The joint Master of Advanced Studies(MAS) in Urban and Territorial Design at the ETH Zürich and EPFL aims to build an innovative urban and territorial design education addressing social and environmental challenges both within the city-territory and across wider landscapes.
The MAS serves as a laboratory and a forum where we propose agendas, design strategies and governance models for concrete territories. Both Swiss and international case studies be investigate with intensive, ethnographic explorations and in situ workshops. The studies engage in dialogue with supporting communities, local actors, NGOs and governance bodies.
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The MAS UTD programme focuses on the core research and design STUDIOS, with a range of curated transdisciplinary COURSES and urban theory SESSIONS underpinning the studio work, and the publication of results. The programme extends beyond the traditional scope of urban design teaching, to include novel developments in urban theory and history (such as planetary urbanisation, anthropocene and postcolonial thought), in landscape architecture, urban and landscape ecology (such as agroecology and regenerative landscape practices), and in civil and environmental engineering (such as sustainable construction, low-carbon mobility, and urban hydrology).
Shown below is the Autumn Semester 2024 programme at the EPFL and previous Spring Semester 2024 at ETH Zürich.
STUDIO EPFL 2024Paola Viganò, Tommaso Pietropolli & Loan Laurent
Counterprojects - Counterspaces
SESSION EPFL 2024
Urban & Environmental Theory Sessions
COURSE EPFL 2024Elena Cogato Lanza & Anna Pagani
Systems Thinking in the Age of Transition
COURSE EPFL 2024Barbara Lambec
Circularity, Materials, Flows
COURSE EPFL 2024Luca Pattaroni & Maxime Felder
Habitat, Mobility & Society
COURSE EPFL 2024Beate Jessel with Luca Rossi & Yves Kazemi
Landscapes & Ecosystems
STUDIO ETH Zürich 2024Milica Topalović
Urban AgroecologyFor the Zürich Metropolitan Core
COURSE ETH Zürich 2024Christoph Küffer
URBAN ECOLOGY
COURSE ETH Zürich 2024Teresa Galí-Izard
REGENERATIVE PRACTICES FOR EXHAUSTED LANDSCAPES
SESSION ETH Zürich 2024Chase Galis, Tatiana Carbonelli, Milica Topalović, Dr. Nazlı Tümerdem
SESSIONS ON TERRITORY: CLIMATE ANXIETY AND MOBILISING IN CRISIS Climate
SESSION ETH Zürich 2024Nitin Bathla