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.
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
Students in Systems Oriented Design at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) publish their Gigamaps on “Visions for future bio-regional agricultural systems with autonomous … Read More
As part of the 2019 RSD8 Symposium “Relating Systems Thinking and Design” in Chicago, our group organized a Fishbowl session, a social dynamic discourse on the … Read More
As part of the Systemic Design Labs teaching program at ETH Zurich, a short summary article on the 2019 Master course in the Italian Piedmont has … Read More
I am honored to contribute to the scientific committee of Torino-based University College Einaudi for the period 2020-2022, in the area of “Awareness of Challenges”. Collegio … Read More
I am visiting professor at the Politechnical University Torino (Polito), Italy, for this spring semester 2020. I co-teach the course “open systems design” together with Prof. … Read More
As part of the ETH Zurich ENERGYSCAPE research project, financed in part by the Swiss National Research Program NFP70 Energy Transition, I co-authored the final project … 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...
