MAS ETH in Regenerative Systems
This description is only available in English.
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Spring and Autumn Semester
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Min. 2 years
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ETH Zurich, online, field trips
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EnglishTuition language
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01–28.02.2025
01-30.06.2025Application period
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CHF 32,690
Programme fee
In brief: The MAS ETH in Regenerative Systems
A holistic learning journey relating science, engineering, design, art, inner development and embodied practices with place-specific hands-on engagement for planetary health.
Structure and content
Programme description
How do I participate in designing for planetary health? How do I enact uncertainty? How can I build personal resilience while guiding others through nested crises? How do we balance the desire for control with the need for adaptability in our own practices?
The programme equips professionals to navigate tomorrow’s complexity of accelerating nested crises, to guide society toward regeneration between technology, real-world practice, AI, cultures, place specificity, and personal resilience.
Objectives
Alumni embody holistic skills to relate science, engineering, design, art, embodied practices, and inner processes to real-world challenges, being empowered to navigate complexity and build inner and outer resilience. They acquire a mature, applicable understanding of regeneration, become critical systems thinkers and systemic designers, and hold the inner tools to design for regeneration. The MAS thesis contextualises the graduate’s professional goals and experiences.
Professional perspectives
Graduates are capable to guide and lead transformation processes in complex systems that are resilient and regenerative, toward resilience and regeneration – across disciplines, cultures, geographies, and governance scales. Scientific, technical, designerly, artistic, practical skills and inner processes are learnt to synergise in relation intervene in real-word challenges. The personal Quest and the global and regional network of the programme create ample new (job) opportunities.
Structure and format
This MAS comprises four MOOCs, three CAS, electives, and the MAS module. It is taught in a hybrid format with virtual live conversations, personal Quest mentoring, four field design trips to Living Systems Labs in different countries, public Quest-pitching and visual dialogue practices.
Additional information
This MAS is part of the DRRS programme, co-offered by ETH Systemic Design Labs and MonViso Institute. The MAS comprises three Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS): CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Sustainability to Regeneration, CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Sustainability to Regeneration and CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Systemic Design. Precondition is the cost-free virtual MOOC series, providing the shared theory and language base. The hybrid programme consists of a mainly virtual course with live conversations, exercises and mentoring, and intensive, in-person field design trips, one in each CAS and the MAS module to partnering Living Systems Labs, participating in bioregional regeneration. The personal Quest design project becomes the MAS thesis.
Tuition language(s)
English
Credits
60 ECTS credits
Target group and admission
Target group
This holistic MAS is for any target group and benefits from diverse disciplines, professions, and cultures: engineers, architects, politicians, tech consultants, tourism managers, artists, educators, and more.
Requirements
Master's degree acknowledged by ETH or equivalent educational qualifications. CV showing professional experiences and a personal design project (Quest) research outline application. The DRRS MOOC series should have been started prior to applying.
Required language skills
English: C1 (German: C1) – external page Show proficiency scales
Language(s) of performance assessment
English
Dates and venue
Start
Every Spring and Autumn Semester
Duration
Min. 2 years
Application period
01–28.02.2025 for Spring Semester 2025 (admission after the application deadline)
01–30.06.2025 for Autumn Semester 2025 (admission after the application deadline)
Location
ETH Zurich, online, field design trips
Fees
Programme fee
CHF 32,690
Some personal extra costs for the field design trips occur.
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 the admission date: free of charge
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
- Download Declaration of consent (PDF, 94 KB)
Additional application documents
- CV showing education, personal interests, and professional experiences.
- A personal design project (Quest) research outline application including graphic elements (about 10’000 characters incl. spaces).
- The DRRS MOOC series should have been started prior to applying.
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)