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90th LCA Discussion Forum - Reduction of Building Embodied Impacts: Circular Construction

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90th LCA Discussion Forum - Reduction of Building Embodied Impacts: Circular Construction

On May 7, 2025, the Circular Future Cities project hosted the 90th Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) titled "Reduction of Building Embodied Impacts: Circular Construction".

Read more Published 21. May 2025 (Updated 1 month ago)

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TEC21 releases FCL Global Special Issue

21 May | The Swiss architecture and engineering magazine TEC21 has released a special issue dedicated entirely to the Future Cities Laboratory Global programme.

Visit Link Published 21. May 2025
TEC21 releases FCL Global Special Issue

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Biennale Architecture 2025 - Pre Opening Programme

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.

Read more Published 02. May 2025 (Updated 2 months ago)
Biennale Architecture 2025 - Pre Opening Programme

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FCL Global and Smart City Zürich Organise Networking Event

25 Mar | The event brought together 30 representatives from the City of Zurich and 20 leading professors and researchers from the FCL Global programme.

Visit Link Published 25. March 2025
FCL Global and Smart City Zürich Organise Networking Event

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Visit to FCL by the Urban Greenery Systems team, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

FCL Global Singapore hub welcomed a delegation from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) Department of Landscape Planning and Design, Poland.

Visit Link Published 19. March 2025
Visit to FCL by the Urban Greenery Systems team, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

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FCL Global, SUTD, NUS, bioSEA, and Arup Launch ‘Urban Ecological Corridors’ Research Project

Launch of ‘Urban Ecological Corridors’ research project

Visit Link Published 17. March 2025
FCL Global, SUTD, NUS, bioSEA, and Arup Launch ‘Urban Ecological Corridors’ Research Project

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New Paper: Architectural Cognition in Practice: A Framework for Integrating User Cognition Evidence into Architectural Design

Read ACP's latest publication on our framework for integrating user cognition evidence into architectural design.

Visit Link Published 05. March 2025 (Updated 4 months ago)
New Paper: Architectural Cognition in Practice: A Framework for Integrating User Cognition Evidence into Architectural Design

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Building Breathable Cities: Bio-Centric Urban Design

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.

Visit Link Published 18. February 2025
Building Breathable Cities: Bio-Centric Urban Design

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Room Booking - Zurich Hub

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.

Read more Published 30. January 2025 (Updated 5 months ago)
Room Booking - Zurich Hub

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Growing Fungi and Their Potential in the Built Environment

Read more Published 14. January 2025
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Still from eye tracking glasses within the IWSC experiment

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Workshop with Astar

Read more Published 13. January 2025
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Scientific Publications

Power to the People

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!

Read more Published 13. January 2025

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Materials and components of various building systems in the Swiss building stock.

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FCL official news

A better designed Singapore, from bicycle paths to sustainability

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.

Visit Link Published 03. August 2024
A better designed Singapore, from bicycle paths to sustainability

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Prof. Dr Stefanie Hellweg Receives SETAC Lifetime Achievement Award

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.

Visit Link Published 05. July 2024
Prof. Dr Stefanie Hellweg Receives SETAC Lifetime Achievement Award

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Dr Julio Paulos elected to the Swiss Young Academy

Dr Julio Paulos will serve a five-year term at the Swiss Young Academy, which gives a voice to young academics in Switzerland.  

Visit Link Published 05. June 2024
Dr Julio Paulos elected to the Swiss Young Academy

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FCL Global meets Dr Alfonso Vegara in Zurich

FCL Global gave Dr Alfonso Vegara a tour of the Arch-Tech lab and introduced him to programme's research activities.

Visit Link Published 21. May 2024

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Fewer utopias, more concrete solutions

FCL Global Executive Director Prof. Sacha Menz and the programme were featured in NZZ’s biannual special issue.  

Visit Link Published 03. May 2024
Fewer utopias, more concrete solutions

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