DRRS Systems Sensing-Mapping questionnaire

Join us in co-shaping the advanced DRRS Systems Sensing-Mapping questionnaire. Feel inspired to reflect and work with the provided questions “here” – where you are standing right now, while you are travelling, or at your home.

This quiz version is “living” and in constant motion. Drop your insights, comments, or even a fresh question: DRRS Systems Sensing-Mapping questionnaire (v.01, Sept 2025).

The questionnaire is compiled with respect to the “original” Bioregional Quiz.

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

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…

DRRS MOOC 2: Beyond Systems Thinking

Our first iteration of the second Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems MOOC entitled “Beyond Systems Thinking” started in November 2022 on EdX. In this MOOC we develop a critical understanding of what systems thinking entails and how it can become a helpful habit. The view from above contains techniques to deal with complexity, to zoom out…

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…

Beyond systems thinking in Norwegian midsummer

A conversation with Michèle Rosenheck, CAS#2 participant about a field design trip in the Norwegian midsummer and the art of pausing in turbulent times of increasing complexity.

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…