Events
2020/11/16 – New Swissnex Online Event
"Rivers, Time, and Collaborative Research – A discussion that explores the role of rivers in showcasing present and historical climate conditions and how they predict the future climate."
Rivers are icons of climate change. They are also highly sensitive indicators of present climate conditions, recorders of historical climate, and predictors of climate in the future. Climate scientists research all of these factors by observing watersheds and the ecosystems they sustain.
2020/10/05 – Webinars on "Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research"
We are pleased to announce a new series of webinars that will run over the coming months around the integration of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in inter- and transdisciplinary research. Webinars will be hosted on Zoom and will take the form of short presentations from panellists followed by an interactive Q&A session with the Zoom audience.
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2020/05/14 – Webinar on "Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research"
We are pleased to announce a new series of webinars that will run over the coming months around the integration of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in inter- and transdisciplinary research. Webinars will be hosted on Zoom and will take the form of short presentations from panellists followed by an interactive Q&A session with the Zoom audience.
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2019/09/17 – Seminar with Julie Thompson Klein
Disentangling inter- and transdisciplinary research
We kindly invite you to the Seminar entitled “Disentangling inter- and trans-disciplinary research: factors, understandings and processes in collaborative research”. Our keynote is Prof. Dr. Julie Thompson Klein (Wayne State University (USA) and Transdisciplinarity Lab).
Julie is Professor of Humanities Emerita in the English Department at Wayne State University and an International Research Affiliate for Science and Technology of the TdLab at ETH Zürich. She is also an Expert Panel member in the project external page“SHAPE-ID: Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe”, in which the TdLAB is a partner, too.
More details can be found Downloadhere (PDF, 141 KB).
2019/04/30 – Presentation by Dr. Jack Spaapen
Crossdisciplinary cooperation within ASSH and beyond
Jack Spaapen is a Senior Policy Advisor and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Netherlands). He is also working in the project “SHAPE-ID: Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe”, in which the TdLAB is a partner, too.
The activity will take place next Tuesday 30th April, between 13 and 14.30h in room CHN K 77.
For more details see the Downloadabstract (PDF, 53 KB).
2017/06/14 to 16 – International Exploratory Workshop
The role of Place Attachment in the contexts of migration and urbanization: current status and future research prospects. DownloadPlease download the flyer for more information (PDF, 1.2 MB)
The 7th CCES Winter School 2016 "Science Meets Practice"
9–12 January and 6–9 February 2017, Wislikofen (Aargau), Switzerland.
The CCES Winter School "Science meets Practice" is once being offered in 2017. More information
2016/10/24 – Presentation on TD in Australia
Dr Tanja Golja from the University of Technology Sydney will give a presentation on her td curriculum at the TdLab.
Sharing experiences in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and design-thinking teaching
Teaching workshop on 17 February 2016
Join us for an interactive, teaching workshop hosted by the Transdisciplinarity Lab! We have invited experts from around the world to share innovative methods in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and design thinking teaching.
The 6th CCES Winter School 2016 "Science Meets Practice"
11–14 January and 1–4 February 2016, Wislikofen (Aargau), Switzerland.
The CCES Winter School "Science meets Practice" is once being offered in 2016.
International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2015
"Sustainability and health: emerging topics and new challenges for inter- and transdisciplinary research"
8–10 September 2015, Congress Center, Basel, Switzerland
Further information is available on the external pagetd-net web site.
Transdisciplinary Baranquilla summer school 2015, "Markets in the Tropics"
Poster and further information were available at the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design.
The 5th CCES Winter School 2015 "Science Meets Practice"
Flyer and further information are available on the CCES web site.
Transdisciplinary Baranquilla summer school 2014, "Avenues in the Tropics"
Poster and further information were available at the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design.
The 4th CCES Winter School 2014 "Science Meets Practice"
Flyer and further information are available on the CCES web site.
Late Lessons from Early Warnings: Science, Precaution, Innovation
A discussion about the precautionary principle in environmental sciences and policy, organized by D-USYS and USYS TdLab.
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 16:15–18:15 h, building CHN, room E 46, ETH Zentrum.
Speakers
- David Gee, formerly European Environment Agency, Copenhagen
- Christoph Kueffer, D-USYS, ETH Zürich
- Angelika Hilbeck, D-USYS, ETH Zürich
- Martin Scheringer, D-CHAB, ETH Zürich
In 2001, the European Environment Agency, EEA, released the first report on "Late Lessons from Early Warnings". The report addressed the history of the precautionary principle through a range of case studies from asbestos to madcow disease and pointed out that often action was taken only long after the first indications of a problem, which then caused serious human health impacts and high costs. Since 2001, with the development of new technologies and the potential for new impacts on human and environmental health, the precautionary principle has become even more important. In 2013, the second report on "external pageLate Lessons from Early Warnings" was released by the EuropeanEnvironment Agency. It covers new case studies including radiation from mobile phones or nanomaterials, and it addresses also the question of “false positives” – warnings that turned out to be false alarms – in more detail than the first report. DownloadMore information (PDF, 61 KB)
September 26, 2013 – USYS TdLab Opening Apéro at SOL
On September 26, the USYS TdLab celebrated its official opening. More than 50 people attended, among them reprsentatives from all institutes of the Department of Environmental Systems Science (IED, IAC, IBP, IAS, ITES, IBZ), as well from other ETH departments (ARCH, SED, BAUG, HEST), different ETH based centres (WFS, ETH Sust, ESC, CCES) and ETH domains such as WSL. All in all a good example of the kind of network activities envisaged by the USYS TdLab. In his welcoming speech Peter Edwards (former Dean of D-USYS, now head of FCL Singpore) stressed the importance of the USYS TdLab in making D-USYS and the ETH a place for going beyond analyses of fundamental environmental problems towards closing the gaps to achieving solutions.
August 20–23, 2013 – Science & Policy Summer School: Governing the Transition to a Bio-based Economy.
Summer school organised by the Zurich - Basel Plant Science Center with contributions on interdisciplinary cooperation from the USYS TdLab.
August 11–25, 2013 – World Food System Center's Summer School –Sustainable Agriculture and the World Food System
The question of how to feed the world, while considering human health, the environment and social wellbeing is one of the defining challenges of our time.
"Divergent Paradigms of European Agro-Food Innovaion: Life Sciences versus Agroecology"
presentation on August 20th, 2013 by Les Levidow, Development Policy and Practice, Open University, UK.
"What we know and don’t know about invasive species, GMOs, and other novel organisms"
presentation on April 10th, 2013 by Jonathan Jeschke, Dept. of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München (TUM).