The studio's objective is to design two botanical gardens, one in Guatemala and one in Andorra. Despite their contrasting cultural, climatic and geological conditions, the two sites share a rich tradition of indigenous medicinal plants use.

What is a festival today?Why urbanization, ecologization, and digitalization in architecture?Where should urban transformation be activated?

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How can the de-industrialization of the neighborhood, Brasilândia, provide an opportunity to design a new centrality?How can we transform an abandoned mine into a central park?How can this prototype be evaluated and upscaled into a city-scale green system?

How can we as designers radically reimagine place-making in Sarajevo by connecting the existing natural and built environment with local resources and digital infrastructures as models for sustainable living?The watershed of the Miljacka River has the potential to unlock socio-ecological systems and multifunctional corridors, that address urban fragmentation, and Climate Action.

How can we as architects re-imagine Sarajevo– 40 years delayed development – as a space of freedom designing a Re-generative Olympic Legacy?How can we engage the city's Olympic Spirit as a transformative force and question existing programs, resources, and imperfections?How can we propose urban models for a sustainable future andco-design citizens' ideas mending top down and bottom up?

How can we re-define the architecture of the social-environmental agenda for existing markets? Incorporate analog and digital lifestyles? Transform market places into prototypical urban social infrastructures connecting global, regional, and local scales? Students will re-design the Viktor-Adler Markt in Favoriten in the largest arrival district of Vienna with a population of 200.000 inhabitants.

How can we design a neighborhood for the 21st Century hillside settlements in Sarajevo? Can the idea of the traditional learning space of a Madrasa be translated to city - scale? Can architecture reconcile new productive learning centralities, networks of knowledge production, economic opportunity, digital lifestyles and environmental engagement ?

How can we design a Health Care Center for KIGALI / RWANDA between the informal city and agricultural wetlands, connecting neighborhoods with public health spaces and education infrastructures, in the context of rapid urban growth and the question of what constitutes an African city?

How can urban and architectural prototypes inform design codes?How can we invent urban rules that address climate and environmental qualities?

How can architects foster urban culture through infrastructure?How can climate corridors impact social and ecological resilience?How can we imagine the future of architecture in Medellín?

LIQUID CITY | Designing Land- and Water-Borne Urbanization ProcessesRijeka is not a city with a harbor but a harbor with a city.What do the dynamic situation of global investments, geopolitical conditions, and the climate crisis in the 21st century mean for Rijeka, located on the border between east and west, water and land?

Let’s build a circular city, transiting towards a zero-waste community.The promise of unlimited growth perpetuates our culture of unsustainable material flows and the production of junk products. Could we value resources, act socio-ecological responsive, and design a Circuit-Workshop prototype into a system of productive public spaces, as commons for work and community?

How can we re-imagine ordinary neighbourhoods through strategically engaging and intensifying their creative potential, embracing their identity, traditions, rituals, the arts and cultural events? Students are introduced to case studies from the urban lecture series, design methods and tools for densification of city blocks and streetscapes, imagining growth processes for Cities within Cities.

The seminar aims to analyse housing in its context. Group discussions, working with literature and data material as well as the elective thesis focus on architectural, cultural, social and economic conditions and processes that influence housing and the modes of habitation.

What does the availability of almost all information, almost all the time, mean for education?Considering the role of the university at a time of social, cultural and political change mediated primarily by the internet and communication technology, this meta-course will challenge students to reflect on how they learn by creating a course of their own - a massive open online course, or MOOC.

What does the availability of almost all information, almost all the time, mean for education?Considering the role of the university at a time of social, cultural and political change mediated primarily by the internet and communication technology, this meta-course will challenge students to reflect on how they learn by creating a course of their own - a massive open online course, or MOOC.

What is the image of one of Europe’s fastest growing cities?How can we design for the benefit of the local population?Where can we build public space and program for inclusion?Students will design urban scenarios, developing them into architectural prototypes of a public market while promoting equality, improving infrastructure access and alternative opportunities for locals and migrants.