Department / Institute: Prof. Milica Topalovic
LUS Doctoral Crits HS24
Amazônía
Awaska Alpa_Woven Territory
14.10.2023–14.01.2024 | Exhibition | Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Awaska Alpa is a research project that critically explores the representation of Inga territory in the Andean Amazon of Colombia. During colonial times, the Spanish crown established the Indigenous resguardo (reserve) as a form of collective land tenure to “protect,” Continua
Conservación de la naturaleza y territorios indígenas: en transición de lo biológico a lo biocultural
Durante las dos últimas semanas de octubre de 2024 se celebró en Colombia la 16ª Conferencia de las Partes del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (COP16). La ciudad de Cali se convirtió en el principal escenario de esfuerzos intergubernamentales para proteger la naturaleza. Un resultado clave de la Continua
LUS Doctoral Crits AS 2024 & Book Launch
Assistenzprofessur (Tenure Track) für Landschaftsarchitektur
ETH STUDIO BASEL Open Access: Public Launch
Sessions on Territory – Climate Anxiety and Mobilizing in Crisis: CLIMATE
LUS Doctoral Crits
NSL Colloquium Planetary Urbanisation: Video now Online!
You missed the keynote speech of Roberto Luís Monte-Mór about extended urbanisation in the Brazilian Amazonia? Or you would like to pick and see one of the panels only? The choice is: New Urban Vocabularies, Concepts of Extended Urbanisation, Agrarian Urbanisms, Urban Design and Territories of Extended Urbanisation, Continua
Extended Urbanisation. Tracing Planetary Struggles NOW OPEN ACCESS DOWNLOAD!
The Great Repair: Praktiken der Reparatur (DE/EN)
The Great Repair is an oxymoron. the title captures the convergence of two seemingly contradictory principles: the revolutionary ambition for systemic change and the evolutionary act of repair. Despite the justified (postmodern) skepticism toward revolution as a concept of rupture, we must not abandon our aspiration to bring about Continua
Biocultural Cartographies
More Than Human Cinema
Planetary Urbanisation – Aufruf zur Tat | Agrifutures Zürich – Agrarökologisches Gestalten
EPFL ETH MAS Urban and Territorial Design
Application: Mid-December 2023 – 30 April 2024. The MAS UTD deploys the urban and territorial project as the crucial field of knowledge production across scales, based on social and environmental equity and justice and a deeper understanding of the cultural and ecological dimensions of territories.
Architecture of Territory: MY WEATHER
Lecture Series | Thursday 7.12., 10:00 – 12:00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA Fokushalle E7. 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.
LUS Talks 2023
Future Cities Laboratory Global Conference and Exhibition
Agroecological Repair – Food, Territory and Agriculture in the Canton of Zürich
On the highlands, across crop rotation plains and within the drained valley floors the «Agriterritories» of Zurich require immediate action for design to take back its political role within the rural. The ETH Zürich studio Agroecological Repair – Transformative Practices for the Zürich Territory (spring 23) was part Continua
Lively Cities
Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methods for Landscape and Urban Research
Tentacular Writing – A Peer-to-peer Writing Retreat
«… it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; … what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories». D.J. Haraway In September 2022, a group of 18 architects met in the Continua
The Great Repair: Politics of a Society of Repair – A Reader ARCH+
The modern capitalist era, with its emphasis on growth and progress and an economic system based on consumption, wastage, and resources being bled dry, has led to the ruthless exploitation of people and nature. As a counter to this, “The Great Repair” project puts forward the idea of a repair Continua
Planetary Urbanisation: Agendas for Research and Action
18, 19, 20 October 2023, colloquium and exhibition. Link to the video of this event The conference debates themes including patterns and processes of urbanisation in agricultural territories, processes of extractivism, and the role of infrastructure, movements of people, goods and resources, and the state space in relation Continua
More Than Human Cinema: The Two Sights
Master of Advanced Studies ETH EPF Urban and Territorial Design
ETH Zürich D-ARCH LUS and EPFL ENAC HRC joint master programme | Application until 31 May 2023. The Territorial Project for Social and Ecological Change Urban and territorial design has acquired a new meaning and urgency. From drivers of progress to the source of planetary hazards, the impacts of cities and Continua
The Great Repair: Politiken der Reparaturgesellschaft
Sessions on Territory: Urbanism in a Broken World: REPAIR
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 Continua
Writing Urban Landscapes of the Anthropocene
Doctoral Crits of the Institute of Urban and Landscape Studies LUS
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.
Film, Architecture, and Urban Studies
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.
Writing Landscapes, Writing the Urban
MAS Urban and Territorial Design 2022/23
Sessions on Territory – Urbanism & the Countryside AGRICULTURE
Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies: Towards Sensory, Creative, and Imaginative Methodologies
More than Human. Cinema
Call for Papers: RC21 2022
Climate Care, not Green Development. Blurred Notions from Lands in Transition
Architecture of Territory: Territorial Design in Histories, Theories, and Projects
Worlds of Planetary Urbanization
New Agendas Under Planetary Urbanisation: Designing Sustainable Agri-Urbanisms
What is the future of the manifold agricultural territories across the world that support contemporary cities? While discussions on urban sustainability have focused on cities and urban regions, many agricultural territories are equally exposed to rapid and far-reaching urban transformation processes with massive social and environmental implications, opening Continua
Sessions on Territory – Urbanism as Material Accumulation
ETH-EPFL Summer School: Transects Through Alpine Water Landscapes
Master of Advanced Studies ETH EPFL in Urban and Territorial Design
Call for applications PROLONGED until 30 June 2021. Urban and territorial design has acquired a new meaning and urgency. From drivers of progress to the source of planetary hazards, the impacts of cities and wider urbanisation processes are being recast in the public sphere. The critical examination of Continua
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 Continua