MAS Urban and Territorial Design
The course investigates contemporary landscapes, urban-rural ecosystems and their design. It explores the role of ecosystem services that non-built spaces can provide, considering the contribution of nature-based approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
MAS Urban and Territorial Design
Teachers: Beate Jessel, Luca Rossi & Yves Kazemi
Academic term: 2024-2025
Green Spaces – Concepts and Planning Approaches
Urban green offers a variety of services and thus plays an important role in the transformation of our cities. The course provides an overview of various innovative approaches to the planning and design of multifunctional green spaces, focussing on how to build blue and green infrastructures.
Architecture Section
Teacher: Beate Jessel
Academic term: 2024-2025
History of Park and Garden Design
The course introduces the most important periods of European and international garden history and design up to the present day and shows the importance of public parks and green spaces for modern urban development. Students are given the opportunity to analyze and interpret their own example.
Architecture Section
Teacher: Beate Jessel
Academic term: 2024-2025
This interdisciplinary course focuses on transforming urban voids, like vacant lots or abandoned buildings, into valuable spaces addressing challenges such as climate change and social cohesion. It equips engineers and architects with interdisciplinary skills to creatively repurpose these areas for multiple benefits.
ENAC Projeter ensemble
Teachers: Stéphanie Bender, Aldo Brandi, Marta Brkovic, Ian Florin, Beate Jessel
Academic term: 2024-2025
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to nightlife and the issues of light and light pollution in Lausanne. A nocturnal journey is taken to take stock of the various facets of nightlife in Lausanne. The course is part of one of the interdisciplinary projects of the ENAC week and offers the opportunity to gather ideas for the future of nightlife in Lausanne and to present these initial ideas.
ENAC Projeter ensemble
Teachers: Marie Evane Bertrand, Luc Marc Gwiazdzinsky, Beate Jessel, Chloé Montavon, Pascal Viot
Academic term: 2024-2025
Quartiers, Infrastructures et Aménagements durables
This teaching unit shall enable students to develop a neighbourhood plan based on the principles of sustainable development and to elaborate on this in the context of interdisciplinary group work.
ENAC Projeter ensemble
Teachers: Silvia Coccolo, Beate Jessel, Hugues Lepesant, Christian Ludwig, Mauree Desadaren, Michael Pfister, Andreas Schueler, Antoine Christian Zbinden
Academic term: 2024-2025
This ENAC week is an invitation to question the way in which cities are reinventing their relationship with living and natural entities, focusing in particular on the question of trees.
ENAC Projeter ensemble
Teachers: Anna Berseghian, Léo Brumm, Ian Florin, Lucia Oyarzun, Alexandre Monod, Luca Pattaroni
Academic term: 2024-2025
Participation in Urban and Landscape Development
Citizen and stakeholder participation has become an indispensable part of urban development and transformation processes. The course provides an insight into common participation methods, reflects on them critically and enables to develop own participation strategies for specific purposes.
Architecture Section
Teacher: Beate Jessel
Academic term: 2024-2025
Systems Approaches for Urban Transitions
The objective of this course is to develop a systems thinking perspective and understand urban systems and transitions as a complex system. This course provides the basis to understand and analyze urban transitions in their complexity, i.e. from technical aspects such as infrastructure and technologies, to social aspects such as governance of urban transitions, social acceptance and individual behavior. Students learn how to analyze urban systems and transitions by taking an interdisciplinary systems approach and develop strategies for cities to become more sustainable.
Section of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Master in Urban Systems
Teachers: Claudia Binder, Maria A. Hecher, Beate Jessel
Scheduled for Academic term 2025-2026
Ecological Contributions to Cities in Transformation
Based on an understanding of cities as complex systems, the course shows what contributions ecological knowledge and concepts can make to the transformation of our cities. It will be shown how cities are both drivers of global and local environmental change and what contributions ecological knowledge can make to designing liveable cities. Building on this, contributions from ecology to various transformative action fields will be illustrated in concrete terms.
Section of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Master in Urban Systems
Teacher: Beate Jessel
Scheduled for Academic term 2025-2026