Damian Jerjen (*1973), currently Director of the Swiss association for spatial planning EspaceSuisse and Lecturer at ETH Zurich and other Swiss universities, as Professor of Practice at ETH Zurich.
As mountain areas experience increasing tourism, transportation, energy and agricultural development, the need to manage landscape fragmentation and preserve aesthetic and cultural qualities becomes increasingly relevant.
The systemic complexity of growing urban populations and contemporary urban systems lock-in unsustainable urban development pathways, deteriorating the living quality of urban dwellers and surrounding environments.
Willy A. Schmid was Professor of Landscape and Environmental Planning at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development (IRL), now the Chair of Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) at ETH Zurich, from 1978 to 2008. Here he left his mark and played a pivotal role in shaping generations of spatial and landscape planners in Switzerland and internationally.
The Chair of Planning Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) aims at advancing knowledge on how the interactions of humans with their environments shape landscapes and vice versa by
developing and applying land-use decision models in forecasting and backcasting
using cognitive psychological approaches to understand place-making
advancing 3D visualizations and auralizations of landscape changes to engage with stakeholders
developing decision support platforms to support learning
Highlights | Groupe activities
It was an amazing evening. After a long time of restrictions we are happy to celebrate a summer meeting outside.
We look forward to intensive exchanges in the upcoming fall semester.