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Responsive Cities
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- 10 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Warmup week
Week 2: Introduction to the Responsive Cities
Week 3: Information Cities
Week 4: Smart Cities
Week 5: From Smart to Responsive
Week 6: Responsive and livable cities
Week 7: Citizen-design science
Week 8: Responsive Governance
Week 9: Responsive building design and city planning
Week 10: Responsive cities
Prerequisite
Instructors
Gerhard Schmitt
Professor of Information Architecture
ETH Zurich
Stephen Cairns
Scientific Directory of the ETH Future Cities Laboratory
ETH Zurich
Estefania Tapias
Postdoctoral fellow and Lecturer, Chair of Information Architecture
ETH Zurich
Bige Tunçer
Associate Professor
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Markus Schläpfer
Lead, Urban Complexity Project
ETH Future Cities Lab
Kevin Schawinski
Professor of galaxy and black hole astrophysics
ETH Zurich
Lai Choo Malone-Lee
Director, Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities (CSAC)
National University of Singapore
Kees Christiaanse
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
ETH Zurich
Ina Homeier
Architect
Corine Mauch
Mayor of the City of Zürich
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