This course examines growth from various angles: economic growth, growth in the use of resources, need for growth, limits to growth, sustainable growth, and, if time permits, population growth and gro
This 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
This course will offer students a broad but hands-on introduction to technologies of human self-organization.
Ce cours présente des clés d'analyse des sciences humaines pour réfléchir aux infrastructures, de leur planification à leur gouvernance. Il abordera les enjeux d'écologie, d'accessibilité, de contesta
This course provides a general introduction to Swiss history, its culture, its economy and its political system since 1848 until today.
This studio explores construction materials, their origins and supply chains, the norms that regulate their use, and deploys that as a brief to explore how a post-extractive architecture could emerge
This studio explores construction materials, their origins and supply chains, the norms that regulate their use, and deploys that as a brief to explore how a post-extractive architecture could emerge
This is a survey course on the history of architecture of the twentieth century.
Introduction to economic analysis applied to environmental issues: all the necessary basic concepts, including cost-benefit analysis, for environmental policy making and its instruments (examples: cli
Objectif général de ce cours : permettre aux étudiant-e-s d'identifier et d'utiliser les outils de la philosophie et plus spécifiquement de l'éthique, dans le contexte de questions sociales et politiq
