COURSE EPFL
Autumn 2025

HABITAT, SOCIETY & MOBILITY
Luca Pattaroni & Maxime Felder

The course aims to understand the political and social conditions of urban lifestyles and mobilities patterns in order to explore the levers of action available to professionals to support the critical emergence of renewed urban models.

Taking the form of a course – workshop, the proposed teaching aims to show the interest of methodologies from the social sciences of the city to develop critical urban and territorial design. The course provides theoretical lectures, reading assignment, and intense workshops with the teaching staff.

  1. INTRODUCTION

  2. WORKSHOP 1

  3. LECTURE 1

  4. WORKSHOP 2

  5. LECTURE 2

  6. WORKSHOP 3

  7. LECTURE 3

  8. LECTURE 4

ETH Zürich D-ARCH

Programme Director
Milica Topalović, Assoc. Professor
Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planinng

Programme Co-ordinator
Dr. Nancy Couling

EPFL ENAC

Programme Director
Paola Viganò, Professor
Habitat Research Center

Programme Co-ordinator
Dr. Tommaso Pietropolli