CS 2017 "Sustainable urban lifestyles: the Hunziker Areal in the city of Zurich"
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Publications
Pärli, R. & Bögli, N. (Eds.) (2017). Nachhaltige Ernährung: Das Hunziker Areal in der Stadt Zürich. USYS TdLab Transdisziplinäre Fallstudie 2017. ETH Zürich, USYS TdLab. doi: external page10.3929/ethz-b-000628954
- Pärli, R., Stauffacher, M., Seigo, S.L. et al. Designing interventions for sustainable change in a real-world laboratory. Environ Dev Sustain (2022). doi: external page10.1007/s10668-022-02659-y. OPEN SOURCE
- DownloadRecipe book "offal" (in German) (PDF, 9.6 MB)
Movie "Gschichte übers Ässe" (Food stories)
One of the 2017 case study's results was a movie on sustainable food. You can download/watch the film here.
The Course
The goal of the course is to identify and explore sustainable living patterns in the Hunziker Areal. Intensive collaboration between ETH students, people living and working in the Hunziker Areal, and various stakeholders important for the development of the area will be a major focus in the course (see course catalogue).
Study area
The Hunziker Areal is a project of the housing cooperative “mehr als wohnen” (more than housing) offering living and working space for approx. 1300 people in the North of the city of Zurich. The project started in 2007 with a participatory planning process. Building lasted from 2012 to 2015 with first people moving in November 2014. The cooperative mehr als wohnen understands itself as a learning platform to explore and learn from sustainable future living solutions.
Topic
Food and natural resources, that means we explore topics in the areas of food waste, urban gardening, urban agriculture, etc. The preparation happened in in close collaboration with the cooperative mehr als wohnen to secure that research is relevant for the local context and can have concrete impact in the case.
General approach
In addition to systematic analyses of selected topics (system knowledge) as well thoroughly designed and evaluated concrete real-world experiments (transformation knowledge) are possible. Close collaboration with local district groups to explore and secure continuation and scaling-up of successful interventions is key. A mixed-method approach using social scientific, transdisciplinary as well natural scientific methods will be applied.
Students-centred project
Students organize themselves and to develop their own ideas within the broad frame defined. Their work is continuously coached by experienced lecturers and supported by further experts when needed. Regular exchange with an advisory board secures that research work is relevant and useful for the case.
Students
Camila Alvarez Romero (Env Sciences [ES] - Environmental Systems & Policy [ESP]), Nora Bögli (ES-ESP), Judith Busa (FU Hagen-Infernum), Giulia Fontana (ES-ESP), Daniel Guggisberg (ES-Forest & Landscape Management), Maria Haller (Agr Sciences [AS] - Plant Science [PS]), Christoph Hofstetter (AS-PS), Thomas Lauber (ES- Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics [BPD]), Barbara Mejia (ES-ESP), Nora Minas (ES- BPD), Rea Pärli (ES-ESP), Alen Salihovic (ES-ESP), Adelaide Sander (ES-ESP), Lars Schwab (ES-Biogeochemistry and Pollutant DynamicsBPD), Patricia Schwitter (AS-PS), Braida Thom (AS-Agroeconomics), Angela Thür (UniZH-Geography)
Lecturers
- Prof. Dr Michael Stauffacher
- Matthias Probst, MSc Environmental Sciences ETH
- Dr BinBin Pearce
Practice Partner
- Andreas Hofer, dipl. Arch. ETH (Head Research & Innovation, "mehr als wohnen")
- Anna Haller (Head participation and public relations "mehr als wohnen")
Experts
- Dr Selma L’Orange (researcher Mercator project, field experiments/surveys)
- Alice Hertzog & Dr Olivier Ejderyan (qualitative social research methods)
- Dr Grégoire Meylan & Mert Duygan (resources, LCA/MFA, food waste)
Support
- Sandro Bösch
Dates
- Started on 22 February 2017 and meets every Wednesday 13h15 –17h
- 2 block days in Zurich (10th-11th March)
- 3 block weeks directly after the semester: Tue 6th to Wed 21st June, 2017
- Sunday 18 June, 15hrs onwards, students organize various events – Downloadposter (PDF, 247 KB)
- Tuesday 20 June, 19h00, Seminarraum at Hunzikerplatz, final presentation event
