Qualiscapes

Swiss National Research Programme 81 · Baukultur

News

Where the project has been and where it is going next. Most of what happens in Qualiscapes happens on site: a walk, a workshop, a scan, an evening with a plan spread out on a table, so this is also a reasonably complete record of the fieldwork.

Upcoming

  • Date to be announced
  • Biel/Bienne

Biel/Bienne workshops

  • Date to be announced
  • Frienisberg plateau

Frienisberg walks

  • Date to be announced
  • Frienisberg plateau

Frienisberg workshops

Past events

  • 8 May 2026
  • Zürich

Advisory board meeting

Researchers seated around a long table at the advisory board meeting
Philipp Urech
  • 6 May 2026
  • La Chaux-de-Fonds

NRP 81 programme meeting

Roland Züger presenting to the NRP 81 programme meeting
Philipp Urech
  • 28 February 2026
  • Biel/Bienne

Public site visit

A large group standing in a street in front of a residential tower in Biel
Raimund Rodewald
Participants walking between parked cars along a residential street
Raimund Rodewald
A cleared construction site behind fencing
Raimund Rodewald
A site plan board mounted on a construction fence
Raimund Rodewald
  • 13 February 2026
  • Minusio, Ticino

Transect walk

The group standing on a terraced vineyard slope above Minusio, with Lago Maggiore, the town and the mountains behind
Jonathan Bussard
  • 24 October 2025
  • Minusio and Zürich

Scanning workshop

A student operating a terrestrial laser scanner among trees
Philipp Urech
The scanner set up on a street in Minusio with the mountains behind
Philipp Urech
Students gathered around the scanner on a lakeside path in autumn
Philipp Urech
Scanning at a stone archway in Minusio
Philipp Urech
  • 17 October 2025
  • Mendrisio, Ticino

Studio lectures and reviews

Students and tutors gathered in front of pinned-up drawings during a weekly critique
Philipp Urech
  • 25 September 2025
  • Minusio, Ticino

Visioning workshop

Participants leaning over a large printed landscape plan spread across a table
Jonathan Bussard
The group standing on a street in Minusio during the morning site visit
Philipp Urech
Participants standing in a dry riverbed during the site visit
Philipp Urech
Frédéric Bonnet addressing the visioning workshop
Jonathan Bussard
Philipp Urech presenting the survey to the workshop
Jonathan Bussard
Workshop tables with printed plans and participants in discussion
Jonathan Bussard
A printed landscape plan annotated with sticky notes and drawn routes
Jonathan Bussard
Annotated plan showing marked routes and comments
Jonathan Bussard
Close view of drawn interventions on the printed point cloud plan
Jonathan Bussard
Participants in discussion around an annotated plan
Jonathan Bussard
  • 22 September 2025
  • Minusio, Ticino

Stakeholder mapping

A large printed stakeholder matrix annotated by hand with institutional logos
Philipp Urech
  • 21 August 2025
  • Biel/Bienne

Site visit

The team walking along a planted median strip beside a wide road in Biel
Jonathan Bussard
A wet arterial road in Biel with the Jura hills behind
Jonathan Bussard
Participants with umbrellas beside a construction fence
Jonathan Bussard
A canal running between grass verges
Jonathan Bussard
A partly demolished building site on the arterial road
Jonathan Bussard
Participants with umbrellas waiting at a crossing
Jonathan Bussard
A pedestrian underpass beside the roadway
Jonathan Bussard
  • 13 May 2025
  • Thun

NRP 81 kickoff symposium

Adrienne Grêt-Regamey and Urs Steiger presenting at the kickoff symposium in Thun
Philipp Urech