Katrin Pakizer on modular, decentralized water technologies and housing co-operatives in Switzerland

Katrin Pakizer is with us on this episode. She is a post-doc researcher at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology where she investigates different pathways that lead to water supply and wastewater regionalization. She is also a research associate at the ZHAW School of Management and Law in Switzerland, specifically at its Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. On this episode we speak about her recently defended PhD Thesis at ETH Zürich, about Modular Decentralized Water Technologies. She works with several case studies, including the Housing Co-operative Equilibre in Geneva. From the latter, she found what she refers as experiments by the people and for the people. In the context of Switzerland, there is a long tradition ...