2017
The initiative “Empower-Shack” on the longlist of 2018 RIBA
The initiative “Empower-Shack” of two ISTP Professors of the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design (Prof. Alfredo Brillembourg & Prof. Hubert Klumpner) has made it on the longlist of Royal Institut for British Architects (RIBA) 2018 RIBA International Prize for World´s Best Building.
Playing to discover mechanisms of negotiations?
(Repost from News ForDev) An eye opener, but also a frustrating way of learning, and at the same time surprisingly helpful. This is how the ISTP students describe their experience with the block course on negotiations by ForDev. For one full day, they slipped into the role of CEOs of logging companies to manage the forests of the Congo Basin.
Generating Mobility Research for Policy
As part of our work at the Swiss Mobility Lab, we organised and conducted a workshop on Friday 24th November 2017 to place key mobility stakeholders at the centre of our research.
Public lighting in Bogotá’ s informal settlements
ISTP PhD student David Kretzer analysis public lighting approaches in the Colombian capital city of Bogotá.
Difficult Tradeoffs: The Psychology of Energy Decisions and Energy Policy
Professor Elke U. Weber, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, visited the ISTP October 31st and spoke about her research on psychology of energy decisions and energy policy.
Transitions and Transformations in Housing and Habitats in India
The ISTP Senior Researcher Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, lecturer and coordinator of the MAS ETH in Housing organised a seminar week in Gujarat India in partnership with Hunnarshala Foundation.