In our ETHZ teaching, this week we locked horns with the biggest challenge of our online teaching experiments yet – the Mid-Term Review for our Design Studio, Liquid City Rijeka, with guests Pippo Ciorra (Senior Curator, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy), Vedran Mimica (IIT College of Architecture, Chicago), Alessandra Ciancetta (University of Vienna / Cooper Union), Anne Graupner (26’10 South Architects), Gruia Badescu (University of Konstanz), Nela Kadic (TU Wien), and Ina Valkanova of our LUS Doctoral School.

One of our students, Marco Yue, was among thousands of young Swiss military reservists summoned to participate in the Federal campaign to offset the impact of COVID-19 in Switzerland. To our own surprise, this did not prevent his participation in the Mid-Term. To digitally extend the Mid-Term itself into a military barracks was unprecedented, not only benefiting the student, but also bringing into focus questions about where education happens and who a student can be.