Designing with halophytic, or salt-tolerant, plants in ex-Lake Texcoco, Mexico City. By rigorously drawing plants and their limiting factors, and the strategies they have developed for surviving in these unfavorable conditions, we cultivate a sophisticated understanding of these plants and can integrate their complexity into the design process.

Topographic translations: Learning from Mexico City’s constructed and geologically shaped landscapes, formed through active, ever changing, eroding, erupting, flooding processes and parameters, and transformed through management practices, weather conditions, urbanization, and colonial violence.

Reading the intelligence of a tree: Designing with tree architecture at the Parque Nacional Viveros de Coyoacán, park and tree nursery in Mexico City. Studying the dense plantations of trees at the Viveros, enables us to see a tree’s past, and more importantly, its potential.

Tracing material movements of tenzontle, compost, and mud in Mexico City through time and space to understand the complex, interconnected and often extractive relationships between constructed landscapes and the landscapes that produce them. 

Pines of Rome. Emma Kaufmann LaDuc.

Fifty-two goats grazing the forre. Lauro Nächt.

Urban Transhumance. Serena Neuenschwander.

The Regular Irregularity. Diana Strässle.

Give and Take. Nick Ulrich.

Research Dossiers on Regenerative Agriculture Techniques

Exercise 1: How much land is required to feed the city of Zurich while regenerating the soil?

Sheep Streets: Grazed Orchards Across Zurich. Flore Schärrer.

Linear Fruit Gardens of Zurich. Angela Stadelmann.

Craving a holistic nutrition: Re-Situating Zurich‘s Landscape of Nutrients. Intensive Vegetable Production as Cooperative Care, nourishing Soil and People. Sophia Garner.

Water's Edge. Fanny Christinaz

The Multi-Layer Network System: Innovative Milk Production, Processing, Distribution. Annabell Daverhuth.

Edible Streetscapes by Rainwater Harvesting. Beatrice Kiser.

Productive Roofs of Zurich: Living, producing and eating on the slopes surrounding the city. Simon Orga.