The garden for the cooperative housing Lyse Lotte in Basel is taking shape. Topography, flooring and plantations are being executed.

“ Many of the ornamental plant species with which we share the domestic space, taking care of them daily without wondering too much about their origin, were imported to Europe from exotic climes, generating what Céline Baumann defines as a “cognitive dissonance between the decorative aspect of potted plants and a brutal colonial history”. The artist and landscape architect sheds light on the origins of those species and the journeys they have had to make to intertwine with our lives.

„Plant sexual life becomes the subject of intense discussions in early modern botany. How does France, with its legacy of materialist libertine thought, become a hub for botanically-informed critique of human sexual norms and practices? How is early modern botany enmeshed with desire?

The team led by Conen Sigl Architekt:innen wins second prize for the competition of the housing cooperative Horw in Luzern. The project strives to develop a residential neighborhood with potential for coexistence.

The creation of dynamic and living open spaces based on the iterative ecology between communities and their environment is guiding the approach of this landscape architecture project. The studio investigates the metaphor of ramification; a tool allowing to compose and qualify a territory through the quality of its void as well as the density of its mass.

In 2022, Manifesta 14, the European Nomadic Biennial, takes place in Prishtina, Kosovo. Under the title „ It matters what worlds world worlds: how to tell stories otherwise “, Creative Mediator Catherine Nichols takes up the challenge of exploring and generating new practices and ways of collective storytelling. We have the pleasure to present the Queer Nature project in the Grand Hotel, a key venue of the festival.

With a combination of essays, memoirs, guided imagery, and speculative story-telling, this book reenacts Roadside Picnic, a sci-fi story addressing the problem of humanity’s contact with another intelligence through the environmental effects and wreckage left behind by the visitors.

The essay is part of the special report on “écologies déviantes” and comes along with drawings from Pauline Barzilaï and scientific illustrations from Ève Barlier.

The team led by Donet Schäfer Reimer Architekten wins first prize for the housing project of the plot 2.3 in the new district of Volta in Basel. Our contribution to the project concentrates on the roof terraces and green walls.

The team led by Lukas Manz, Barbara Thüler and Farquet Architectes wins first prize for the construction of the new Walkeweg school. The project offers playscape amenities for pupils as well as ecological corridors for an urban flora and fauna.

The building site for the cooperative housing Lyse-Lotte in Basel has started!

She is one of four visiting professors of the Wüstenrot Foundation who, from the winter semester 2021/22 to the summer semester 2023, will extend the array of courses offered in the master’s degree in architecture for one semester with relevant and responsible contributions to the major societal challenges for building in the present and the future.