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New participants and speakers for this 7th edition! Thank you to Dominique Bourg, François Gemmene, Carmen de Jong, Marjolein Visser, Sylvain Ferretti, and Elena Havlicek for joining us, and welcome to Marie-Antoinette Mélières for this adventure. This first session also welcomed the various participants of this Transition Workshop, from diverse backgrounds but all driven by […]

Six years of Design Studio to explore here: over 20 projects, countless hours of reflection, sketches, drawings, and models, and prestigious guests on each jury… This intensive two-week practical workshop, supported by the Canton of Geneva, offers the opportunity to work on a real site within the Geneva region to imagine innovative ecological solutions for […]

Merci à toutes et tous pour votre présence et participation au Séminaire de Genève 2025! Cette année, entre autres interventions autour de la ville et du climat, nous avons pu assister aux présentations publiques des travaux issus du Design Studio de cet été par Matéo Bouton, Luana Ferrari, Chiara Lombardi Dellamonica, Candela de la Macorra […]

Découvrez le site genevois qui recevra l’atelier pratique du Transition Workshop de la prochaine édition: établi sur les deux communes de Plan-les-Ouates et de Lancy, le nouveau quartier de Chapelle–Les Sciers est un ensemble d’immeubles modernes, répondants aux normes écologiques et accueillant de nombreuses familles. Malgré les avantages du calme, de la piétonisation et des […]

Join us on Thursday, November 27th at the Geneva Seminar, an event as part of Geneva’s Climate Week. On the program: discover the work from this summer’s Transition Workshop, presented by the teams from this summer’s Design Studio. With: Sylvain Ferretti (Canton of Geneva), Albane Ferraris (City of Geneva), Reto Camponovo (Hepia), Delphine Ding and […]

Design Studio 2025 concluded last Friday, after a full day of presentations to representatives of the Canton of Geneva and the City of Geneva, as well as a jury composed of architects and city specialists. Congratulations to the teams who approached the Plainpalais-Place des Augustins neighborhood through the lens of resources, lifestyles, and living organisms! […]

We had the honor of welcoming Dominique Bourg, Mathis Wackernagel, Martine Rebetez, Marjolein Visser, Elena Havlicek, Carmen de Jong, Sylvain Ferretti, Pierre Hollmuller, Anthony Lehmann, François Gemenne, Martin Schlaepfer, Michel Meyer, Andrea Gritti, Catherine Maumi, Gregory Giuliani, Tobias Brosch, Vincent Kaufmann, Claudia Binder, Christian Arnsperger, Sonia Lavadinho, Alexandre Hedjazi, Claudia Binder, Peter Droege, Winy Maas, […]

Theory Masterclass participants have begun exploring the streets of the neighborhood they will be working on during the Design Studio next July. Want to join the adventure? Last spots available! Contact us at transitionworkshop@braillard.ch

During the first session, the 16 participants of the 2025 edition were welcomed with a starter kit including, among other useful tools for note-taking, a thermometer. Why? More info in the second session where we will go to explore the terrain in preparation for the Design Studio!

Do you want to follow the full course? Send us your file. Do you prefer to follow the courses à la carte? Go to the Theory Masterclass program! More informations about this year here!

See you on November 20 for the presentation of the projects from this summer’s Design Studio. Free entrance. More information and Registration below: Book here

The first Info Session, preceding the application deadline for the 2026 edition, will take place in September! Register for our meeting on Tuesday, September 16, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., to learn more about the Transition Workshop 2026 program and team. Come ask your questions! Register

The practical part of the Transition Workshop ended after two weeks of visits, meetings and intense work. The four multidisciplinary teams have in fact proposed ecological transition scenarios for a city in Greater Geneva: the 4° city requires us to think of it now as a mosaic of bioclimatic refuges. Let’s imagine Versoix if: Water […]

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 

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 […]

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 […]

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).

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.

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