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Designing for Resilience: RE:GENERATE Alpine-urban circularity”

Designing for Resilience: RE:GENERATE Alpine-urban circularity”

How to revive mountain livelihoods, focusing on local identity, resilient landscapes and a regenerative economy? What: ETHZ Master course by Systemic Design Labs. When: spring term 2019. Instructors: Tobias Luthe, Justyna Swat, Haley Fitzpatrick, Anna Rodewald Design challenge The specific design challenge is to identify and layout a holistic, partly quantified and visualized systems strategy…

Phd Summer School “Designing for Resilience: RE:GENERATE Alpine-urban circularity”

Phd Summer School “Designing for Resilience: RE:GENERATE Alpine-urban circularity”

An experiential educational co-creation hybridizing science, design, social outdoor joy, and local people action.  What: ETH-EPFL PhD Summer School When: June 2021. Instructors: Tobias Luthe (ETH), Romano Wyss (EPFL), PhD students of ETH and EPFL as organizers; many further professors, policy makers, practitioners Organized by ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, MonViso Institute. Partnering with The Oslo School…

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…

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…