{"title": "Mediating the Rural: From Ethnography to Design Knowledge Symposium", "start": "2026-11-09T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg", "address": "8093 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture", "society/rural-life"], "description": "An interdisciplinary symposium titled 'Mediating the Rural: From Ethnography to Design Knowledge' at ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg. It was convened by Radu Remus Macovei, a doctoral fellow in the Department of Architecture, together with Maarten Delbeke (Chair for the History and Theory of Architecture), Laurent Stalder (Chair for the Theory of Architecture) and Noelle Paulson, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Department of Architecture. It asks what counts as 'the rural' and how knowledge of it has been produced and used in design. It examines how rural environments have been made legible through images, texts, objects and institutions, and how these media inform spatial intervention.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/mediating-the-rural-from-ethnography-to-design-knowledge-sym-87463/", "official_url": "https://ausstellungen.arch.ethz.ch/en/exhibitions/translating-the-rural-symposium", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d0f5edf15ce00a0afc337796db148bf0a8e3eb7cb15bf11f44827c3667bb29f1-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg", "address": "8093 Zürich", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-10T09:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg", "address": "8093 Zürich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Translating the Rural", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-04T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg", "address": "8093 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history"], "description": "'Translating the Rural' is an exhibition about wooden churches, open-air museums and modern architecture in interwar East-Central Europe. It is curated by Radu Remus Macovei and gta exhibitions at ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg. It presents material from Macovei's ongoing doctoral research at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), titled 'Moving Churches, Making Nations'. It also includes the design research project 'Ligneous Worlds', which he developed through the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Julia Amory Appleton Traveling Fellowship in Architecture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/translating-the-rural-68876/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a28ef09b557f73f867ec192295f70bbfb5100bdb584f187a017f2688e80a7e8e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Translating the Rural", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-04T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH OAT", "address": "Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history"], "description": "Translating the Rural is an exhibition on wooden churches, open-air museums and modern architecture in interwar East-Central Europe. It is curated by Radu Remus Macovei and gta Ausstellungen at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich. The show presents findings from Macovei's doctoral thesis „Moving Churches, Making Nations“ and the design research project „Ligneous Worlds“. At its core are three wooden churches moved from mountain villages to Prague, Bucharest and Lviv, together with three 1:5 scale wooden models exploring how the buildings might have evolved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/translating-the-rural-8307/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d064c4d5e86899ee5641c7ddafb3cf677666fcf0736aafbdea40c5a215d0d5e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Translating the Rural. Wooden Churches, Open-Air Museums and Modern Architecture in Interwar East-Central Europe", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "The exhibition \"Translating the Rural. Wooden Churches, Open-Air Museums and Modern Architecture in Interwar East-Central Europe\" is on show at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich. It is the work of Radu Remus Macovei, a doctoral researcher at the gta. It traces how three wooden churches from mountain villages were moved during the interwar period to Prague, Bucharest and Lviv as part of Czechoslovak, Romanian and Ukrainian national projects. It presents findings from his doctoral thesis \"Moving Churches, Making Nations\" and from the design research project \"Ligneous Worlds\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/translating-the-rural-wooden-churches-open-air-museums-and-m-59595/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/171c49c3e3ebc6f74222724e443a8e2385156e8304fa92f2bb960b7938cd5e46-2000.webp"}, {"title": "House ⇆ Shed ⇆ Field", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur", "address": "Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "«House ⇆ Shed ⇆ Field» is a public lecture by Ito Tamotsu at ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur in Zurich. The architect, working between his native Gifu and metropolitan Tokyo, shows how he treats demographic shifts, obsolete industrial facilities and regional waste streams as generative constraints rather than limitations. He frames this approach through the «Non-Modern Hybrid», arguing for the critical necessity of «re-assembling» our built environment as he moves between the «House», the «Shed» and the «Field». The event is hosted by plenty.online, Frano Karlovic and ZAZ BELLERIVE and will be held in English; the bar is open before and after the lecture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/house-shed-field-32101/", "official_url": "https://www.zaz-bellerive.ch/fcl-booklaunch-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/808746d5097800b6adcd293666fee270bec5fd5b47edcc58b5881a86d76ef53b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SYMPOSIUM BIOVISION", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volkshaus", "address": "Stauffacherstrasse 60, 8004 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["food-drink/sustainable-food", "society/agriculture"], "description": "At its symposium, Biovision invites people to the Volkshaus Zürich to discuss, under the title «Gut, besser, gemeinsam: Zusammen die Zukunft der Ernährung gestalten», how cooperation can contribute to healthy soils, fair incomes and sustainable nutrition. The organisation Biovision is behind the event, and the afternoon is moderated by its managing director Anders Gautschi. Together with guests from Tanzania and Switzerland, successful projects, political processes and innovative approaches along the food value chain will be presented, such as a dairy in Tanzania and a lupin mill in Switzerland. The symposium takes place in German and English with simultaneous interpretation and ends with tastings and information stands for exchange.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/symposium-biovision-30851/", "official_url": "https://www.biovision.ch/veranstaltung/symposium2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5248ef9f7722ef48025de776a2ce8a8adb6a0fcf7376719f403d95d16fd344ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Symposium 2026 – «Gut, besser, gemeinsam: Zusammen die Zukunft der Ernährung gestalten»", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Volkshaus", "address": "Stauffacherstrasse 60, 8004 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["food-drink/sustainable-food", "society/agriculture"], "description": "A symposium with stories, discussions and tastings about the future of our food. It is organised by the Biovision Foundation and puts people from Switzerland and Tanzania at the centre, showing how cooperation can lead to healthy soils, fair incomes and sustainable nutrition. The programme covers experiences from Tanzania, ways to advance agroecology, and a look at sustainable crops such as the lupine. It takes place in German and English with simultaneous translation, and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/symposium-2026-gut-besser-gemeinsam-zusammen-die-zukunft-der-25592/", "official_url": "https://www.biovision.ch/veranstaltung/symposium2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8204a6c69130d3e67d1fb3e4143d226a86e545bbf9781d0580f3bb0ad6803329-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Book Launch: 'Manual for Designing Urban Imaginaries Colombia'", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-03T22:30:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "A book launch featuring a conversation between the editors of the book 'Manual for Designing Urban Imaginaries Colombia', a panel of contributors and guests, and the public, followed by an apéro with a homemade traditional Colombian Sancocho. Behind the book is research by the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design of Prof. Hubert Klumpner at ETH Zürich, carried out under the frame of the Colombia Urban Transformation Program. The manual addresses Colombia's rapidly urbanizing areas, where decades of armed conflict have given way to new waves of social and environmental issues. It explores where architectural practice and design thinking meet the hopes, needs and perceptions of communities, invoking the 'urban imaginary' as a means of developing strategies for marginalized voices to shape the future of their built and natural environments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/book-launch-manual-for-designing-urban-imaginaries-colombia-68969/", "official_url": "https://klumpner.arch.ethz.ch/news/book-launch-manual-for-designing-urban-imaginaries-colombia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b375a1e3d5d914106ccae80e8a28d0ac0c1cfb1b7768ae5a0fc16ad880591c81-2000.webp"}, {"title": "LECTURE SERIES DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE: NEW ARCHITECTURAL GENERATION SWITZERLAND", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg", "address": "8093 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "A lecture in the lecture series «ASSEMBLAGES – NEW ARCHITECTURE IN / FROM SWITZERLAND» by the Institute for Design and Architecture (IEA) at ETH Zürich. Under the title «Craft/Industry», Elli Mosayebi presents her projects Arena Crab Gries and Privet Drive. The series is devoted to new architecture in and from Switzerland. It takes place at ETH Hönggerberg.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/lecture-series-design-and-architecture-new-architectural-gen-69119/", "official_url": "https://iea.arch.ethz.ch/ringvorlesungen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c8c9457affd956c2b3cbf379ccae2f50464f08da6f9eff34d05172bccae6102f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Knowledge Transfer in the Age of AI", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Student Project House Zentrum", "address": "Clausiusstrasse", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/education"], "description": "An evening of workshop and panel about how AI is reshaping knowledge transfer – from professors to students, and from research into startups, industry and companies. It is organised by the student association Prometheus together with the ETH Student Project House, Young AI Leaders Zurich and the UZH.ai Student Board. Participants first choose one of three tracks, share practical insights in small groups and craft questions that leaders from academia and industry then answer live on the panel. Speakers include Effy Vayena of ETH Zurich as well as representatives of Artefact and KPMG, followed by networking drinks.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/knowledge-transfer-in-the-age-of-ai-25639/", "official_url": "https://luma.com/rgqvxcff", "image": "https://noky.io/images/da200012a04a00b74785d883efd006677b2405c443687ca0abdfaefb25cfeddd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Informationsveranstaltung für Lehrpersonen", "start": "2026-11-11T15:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Rietberg", "address": "Gablerstrasse 15, 8002 Zürich", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/exhibition", "history/indigenous-peoples"], "description": "An information event for teachers about the exhibition of art, archaeology and indigenous knowledge: using rock paintings, ceramic objects and indigenous world views, it shows how people have lived in relation to their environment and depicted it for thousands of years. The introduction presents the school programme for the exhibition and demonstrates how pupils can explore questions of identity, symbolism, community and human-nature relationships creatively and in a hands-on way. The practical studio work and its connection to the content is also explained. Led by Franziska Aeschbach and Christiane Ruzek; meeting point is Smaragd/museum entrance, duration approx. one hour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/informationsveranstaltung-fur-lehrpersonen-97589/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10e71dd5a3d206c50a3bf6156e2b97472e09240d6217fd12410eb3bc7bda9b5d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Übersehene Akteure der Vorfabrikation", "start": "2026-11-13T11:45:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg", "address": "8093 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "A guest lecture by Adrian Pöllinger on the actual assembly processes of modern prefabricated lightweight buildings, using the example of Jean Prouvé's workshops in Maxéville and a rural school from the 1950s. It is hosted by the Chair of Construction Heritage and Monument Conservation of Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg as part of the lecture series «Future Monuments». The lecture turns to the often overlooked actors of assembly, showing what creative role site erectors could take and what conflicts between industrial building methods and local craftsmanship were played out.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/ubersehene-akteure-der-vorfabrikation-69073/", "official_url": "https://www.langenberg.arch.ethz.ch/diskurs/uebersehene-akteure-der-vorfabrikation/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd93c3e13dcd76d6812b2cc3ed465e2b2eaae0174ef47b2a853918315a9bd2a7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Flächensuffizienz: Wie viel ist genug? Podiumsdiskussion mit Inputs aus Forschung, Bauherrschaft und Architektur", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Karl der Grosse", "address": "Kirchgasse 14, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei, mit Anmeldung", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture", "society/housing"], "description": "A panel discussion on floor-area sufficiency in housing, held in the rooms of a cultural centre in Zurich's old town. It is organised by zawonet (zahlbar wohnen netzwerk), which this year explores how living space can be used efficiently, shaped communally and built sustainably. The panel features Ricarda Pätzold of the Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik and Claudio Meletta of Stereo Architektur, moderated by culture and architecture journalist Karin Salm. The panellists give short inputs and then discuss with the audience, and entry is free with registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/flachensuffizienz-wie-viel-ist-genug-podiumsdiskussion-mit-i-31162/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}