Electives
Electives are an integral part of addressing key themes and current issues at the Architecture of Territory. Currently, we are running three elective courses: Sessions on Territory (elective), Architecture of Territory (core course), and Projects of Territory (focus work). For more information, please have a look at the drawers below.
Sessions on Territory are public debates on the political economy of architecture and territory within and beyond the neoliberal order.
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Sessions on Territory
Climate Anxiety and Mobilising in Crisis
Climate
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Sessions on Territory
Urbanism in a Broken World
Repair
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Sessions on Territory
Urbanism and the Countryside
Agriculture
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Sessions on Territory
Urbanism as Material Accumulation
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Sessions on Territory
Urbanism Beyond Technofix
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Sessions on Territory
Urbanism and the Anthropocene
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Sessions on Territory
Urbanism and the Anthropocene
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Sessions on Territory
Urbanism Beyond Neoliberalism
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Sessions on Territory
Urbanism Beyond Neoliberalism
The focus work allows students to develop an independent research project in consultation with the chair. For more information, please contact Nazlı Tümerdem.
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The Journey of Gard and Theodore
A Story of Seeking Asylum in Switzerland in 2023
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Power to the People
Building a Common Model
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The Journey of a Sausage
An Investigation of the Industrial Meat Production Process in Switzerland
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Rediscovering My Home Through Walking
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Artisanal Gold Mining Livelihood
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Pandemic in the Olive Groves
The Crisis of Olive Farming in Salento
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Projects on Territory
Swiss Urbanism in Eight Pictures
Thesis Elective
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Projects on Territory
Swiss Urbanism in Eight Pictures
Thesis Elective
This lecture series sets up an agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism from their focus on the city, or the urban in the narrow sense, to wider territorial scales, which correspond to the increasing scales of contemporary urbanisation. It discusses the concepts of territory and urbanisation, and their implications for the work of architects and urbanists.
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Architecture of Territory
Territorial Design in Histories, Theories, and Projects
Theme: My Weather
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Architecture of Territory
Territorial Design in Histories, Theories, and Projects
Theme: My Energy
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Architecture of Territory
Territorial Design in Histories, Theories, and Projects
Theme: My Species
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Architecture of Territory
Territorial Design in Histories, Theories, and Projects
Theme: My Earth
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Architecture of Territory
Territorial Design in Histories, Theories, and Projects
Theme: My Nature
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Architecture of Territory
Territorial Design in Histories, Theories, and Projects
Theme: My Zurich
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Travellers
The Persistence of the Forest
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Landscape Deployment
Alpine Resorts and the Mechanical Snow Systems
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Travellers
Thesis Elective
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Travellers
Ocean Territories: Maritime Geopolitics, Migration, and Global Trade
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Travellers
On the Ways of Seeing Urban Territories
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Images of Territory
Water
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Images of Territory
Labour
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Images of Territory
Sand
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Images of Territory
Food
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Images of Territory
Video Elective (2/2)
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Images of Territory
Batam
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Images of Territory
Johor
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Images of Territory
Strait
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