TEC21 Special Issue: FCL Global: TEC21 Special Issue: FCL Global

Curious about what we do at FCL Global? Coinciding with the 2025 Venice Biennale, TEC21 – Switzerland's German-language trade journal for the built environment – has released a bilingual special issue dedicated to our programme. Learn more about the transdisciplinary and multiscalar work of our 150+ researchers from across the world.

FCL Global at Venice Biennale Architettura 2025

Abstract

DE: Was muss man wissen, und was ist zu tun, damit sich unsere Städte weltweit ökologisch, ökonomisch und sozial nachhaltiger entwickeln? Was braucht es, um sie zu resilienteren, gerechteren und lebenswerteren Orten zu machen? Diesen komplexen Fragen widmet sich Future Cities Laboratory Global, eine Kooperation zwischen der ETH Zürich und den Universitäten NUS, NTU und SUTD in Singapur. Bericht einer gemeinsamen, transdisziplinären, praxisorientierten Forschung.

EN: What do we need to know and what needs to be done to make our cities around the world more ecologically, economically and socially sustainable? What does it take to make them more resilient, fairer and more liveable places? Future Cities Laboratory Global, a co-operation between ETH Zurich and the universities NUS, NTU and SUTD in Singapore, is dedicated to answering these complex questions. Report on joint, transdisciplinary, practice-orientated research.

Read the special issue here (link redirects to TEC21 website).

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