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21 May | The Swiss architecture and engineering magazine TEC21 has released a special issue dedicated entirely to the Future Cities Laboratory Global programme.
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This is a live page for the FCL Global team visiting the pre-opening of the Biennale Architecture 2025 in Venice, where all main events are listed.
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25 Mar | The event brought together 30 representatives from the City of Zurich and 20 leading professors and researchers from the FCL Global programme.
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FCL Global Singapore hub welcomed a delegation from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) Department of Landscape Planning and Design, Poland.
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Launch of ‘Urban Ecological Corridors’ research project
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Read ACP's latest publication on our framework for integrating user cognition evidence into architectural design.
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FCL Global Director Prof Dr Thomas Schroepfer and Associate Director (Research) Dr Srilalitha Gopalakrishnan will be part of the lecture “Building Breathable Cities,” hosted by the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.
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Here, you will find detailed information on the FCL Global meeting, workshops and exhibition rooms available at the ETHZ Hönggerberg Campus, and how to book them.
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Growing Fungi and Their Potential in the Built Environment
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Still from eye tracking glasses within the IWSC experiment
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Who owns energy sources and governs the energy transition? How can people mobilize for alternatives to fossil dependencies? There is no better place to ask these questions in Germany than the Rheinisches Revier, the region around the surface mine Tagebau Hambach, where the advancing coal mines and the desire for cheap energy have shaped the territory for over a century. The region has recently emerged as one of the battlegrounds of the global climate struggle, culminating in the occupation and eviction of the hamlet of Lützerath in early 2023. The multinational energy corporation RWE (formerly the Rhein-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke AG) governs all vital processes in the region, from geological structures to social realities and imaginaries, making it omnipresent in every aspect of life. Even as mining operations are being phased out in favor of renewable energy as part of Germany’s intended Kohleausstieg 2030, RWE remains in control of energy transition: in this corporate landscape, wind and solar parks are simply added to coal-fired power plants, based on the unchanged rationale of increasing profits that characterizes the extraction of coal. Fridays for Future, Alle Dörfer bleiben, and other activist and citizen organizations continue their struggle across the region, contesting the corporate greenwashing which deepens capital’s control of the land as well as perpetuates the interconnected crises of climate change, social polarization, cultural erasure, and ecological exhaustion. They demand not just an immediate exit from coal but also a democratically controlled and socially just transition to renewable energy. The world of ecological energy commons, democratically governed, can emerge. Power to the people!
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Materials and components of various building systems in the Swiss building stock.
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A Business Insider story on Singapore quotes Prof. Dr Thomas Schroepfer, Director, FCL Global, on improving the city with bicycle paths and future-proofing Singapore from future challenges.
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Prof. Dr Stefanie Hellweg, Future Cities Laboratory's PI for CFC, has been awarded the SETAC Europe Award for Lifetime Achievement in Life Cycle Assessment.
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Dr Julio Paulos will serve a five-year term at the Swiss Young Academy, which gives a voice to young academics in Switzerland.
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FCL Global gave Dr Alfonso Vegara a tour of the Arch-Tech lab and introduced him to programme's research activities.
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FCL Global Executive Director Prof. Sacha Menz and the programme were featured in NZZ’s biannual special issue.