ROREP SwissLAB
- SwissLAB is an initiative by ROREP to connect early career researchers, including PhD students and master students, working on spatial development issues with reference to Switzerland.
- SwissLAB provides an opportunity for early career researchers to network with senior researchers at a two-day event.
- SwissLAB builds bridges between theory and praxis, between disciplines, between all parts of Switzerland and with neighbouring regions.
- SwissLAB is interested in the future of Swiss municipalities, cities and regions.
- SwissLab takes place at different locations to pick up current and regionally specific issues of spatial development in Switzerland.
- SwissLAB discusses challenges in practice, theoretical and conceptual issues, and involves on-going work of the participants.
- SwissLAB includes LECTURES, SITE VISITS, WORKSHOPS and a FORUM to present current research on spatial development in Switzerland.
ROREP SwissLAB_2023
ROREP SwissLAB_2023 on the topic "For a scale up policy.
How can we use regional and local initiatives to create sustainable
transition on a largr scale?" will take place at Reka-Feriendorf
Blatten – Belalp on 28-29 June 2023.
ROREP SwissLAB Passés
ROREP SwissLAB_2021
ROREP SwissLAB_2021 on the topic "The making of city regions. Mobility, innovation and networks" will take place in Lugano on 9-10 September 2021.
Regional development in Switzerland between 1950 and 1980 has mostly focused on rural and mountain areas. Despite these political efforts, urban centres have developed at much faster pace. As a result, deep imbalances between urban centres and the rural periphery have affected the optimisation of existing endogenous resources and the overall innovation, competitiveness and entrepreneurial rates across many regions. From 1990 onward, Switzerland has experienced a real change in the political economic context, which has pushed the country towards a globalized world. Nevertheless, these imbalances are still present between urban centres and the periphery.
Within this context, the concept of the “city-region” which has been traditionally well represented in the scholarly debate, has been gathering momentum in recent years. As a matter of fact, city-regions represent one of the most advanced and sophisticated stages of urban development. The combination of an urban core or cores, associated to semi-urban as was well as the rural hinterland through functional ties, are considered as efficient developmental strategies. These strategies are geared to respond to the exigencies of an interconnected and globalized world.
In the Swisslab_2021 the accent is posed on examining –comparatively how a city-region is being made in order to respond to current economic, social, political and cultural challenges. The Canton Ticino represents a relevant case-study where the concept Città Ticino (Ticino City) has been coined to define this new reality. The Monte Ceneri Base Tunnel, inaugurated in September 2020, offers a new mobility concept for the canton. By halving the travel time between the three main urban centres - Bellinzona, Locarno and Lugano - the birth of the City-Ticino will become a reality. Such revolutionary paradigm will pave the way for improving existing networks and opening new ones; it will enhance the cantonal economy by placing it closer to important economic and financial hubs at both national and international levels.
Day 1: Thursday 9.09.2021 - Lugano: SUPSI -SUGLIO BUSINESS CENTER
ROREP SwissLAB_2019
ROREP SwissLAB_2019 sur "La numérisation dans l'aménagement du territoire et le développement régional" a eu lieu du 5 au 7 septembre 2019 à Rapperswil.
La numérisation bouleverse ce qui nous est familier et a un impact spatial évident.
Ces changements sont discutés au ROREP SwissLAB_2019. En outre, les chaînes de création de valeur modifiées pour la numérisation sont "exploitées" et leurs impacts spatiaux - à l'exemple de l'agglomération d'Obersee - sont analysés. A cette fin, des experts des administrations et des entreprises utiliseront des contributions informatives pour en souligner les effets. Ensemble, ils discutent ensuite des solutions possibles et de leur propre travail.
Jour 1: 5.9.2019, à partir de 13 heures
Accès à la numérisation et à l'espace
Création de valeur dans la région
ROREP SwissLAB_2021 on the topic "The making of city regions. Mobility, innovation and networks" will take place in Lugano on 9-10 September 2021.
Regional development in Switzerland between 1950 and 1980 has mostly focused on rural and mountain areas. Despite these political efforts, urban centres have developed at much faster pace. As a result, deep imbalances between urban centres and the rural periphery have affected the optimisation of existing endogenous resources and the overall innovation, competitiveness and entrepreneurial rates across many regions. From 1990 onward, Switzerland has experienced a real change in the political economic context, which has pushed the country towards a globalized world. Nevertheless, these imbalances are still present between urban centres and the periphery.
Within this context, the concept of the “city-region” which has been traditionally well represented in the scholarly debate, has been gathering momentum in recent years. As a matter of fact, city-regions represent one of the most advanced and sophisticated stages of urban development. The combination of an urban core or cores, associated to semi-urban as was well as the rural hinterland through functional ties, are considered as efficient developmental strategies. These strategies are geared to respond to the exigencies of an interconnected and globalized world.
In the Swisslab_2021 the accent is posed on examining –comparatively how a city-region is being made in order to respond to current economic, social, political and cultural challenges. The Canton Ticino represents a relevant case-study where the concept Città Ticino (Ticino City) has been coined to define this new reality. The Monte Ceneri Base Tunnel, inaugurated in September 2020, offers a new mobility concept for the canton. By halving the travel time between the three main urban centres - Bellinzona, Locarno and Lugano - the birth of the City-Ticino will become a reality. Such revolutionary paradigm will pave the way for improving existing networks and opening new ones; it will enhance the cantonal economy by placing it closer to important economic and financial hubs at both national and international levels.
Day 1: Thursday 9.09.2021 - Lugano: SUPSI -SUGLIO BUSINESS CENTER
- 11:00 - 12:00 Welcome and Keynote speaker
- Mr. Francesco Quattrini, Head Regio Insubrica and Cantonal Delegate for Foreign Relations. Welcome speech.
- Dr. Igor Calzada, University of Oxford and University of
Cardiff- Keynote speaker: “Smart city-regions’ citizenship: Data
devolution inpandemic times”.
- 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch - Restaurant Suglio Business Center
- 13:30 -16:00 Research Workshop
- 13:30 - 14:00 Dr. Aurelio Vigani, Project Leader ARE:“Monitoraggio dell’Asse del San Gottardo - Fase B: Risultati intermedi degli effetti del tunnel di base del Gottardo su traffico e sullo sviluppo territoriale”.
- 14:00 - 14:30 Mr. Lorenzo Ambrossini, Technopark Ticino, Head Innovation Park Ticino:“Switzerland Innovation Park Ticino: Impact on Ticino city”
- 14:30 - 16:00 Papers, presentations and discussion
- 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
- 16:30 - 17:45 Roundtable the “Making of City Regions”
- Mr. Lorenzo Ambrosini, Head Innovation Park Ticino
- Mr. Stefano Ardò. Regional Manager SBB/FSS
- Arch. Prof. Michele Arnaboldi. Faculty of Architecture. USI
- Prof. Dr. Gian Paolo Torricelli. Head Regional Development Observatory, USI
- Dr. Aurelio Vigani, Project Leader ARE
- Mr. Siegfried Alberton- Moderator. Regiosuisse and IUFFP
- 19:00 Dinner - Lugano city centre
- 9:30 - 12:15 Design Sprint. In this design sprint, all participants will work in groups imagining and designing a city region. Experts from different extractions are going to be present (Agencies of Regional Development, scholars, architects andurban planners).
- 12:30 Lunch - SUPSI DFA
- 13:00 Final results, wrap up and farewell
- 15:00 Departure
ROREP SwissLAB_2019
ROREP SwissLAB_2019 sur "La numérisation dans l'aménagement du territoire et le développement régional" a eu lieu du 5 au 7 septembre 2019 à Rapperswil.
La numérisation bouleverse ce qui nous est familier et a un impact spatial évident.
Ces changements sont discutés au ROREP SwissLAB_2019. En outre, les chaînes de création de valeur modifiées pour la numérisation sont "exploitées" et leurs impacts spatiaux - à l'exemple de l'agglomération d'Obersee - sont analysés. A cette fin, des experts des administrations et des entreprises utiliseront des contributions informatives pour en souligner les effets. Ensemble, ils discutent ensuite des solutions possibles et de leur propre travail.
Jour 1: 5.9.2019, à partir de 13 heures
Accès à la numérisation et à l'espace
- 13h00 Arrivée avec café
- 13h30 Mot de bienvenue et présentation
- 14h00 Conférences sur le pouls
- Mégatendances et aménagement du territoire, Hans-Georg Bächtold, Rat für Raumordnung (ROR)
- Effets spatiaux de la numérisation, Dirk Engelke, HSR
- Numérisation et développement spatial, Yves Maurer, ARE
- Conclusions sur la numérisation dans le PNR, Jacqueline Hofer, SECO
- 16h00 pause
- 16h30 Discussion sur les lacunes stratégiques en matière d'aménagement du territoire et de développement régional
- 18h00 DIGINIGHT : DigitalLab et Centre de Recherche du HSR
- suivi de l'apéro riche au Centre de Recherche
Création de valeur dans la région