The Chair of Sociology presents a review of two decades of social and urban research at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich. This lecture series will host researchers who will present the methods, experiences, and findings from some of the important urban research projects undertaken at the Department over the last two decades.

While architects, planners, and urban designers have engaged with the city, the analysis of urbanising territories ‘beyond the city’ have been a blind spot. This lecture series attempts to close this gap by discussing with researchers who will present methods, experiences and findings from a great variety of territories of extended urbanisation.

Researching Otherwise is a call to craft another space for the production of knowledge. It posits that fluid epistemologies that respond to ways of decolonial, pluriversal, and more-than-human knowing can offer tools and ways for reimagining and reconstructing local worlds and transcending developmental paradigms of researching and operating.

Africa is an increasingly urban continent. How is this urbanity being produced? What form is it taking? And how is it being represented? This research seminar will explore the multiple and varied facets of African urbanity today.

As the prospect of complete urbanisation increasingly becomes a concrete rather than abstract reality, architecture and urban studies is consistently confronted with the agrarian question. This research seminar introduces some of the key concepts and ideas around the agrarian question and extended urbanisation in agrarian territories.

This theory seminar discusses the new book on Henri Lefebvre by Christian Schmid. We will read and discuss a chapter of this book every week.

Under 21st-century extended urbanization, architecture and spatial practices are increasingly intertwined with agrarian concerns. This course delves into the intersections of urbanization, architecture, and the agrarian question. It covers historical aspects like land enclosure, colonialism, and primitive accumulation, as well as contemporary topics such as urban agriculture and green initiatives.

Under 21st-century extended urbanization, architecture and spatial practices are increasingly intertwined with agrarian concerns. This course delves into the intersections of urbanization, architecture, and the agrarian question. It covers historical aspects like land enclosure, colonialism, and primitive accumulation, as well as contemporary topics such as urban agriculture and green initiatives.

With 21st century extended urbanisation, architecture and spatial practice is increasingly confronted with agriculture and the agrarian question. This course attempts a systematic engagement with urbanisation and the agrarian questions in its many facets - from the classic question of land enclosure, colonialism, and primitive accumulation, to the ongoing debates on urban agriculture and greening.