The Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE) is an international centre of excellence dedicated to research, teaching, incubation and consultancy in the field of the creative economies. The ZCCE researches and analyzes the topics «Cultural Policies», «Art & Design Careers», «Digitalization», «Smart Cities», «Entrepreneurial Strategies» and «Criticism & Theory». Central… Read More »Current data on Creative Economies
Making has infinitely many faces, which were also evident in the program of the symposium “Making&more: shaping learning together”. Digitization and the associated changes in the world of work require versatile competencies: from digital design and the acquisition of a flexible and informatic mindset to an affinity for tools and… Read More »Symposium “Making&more: shaping learning together”.
Beneath the surface of the global tech industry The exhibition Kamituga | Digital Gold which was originally created for the exhibition Planet Digital at the Museum für Gestaltung (February to June 2022) will be showcased in an adapted version during the Festival Zurich meets Berlin. From November 3rd to 7th 2022 projects from ETH, University… Read More »Kamituga | Digital Gold @ Zurich meets Berlin
What might an arts university look like in 2035? What is futures thinking? The ZHdK Digital Council provides insights into its 2022 thematic focus, with which it is already working on the visions of tomorrow. Futures thinking takes shape at ZHdK. Illustration: Kati Rickenbach SYLVIA BATTEGAY___ The year is 2035… Read More »Thinking into the future
Making visible the findings and results of interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange between science and practice: that was the aim of the event held on September 20, 2022. Within the framework of DIZH, a sustainable culture of cooperation between disciplines and universities is to be established. Zurich’s universities are already benefiting… Read More »DIZH: dialogue & disruption
The Swiss Science Prize Latsis 2022 goes to DSI professor Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger for her outstanding interdisciplinary research in the fields of law, medicine and technology. Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger holds a doctorate in both law and medicine. The topics she deals with are of considerable relevance to science and society, such as… Read More »Kerstin Vokinger receives Science Prize Latsis
The call promotes projects in which solutions to relevant practical questions and current societal challenges are developed. This explicitly includes the possibility of working on novel, risky questions for which the path to implementation or the measurement of the impact is fraught with uncertainty. We are looking for projects that… Read More »New call in the innovation program: Call for project proposals
How does technology become identity and what does digital presence have to do with courage and learning cultures? As Charlotte Axelsson puts it at digitalswitzerland: “Digitality is in a transformation itself, to be digital is no longer a separate world, it becomes a part of our DNA: especially in the… Read More »LeLa Learning Lab Higher Education Didactics for Digital Skills
DSI hosted a European hub for a conference held in Australia in mid-June. In the video, organizer and DSI postdoc Mario Angst talks about his experience with this new format and how it helps reduce researchers’ individual CO2 emissions.
Dmytro Boyarchuk and Christopher Hartwell are working together on the project Economic priorities in post-war Ukraine, funded by the Rapid Action Call. The Chicago Tribune published a commentary by the two explaining why now is the right time to talk about reconstruction and what areas the plan for Ukraine must… Read More »A Ukrainian postwar recovery plan needs specifics now. A commentary by Dmytro Boyarchuk and Christopher Hartwell in the Chicago Tribune.