Program Overview

University Programs

The following university programs are offered:

• Bachelor and Master Degree Programmes, Department ARCH
• Bachelor and Master Degree Programmes, Department BAUG
• MSc in Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems
• MAS/CAS in Regenerative Materials
• CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Sustainability to Regeneration
• MAS/CAS Spatial Development
• MAS Urban and Territorial Design
• MAS in Housing
• Doctoral Programme in Landscape and Urban Studies

CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Sustainability to Regeneration

This program is about creating positive impact in complex systems as part of learning communities. It offers a relational understanding of communities and regions undergoing sustainability transitions across different contexts, cultures, climates, and geographies.

Program Details

• The program starts in September and extends over three months.
• DRRS MOOC#1 needs to be taken prior to CAS#1 start.
• After an initial introduction week, there will be a block field design trip where the entire group meets physically in a partnering real-world lab and engages physically, intensively for 10 days.
• For the successful completion of each CAS, 12 ECTS credits are awarded.
• The course language is English.

Admission

• Admission to the CAS programme is open to students who hold a master’s degree acknowledged by ETH or equivalent educational qualifications.
• In addition, applicants must have successfully completed MOOC#1 Sustainability to Regeneration and submit a motivation letter.

Target Audience

• The CAS addresses thought leaders and decision makers from a variety of fields who want to embrace uncertainty and co-design across governance scales, cultures, and thought schools for a better, more resilient, and regenerative future.

Program Structure

• The program is a hybrid course setup that can be studied virtually from wherever one lives, in a pace that one can combine with professional and private life.
• The distinctive physical, in-person component adds the real-world facets with all their unmatched qualities to the flexible virtual part and makes it hybrid.
• The course modules and themes are as follows:
  • Introduction to the programme, the learning cohort, your QUEST, the field design trip
  • Module 1: Global crises to local interventions
  • Module 2: Sustainability to Regeneration
  • Module 3: Worldviews
  • Module 4: Reframing complexity
  • Module 5: Design as nature
  • Module 6: Mind and movement

Chairs

• Prof. Dr. Bryan T. Adey
• Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
• Prof. Maria Conen
• Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman
• Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein
• Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard
• Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
• Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert
• Prof. Dr. Eva Heinen
• Prof. Damian Jerjen
• Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann
• Prof. Hubert Klumpner
• Dr. Anastasios Kouvelas
• Prof. Freek Persyn
• Prof. Milica Topalovic
• Prof. Martina Voser

Teaching Component

The teaching component of the NSL seeks to impart the knowledge and skills needed to develop the standard strengths of spatial planning and their interaction as well as the ability to develop strategies for the solution of spatial problems. These are central prerequisites for a responsible and successful exercise of planning functions in the service of the public commonwealth and of private companies. Especially important in fulfilling these prerequisites is the quality of university-level education: graduate and post-graduate work as well as professional development in spatial, urban, and landscape planning. The ETH Zurich has offered programs such as continuing education courses and post-graduate programs (NDS, now MAS) since 1965. The NSL (Network City and Landscape) is responsible for these courses and programs.