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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

“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

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

Densités écologiques. Quel futur pour le bâti genevois? Ecological densities. Where Next for Geneva’s Built Environment?
Call for Contributions: 5 July 2026 | Seminar: 9-10 December 2026 | Geneva.

Öffentliche Schlusspräsentation Design Studio: Furttal – Prozessdesign
10. Juli 2026, 13:15 Uhr | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, 8093 Zürich.

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
Postdoctoral researcher in optimization for robust railway timetables
100%, Zurich, fixed-term.
Research

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


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

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

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

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
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

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

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

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

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 ETH in Housing
Applications: 1 January to 30 April 2022.

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.













