PENS-322: Urban voids: mind the gap!This course focuses on transforming urban voids, like vacant lots or abandoned buildings, into valuable spaces addressing challenges such as climate change and social cohesion. It equips engineers and architects with interdisciplinary skills to creatively ...
ENV-103: BiologyThis course will cover the fundamental principles governing life and the living world. Topics will include the diversity of living organisms, cellular biology, genetics, evolution, and ecology. This course provides a foundation in biology, fostering critic ...
MGT-541: Nature financeThis course explores the many financial instruments that can come as a support for protection and regeneration of natural assets. ...
ENG-410: Energy supply, economics and transitionThis course examines energy systems from various angles: available resources, how they can be combined or substituted, their private and social costs, whether they can meet the energy demand, and how the transition to a renewable energy system can be foste ...
ENV-321: Aquatic ecosystemsInland waters are now being recognized are major players of global biogeochemical cycles. They also provide essential ecosystem services such as fresh water and fish, and link continental processes with atmospheric and marine processes. The understanding o ...
ENV-220: Fundamentals in ecologyThe students will learn the fundamentals in ecology with the goal to perceive the environment beyond its physical and chemical characteristics. Starting from basic concepts, they will acquire mechanistic understanding of biodiversity, ecosystem functioning ...
ENV-462: Urban Green&Blue infrastructure and global warmingThe course introduces the concept of green and blue urban infrastructure in the context of global warming. It presents knowledge, concepts, and methods for planning, developing, and maintaining an effective network of green and blue infrastructure in urban ...
HUM-471: Economic growth and sustainability IThis course examines growth from various angles: economic growth, growth in the use of resources, need for growth, limits to growth, sustainable growth, population growth. Although grounded in economics, it takes up elements from many other disciplines. ...
AR-301(at): Studio BA5 (Gardelegui et Widmer)À travers une analyse cartographique des démolitions planifiées et des initiatives de densification dans la région de Genève, les étudiants remettront en question le statu quo en découvrant le potentiel des ressources existantes sur quatre échelles : régio ...
AR-401(at): Studio MA1 (Gardelegui et Widmer)À travers une analyse cartographique des démolitions planifiées et des initiatives de densification dans la région de Genève, les étudiants remettront en question le statu quo en découvrant le potentiel des ressources existantes sur quatre échelles : régio ...
AR-674: Transition workshop / Theory masterclassThe Transition Workshop1_ Theory Masterclass is the first theoretical part of a complete interdisciplinary and intensive training on the pathways for decarbonizing and resilient cities and regions, entitled Transition Workshop. ...
MGT-422: Corporate strategies for global sustainabilityStudents will develop the theoretical and practical basis for leveraging corporate strategies to foster global sustainable development. In teams, we will apply the strategic planning process to develop a strategy for solving real-world sustainability issue ...
AR-514: Transformation, from theory to practice of changeThe course looks at how the disciplines of architecture, urban design and planning could reposition themselves to accelerate implementation of the broader transitions we are facing in terms of health and inclusivity, climate and biodiversity, economy and m ...
AR-700: Spatial transformation as social movementThe course looks at how the disciplines of architecture, urban design and planning could reposition themselves to accelerate implementation of the broader transitions we are facing in terms of health and inclusivity, climate and biodiversity, economy and m ...
