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Nothing but Flowers: Nature and Territory in Zurich

We warmly invite you to join the final review of the research and design studio NOTHING BUT FLOWERS: NATURE AND TERRITORY IN ZURICH. Our guests will be Peter Bach, research scientist in urban water management, EAWAG; André Bideau, architecture theorist and historian, ETH Zurich/Accademia di architettura Mendrisio; Sabine von Fischer, architecture historian and journalist, Neue Zürcher Zeitung; Vesna Jovanovic, architect and researcher, ETH Zurich; Anne-Marie Lerjen, art historian and walking artist, ETH Zurich; Christian Schmid, professor of sociology, ETH Zurich.

For the final review, we set up an exhibition in the studio space. Photograph: Jan Westerheide, 2021.
On the large common table, the students presented their research process. Photograph: Jan Westerheide, 2021.
Lucca Blum, Lazar Riva, and Josias Regli presenting their project Sauwald. Photograph: Dorothee Hahn, 2021.
Markus Nyfeler, Jonas Schmid, and Florian Hofmann explaining how to ecologise infrastructures in the Limmat Valley. Photograph: Dorothee Hahn, 2021.
Peter Bach, research scientist at EAWAG, talking about Blue-Green Infrastructures. Next to him sit the other guests André Bideau, Vesna Jovanovic, and Sabine von Fischer (from left to right). Photograph: Dorothee Hahn, 2021.
We concluded the final review with a common round for mutual feedback, critique, and inspirations for upcoming design studios. Photograph: Jan Westerheide, 2021.
  1. Introduction

    Milica Topalović and the team

  2. Zürcher Oberland

    Sauwald: Reviving the Productive Forest
    Lucca Blum, Josias Regli, and Lazar Riva

  3. Greifensee

    The Future of Landschaftsschutz: Protection Beyond the Image
    Oliver Luther and Philippe Strauss

  4. Zürichsee

    More Than Human: Architectures of Cohabitation
    Claire Debons and Jingfan Xue

  5. Limmattal

    Ecologising Infrastructures: New Habitats for an Urban Landscape
    Florian Hofmann, Markus Nyfeler, and Jonas Schmid

  6. Airport and Glatt

    Rethinking Ecological Compensation: The Production of Nature Around Zurich Airport
    Marco Steinacher and Jan Zimmermann

See also

Fall 2021
Design Studio

Nothing but Flowers
Nature and Territory in Zurich

Fall 2021
Seminar Trip

Pioneers of Nature Conservation

Fall 2020
Design Studio

Soil, Water, Labour

Fall 2021
Elective

Architecture of Territory
Territorial Design in Histories, Theories, and Projects
Theme: My Species