Dept. for the Future

The Dept. for the Future engages with the ETH real estate portfolio from the perspective of the future, in which climate change and its myriad effects urge us to reconsider a building culture anchored on extraction and demolition, our relationship with non-humans as well as changing labour conditions, to name but a few. How will ETH engage with circularity, biodiversity or digitization through the development and maintenance of its building stock? This department engages with the question on how to make ETH real estate truly exemplary and future-proof. 

This report was developed based on data provided by ETH Zurich, supplemented with extra information, fieldwork and data retrieved elsewhere. Therefore these reports might deviate from the framework conditions and measures taken by ETH Zurich.