 November, 18:00-19:00 Zurich time (12:00-13:00 eastern standard time) | Zoom registration. Landscape landscape urbanism is an inclusive approach to the construction of the human ecosystem. It translates the hidden potential of places and pursues a new relationship between living creatures, Plus

51N4E, A site meeting in Tirana, Albania, 2008. © 51N4E

The Things Around Us

16 September 2020 – 14 February 2021 | Exhibition | Canadian Centre for Architecture. Elements of the Design in Dialogue Lab of ETH’s NEWROPE Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation are exhibited at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal as part of ‘The Things Around Us’.

Rethinking Cities Series – Cooperative Housing for Slum Free Cities in India

11 November 2020, 13:30-15:00 | Webinar. Day 2: Learnings from Switzerland.

Urban Design and the Technological Shift in Transportation

18 November 2020 | Webinar | Time: 10:00–11:30. How can urban design steer the impacts of technological disruptions in the transport sector?

Luftbild Schlieren © Timon Furrer

Urbane Transformationen

Politik und Planung | Raum und Technologie | Design und Raumplanung

Online Lecture: ‘Social Housing and Urban Regeneration’ by Dr. Paul Watt

15. Oktober 2020, 16 Uhr | online Dr. Paul Watt, Professor of Urban Studies (Birkbeck, University of London) and editor of the book ‘Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective’ will give an online lecture on ‘Social Housing and Urban Regeneration’. To join please follow this link: Plus

Baden im Kanton Aargau ist eine der untersuchten Städte in der Fallstudie. Bild: zvg

Diskussion: «Haushälterischer Umgang mit dem Boden in der Schweiz»

29. Oktober 2020, 16.30–18 Uhr | live-​streaming Die Diskussionsveranstaltung zum Abschluss des vierjährigen interdisziplinären SNF-​Projektes «Wie wachsen: Planung für eine ganzheitlich nachhaltige Landnutzung» nimmt Siedlungsstrukturen der Schweiz in den Blick und thematisiert die Bodennutzung der Schweiz. Ziel war es, ein Instrument für eine ganzheitlich nachhaltige Landnutzungs-​ und Siedlungsgestaltungsplanung Plus

Poster Athena Series

Athena Lecture Series: Auftakt mit Marwa Al-Sabouni

6. Oktober 2020, 18 Uhr | ETH Zentrum, online Marwa Al-Sabouni ist eine syrische Architektin und Autorin. Sie gilt als Expertin für den Wiederaufbau Syriens, führt zusammen mit ihrem Partner ein Architekturstudio in Homs und ist Mitbegründerin von www.arch-news.net, der weltweit ersten und einzigen Plattform, die Architektur-News in Plus

Urban Park closed under COVID-19 Pandemic at the canton of Zürich, Switzerland © Marcelo Galleguillos, ETH Zurich

Are Our Cities Green Enough in Times of a Pandemic?

Green city areas are under pressure. Compact cities aim to reduce land consumption outside cities, but densification puts pressure on urban green areas. Will the existing green areas suffice for the increased demand during pandemics such as COVID-19? Using recent mobility data before and during the pandemic, we Plus

Figure 1 – Empty offices due to the transition to home-office working mode, after the COVID-19 crisis (source: https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-remote-first-companies-are-another-covid-19-calamity/)

Flexible Office Space for the Age of Distributed Work

The potential large-scale transition from working in the office to working at home, is a massive uncertainty related to the future needs of office space in our cities. It is in the face of this uncertainty, that real estate developers must manage their portfolios. The use of the Plus

Paulownia – Resilient Trees for Mountainous Land Use?

Paulownia (Paulowniaceae) is one of the world’s fastest growing trees, originally introduced from Asia to Europe in the 17th century. Its wood is one of the lightest, while keeping high flexibility and stability, making it an ideal wood for regenerative composite constructions (a wood core sandwiched by fiber Plus

City of Marseille (thick red line), Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence (thin red line) and investigation perimeter (black dotted line) © Amalia Bonsack, chair Günther Vogt, ETH Zurich

Cities in Crisis: Shifting Perspective on the Metropolitan Landscapes in Marseille and Naples

The elective course «Territory of the city» focused on Marseille and Naples, two cities enduring long-term economic and social crises. Like other Mediterranean port cities, they are directly affected by global warming and face increasing threats of natural hazards. The recent creation of the «Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence» (2016) and the Plus

UTD19 Largest multi-city traffic dataset publically available

Largest Multi-city Traffic Dataset «UTD19» is now Publically Available!

Over the last four years, the Institute for Transportation Planning and Systems (IVT) at ETH Zurich and CITIES at NYU Abu Dhabi have gathered urban traffic data from over 40 cities worldwide, including London, Tokyo, and Zurich. In total, almost 5 billion vehicles covering a combined time span Plus

Luzern © Timon Furrer

Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Raumplanung 2021/23

Bewerbungsfrist: 1. Januar – 30. April 2021.

Master of Science ETH in Landschaftsarchitektur

Bewerbungsfrist: 31. März 2021

Territorial Design Poster

Architecture of Territory: Territorial Design in Histories, Theories and Projects

Lecture Series | 5 sessions on selected Thursdays, 10:00–12:00 | via Zoom. This lecture series sets up an 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 Plus

Planetary Urbanization: a Theory Seminar

Elective Course | Starting 25 September on Fridays, 14:00–16:00 | online. Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid, Dr. Lindsay Blair Howe. Today, urbanization has achieved a planetary reach; novel patterns of urbanization are crystallizing across diverse environments, in agricultural areas, in the space of what may appear to be Plus

ACTION! On the Real City: 4D Urban Flux 24 Frames Per Second

Elective course | Starting 21 September on Mondays, 10:00–12:00 online and at ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, ONA E16, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, 8050 Zurich. Lecturers: Prof. Hubert Klumpner, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Michael Walczak. The course aims to use diverse qualitative research methods and practical recording tools to interrogate the notions of Plus

Städtebau I

Vorlesungsreihe | Ab 17. September donnerstags, 8:00–9:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HPH G1. Dozent: Michael Wagner. Die Vorlesungsreihe vermittelt grundlegende Kenntnisse im Städtebau.

Movements of the 1980s

5 December 2020, 16:00–19:00 | Web-Conference. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, many social movements and uprisings were erupting in large and small cities across Western Europe, such as the movimento del’ 77 in ltaly, the Hausbesetzungen in Berlin, the fight against runway west in Frankfurt, the Plus

Urban Development RoundTable

10 November 2020 | SECO, IDB, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Cities Alliance | Zurich. Lecturer: Prof. Hubert Klumpner.

Collective Learning in Action

10/11 November | Workshop | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, Design in Dialogue Lab & online. 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.

Genutzter Raum – gestaltet durch Strassen und Wege

10. November 2020, 9:00–17:00 | Tagung Landmanagement 2020 | ETH Zürich (Zentrum), Auditorium Maximum HG F30. Mit der Nutzung der multifunktionalen Landschaft gehen Anforderungen für Planung und Management der Verkehrsinfrastruktur einher: Nutzungen müssen verknüpft und die Verkehrsverbindungen den Ansprüchen der Nutzenden angepasst werden.

Luzern 2050: Langfristige Raumentwicklungsstrategien für den Raum Luzern

MAS in Raumplanung 2019/21 | Öffentliche Schlusspräsentation Studienprojekt 1. 11. September, 13:00–18:00 | Viscose Eventhalle, Emmenweidstrasse 20, 6020 Emmenbrücke. Das Studienprojekt 1 des MAS in Raumplanung 2019 /21 befasst sich mit der Stadt Luzern und ihren umliegenden Gemeinden.

ZÜRICH 1980. Bewegter Alltag: Fotografien von Gertrud Vogler / Poetische Provokationen: Die Sprache der Bewegung

3. September 2020 – 17. Januar 2021 | Zentrum Architektur Zürich ZAZ, Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich. Vor 40 Jahren wurde Zürich von einer urbanen Revolte erschüttert. Es war eine Rebellion gegen einen normierten und kontrollierten Alltag, gegen ein biederes, engstirniges und repressives soziales Klima, ein erbitterter und lustvoller Plus

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incolab: Spin-off der Gruppe PLUS

incolab bringt Innovationen in Technik und Prozessdesign der Gruppe Planung von Landschaft und Urbanen Systemen (PLUS) in die Praxis. Das ETH Spin-off denkt die integrierte Landschaftsentwicklung weiter und bewirkt damit einen nachhaltigen Wandel im Umgang mit der Landschaft. Hierzu verbindet incolab bspw. das Assessment von Ökosystemleistungen, Visualisierungstechniken und Plus

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Exklusiv Europabrücke

Auf Umwegen durch Zürich-Altstetten. Donnerstag, 3. September 2020, 18.30 Uhr | Ortsmuseum Altstetten (Dachslernstrasse 20).

Daylight in sustainable Urban Design © ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE 

Daylight in sustainable Urban Design

Initiative to form across different institutes a group responding to the diverse challenges and opportunities around daylight, with a multidisciplinary research platform to address questions of better including aspects of daylight in sustainable urban design and innovative energy technologies to support human wellbeing, living comfort, and health. The project offers two Plus

disP Cover March 2020

disP 56/2, June 2020

disP – The Planning Review, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2020 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

A promenade through hidden landscapes © Metaxia Markaki & Simona Ferrari

Landscape In-Between. A River and a Backyard

Could we imagine extending the concept of participation beyond the social and civic aspects of a community? Could we go far enough to include non-humans, landscapes, histories, ecologies and the environment in which a community is rooted? What kind of new constellations would this imply and what possibilities Plus

Vo Luzern uf Wäggis zue – wer bewertet Landschaften?

Wie definiert man schöne Landschaft, wenn die Schönheit im Auge der Betrachterin und des Betrachters liegt? Was viele gar nicht wissen: Die Schweiz hat sich dazu verpflichtet, Landschaften und ihre Qualitäten zu erfassen, zu beschreiben und zu bewerten. Machine Learning Algorithmen können hierbei hilfreich sein. Interview im Zukunftsblog Plus

Landscape of the Pays de la Meije from Lautaret pass (Photo by Nicolas Salliou)

MtnPaths: Exploring Adaptation Pathways with Alpine Communities

How do we plan the adaptation of mountain territories for the challenges of the future? In particular, how do we maintain key ecosystem services to guarantee their capacity for adaptation? We engaged with stakeholders about these challenges through participatory research, building their vision for the future of their Plus

Teresa Gali-Izard. Portrait: wijkmarkphoto

Design as an Answer to Values and Ethics

Prof. Teresa Gali-Izard started her chair of landscape architecture at ETH Zurich in 2020, co-creating the new master in landscape architecture which starts this autumn semester. In our interview she talks about her influences such as Augustin Berque, her background, and her commitment to experimenting with new forms Plus

Mobilitätsverhalten vor/nach/während Covid-19

Der neueste Bericht des Mobilitätsverhaltens in der Schweiz, zum besseren Verständnis der Auswirkungen des Coronavirus, ist nun online. Beachten Sie vor allem die neuen Ergebnisse zu den PW-Geschwindigkeiten und der Wirkung des «home office» über die Wochen.

Masiphumelele and Lake Michelle, Cape Town, South Africa. Johnny Miller/Millefoto

Participatory Urban Governance in South Africa

Citizen participation in planning and politics was a central promise of the first democratic government in South Africa. However, despite efforts for engaging civil society in local governance, planning remains state-driven and problems of implementation prevail. We explore participatory practices in South Africa from the perspective of the Plus

Uninhabitable Habitat

Unhabitable Habitat

Call for applications by 30 June | Summer School 31 August – 4 September in Geneva.

Habitarte intervention in Ciudad Bolivar, Bogotá

Top-down art-based urban upgrading initiatives in informal neighbourhoods in Bogota: Placemaking or reaffirming marginalization?

It is widely assumed that popular visual art, such as murals, can potentially be a powerful driver for urban regeneration with important social, economic and environmental benefits. The voices of those directly affected by these type of interventions, however, are often missing. Our research in two informal neighbourhoods in Plus

Digital Landscape Architecture Conference DLA 2020

3–4 June 2020 | online | Registration until 29 May. Due to the current situation, the Digital Landscape Architecture Conference DLA 2020 will take place online from June 3-4 2020. Furthermore, the registration for the conference is for free. If you are interested in recent developments in 3D landscape Plus

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 Plus