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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
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?
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.
Selected Thursdays 2022, 15:45 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HPT C 103.
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.
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.
30. November 2022, 18:00-20:00 | Ort: ETH Zürich, Zentrum, LEE D 101.
Welche Lehren ziehen wir aus der Covid-Krise als Feldversuch für eine nachhaltigere Stadtlandschaft Schweiz?
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. Yet, today the existential and elementary nature of landscapes remains the bearer of a successful metaphor for “balance”. Why not draw—amidst a truly global crisis—conclusions out of our long history of designed nature, of places shaped by skilled labor and a quest for pleasure? Landscape Analogue seeks to stimulate the “Analogue” dimension as a substantial concept for everyday landscape thinking. In an anthology of interdisciplinary essays, Landscript 6 stresses the necessity for a fundamental shift, within the likely framework of a future of restricted resources, a radically different mobility or “hot” cities.
Editors: Christophe Girot, Albert Kirchengast / Authors: Frank Boehm, Nott Caviezel, Günter Figal, Ludwig Fischer, Tony Fretton, Christophe Girot, Achim Hahn, Albert Kirchengast, Jörn Köppler, Lara Mehling, Florian Nagler, Dunja Richter, Anja Rohnacher, Henrike and Tom Schoper, Simon Strauß, Klaus Zwerger
Further info: https://www.jovis.de/en/books/details/product/landscript-6-landscape-analogue.html
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.
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?
Any traffic management strategy relies on an accurate estimation of the current traffic state within a network at any give time.
Die Idee des Generationenwohnens hat heute hohe Konjunktur. Das praxisorientierte Forschungsprojekt untersucht ausgewählte Generationenwohnprojekte in längerfristiger Perspektive.
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2021 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Application window until 30 June 2019.
The MAS ETH in Housing is committed to contribute to finding solutions to the housing challenges in Switzerland, Europe, as well as in low and middle income countries globally through multi disciplinary training and highlevel research.
Call for applications: 28 February to 31 May 2022 | ETH Zürich D-ARCH LUS and EPFL ENAC HRC joint programme.
Application open until 30 April 2022.
We offer a new two-year master’s programme in landscape architecture at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich with a focus on the design and planning of open spaces and landscapes.
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29. März 2022, 18–19.30 Uhr | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT H 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27.
11 April 2022 | Exhibition | work and event space «Urban Design Studio Sarajevo», Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
5 May 2022, 12:45 – 15:30 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E 25.
Lecturers: François Léger, Researcher, AgroParisTech & Prof. Teresa Gali-Izard.
6 May 2022, registration deadline 15. April 2022, 08:00 | Kick-off Symposium | ETH Zürich, Centre, HG E3.
The Center for Sustainable Future Mobility (CSFM) has been established at ETH Zurich in order to promote research on sustainable and future-proof traffic and transport systems.
Symposium 12. – 13. Mai 2022.
Forschungsworkshops, runde Tische und Keynote.
Öffentlicher Anlass, Anmeldung bis 29. April 2022.
Klimawandel, Energiewende, Urbanisierung und Industrialisierung haben und werden enorme Auswirkungen auf die alpine Landschaft haben. Am Schnittpunkt Europas gelegen, müssen die Veränderungen dieser recht fragilen Umwelt durchleuchtet werden.
30. November 2022, 18:00-20:00 | Ort: ETH Zürich, Zentrum, LEE D 101.
Welche Lehren ziehen wir aus der Covid-Krise als Feldversuch für eine nachhaltigere Stadtlandschaft Schweiz?
24 to 26 June 2022 | Old Botanical Garden, Zurich (festival centre).
The interdisciplinary symposium and sound festival «Sonic Topologies» explores the relationship between place, sound, and knowledge. Researchers, architects, and artists develop site-specific sonic contributions at different locations in the city of Zurich, which explore the acoustic, ecological, social, or historical characteristics of each place.
Ohne Gehen, Sitzen und Schauen gibt es keine Landschaft. Diese einfachen, grundlegenden Handlungen prägen unsere Beziehung zur Umgebung – und die Umgebung selbst.
Did you participate in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition (1965-2020)? Help build an archive by submitting your competition entry.
10./17./24./31. Mai, jeweils 17:30 – 19:00 Uhr, danach Apéro | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg.
Starting 24 February 2022 on Thursdays, 10:00 – 12:00 | Methodology Seminar | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA Design in Dialogue Lab.
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9 March, 5 April, 3 May 2022 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT 31.1.
16. März / 13. April / 11. Mai / 1. Juni, jeweils 13.30–15 Uhr | online.
Die Wohnforum Talks (ehem. BBL) eröffnen eingeladenen Gästen und Mitarbeitenden des ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE die Möglichkeit, aktuelle Bereiche ihrer Forschung zu teilen und Ideen, Konzepte und Ergebnisse zu diskutieren. Die Veranstaltung findet online statt, jeweils Dienstag, 13.30–15 Uhr (unregelmässig).
Selected Thursdays 2022, 15:45 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HPT C 103.
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)