CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Beyond Systems Thinking
This description is only available in English.
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Spring Semester 2024
Start -
5 months
Duration -
Hybrid: online plus field trip to Norway
Location -
EnglishTuition language
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11.03–07.04.2024
Application period
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CHF 8,230
Programme fee
In brief: The CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Beyond Systems Thinking
Participants gain vital living systems understanding and tools in hybrid course with Norway field trip, enabling them to lead transformation and systemic innovation between AI and embodied practice.
Structure and content
Programme description
The CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Beyond Systems Thinking (CAS ETH DRRS: Beyond Systems Thinking) transforms participants into critical systems thinkers skilled in navigating the complexity of living systems. It includes a deep dive into complexity management and practice-based learning on a field trip to partnering Living Systems Labs in Norway. Topics covered: resilience assessment, social network analysis, inner development, transformation leadership, and bridging AI with fieldwork. The field trip enhances real-world skills and strengthens our social learning community.
Objectives
Participants learn to better deal with complexity by discovering emergence of living systems and developing critical systems thinking skills. We acquire tools like social network analysis for the functional interpretation of network structures for resilience. The course explores the transformative potential of resilience and provides actionable paths for inner resilience and leadership in transformation and systemic innovation.
Professional perspectives
Participants join from a wide range of professions, such as engineers, economists, biologists, activists, designers, teachers, tourism managers, architects, and city mayors. Participants learn from leading experts in systems thinking and systemic innovation. Course participants become transformation leaders in complexity and systems thinkers for co-designing resilient regenerative futures.
Structure and format
The CAS is a hybrid course arranged in six thematic modules that build upon external pageMOOC#2. In the first half of the virtual course, which consists of live conversations with leading experts, the course engages in a real-world field design trip to Living Systems Labs in Norway.
Additional information
After the first month of virtual live conversations, the course takes a field design trip to three emerging Living Systems Labs across Norway. The virtual course part includes virtual live meetings with lecturers and guest speakers, in-depth discussions, individual Quest coaching, and peer learning through the DRRS community. Virtual content is programmed to stimulate physical and social interaction in the participants' bio-region through their individual Quests. Longer breaks are planned for the summer holidays.
At the end of the CAS, participants will be asked to submit a self-reflection of their Quest in both text and graphics. This CAS counts towards the MAS ETH in Regenerative Systems.
Tuition language(s)
English
Credits
12 ECTS credits
Target group and admission
Target group
The CAS addresses thought leaders and decision-makers from a variety of fields who want to better deal with complexity and become leaders of transformation and systemic innovation toward resilient regenerative futures.
Requirements
Master's degree acknowledged by ETH or equivalent educational qualifications.
Required language skills
English: C1 (German: C1) – external pageShow proficiency scales
Language(s) of performance assessment
English
Dates and venue
Start
Spring Semester 2024 (May)
Duration
5 months
Application period
11.03–07.04.2024
Location
Hybrid: online plus field trip to Norway
Fees
Programme fee
CHF 8,230
Application fee
CHF 50 for persons with a Swiss university degree, CHF 150 for persons with another university degree (non-refundable, credit card payment only)
Withdrawal fee
- within 30 days after admission: free of charge
- after 30 days after admission: CHF 3000
- after programme start: CHF 8,230
Application
Questions about the application
ETH Zurich, School for Continuing Education, HG E 17–18.5, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich, Tel. external page+41 44 632 56 59, E-mail
Application documents
- Diploma certificate and transcript (of records) of the highest or most relevant degree
- Passport or identity card
- DownloadDeclaration of consent (PDF, 94 KB)
Additional application documents
- Certificate or screenshot of results (for non-verified participants) of successfully finishing MOOC#1 and external pageMOOC#2 (the latter should at least have been started at the time of application).
- Written essay with graphical elements: reflect about your personal QUEST in the context of this study programme
Organiser
Programme management
Contact
ETH Zurich
D-BAUG (Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering)
Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development (IRL)
Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS)
8093
Zurich
Responsible body
ETH Zurich, D-BAUG, Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development (IRL), Chair of Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS)