AGRITERRITORIES OF POTENTIAL & REGENERATIVE PRACTICESWorkshops ETH Zürich

We were delighted to recently host two workshops during the MAS UTD studio FOODSCAPES ZURICH. First, we were joined by Karoline Kostka for an input and discussion on the research project Agriterritories of Potential, an ongoing research project about the future of the agricultural territories of the Metropolitan Region of Zurich, and part of the research conducted at our chair of Architecture of Territory. Karoline is a landscape architect, senior researcher, and FCL project coordinator. Karoline is engaged in the ETH Global FCL Zürich project “New Agendas for Planetary Urbanisation — Agrarian Change and Agroecological Transitions”, focusing on Zürich’s Metropolitan Region. Her work combines territorial research with landscape interpretation, exploring ecological design through mapping and critical cartography.

After that, we were delighted to be joined by Stefan Breit, giving an input on his research and design work of regenerative practices in agricultural landscape design, giving comprehensive insights into keyline design in Switzerland and rotational grazing systems with horses in Spain. Alice Clarke then joined for a following workshop, discussing possibilities of including various alternative agricultural practices to the design toolset for the specific sites and projects of the MAS participants in our studio. Stefan is a research associate, lecturer, and doctoral candidate based at the Chair of Being Alive here at ETH Zürich. In his work, he focuses on regenerative landscape practices in urban and rural environments in Switzerland and abroad. In his doctoral thesis, he studies human-tree relationships in times of uncertain climate futures using the sweet chestnut tree (Castanea Sativa) as a guide for my exploration.