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For the past six years, the Transition Workshop, through its Design Studio module, has offered an intensive two-week workshop focused on a neighborhood in transition, in collaboration with the Geneva Urban Planning Office. Several multidisciplinary teams, composed of TW participants (architects, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers, geographers, etc.), develop development scenarios through the lens of ecological transition.
The originality and added value of the Design Studio lie in its unique method of integrating theory and practice. Based on the team’s experience in providing scientific guidance for international consultations (Greater Geneva Consultation, Luxembourg in Transition), this dual and transdisciplinary approach has enabled over one hundred participants to specialize in the ecological transition of cities and territories since 2020.
Below are the thematic sites for each edition of the Transition Workshop.
2025 | ECOLOGICAL DENSITIES III, LIFE IN THE CITY
Easing tensions at the southern tip of Plainpalais – Place des Augustins
Canton of Geneva | City of Geneva
Once on the edge of Geneva’s old city, and now one of its most popular neighborhoods, the southern part of the former municipality of Plainpalais is a mosaic of shapes, eras, colors, and flavors. Dense and centrally located, it must contend with both road traffic and urban heat islands – its main thoroughfare is currently being transformed into a green walkway. How can we create a more peaceful urban environment?
Lifestyle Team – Marcel(x)’s Journal: Chronicle of an Urban Renaissance
What if we unlocked these abandoned garages? Let’s create discreet passageways, from the street to our hidden courtyards, to invent a neighborhood life.
Lucien Barras
Chiara Lombardi Dellamonica
Candela de la Macorra Rebollo
Valentine Forestier
Team The Living – The Water of Life
Designing the flow of rainwater and sculpting the neighborhood into welcoming habitats for different forms of life.
Luc Meinrad
Nadia Strittmatter
Georgia Vlassi
Christina Doumpioti
Resources Team – Fertile Intensities: From Constraint to Resource
Densifying through climate and defining a new urban landscape based on production from cyclical, free, and non-extractable natural resources: water, sun, and wind. Rooftops are transformed into spaces for multiple forms of production, generating energy, food, and economic activity, as well as fostering community.
Luana Ferrari
G’Juliemm Kouamé
Matéo Bouton
The Braillard Architects Foundation was created in Geneva in 1987 to house the archives of the architects Maurice, Pierre and Charles Braillard and to support quality architecture and urbanism. Since 2015, the Foundation has been pursuing its research-and-culture program The Eco-Century Project®, under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Program. Within it, we develop the intensive and innovative Transition Workshop™.
Panos MANTZIARAS
Director
Kim RAMSEIER
Secretary-accountant
Diane HENNY
Public Relations
Héléne GALLEZOT
Executive Assistant
Mélodie SIMON
Communication Manager
Gwenaëlle ZUNINO
Project Manager
Our partners
The Transition Workshop 2023 is realized within the framework of the multi-year research and cultural program The Eco-Century Project® of the Braillard Architects Foundation, under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Program, with the partnership of: Canton of Geneva, Federation of Swiss Architects (FAS), Swiss Federation of Urban Planners (FSU), Patrimoine Suisse Genève and Rentes genevoises This programme examines the relationship between spatial planning disciplines and planetary resources.
