The AHO-co-partnered PhD summer school “Designing for Resiliency: RE:GENERATE alpine-urban circularity” – co-convened by Prof. Tobias Luthe (AHO/ ETHZ) – is taking place onsite in Ostana (Italy) and online in June 2021. AHO PhD Fellows are especially welcome to apply. The application deadline is end of April. See here for further information: https://systemicdesignlabs.ethz.ch/phd-summer-school-2021/

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What makes a mountain community and its livelihoods resilient, given the current social, economic and ecological pressures? What makes it worth living in a rural mountain community? What are community regeneration strategies in remote geographies, like mountains? How does “more nature” relate with compassion for nature, systems thinking, and acting? And how do urban and rural/alpine places interact? How does this change our awareness as visitor/tourist, and as a local? What can we learn for re-designing how we live back in the urban, in cities?

The EPFL-ETHZ Summer School “Designing for Resiliency: RE:GENERATE alpine-urban circularity” is taking place June 5-13th, 2021, as a hybrid format on-site and virtual. We developed a timely, pandemic-resilient new hybrid format of nudging social outdoor transformative action, onsite and with virtual tools. Together with other PhD students and guided by faculty we will design seeds of systemic innovation for resilient and regenerative livelihoods in direct application to local communities, and a new solidarity between the urban and the alpine. The new call for applications is now open until April 15th (onsite) and May 1st (virtual).