ROME is our playground: its intricate history, morphology, mythology… all canonical spatial parameters suggested by Lefebvre: political, sociological, anthropological, economical, temporal. Our focus lies both on the banal and the sublime, on habits, routines, and calendar rites as well as on individual and social rhythms setting the pace for society. As the ordinary interweaves thousands of beats, repetitive tunes and syncopated breaks, there can be no territoriality without its temporalities, may it be that of urbanisation, of experience, or of dreams. The critical consideration of these paragons, further endowed with the lure of fiction, initiates alternate (hi)stories and cityscapes.

Students from both the Faculty of Game Design of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and VOLUPTAS together researched, discussed, designed, played… confronting their singular perspectives onto contemporaneity and ultimately imagining audacious yet playful spatial fictions.


Students ETH: Arno Amez-Droz, Alina Ampilogova, Ivan Bagaturiya, Max Bärtsch, Luca Bötschi, Valerio Dorn, Lucas Fischötter, Joel Heller, Rosa Hickey, Victor Kästli, Jan Lang, Kamran Mohler, Saira Mudakarayil, Olivia Negrinotti, Jonas Schmid, Roman Schürch, Louis Simillion, Samuel Stöckli, Wan Theng Tan, Su Tingyu, Svantje Thiel, Riccardo Tommasino

Students ZHdK: Chao Arakawa, Lisa Bach, Charisse Deleon, Asya Fischer, Gabrielle Gerber, Jan Hobi, Leonhard Holzen, Janosch Ibuechi, Ivo Keller, Lilian Khov, Alexander Mazzone, Joachim Merchie, Charles Roberge, Dorias Schaerer, Michael Staub, Dominik Stettler, Dominic Sutter, Lea Wild, Sofia Yurchenko

Team: François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel, Natalie Donat-Cattin, Joshua Guiness, Patrick Heiz, Marina Montresor, Francisco Moura Veiga, Jonas Rauber


VOLUPTAS · PROFESSUR CHARBONNET/HEIZ · ETHZ

STUDIO S2E2 PATHFINDER focuses on the city of Istanbul: its rich history, morphology, mythology, possibilities… all canonic spatial perimeters as suggested by Lefebvre: political, sociological, anthropological, economical. As the framework of our prospective investigation, it shall evoke an array of fantasies and trigger multiple narrative potentials. The careful and critical consideration of architectural paragons, socio-economical dynamics, geopolitical shifts, further endowed with the lure of fiction, initiate new beginnings to alternate (hi)stories and cityscapes.

Students: Jean-Jacques Ammann, Linus Arnold, Maena Astischer, Eric Butty, Yven Dellemann, Benjamin Frei, Carolyn Isenegger, Han Seul Ju, Iris Keller, Nora Moser, Sofia Nava, Shirley Rellstab, Gilles Reust, Alejandra Richard, Viviane Seiz, Timon Stettler, Elia Trachsel, Kira van Wouden, Laura von Salis, Nicolàs Egon Wittig

Team: Dominik Arni, François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel, Natalie Donat-Cattin, Steffen Hägele, Patrick Heiz, Marina Montresor, Francisco Moura Veiga

VOLUPTAS · PROFESSUR CHARBONNET/HEIZ · ETHZ

Pursuing our rambling exploration on the lookout for urban environments beyond reasonable and more than ever considering humankind as embedded in, acting upon and dependent on its geological era, we shall look upon history’s intertwined layers and sediments as raw potential to be appropriated and composed with – joyfully disrespecting scientific authenticity. STUDIO S2E1 PATHFINDER focuses on the city of London: finding and drafting fictional paths within erratic hyper-contexts (generated by hypothetical ruling incentives), and the obsessive recording of their past and present traces of erasures and becomings.
This semester was led in collaboration with the Faculty of Game Design of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

Students ETH: Matteo Bianchi, Renia Bode, Jennifer Braghetti, Wiktoria Brzoza, Carolina Contreras Alvarez, Pauline Cosandier, Sarina Costanzo, Michel Crelier, Michelle Döbeli, Manuela Foscaldi, Maria Vittoria Giani, Nina Grünig, Xinghe Guo, Antoine Hansen, Valmira Haziri, Claudio Hollenstein, Era Jashari, Wenyan Li, Zeming Li, Léo Ornstein, Olivia Pfister, Arthur Piaget Rossel, Riccardo Pizzolotto, Lukas Riener, Carla Ringenbach, Felix Röttger, Shayan Rytzell, Christoph Schuppisser, Clara Zuber

Students ZHdK: Natascha Arnold, Sebastian Boner, Natascha Duebi, Laura Eonomides, Rahel Gamma, Robin Good, Luca Imesch, Anja Imiger, Lorenz Kleiser, Samuel Knussel, Yevhen Kozlov, To-Thanh Le, Julian Maier, Saniya Sagutdinova, Miyu Sawamoto, Anja Schrodin, Dana Senn, Yoshi Zigerli

Team: Dominik Arni, François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel, Natalie Donat-Cattin, Steffen Hägele, Patrick Heiz, Marina Montresor, Francisco Moura Veiga


VOLUPTAS · PROFESSUR CHARBONNET/HEIZ · ETHZ

STUDIO S1E8 REPETITION/DIFFERENCE invokes both identity and sameness, evolution and change, patterns and habits, originality and copy, time and recurrence, beat and rhythm… all things seemingly constant, all shades of their endless variations. How may such abstract notions contribute to shape immaterial processes and crystallize timeless and paradigmatic urban environments? The careful and critical consideration of architectural paragons, socio-economical dynamics, geopolitical shifts, further endowed with the lure of fiction, shall initiate new beginnings to alternate (hi)stories and cityscapes.

Students: Saro Aellig, Tommaso Aliverti, Rachel Bigler, Jasper Blind, Flavio Carigiet, Federico Cigolini, Liam Connolly, Paul Dillier, Joel Domke, Ruby Hall, Guy Helfer, Yutaro Honshuku, John Leyel, Niklas Lenz, Vinzenz Leuppi, Leon Madörin, David Ragonesi, Jakob Schaefermeyer, Chidi Speranza, Jonathan Troger

Team: Dominik Arni, François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel, Pedro Guedes, Steffen Hägele, Patrick Heiz, Marina Montresor, Francisco Moura Veiga

VOLUPTAS · PROFESSUR CHARBONNET/HEIZ · ETHZ

STUDIO S1E7 DIFFERENCE/REPETITION invokes both identity and sameness, evolution and change, patterns and habits, originality and copy, time and recurrence, beat and rhythm… all things seemingly constant, all shades of their endless variations. How may such abstract notions contribute to shape immaterial processes and crystallize timeless and paradigmatic urban environments? The careful and critical consideration of architectural paragons, socio-economical dynamics, geopolitical shifts, further endowed with the lure of fiction, shall initiate new beginnings to alternate (hi)stories and cityscapes.

Students: Vera Aredal Rundbom, Lukas Buettner, Leonie Calzana, Sungjoo Chung, Isidor Gonzalez Escobar, Aleksandar Ilic, Anton Krebs, Juliette Martin, Hannah Meisel, Leo Müller, Sven Nyffenegger, Jonas Odermatt, Mathias von Sinner, Julien Rey, Sven Axel Schulte, Luana Stadtmann, Jérome Strebel, Ronja Traber, Maria Trombetta, Timon Voide, Mike Zweidler

Team: Dominik Arni, François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel, Pedro Guedes, Steffen Hägele, Patrick Heiz, Marina Montresor, Francisco Moura Veiga

VOLUPTAS · PROFESSUR CHARBONNET/HEIZ · ETHZ

STUDIO S1E6 APOLLO
Dionysos/Apollo is to become a rambling exploration on the lookout for an urban environment beyond reasonable or irrational, good and evil.
Students: Gabrielle Chilinski, Laura Di Nardo, Miro Frei, Felix Huber, Tu Lan, Alessandro Luppi, Louis Meier, Charlotte Pitteloud

MASTER THESIS
Students: Loïc Cao, Takayoshi Goto, Mathis Pante, Raphael Ridder

Team: Dominik Arni, François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel, Pedro Guedes, Steffen Hägele, Patrick Heiz, Marina Montresor, Francisco Moura Veiga

VOLUPTAS · PROFESSUR CHARBONNET/HEIZ · ETHZ

STUDIO S1E5 DIONYSOS
Dionysos / Apollo is to become a rambling exploration on the lookout for an urban environment beyond reasonable or irrational, good and evil.
TRAILER · PROJECTS

Students: Simon Assal, Amélie Bès, Milena Bovet, Arno Bruderer, Chiara Chan, Marc Délez, Pierre Eichmeyer, Daniel Epprecht, Lucia Giacobbi, Oskar Haushofer, Jan Honegger, Léa Jaccard, Cagri Karbeyaz, Janosch Kirchherr, Ann-Sophia Kirchhofer, Fei Li, Anna Ludwig, Lino Mercolli, Yoann Miéville, Fabian Müller, Carolina Palos Mas, Edoardo Reverberi, Alan von Arx Carrascal, Alex Walter, Nico Wolfer, Hao Wu

MASTER THESIS
Students: Luca Meyer, Thierry Vuattoux

Team: Dominik Arni, François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel, Pedro Guedes, Steffen Hägele, Patrick Heiz, Marina Montresor, Francisco Moura Veiga

VOLUPTAS · PROFESSUR CHARBONNET/HEIZ · ETHZ

STUDIO S1E4 VARIABLES
Variables aims at defining pristine hyper-contexts generated by hypothetical ruling incentives: as a marker of singularities, it is to become the varied catalogue of elemental urban idiosyncrasies.
TRAILER · PROJECTS

Students: Matthew Asimakis, Veronica Berardi, Liat Busqila, Loïc Cao, Claire Debons, Adam El-Hamadeh, Sandro Fritschi, Alessandra Fudoli, Aileen Geistlich, Virginia Isora Grimald, Nina Guyot, Xingyu He, Yagmur Kültür, Allegra Milesi, Giovanni Perazzi, Yann Salzmann, Andrea Sirotti, Sara Tomasini, Oliver Wyss

MASTER THESIS
Students: Diego Bazzotti, Arko Naroyan

Team: Dominik Arni, François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel, Pedro Guedes, Steffen Hägele, Patrick Heiz, Marina Montresor, Francisco Moura Veiga

VOLUPTAS · PROFESSUR CHARBONNET/HEIZ · ETHZ