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Regenerative Practices for Exhausted Landscapes
Last Updated: 2026-02-05 16:23:01
Abstract
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 how the practices play out with landscape dynamics in situ.
Objective
Through the field design exercises, drawings, and discussion, students will explore a rule-based methodological approach to designing with living systems. Additionally, the course will examine the potentials and challenges of these practices to influence landscapes at a territorial scale.
Content
The course is composed of a series of lectures that introduce key regenerative practices as well as case studies. Throughout the course, students will spend a third of course time on a local experimental site, designing and managing field experiments to investigate the practices introduced in course lectures. The site and associated experiments will be documented through a series of drawings.
Resources
Lecture Notes
The course material will be provided in the form of a reader. The reader includes a reading list.
Learning Materials (Links)
- Main link
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General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- NDS
- Frequency
- Yearly recurring
Examination
- Type
- ungraded semester performance
Registration & Places
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| lecture with exercise |
Regenerative Practices for Exhausted Landscapes
No course on 23.3. (seminar week).
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3 h weekly |
Offered In
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MAS in Urban and Territorial Design (The MAS in Urban and Territorial Design requires one year of full-time postgraduate study for a 60 ECTS joint degree, the “MAS ETH EPF UTD”. It is taught in English and held at the two Swiss schools, EPFL (Autumn) and ETH Zurich (Spring).)