Students will spend the semester in the Garden of the XXI Century at ETH Campus Hönggerberg experimenting with gardening and maintenance practices. Based on careful observation and guided fieldwork on the site, students will develop and test their own intervention for the garden to regenerate soil health and enhance biological integrity.

Students will be introduced to a range of landscape practices that regenerate soil health and enhance biological integrity through the research of five projects in a range of climatic and geographical conditions. Through the lens of each site, traditional and pioneering approaches in designing with living systems will be critically discussed.

In this course, students will be introduced to a range of landscape practices that regenerate soil health and enhance biological integrity, including agroforestry, adaptive grazing, water harvesting, afforestation, and rewilding. Students will cultivate field experiments on a local site over the course of the semester to observe the influence of these practices with landscape dynamics in situ.