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Flood Risk in Humanitarian Settlements - Compendium of Mitigation Measures
(2023)The compendium of flood risk mitigation measures aims to support UNHCR field staff, partners, and other practitioners with an overview of adequate risk mitigation measures against flooding in humanitarian settlements.This compendium supports flood risk mitigation humanitarian settlements by presenting adequate flood risk mitigation measures alongside technical drawings and good practices. It has been developed based on a systematic ...Educational Material -
Agroecological Repair. Transformative Practices for the Zurich Territory
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Agritopia
(2023)Our first concrete utopia will be an AGRITOPIA. The recurrent focus on agriculture in this studio is not accidental—we believe that the crisis of our imagination is reinforced by the separation of the urban and the rural in our culture, and by continuing to think the future only in terms of urban life disconnected from the land and nature. To imagine a different urban future for Zürich, we will work on agricultural territories that lie ...Educational Material -
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Next Madrasa
(2023)Whilst cities contribute to the highest CO2 footprints, they also hold the potential to most effectively bend the carbon curve and take Climate Action in achieving the UN`S Sustainable Development Goals. Moving towards decarbonized ways of living and `Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe and resilient (SDG 11) will require behavioral and systems change in all sectors of life. Access to quality education (SDG 4), co-creating ...Educational Material -
Lectures on quantum mechanics for material scientists
(2023)When speaking of quantum mechanics, one has typically a physics or chemistry student in mind. However, research on materials is now so advanced that students of material science must be trained to understand and above all use those deepest concepts of quantum mechanics that were reserved to physics students in the past. It is along these lines that these lectures discuss the fundamental concepts of modern Quantum Physics such as the failure ...Educational Material -
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WasteX
(2022)The pace of technological change makes much of our model of urbanization socially, economically, and environmentally unsus-tainable. Paradoxically today, the amount of waste produced, en-ergy consumed, surface sealed, and water consumed per capita is considered an indicator of our junk society’s wealth. Linked to the dynamics of ongoing globalization, economic growth pressures, in-creasing living standards, ...Educational Material -
igre i grad - city games
(2023)Students will re-imagining the 1984 XIV Olympic Winter Games and the conflicts the city endured in the 1990ties urbicide (1). Both events still activate the collective memory and contemporary imaginary in Sarajevo as moments of blood, tears, and sweat (2). The spectacle of the games accounted for the concentration of the events happening at a distance of fewer than 25 km around the city, making Sarajevo a total urban experience. Re-imagining ...Educational Material -
Roots
(2022)Thematic and Methodological Emphasis Urban Tool Box: Analogue and Digitial Tool Development, Architecture and Urban Design, Representation (Digital and Physical 3D-Modeling, in combination Film, and Graphic Design) Learning Objectives Students will emerge in our Chair’s “method-design” to step by step develop their individual prototypical design projects. They will address both architectural urban scales and will be guided to ...Educational Material -
Agrarian Project
(2023)Studio Series New EcologiesAgricultural land is all around. Nearly half of the surface of the Canton of Zurich is dedicated to agriculture, yet the traditional Swiss pastoral has all but disappeared. Non-agricultural economies and ways of life have spread across the former rural areas. Much of the landscape has been homogenised through large scale commercial farming based on industrial monocultures supported by seasonal labour. Right next to agricultural fields—and ...Educational Material -
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Informatik 1/2, Spielerisch Programmieren mit Robotern - Didaktischer Kommentar
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