Author: luthet

Course series – Circular product design with regenerative materials and outdoor use

Course series – Circular product design with regenerative materials and outdoor use

This is a course series using regenerative building materials for designing and building circular products, and testing these products in practice. What: Various ETHZ graduate and undergraduate courses by Systemic Design Labs with a focus on circular design of useful products with regenerative materials. When: 2016-2019. Instructors: Tobias Luthe, Martin Schütz, Thomas Lumpe, and others…

MOOC: Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems

MOOC: Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems

The new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) series entitled “Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems” is featuring a new virtual-real didactic concept, where local physical social outdoor action is stimulated and incubated by virtual means. Starting in spring 2022 on EdX.

Beyond bio-composites: Hemp skis

Beyond bio-composites: Hemp skis

During the Systemic Design Labs course “ski and board building seminar”, we introduced hemp fibers, Paulownia and Laburnum wood veneer, grown on the lands of the MonViso Institute. Based on the long-time experience of the Grown – Design as Nature – collective, we prototyped the first hemp skis while students assisted and built their own…

Advancing Systemic Design Methodology

Advancing Systemic Design Methodology

Our current societal challenges lead to increased complexity and uncertainty. Neither the analytical and descriptive tools of science, nor the iterative doing of design alone are adequate for addressing complex challenges to implement and guide transformative action. Combining both cultures of reasoning and methods as a fluid, solution oriented and synergistic process, is hybrid, and…

Alpine Urban Resilience

Alpine Urban Resilience

Urban and alpine areas around the globe are socio-economically connected, through the exchange of goods, through tourism, through various up- and downstream cycles -we refer to alpine-urban circularity. Many mountain livelihoods are dependent on the flow of urban populations seeking refuge in nature. Increasing urban heat has driven city dwellers to cooler temperatures at higher elevations….

Systemic Cycles

Systemic Cycles

A cycling journey towards resilient regenerative futures: Systemic Cycles (SC) was protoyped by Martin Schütz and Tobias Luthe of ETH Zurich in 2021, hosted by MonViso Institute, IT. SC currently is both further conceptualized as a Swiss-based research project, and as part of this research practically developed in different bio-regional contexts. cycle-explore-connect-map-weave-transfer-enjoy Systemic Cycles is…

RSDx Symposium – Architecture within trans-scalar Systemic Design of Regenerative Cultures

RSDx Symposium – Architecture within trans-scalar Systemic Design of Regenerative Cultures

Watch for this special symposium this fall 2022. The date and details will be announced via the SDA newsletter (Systemic Design Association). In these highly dynamic and complex times, we increasingly realise the interconnectedness within systems of practice. The built environment as our focal systems scale is a meaningful and rich illustration of requiring an…

Online article in the ETH NSL newsletter on the 2019 SDL Master course in the Italian Piedmont.

Online article in the ETH NSL newsletter on the 2019 SDL Master course in the Italian Piedmont.

Luthe, T. 2018. Systemic Design Labs: Incubating systemic design skills by experiential didactics and nature-based creativity. In: ETH Zurich Learning and Teaching Journal. Special Edition. Proceedings of the Learning and Teaching Fair 2018, pages 56ff. Luthe, T., Lumpe, T., Schwarz, J., Schuetz, M. and K. Shea. 2017. Teaching Systemic Design For Sustainability In Engineering By Building…

Circularity Gigamaps exhibition October 2020, Italy

Circularity Gigamaps exhibition October 2020, Italy

The circularity Gigamaps developed by ETH SDL students from autumn term 2019 where exhibited and discussed as part of the 9th Regenerative Design Talk by MonViso Institute, together with this spring semester 2020 Master course “Open Systems Design” of Politecnico Torino. Systemic design master students of Politecnico Torino co-curated this lively exhibition on their regional…