While happily enjoying multiple passions in life, most of my professional work focuses on the interaction of nature with humans from a systems perspective - integrating theory and practice in a creative way for designing pathways towards sustainability.
Title: Game of Cruxes: co-designing a game for scientists and stakeholders for identifying joint problems Salliou N., Bruley E., Luthe T., Blanco V., Lavorel S., A. … Read More
From the field to the house: building with hemp as a regenerative building material. Swiss architectural magazine TEC21 is featuring our experimental research by design at … Read More
Together with my colleague Romano Wyss we wrote his recently published article that proposes 10 concrete visions for future-ready, resilient and more sustainable mountain communities and … Read More
At the Oslo School of Architecture and Design we are starting an executive Master program in Systems Oriented Design. By pursuing a master’s degree in systems-oriented … Read More
We are offering a new EPFL-ETHZ Summer School “Designing for Resiliency: RE:GENERATE alpine-urban circularity” which is taking place June 5-13th, 2021. The pandemic-resilient hybrid format of … Read More
I was recently invited to hold a webinar for the UK Eagle Ski Touring Club – looking at what we can do, as individual skiers, to … Read More
Zero carbon skiing from Zurich city door to the local hill. With 40cm powder around the house, the most snow since 15 years. Local adhoc adventures … Read More
I supported a young group of PhD students and post docs on publishing their explorative research in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan. The notion of … Read More
Bayern 2 of the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Munich, broadcasted a 55min report about the long distance trail GTA to Monte Viso in the Italian Piedmont, and … Read More
The 5th Regenerative Design Talk (RDT) in 2019 on building and designing with hemp we organized at the MonViso Institute was great – an inclusive, practical … Read More
As part of a large group of 176 co-authors, we published an article originating from the Transformations 2017 conference: Fazey I., Schäpke N., (…) Luthe T. … Read More
New publication: Virtualizing social outdoor experiences: chances and risks in education on sustainability in times of Covid-19 The Sustainability Leadership Training (SLT) is a transdisciplinary higher … Read More
design, entrepreneurship, science
I am founding director of this transdisciplinary research and entrepreneurial institute-building program to transform an...
guiding, teaching
Mountain- and wilderness guiding as well as teaching outdoor sports to me are fun ways...
teaching
This is an innovative course format for teaching systemic design to graduate and undergraduate engineering...
science
I am scientific coordinator of ArcAlpNet, a multi-year research program partly financed by SNIS on comparative resilience...
science, teaching
I have been teaching this graduate block course in a blended learning format with a combination...
design, entrepreneurship
Grown is a research-based brand with a clear focus and competence in outdoor sports and...
science, services
In my talks I like to elaborate on societal topics in the wider realm of...
science
I am interested in science for and of sustainability, and in epistemology of sustainability. Latest...
