October
Infrastructures between Markets and Government (and Technology)
On October 24th 2017 Prof. Matthias Finger from EPFL visited ISTP to talk about three diffrent ways that regulations are developed and the way that they can be sustainable in the long run using the examples of the US, World Bank and EU.
Rwandan archive
Prof. Tomà Berlanda at the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics / University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa visited the ISTP on October 17th 2017 and spoke about the impact of Rwanda's government urbanization policies on the re-design of the entire territory.
The role of politics, urban planning and technology in the production of urban security in the Nepali capital city of Kathmandu
ISTP Senior Researcher Dr. Jonas Hagmann and his research team piece together practices of urban security production in post-conflict Nepal.
Zürich meets Hong Kong
(Repost from ETH News) ETH Meets Hong Kong in a festival dedicated to celebrating art and culture, science and technology. Shifting the dialogue away from chocolate and cheese, toward how technology will change the way we think about art or how to design sustainable and smart cities.
PhD Position - Impact of mining on water resources
We are offering a full-time phd position in the intellectually challenging interdisciplinary setting of the Swiss Minerals Observatory. The successful candidate will develop a quantitative approach, which allows modelling hydrological transport processes at the catchment scale and in river corridors at a more local scale.
Investigating Policymakers Understanding Of and Preference Over Risk and Uncertainty
Prof. Valentina Bosetti from the Bocconi University and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano, Italy visited the ISTP on September 26th 2017 and spoke about policymakers' risk and uncertainty perception.