How can we make our housing less heteronormative? Teaching EPFL An EPFL architecture student’s radical new approach to the layout of typical city-center buildings in Lausanne, and how we inhabit the spaces we live in, may just revolutionize our ways of thinking. Architecture Society Equality Further Reading Vulnerability discovered in Intel ETH Zurich Water plays a key role in reducing urban heat Eawag Transforming urban brownfields into sustainable neighborhoods EPFL Where will the electricity come from in 2050? PSI Recreating biology in computer language Eawag Subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter A machine designs new Swiss Alpine architecture at the Seoul Biennale Research EPFL The Artificial Swissness exhibit – a larger than life-sized “design brain” developed by EPFL’s Media x Design Lab (LDM) – is currently on display at the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism, which runs until 31 October 2021. This high-tech machine can generate a virtually infinite number of architectural images of Swiss Alpine cabins. Architecture Culture Artificial Intelligence Net zero needs a plan Politics ETH Zurich It will take more than a long-term target for 2050 to achieve climate neutrality, says Reto Knutti. Policymakers must take a consistent approach towards net zero, and define a reduction path with specific measures and interim targets. Climate Change Sustainability The underground as a haven for biodiversity Research Eawag Europe has relatively low biodiversity compared to most other continents because many species became extinct during the ice ages. In subterranean ecosystems, however, which were shielded from climatic turbulences, a great diversity of ancient species were able to survive. This is the conclusion of a study on the amphipod genus Niphargus. Biodiversity Biology Environment The ETH Domain strives to strengthen the competitiveness of Switzerland in the long term and contribute to the development of society through excellence in research, teaching and knowledge and technology transfer. Apprenticeship – the hidden face of Swiss research Teaching ETH Board Apprentices play a little-known but essential role in science made in Switzerland. Here, we take a look at young people who are being trained in the institutions in the ETH Domain.
