The Production of Cloud: Designing the Zurich Data Centre Cluster
We warmly invite you to join the final review of our design studio The Production of Cloud: Designing the Zurich Data Centre Cluster, where we will present the collaborative territorial design project for Zurich’s data landscape. In the morning, students will present their research and design brief, in the afternoon, they will focus on the design proposals.
With Mario Affolter, Sara Pina Alves, Luis Berka, Lilli Brändle, Lars Brunner, Etienne Fey, Giovanni Flores Soto, Alberto Früh, Beda Füssler, Adele Galli, Alexander Glattfelder, Simone Graf, Mika John, Antonia Karl, Emma Kleinbölting, Vithursan Manoharan, Leonardo Mühlestein, Chanelle Pfenninger, Morris Schüpbach, Maurice Stucki, Léa Wilson, and Gabriele Zanni.
Our guests will be Adrian Altenburger (Lucerne University), Felix Hofmann and Markus Krieger (ARCH+), Cristiana Mattioli (Politecnico di Milano), and Radostina Radulova Stahmer (Jade University Oldenburg).
MOrning Schedule
- Introduction
Milica Topalovic, Yiqiu Liu, Martin Kohlberger
- Energy Demand
- Data Infrastructures
- Waste Heat
- Land Use and Location
- The Big Tech
- Digital Sovereignty
- Ecologies of Data
Afternoon Schedule
- The Zurich Data Centre Cluster: A Constitution
- Where Data Meets People: Rethinking Data Centre Locations
Beda Füssler, Simone Graf, Antonia Karl, Emma Kleinbölting
- Digital Commons: A Vision for Intermunicipal Data Labs
Lars Brunner, Etienne Fey, Maurice Stucki
- A Home Cloud: Bringing the Data Back to the Users
Luis Berka, Giovanny Flores Soto, Mika John
- Energy Supply at the Limits: Balancing the Expansion of Digital Infrastructures with Renewable Energy
Adele Galli, Chanelle Pfenninger, Léa Wilson
- Data Centres as Infrastructure Monsters: Investigating a More Frugal Approach
Mario Affolter, Morris Schüpbach, Gabriele Zanni
- Decentering Urban Big Tech Clusters: From Exclusive Tech Valleys to Open Regional Networks
Alberto Früh, Vithursan Manoharan, Leonardo Mühlestein
- The Value of Heat: From Data Centre Waste Heat to a Resource
Lilli Brändle, Alexander Glattfelder, Sara Pina Alves
- Final Discussion




