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NSL Kolloquium: Dynamic Landscapes | Gestalten mit Unsicherheiten

10. & 11. September 2026 | Architekturforum, Zürich Wie lässt sich Landschaft in einer Zukunft zunehmender Dynamik und Ungewissheit gestalten? Angesichts steigender hydrologischer Amplituden und
Portrait Martina Voser

“Despite the gentle blanket of snow covering everything, you could still feel the sheer force of what had happened in Blatten”

The rock avalanche of May 2025 didn’t just bury the village of Blatten – within seconds, it also fundamentally transformed the entire landscape. ETH Professor

“Learn from history and demolish as few buildings as possible”

Zurich is growing – but does the city need new high-rise buildings to accommodate that growth? Not necessarily, says ETH Zurich urban history professor Tom
Stylised aerial view of Zurich

Zürich. Dialoge zur Dichte / Dialogues on Densification

27.2.2026 – 25.6.2026 | Exhibition and Events | ZAZ BELLERIVE Zentrum Architektur Zürich . In the next decades, the city of Zurich anticipates a population

Öffentliche Schlusspräsentation Design Studio: Furttal – Prozessdesign

10. Juli 2026, 13:15 Uhr | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, 8093 Zürich.
Portrait photo Grace Khago

The future of urban traffic management

At ETH Zurich, Grace Kagho is building a digital twin of her hometown Lagos. As a researcher and an entrepreneur, she is working to make

Research

Savannah landscape with trees, pickups, and Massai and tourists in the background

Going to the Wild? Extended Urbanisation and the Production of a ‘Wilderness’ Frontier in the Mara-Serengeti

In this research, I seek to question and upset the dominant narrative in the planetary thesis of urbanisation. I seek to challenge the colonial roots

Revolutionize how urban mobility systems respond to disruptions

AntifragiCity is a groundbreaking European research initiative aiming to revolutionize how urban mobility systems respond to disruptions. Rather than merely resisting shocks, AntifragiCity envisions cities
Baldomar, Spain: Burned Oak Trees after the Fire, Chair of Being Alive, 2022

On June 15, 2022, a fire burned 2,683 hectares of forest and agricultural land around the villages of La Clua de Maià and Alos de
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FRESH: The FREight-SHopping nexus in urban outskirts and beyond

FRESH is a research project funded by DUT (Driving Urban Transition Partnership) and national funders which is focussing on shopping-related mobility behaviour and urban logistics
Green transistion measures such as urban densificaiton are leading to the demoliton of affordable housing and to the displacement of lower-income people. © ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE / Jennifer Duyne Barenstein

ReHousIn: Contextualized Pathways to Reduce Housing Inequalities in the Green and Digital Transition (EU Horizon Project)

This EU Horizon project focuses on the impact of policies to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 on the access to adequate and affordable housing. Climate
Empty hall at the main station Zurich, Switzerland

The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Implications for Urban Essential Workers

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been unequal depending on the resources and opportunities people have to cope with the pandemic. Intersectional burdens have

GLOBESCAPE

Enabling transformation: Linking design and land system science to foster place-making in peri-urban landscapes under increasing globalization. Unprecedented urbanization is threatening landscape diversity, bringing along
View of session during the 1994 Anyplace conference in Montréal Photo credit: Michel Boulet @ Anyone Corporation Fund, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Unlocking the «Contact Zone». Towards a New Historiography of Architecture

This research project seeks to develop a new method of writing the history of post-WWII architecture, reflecting the complexities of globalisation and its influence on

69 | March 2026: Designing with and for Many

Dear Readers,

Designing with and for many means recognizing that urban transformation is shaped by diverse actors, knowledge, and interests. The articles in this issue explore how citizens, students, researchers, and planners can actively contribute to imagining and shaping urban futures – from participatory visualization in Sarajevo to collaborative learning formats and co-creative design tools. They also address the challenges of growing cities, including the need for more resilient traffic systems. At the same time, the contributions highlight that climate adaptation and green infrastructure must be carefully balanced with questions of social equity and housing affordability. Wishing you a stimulating read!

Publications

Treasures from the disP Archives

Series One: Rethinking Cities – Governance, Diversity, and Community.This special issue from the disP archives provides a foundation for examining how inclusive governance and community-building
Paper Cover "Hybrid Terrain Modeling"

Hybrid Terrain Modeling: A Multidimensional Landscape Design Method

This paper focuses on how, in the wake of shifting hydro-topographic regimes in Switzerland, digital design methods can be combined with tactile modeling methods to
Disruptions shown on a generic MFD (Black dot: the initial equilibrium without disruption; Dashed line: onset of disruption; Blue 4-point star: new traffic state after disruption; Solid curve: recovery from disruption). © ETH Zürich

The Fragile Nature of Road Transportation Networks

Major cities worldwide experience problems with the performance of their road transportation networks, and the continuous increase in traffic demand presents a substantial challenge to

disP 62/1, January 2026

Editorial David KaufmannPages: 2-3Published online: 03 Jun 2026 Articles Beyond permanent urban redevelopment: The unintended consequences of temporary brownfield useLadislava Issever Grochová, Petr Rozmahel &

Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanization

1. April, 19:00 | Book launch | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, gta Foyer, HIL D 50.5, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5. How do cinema and planetary urbanization shape each

Global Urban Policy. A Framework for Analyzing State and Society

Cities are active policy innovators of global importance, whether responding to climate change, migration, poverty, or health disparities, or aiming to generate growth. Since cities
View of a 2023 fire near the Jardín del Siglo XXI research project and Huertos Familiares. © ETH Zürich

Temporalities of fire management: Gardening with extractivist droughts in Huertos Familiares, Chile

This article examines the intersection of wildfire, drought and extractivism through the case study of the Jardín del Siglo XXI (JSXXI, the Garden of the
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Between Streets and Screens. Digital Video Activism and the Right to the City

Between Streets and Screens offers a comparative ethnography of digital video activism in Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town in the early 2010s. Focusing closely

Further Education

MAS Students in Mumbai, India during the Seminar Week in 2019. © Nitin Bathla, ETH Zurich

MAS ETH in Housing

Applications: 1 January to 30 April 2022.
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CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials – Structural Specialisation

Application window: 15.05. – 15.07.2026 for September 2026 (Autumn Semester).

CAS Zukunft der Raumentwicklung

Bewerbung: 15. April – 15.Juli (laufende Zulassung) | Ausbildungsdaten: 24. August 2026 – 12. Februar 2027.

Kompaktkurs: Grundlagen der Raumplanung

25. – 27. August 2026 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, LEE E 101.
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