Teresa Galí-Izard: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2023 |
| Name | Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard |
| Field | Landscape Architecture |
| Address | Professur Landschaftsarchitektur ETH Zürich, ONA J 25 Neunbrunnenstr. 50 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | +41 44 633 62 40 |
| gali-izard@arch.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Architecture |
| Relationship | Full Professor |
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| 052-0151-23L | Seminar Week Autumn Semester 2023   | 2 credits | 3S | T. Galí-Izard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Water is the wealth of Banyalbufar. It is the element that turns the steep slopes of the municipality into a productive garden. A centuries-old network of channels and reservoirs distributes the water that accumulates in underground aquifers inside the mountains onto the terraced fields. Vine, tomatoes, lemon, and olive trees grow here, crops that nourish the Mediterranean way of life. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | The original agrarian society of Mallorca, however, has long vanished and new actors have entered the scene: Witty goats are sneaking onto the cultivated terraces to snack on the crops and pine trees are stretching their roots causing dry-stone-walls to collapse. Ever more often unpredictable forces - wildfires and tornadoes - are fighting over the sovereignty of the territory. During the seminar week, we will follow the water on the slopes of Banyalbufar, from the mountain top to the Balearic sea, and all the traces it has left in between. We will learn from the irrigation system and celebrate water as the source of life, invited and accompanied and guided by local geologists, historians, and architects. We will hike to the local wells, survey the state of the water reservoirs, maintain dry-stone walls, celebrate the fruits of the irrigated fields and listen to the elderly of the village on how the water is governed and distributed. Throughout the week we will hike, swim, observe, listen, taste and feast, building a collective understanding of the place with the aim to uncover potentials of this landscape. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | To offer you the most affordable and flexible travel options, we ask you to arrange your own flights to and from Palma (included in price category C). The official program lasts from Sunday evening to Friday afternoon. Accommodation, breakfast, and dinner are included. Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard Banyalbufar, Mallorca 22nd - 27th of October 2023 Price category C (max. 750 CHF) 10 - 20 students Contact: Stefan Breit, breit@arch.ethz.ch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 061-0101-00L | Climate / Water / Soil | 2 credits | 3G | H. Joos, R. Kretzschmar, R. Weingartner, A. Carminati, S. Dötterl, M. G. Fellin, A. Frossard, T. Galí-Izard, N. Gruber, V. Picotti, S. Schemm, J. Schwaab, C. Steger, H. Wernli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Lectures, exercises and excursions serve as an introduction to atmospheric sciences, soil science and hydrology. Students gain a broad vision of the cutting edge topics that are being researched and studied at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH, Eawag, WSL a.o. This will be the base for a future dialog between the field of landscape architecture and the field of sciences. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Students acquire basic knowledge in atmospheric sciences, hydrology and soil science: - Understanding basic chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere that influence weather and climate - Fundamentals about the classification of soils, soil-forming processes, physical and chemical soil properties, soil biology and ecology, soil degradation and protection - Knowledge of water balance, principles of integral water management and climatic factors in the field of hydrology Students develop an understanding of the relevance of these topics in the field of landscape architecture. Temporal and physical scale, research methods, units of measurement, lexicon, modes of representation and critical literature form the framework for the joint discourse. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The course unit consists of the three courses "Climate", "Soil" and "Water", which are organized in modules. Module 1 “Climate”, 25.–28.09.2023 - Atmospheric dynamics: weather conditions, precipitation formation, weather forecast - Carbon Cycle: atmospheric CO2 concentrations and its interaction with the physical climate system - Land-climate dynamics: interaction between the land surface and the climate system - Hydrology and water cycle: extreme precipitation, influence of climate change on the cryosphere - Introduction to geology: formation of rocks, geologic times, structural geology Module 2 “Soil”, 2.10.–5.10.23 - Introduction to soils: definition, function, formation, classification and mapping - Soil physics: soil texture, soil structure, soil water potentials, hydraulic conductivity - Soil chemistry and fertility: clay minerals and oxides, cation exange capacity, soil pH, essential plant nutrients - Soil biology and ecology: soil fauna and microflora, fungi, bacteria, food web, organic matter - Soil degradation and threats to soil resources: erosion, compactation, sealing, contamination, salinization Module 3 “Water”, 09.10.–12.10.2023 Basics: - Water supply: water balance, groundwater, water quality (water protection) - River restoration - Flooding, evapotranspiration/cooling of landscapes - Hydropower (everything is managed - lake levels, water flows, pumping) - hydrology in the anthropocene - Water management and storage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | Course material will be provided. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | The course material includes a reading list. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | The courses "Climate", "Water" and "Soil" are organized with the Fundamental Studio I as joint one-week modules. The weekly schedules will be provided with the course materials. Module 1 "Climate", 25.–28.09.2023 Module 2 "Soil", 2.10.–5.10.23 Module 3 "Water", 09.10.–12.10.2023 - The courses are held in English - The written session examination covers all three courses "Climate", "Soil" and "Water". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 061-0103-00L | Plant Ecology | 2 credits | 3G | T. Galí-Izard, A. Gessler, M. Lévesque, J. Luster, C. A. Medina Novoa, A. Rigling, A. Rudow, T. M. Wohlgemuth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | This course introduces plant ecology. Through lectures, exercises and excursions, students will gain a broad vision of the cutting edge topics that are being researched and studied at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH and WSL. This will be the base for a future dialog between the field of landscape architecture and the field of sciences. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Students acquire basic knowledge in plant ecology focusing in its application in the field of landscape architecture. Temporal and physical scale, research methods, units of measurement, lexicon, modes of representation and critical literature form the framework for the joint discourse. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The fundamental course “Plant Ecology” is an introduction to the field of living systems, starting with the history of ecology, followed by an introduction to plant physiology. The course will also introduce students to the specifics of the rhizosphere, disturbance ecology and forests. Lastly, the course will focus on the specifics of tree structure and function. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | Course material will be provided. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | The course material includes a reading list. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | The fundamental course is organized with the Fundamental Studio I as a joint two-week module. The weekly schedule is provided with the course documents. Module 5 "Plant Ecology", 30.10.–09.11.2023 The course is held in English. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 061-0107-00L | Materials and Construction I | 2 credits | 3G | T. Galí-Izard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Focused on ground materiality, this course explores constructed potentials of working with biotic and abiotic materials, and techniques for modifying ground conditions. The shape and properties of the ground are fundamental for water movement, vegetative growth and microclimatic conditions on site. Learning the mechanisms for transforming earth’s surface opens up site-based design possibilities. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Students learn comprehensive skills for reading and modifying topography, soil and water, and for working with material life-cycles, behaviors and qualities to define new potentials for the constructed ground. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | Through a series of lectures, short exercises and on-site fieldwork, this course teaches the fundamental techniques of land, water and substrate manipulation, focusing on earthwork, drainage, soil and material properties. During the two-week module, students learn analog and digital grading techniques in Rhino and Grasshopper, and experiment with techniques for working with hybrid materials. The fundamental course Materials and Construction I (13th November – 24th November 2023) is closely linked to the Foundation Studio I course. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | A course reader is provided during the course. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Relevant literature is included in the reader. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | The course is aimed exclusively at the students of the master's program in landscape architecture. The detailed course schedule is provided at the beginning of the semester and is included in the reader. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 061-0141-23L | Foundation Studio I | 14 credits | 26U | T. Galí-Izard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | This course introduces a design methodology for landscape architecture that emphasizes the design of living systems and dynamic landscape processes in dialogue with the environmental sciences. With a focus on translating and synthesizing scientific information through rigorous drawing and critically engaging with the primary matter of landscapes, this course teaches core tools of the discipline. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | This design studio builds on a series of precise exercises that translate and synthesize the scientific information learned in the linked fundamental module courses required by the MScLA program. Through these exercises, students acquire essential analytical and methodological skills to support design in the field of Landscape Architecture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The Foundation Studio I in the autumn semester 2023 engages with a quarry site in Switzerland. Throughout the semester, students situate the local climatic, geologic, hydrological, pedological and vegetative processes in a larger context, and make proposals that respond to the specific material and ecological potentials of the site. Course desk crits, pin-ups, site visits and reviews are generally scheduled in the afternoon, and are linked to the content covered in the lectures and other theoretical inputs from the morning fundamental course. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | The reader is handed out during the first week of the semester. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Prerequisites / Notice | Final Critique: week of 18.12.2023-22.12.2023 The weekly schedule is published at the beginning of the semester and is included in the reader. Classes and critiques are held in English. No course 23th-27th of October 2023 (seminar week). Room HIL C15 12:45 -18:30: 18.09; 25.09; 27.09; 02.10; 04.10;09.10; 11.10; 30.10; 01.11; 06.11; 08.11; 13.11; 15.11; 20.11; 22.11 08:00 - 13:30: 20.09; 22.09; 29.09; 06.10; 13.10; 03.11; 10.11; 17.11; 24.11 15:45 - 18:30 19.09; 26.09; 03.10; 10.10; 31.10; 7.11; 14.11; 21.11 08:50-11:30: 27.11; 28.11; 29.11; 30.11; 08:00 - 13:30: 1.12 12:45 -18:30: 27.11; 29.11; 15:45 - 18:30: 28.11; 30.11; 08:50-11:30: 04.12; 05.12; 06.12; 07.12; 08.12; 11.12; 12.12; 13.12; 14.12; 15.12; 18.12; 19.12; | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 061-0153-00L | Internship Report Does not take place this semester. | 2 credits | 4P | T. Galí-Izard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Part of the course is a six-month internship in the field of landscape architecture. The internship should include as many work phases as possible in the work of a landscape architect. The students prepare an internship report in which they describe the various internship activities in detail and reflect on the learning success. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | The internship report should cover as many work phases as possible in the work of a landscape architect. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | Part of the course is a six-month internship in the field of landscape architecture. The internship should include as many work phases as possible in the work of a landscape architect. The students prepare an internship report in which they describe the various internship activities in detail and reflect on the learning success. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Internship report (of 6 months, within the field of landscape architecture). The report can be written in German or English language. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 064-0017-23L | Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal methodologies for Landscape and Urban research | 2 credits | 2K | F. Persyn, N. Bathla, T. Galí-Izard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Researching Otherwise is a call to craft another space for the production of knowledge. It posits that fluid epistemologies that respond to ways of decolonial, pluriversal, and more-than-human knowing can offer tools and ways for reimagining and reconstructing local worlds and transcending developmental paradigms of researching and operating. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Research in landscape and urban studies just like in other disciplines has been subject to the act of border and boundary-making that mediates, conditions, and limits its horizons while determining its outcomes. Some of these borders and boundaries are more familiar than others. In terms of geographical boundaries, for instance, the global north-south boundary has haunted landscape and urban research shrouded under the narratives of developmentalism. However, there are other borders such as the disciplinary ones, which attempts to separate and isolate a domain from other similarly specialised disciplines. This according to Paul Feyerabend is due to the tendency of modernity whereby ‘scientific education, aims to simplify “science” by simplifying its participants.’ Then there are the methodological boundaries established due to ‘cartesian dualism’, which act in the practice and training of becoming objective, teach researchers to be content with studying the products of imagination rather than working with imaginative processes themselves. Then there is a third, onto-epistemological border which defines that the knowing subject in the disciplines is not transparent and disincorporated or untouched by the geopolitical configuration of the world in which people and regions have and continue to be ranked and configured racially. It argues for moving away from a one world ontology. Decolonial thinkers such as Walter Mignolo and Gloria Anzaldúa have proposed for border thinking as a method for politically and epistemically de-linking from the web of imperial knowledge, which has energised a number of disobedient and anarchic traditions of researching otherwise. Researching Otherwise is a call ‘to craft another space for the production of knowledge – another way of thinking, un paradigma otro, the very possibility of talking about “worlds and knowledges otherwise”’. It posits that such ways of decolonial, pluriversal, and more-than-human knowing can offer tools and ways for reimagining and reconstructing local worlds and transcending developmental paradigms of researching and operating. Rather than rigid and closed epistemologies of knowing the landscape and the urban, this seminar promotes fluid epistemologies that respond to the incommensurabilities, radical alterities and other ways of knowing the environment. The call for researching otherwise is to deploy methodological tools such as drawing, photographing, sounding and listening, filmmaking, walking, and cartography for not only unearthing and unmasking systems of power and domination but also for researching possible other worlds and for countering the disembodiment of research and the researcher. The seminar will draw upon readings from a forthcoming publication by the same title. In terms of format, it will alternate between inputs by invited guests, reading and discussion sessions, tutorials, and peer-review. A number of input lectures by invited guests will will take the participants of the seminar into ways and methods of researching otherwise. These input lectures will be alternated with thematically organised tutorial sessions and peer-review. The seminar participants can choose to present the work developed during the seminar at the LUS Doctoral Crits organised at the end of the semester. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | The format will provide an overarching methodological meta-theme, to be defined prior to the event. One external guest critic will be invited. In this case, each presentation will conclude with a discussion round, providing sufficiently detailed feedback for every doctoral candidate. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | 22.09 Researching Otherwise - Nitin Bathla 29.09 Walk through the brachen of Zurich - Sabrina Stallone 06.10 Imagining Otherwise: Social Movements for Livable Futures in the Sonoran Border Region - Darcy Alexandra 13.10 Transdisciplinary Action Research - Stephanie Briers 20.10 Extended Urbanisation Conference 27.10 Retreat Lively Cities colloquium with Maan Barua at Uni Liechtenstein 03.11 Publication Otherwise - Moritz Gleich & Jennifer, gta Verlag 10.11 Doctoral Colloquium 17.11 Comparative Research - Julie Ren 24.11 Border Forensics - Charles Heller 01.12 Sensing beyond the human - Nancy Couling 08.12 Doc Crits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Barua, M. (2014) ‘Bio-geo-graphy: Landscape, dwelling, and the political ecology of human-elephant relations’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(5), pp. 915–934. Crysler, C.G. (2003) Writing Spaces: Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960–2000. London: Routledge. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203402689. Eco, U. (2015) How to write a thesis. MIT Press. Geertz, C. (1973) ‘Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture 1973’. Hultzsch, A. (2017) Architecture, travellers and writers: Constructing histories of perception 1640-1950. Routledge. Jackson Jr, J.L. (2013) Thin description. Harvard University Press. Jon, I. (2021) ‘The City We Want: Against the Banality of Urban Planning Research’, Planning Theory & Practice, 22(2), pp. 321–328. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2021.1893588. Kennedy, H. (2019) ‘Infrastructures of “Legitimate Violence”: The Prussian Settlement Commission, Internal Colonization, and the Migrant Remainder’, Grey Room, pp. 58–97. Madden, M. (2005) 99 ways to tell a story: exercises in style. Penguin. Malm, A. (2013) ‘The origins of fossil capital: From water to steam in the British cotton industry’, Historical Materialism, 21(1), pp. 15–68. Malm, A. (2016) Fossil capital: The rise of steam power and the roots of global warming. Verso Books. Malm, A. and Hornborg, A. (2014) ‘The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative’, The Anthropocene Review, 1(1), pp. 62–69. Marcus, G.E. (1995) ‘Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography’, Annual review of anthropology, 24(1), pp. 95–117. Narayan, K. (2012) Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov. University of Chicago Press. Queneau, R. (2018) Exercises in style. Alma Books. Shannon, K. and Manawadu, S. (2007) ‘Indigenous Landscape Urbanism: Sri Lanka’s Reservoir & Tank System’, Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2(2), pp. 6–17. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2007.9723384. Soja, E. (2003) ‘Writing the city spatially1’, City, 7(3), pp. 269–280. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1360481032000157478. Tornaghi, C. and Van Dyck, B. (2015) ‘informed gardening activism: steering the public food and land agenda’, Local Environment, 20(10), pp. 1247–1264. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | The participants of the seminar will be required to participate in two doctoral colloquiums; on Extended Urbanisation on 20.10 and on Lively Cities on 27.10. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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