I’m a researcher, curator and writer specializing in the intersections of art, architecture, urbanism, and landscape. I’m interested in the intricacies and poetics of everyday environments, socially engaged practices of urban and architectural design, and ways of increasing our ecological awareness beyond technology-based solutions.
Through teaching (ETH Zurich) and curating (Kunstmuseum Basel, Istituto Svizzero di Roma), I have sought to disrupt established ways of seeing and experiencing: both through playfully unpacking archives and collections, and through bodily engagement with urban spaces using strategies of walking and mapping.
I received my formal education at the University of Basel (MA in Art History and Philosophy) and the ETH Zurich (PhD in Architecture). Informally, however, I have been educated by interacting with students, artists, and urban activists, and by listening to and examining the seemingly banal.
This blog is both a personal archive of my projects and a materialization of my observations of ordinary and artistic, designed and incidental phenomena in (mostly) outdoor spaces.
Patrick Düblin 