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3D Visualisations for Singapore’s Ecosystem Services

Writing her master thesis in this colourful, money-driven, technology- and food-loving cultural hotpot turned out to be an unforgettable life experience for Katharina Hen...

2 years ago

Asia-Pacific, Climate change, Innovation in Architecture, Smart cities

Forest City

Imagine an artificial island off the coast of Singapore, complete with high-rise buildings and hotels. That is “Forest City,” the ultimate Potemkin village – a cons...

2 years ago

Asia-Pacific, Climate change, Future of Work, Innovation in Architecture, Smart cities

Design thinking brings Zurich and Singapore together

In September 2018, Yasser started his graduate studies in Robotics in Zurich. Little would he know that nine months later, he's already thinking of establishing a “Robo...

2 years ago

Climate change, Exchange Programme, Future of Work, Innovation in Architecture, Smart cities, South Asia, Sustainable Development Goals

Beyond K-Pop: Swiss Korean Innovation

If you are patient enough, Seoul - an octopus-like city of neighborhoods perched upon hills and its crisscross tentacles of highways and rivers - reveals its gems. ...

2 years ago

Smart cities, South Asia

Success in Indonesia! An Advocacy towards Better Planning

A project to pilot a planning-support tool in Indonesia turned out to be an advocacy for more responsible and responsive planning through the use of data. ...

2 years ago

Climate change, Innovation in Architecture, Smart cities, South Asia

Cooling Singapore meets New York City

Cooling Singapore met with experts in the field of urban warming in New York City and discussed how to compare, learn and respond to the urban heat challenge our cities a...

3 years ago

Innovation in Architecture, Smart cities, South Asia

Informing Cities from the Ground up

On the occasion of Archtober 2018, New York City’s Architecture and Design Month, a group of researchers from the Singapore ETH Centre - Future Cities Laboratory travel...

3 years ago

Asia-Pacific, Smart cities

Energy in Singapore

Did you know that ETH Zürich has an office in Singapore? And it’s ETH’s only research centre outside of Switzerland! I got the opportunity to spend 4 months in this ...

4 years ago

North America, Smart cities

What I learned about smart cities in Chicago

As a student representative of ETH Zurich, I attended the Chicago Forum on Global Cities from 7-9 June 2017. This international and prestigious Forum is organised by the ...

4 years ago

3D Visualisations for Singapore’s Ecosystem Services

Forest City

Design thinking brings Zurich and Singapore together

Beyond K-Pop: Swiss Korean Innovation

Success in Indonesia! An Advocacy towards Better Planning

Cooling Singapore meets New York City

Informing Cities from the Ground up

Energy in Singapore

What I learned about smart cities in Chicago

Office of the President

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