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The Architecture and Care design studio will address the spaces where human reproduction takes place. Gendered constructs around reproduction have been and still are central practices to the ways we structure social realities. Architecture and space have historically contributed to promoting and perpetuating sexist social models around reproductive labour and its associated care practices.

During the spring semester 2025, the Architecture and Care diploma studio will address domesticity through the lens of ageing. The studio will aim to question the ageist and normative constructs around the body, and imagine how space and architecture can support expanded caring practices for an ageing society.

During the autumn semester 2025, the Architecture and Care design studio will address public care infrastructures through the lens of what is considered to be private, domestic, reproductive space. The studio aims to subvert the dichotomy between public and private, productive and reproductive spheres, and imagine what a “public domestic” could be. We will question normative constructs surrounding

During the spring semester 2026, the Architecture and Care design studio will address public care infrastructures through the lens of what is considered to be private, domestic, reproductive space. The studio aims to subvert the dichotomy between public and private, productive and reproductive spheres, and imagine what a “public domestic” could be.

The Architecture and Care design studio will address the spaces where human reproduction takes place. Gendered constructs around reproduction have been and still are central practices to the ways we structure social realities. Architecture and space have historically contributed to promoting and perpetuating sexist social models around reproductive labour and its associated care practices.

During the spring semester 2024, the Architecture and Care design studio will address the spaces where human reproduction takes place. Gendered constructs around reproduction have been and still are central to the ways we structure social realities.

Space is not neutral and has been extensively used to empower normative bodies excluding wilder ways of being. This studio will address how society defines and regulates bodies and their interdependencies through the built environment. It will envision alternative scenarios for Zürich in which disruptive relationalities, crip behaviors, new care practices, and formulations of kinship are built.