Paying Attention: A Collective Manifesto.Attention is a rare commodity. How do we deal with attention? How is it manipulated? Who pays?Students produce autonomous texts.

The summer school intends to renegotiate and experiment with the ways we – as researchers and spatial practitioners – perform writing, as a format and as a practice. In the set-up of a collective retreat in the Swiss Alps, in a non-hierarchical learning format, a group of peers is invited to shape an academic community, work alongside and discuss their work-in-progress informally.

Hospitality is ethical, political, and spatial, shaping human coexistence from personal to global level, defining belonging through spatial boundaries. This course examines hospitality in early modern architecture, linking civic values with spatial organization. It explores theories from Renaissance texts and philosophers like Kant and Derrida, while connecting architecture, politics, and culture.

In 2025, the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich will be showing Picasso's prints with a view to his friendship with Georges Bloch. We take up the impulse and playfully develop other possible focal points in the seminar. What is Picasso's relevance today? What critical questions arise? Different contextualisations and exhibition displays will be tested and discussed.

Through a critical analysis of case studies from different regions of the world, this seminar explores the complex relationships that have shaped the built environment, psychological institutions, social control, and power dynamics (civil and military) within colonial contexts in the ninetieth and twentieth centuries.

Through a critical analysis of case studies from different regions of the world, this seminar explores the complex relationships that have shaped the built environment, psychological institutions, social control, and power dynamics (civil and military) within colonial contexts in the ninetieth and twentieth centuries.

The seminar aims to complexify common place understandings of modernism outside the West, by shifting the lens to the local material conditions, agencies, and cultures that shaped its forms and implementation in Cairo between 1850 and 1950.

The notion of truth as a basis of science and politics has lost ground in the recent past. The manipulation of facts, selective memory, censorship and control of knowledge are omnipresent in societies. On the other hand, the artistic freedom and scientific autonomy are under pressure. The freedom of imagination, speculation and experimentation is questioned.

Who does the dishes? A seemingly simple question. Yet, upon closer inspection this query confronts us with a range of complex socio-political dilemmas. What do the dishes say about labour, and who is actually doing the work? Which work goes unnoticed, and why? Because everybody wants to live communally, but nobody wants to do the dishes.