Courses

Semester Title
Past courses
Fall 2022 Urban Climate Change
Jon Schubert
Fall 2022 Visualizing Urban Research
Alaa Dia
Fall 2022 Critical Cartography
Shourideh C. Molavi
Fall 2022 Material Investigations
Emilio Distretti
Fall 2022 The City as Archive
Kenny Cupers
Fall 2022 Studio: Interdisciplinary Urban Research
Kenny Cupers, Maren Larsen, Emilio Distretti, Shourideh C. Molavi, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Jon Schubert, Anna Selmeczi
Fall 2022 Borders, Migration and Race: Switzerland and Beyond
Jana Häberlein
Fall 2022 Camps and the City
Maren Larsen
Fall 2022 Colonialism, Imperialism, Urbanization
Kanishka Goonewardena
Fall 2022 Decolonizing the Swiss Urban Landscape
Claske Dijkema
Fall 2022 Repair Infrastructures
Ernest Sewordor et al.
Fall 2022 Theory in Urban Studies
Maren Larsen
Fall 2022 Urban Climate Change
Jon Schubert
Fall 2022 Critical Urbanisms: Introduction & Orientation
Kenny Cupers, Lea Marie Nienhoff
Fall 2021 Visualizing Urban Research
Alaa Dia, Thomas Betschart
Fall 2021 Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates
Alaa Dia
Fall 2021 Cityscapes as Archives
Ernest Sewordor
Fall 2021 Theory in Urban Studies
Maren Larsen
Fall 2021 Emergency Urbanism
Maren Larsen
Fall 2021 Studio: Interdisciplinary Urban Research
Kenny Cupers, Emilio Distretti, Maren Larsen, Shourideh C. Molavi
Spring 2021 Resisting (Neo)colonialism: Palestine and the United States
Saad Amira
Fall 2020 Studio: Interdisciplinary Urban Research
Kenny Cupers, Sophie Oldfield, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Emilio Distretti, Maren Larsen
Fall 2020 Critical Urbanisms: Introduction
Kenny Cupers, Sophie Oldfield, Shourideh C. Molavi
Fall 2020 Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates
Maren Larsen
Fall 2020 The City as Archive
Kenny Cupers, Ernest Sewordor
Fall 2020 Critical Cartography
Shourideh C. Molavi
Fall 2020 Material Investigations
Kenny Cupers
Fall 2020 Camps and the City
Maren Larsen
Fall 2020 Engendering the City
et al.
Fall 2020 Mobility Conflicts and Border Forensics
et al.
Fall 2020 Current Debates in Urban Planning
et al.
Fall 2020 Theory in Urban Studies
Kenny Cupers
Spring 2020 Seminar: Migration Infrastructure
Kenny Cupers, Emilio Distretti, Manuel Herz
Spring 2020 Urban Research Design
Kenny Cupers, Emilio Distretti, Manuel Herz, Sophie Oldfield
Spring 2020 City Immersions
Sophie Oldfield
Spring 2020 Contemporary South African Debates
Sophie Oldfield
Spring 2020 The Urban Everyday
Sophie Oldfield
Fall 2019 African Cities
Sophie Oldfield
Fall 2019 Critical Urbanisms: Theories and Methods
Kenny Cupers, Manuel Herz, Sophie Oldfield
Fall 2019 The City: Planetary Histories
Kenny Cupers, Giulia Scotto
Fall 2019 Urbanism in Conflict: Lecture Series
Emilio Distretti
Fall 2019 Geopolitics of Urbanization: China's Belt and Road Initiative In Africa
Kenny Cupers, Remo Reginold (2017/2018/2019)
Fall 2019 Advanced Interdisciplinary Work
Kenny Cupers, Manuel Herz, Emilio Distretti
Fall 2019 Highway Africa: Infrastructure, Decolonization and the City
Kenny Cupers, Manuel Herz
Fall 2019 The Colonial Mediterranean
Emilio Distretti
Fall 2019 Critical Cartography
Giulia Scotto
Spring 2019 The Urban Everyday
Sophie Oldfield, Laura Nkula-Wenz
Spring 2019 City Immersions
Sophie Oldfield
Spring 2019 Contemporary South African Debates
Sophie Oldfield
Spring 2019 Urban Research Design
Kenny Cupers, Manuel Herz, Sophie Oldfield, Emilio Distretti, Laura Nkula-Wenz
Spring 2019 Casablanca: Colonialism and Modern Urbanism
Kenny Cupers, Giulia Scotto
Spring 2019 Camps and Other Spaces of Control
Manuel Herz
Fall 2018 Highway Africa Research Studio
Kenny Cupers, Manuel Herz, Giulia Scotto
Fall 2018 African Cities
Sophie Oldfield, Laura Nkula-Wenz
Fall 2018 Critical Urbanisms: Theories and Methods
Kenny Cupers, Manuel Herz, Sophie Oldfield
Fall 2018 Studio: Advanced Interdisciplinary Work
Manuel Herz, Kenny Cupers
Fall 2018 Global Housing Histories
Kenny Cupers
Fall 2018 Global Housing Histories: Current Debates
Kenny Cupers
Fall 2018 Urbanism in Conflict: Current Debates
Ginger Nolan, Emilio Distretti, Giulia Scotto
Fall 2018 Urbanism in Conflict
Ginger Nolan, Emilio Distretti, Giulia Scotto
Fall 2018 The environment: Representing, Knowing, and Mastering the Global Sphere
Ginger Nolan
Fall 2018 Mapping the Urban
Giulia Scotto
Fall 2018 Planning and the Grassroots in a Global Perspective
Faranak Miraftab (2018, 2021)
Fall 2018 Socialist City and Film
Xenia Vytuleva (2018)
Fall 2018 Political Economy and Postcolonial Realities
Remo Reginold (2017/2018/2019)
Fall 2018 Secondary Cities in Burkina Faso: Urban Life as seen by the Townsfolks
Till Förster
Fall 2018 World Governance: A Material History
Emilio Distretti
Spring 2018 Modern Urbanism, Study Trip: Berlin
Kenny Cupers, Giulia Scotto
Spring 2018 The Urban Everyday
Sophie Oldfield
Fall 2017 Urban Research Design
Kenny Cupers, Sophie Oldfield, Emilio Distretti, Laura Nkula-Wenz
Fall 2017 Critical Urbanisms: Theories and Methods
Kenny Cupers, Manuel Herz, Sophie Oldfield, Ginger Nolan, Marie-Laure Allain Bonilla
Fall 2017 Histories of Urbanization
Kenny Cupers
Fall 2017 Histories of Urbanization: Seminar
Kenny Cupers
Fall 2017 Performing the City
Marie-Laure Allain Bonilla
Fall 2017 How does the 99% live? World Histories of Housing
Kenny Cupers
Fall 2017 Minimal Architectures: Between Bare Life and Global Citizenship
Ginger Nolan
Fall 2017 Housing from Above and Below
Kenny Cupers, Manuel Herz, Sophie Oldfield
Fall 2017 Resource Economies from a Postcolonial Perspective
Remo Reginold (2017/2018/2019)
Fall 2017 Mapping Infrastructure and Urbanization
Bárbara Maçães Costa (2017/2018)