About: Tobias Luthe (PhD) is an academic transdisciplinary hybrid. He was originally trained as MSc Forest Scientist, with majors in environmental economics, wood technology and passive house design, and holds a 2^nd master’s in education on sustainability. His PhD is in social-ecological resilience of mountain systems. At ETH Zurich, Tobias is director of the learning program “Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems”, containing a global free-access massive open online course series and an executive Master of Advanced Studies in Regenerative Systems degree. He leads the ETH Systemic Design Labs group, which offers the DRRS program. Tobias is the founding director of the MonViso Institute in the Italian Alps, a living systems lab which functions as a real-world mountain laboratory for sustainability transitions and regenerative design and a bioregional weaving hub. At MVI, Tobias designed and built the passive net-positive “regenerator” house Il Doppio.

Tobias has been an Associate Professor for Systemic Design at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway, and co-founded Grown, a design-as-nature lab and experience collective, winning industry awards for bio-composites, such as inventing the first hemp bio-composite skis. Tobias is a mountaineering guide and photographer and leads the Mountain Resilience Group at the Mountain Research Initiative, hosted at the University of Berne. www.tobiasluthe.net

Register for Tobias’ session on February 6, 2025 from 10AM to 11AM ET.