Applications for Transition Workshop 2025 open soon

We will shortly be announcing the opening of applications for the next Transition Workshop. If you’d like to be informed of the dates of the Theory Masterclass and the new Design Studio website as soon as they are launched, sign up below: Receive information about the Transition Workshop Email Address
Summary of the 2nd session

If the (de)carbonization of cities and territories has its metrics and costs, what about their resilience in the face of climate change? Following on from last February’s introduction to the challenges of ecological transition, the second session of the TransitionWorkshop 2024 offered participants a cross-section of views on the parameters and dimensions of the issue […]
7th Bernardo Secchi Day | Call for Contributions

Call for contributions for the next Bernardo Secchi Day.
The first session of the Theory Masterclass is over!

A quick look back at the first 3-day session, during which we welcomed Dominique Bourg, Carmen de Jong, Sylvain Ferretti, Marjolein Visser and Mathis Wackernagel, as well as Martine Rebetez for her first conference in the Transition Workshop, in front of the fifteen highly motivated participants of the Transition Workshop 2024. The last day was […]
Awakening the ecological potential of brownfield sites | Transition Seeds 2024

2nd Transition Seeds 2024 lecture.
The Salève, Carouge’s own mountain?!

Exhibition at the Musée de Carouge on the relationship between the Salève and the former Sardinian town.
Producing at the Limits of Growth | Transition Seeds 2024

2nd lecture in our series on diploma projects related to the ecological transition of cities.
Composing from the soil of cities | Transition Seeds 2024

Composing from city soil The ground with its subsoil is not an inert base for our constructions. On the contrary, it is alive and interacts as much with the atmosphere as with the “parental material” of the Earth. Recognized in its substance and in the static, biological and ecological risks that its incorrect use can […]
Geneva 2024 debate | Building together the resilient Geneva of the future

Next Geneva Debate, with the Antonio HODGERS (DT, Geneva) and the experts of the Transition Workshop
Transition Seeds 2024

Dates and themes of the 2024 lecture series
About architecture

Exhibition
Guided tours of the Salève Cable Car

Next tours: Saturday 28 October
Transition Workshop 2024: Info Sessions

Come and ask your questions about the Transition Workshop!
Geneva Seminar 2023

Presentation of the results of the Transition Workshop 2023 and debate
Transition Workshop: applications open

Information and program on the Transition Workshop
Transition Seeds 2023 – The Videos

Watch or rewatch the Transition Seeds 2023 lectures.
Call for applications open for the Transition Workshop 2024!

Find out the dates of the 4 sessions of the Theory Masterclass, the practical part of the Transition Workshop for the coming year, and send us your application! (The proposed courses and professors may be subject to change).
European ecological densities | Geneva Debate 2023

Geneva Debate 2023: round table on ecological densities
Transition Seeds 2024 | Call for projects

Architectural, urban and landscape projects for the design of the ecological transition. Participate in the Fondation Braillard Architectes’ call for diploma works and first professional experiences! The Transition Seeds lecture series is back for the fourth consecutive year: the Fondation Braillard Architectes is launching its annual call for diploma works and first professional experiences […]
Exhibition “Le Téléphérique”

“Téléphérique” Exhibition and sound installations From 11 May to 19 August 2023 Opening on 11 May 2023 at 6.30pm Ecomusée de l’API 25 rue du Vuache, 1201 Geneva + info Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, 10am–6pm or by appointment The Braillard Architects Foundation is associated with this exhibition, which approaches the cable car from a […]
Carbon quantification measures architecture | Transition Seeds 2023

Final lecture of the Transition Seeds 2023 series.
Flexibility Strengthens the Project | Transition Seeds 2023

4th lecture in the Transition Seeds 2023 lecture series
Vulnerability motivates invention | Transition Seeds 2023

3rd lecture in the Transition Seeds 2023 series.
Pole position for the Theory Masterclass!

While waiting, here is some bibliography on the subject of ecological transition. On our side, we’ll do our best to welcome you, whether remotely or in person at the Foundation! Registration for the Theory Masterclass remains open, and courses are also available à-la-carte.
History Repairs the Territory | Transition Seeds 2023

Next Transition Seeds lecture
Agriculture replenishes the city | Transition seeds 2023

Join us for the first Transition Seeds lecture of the year!
Transition Workshop | the movie

Watch the film made at this year’s TW and meet the speakers, tutors and participants of this extraordinary project.
Transition Workshop 2023

Registration for the Transition Workshop 2023 is now open!
Transition Seeds 2023

Programme of the 3rd edition of our Transition Seeds lecture series
Geneva Seminar 2022

Watch again the seminar day devoted to Transition Workshop 22, territories in transition and the FBA’s anniversary.