The studio wants to interrogate this hidden and pervasive partitioning of the Swiss territory resulting in the divide between the so-called rural and the urban: Can we weave the seemingly disconnected worlds of agriculture and urban living together? Can we imagine cooperatives and commons on farms and in villages that promise optimistic and attractive ways of living and working in the countryside?

We create an Agritopia, a utopian vision for the agricultural territories of Zürich Nord for the year 2100.The site is be the agricultural landscape that borders the city of Zurich and the communes of Rümlang and Regensdorf. Together, we will be building a large territorial model, using various materials and scales to depict the changing landscape and human practice.

Design studio in collaboration with the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design, probing the possibility of an agro-ecological transformation across the territory of Zurich based on ecological repair and social justice. Contributing to an urgent transdisciplinary political debate on the landscapes of food cultivation and their relationships to cities.

SESSIONS ON TERRITORY is a series of public debates on the political economy of architecture and territory. The forthcoming series aims to understand the relationship between architects and civil servants.

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In the studio we will explore Swiss energy landscapes—from wood, oil and nuclear, to hydro, wind and solar—as they have formed the territory, and we will make visible the hidden networks of energy infrastructures. At the same time, we will study and visualise the major corporate and public governance structures of energy production and distribution in Switzerland.

"New Ecologies" is dedicated to the practice of architecture in the post-anthropocentric era. In this semester we will look at Zurich and its region beyond-the-built, concentrating on agriculture.

From the age of the dinosaurs, cars have run on gasolineWhere? Where have they gone?Now, it's nothing but flowers(Talking Heads, 1988)The studio will investigate and imagine nature in the metropolitan territory of Zurich. The results will be made public in the form of online investigative reportages, meant to inform design practices and public discourse on ecology and nature conservation.

Who owns and controls the energy we use? During the semester we will explore the Rheinische Revier to find out how energy production has formed this landscape in the past and present, and to learn from the precedents. Renewable energy has the potential to regenerate the social and the ecological fabric of territory. Can we imagine landscapes where energy is not a product, but a common good?

This semester, we would like to invite you to explore the environmental and social impact of the Swiss data cloud. How can we study securitized spaces of minimal human presence? Who controls the use of data? Can data centres serve as public assets. How can data centres be designed to contribute better to a just transition and to urban life?

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Villages have lost most of their historic features. Peasant populations and traditional farming no longer exist. Yet village life continues to provoke imagination, and to promise an alternative path, an antidote to life in cities. During the semester you will write your own project brief and develop a research and a design project for a specific village in the Canton of Zurich.

This semester, we would like to invite you to explore the environmental and social impact of the Swiss data cloud. How can we study securitized spaces of minimal human presence? Who controls the use of data? Can data centres serve as public assets. How can data centres be designed to contribute better to a just transition and to urban life?

This lecture series sets up an agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism from their focus on the city, or the urban in the narrow sense, to wider territorial scales, which correspond to the increasing scales of contemporary urbanisation. It discusses the concepts of territory and urbanisation, and their implications for the work of architects and urbanists.

This lecture series sets up an agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism from their focus on the city, or the urban in the narrow sense, to wider territorial scales, which correspond to the increasing scales of contemporary urbanisation. It discusses the concepts of territory and urbanisation, and their implications for the work of architects and urbanists.

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This lecture series sets up an agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism from their focus on the city, or the urban in the narrow sense, to wider territorial scales, which correspond to the increasing scales of contemporary urbanisation. It discusses the concepts of territory and urbanisation, and their implications for the work of architects and urbanists.

"Sessions on Territory" are public debates on the political economy of architecture and territory within and beyond the neoliberal order.