Learn from experiments and experience, explore (un)finished symphonies and accidental discoveries. Dive into interdisciplinary education, interactive storytelling, curriculum development, skills enhancement, learning spaces and styles, the collision between arts, science, society and our environment. Listen, share and participate.

• Uriel Orlow: Learning with Plants / Guido Tattoni: Hybrid Town
• Christine Bohler: Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
• Richard Weihe: Artists as Agents of Change in Society / Alexandru Berceanu: Transversal Competences in Art Teaching
• Adnan Hadzi: Immersive Lab (Part 1) / Janis Gailitis: EU4ART Alliance for Common Fine Arts Curriculum

The best way to learn, connect and bond with new collaborators is to share creative experiences. If you are more “do” than “watch”, like to veer towards the edge of your comfort zone, sign up to one of our live participatory sessions.

• Jonathan Kearney: Shared Language 
• Margarite Smit: The Face of Poverty
• Florian Dombois: Images of Air and Light. A Transdisciplinary Encounter

The focus of this virtual visit will be on:

Digitalisation, commoning & future careers

What is the role and meaning of transdisciplinarity in the context of the ubiquitous digitalisiation and what can transdisciplinarity contribute to the future careers? The tour looks specifically at two initiatives that are connected to ZHdK: Dezentrum and Z-Kubator. Dezentrum is the “think tank for future experiments”, co-founded by alumni of ZHdK. By researching, experimenting and creating, Dezentrum opens up a variety of perspectives on the topics of decentralisation, the future of work, digital participation, and an automated society tangible for a broad audience, thereby including it in shaping the future. The Z-Kubator promotes, as part of the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE), the development of independent artists, cultural producers and designers at the ZHdK by mixing aesthetic ideas with entrepreneurial practice. 

Without doubt, the global crisis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic will affect every dimension of our lives in the coming years. As with other institutions, those involved in higher arts education will face changing paradigms across a number of topics: internationalisation (travel restrictions), priorities in health policy, economic and political values and practices, communication, and the art world itself. Three internationally renowned thought leaders imagine the future post COVID-19, what this might mean and what opportunities it could offer, in particular for artists and the arts in higher education.

This year, teachers are invited to bring students into interactive dialogues about transdisciplinarity. Collaborating with art schools from across the globe, a virtual think-tank will forge connections and generate fresh, collaborative thinking about the future of higher arts education.

• Ian Biscoe: Digital Networked Arts
• Sara Burkhardt: materialXchange
• Michelle Teran: Trans-European Mobile Academy (TEMA)

Learn from experiments and experience, explore (un)finished symphonies and accidental discoveries. Dive into interdisciplinary education, interactive storytelling, curriculum development, skills enhancement, learning spaces and styles, the collision between arts, science, society and our environment. Listen, share and participate.

• Qing Sheng Ang: Pedagogical Strategies in the Production of the New / Pawel Pokutycki: The Art of Expanding
• Lenette Lua, Sara Wu: Fungi Initiative / Nirmalie Alexandra Mulloli: Portfolio Showroom
• John Wigley: Student Collaboration in the Hidden City (Part 1) / Gianna Tomasso: Creative Collaboration and Transdisciplinarity 

The best way to learn, connect and bond with new collaborators is to share creative experiences. If you are more “do” than “watch”, like to veer towards the edge of your comfort zone, sign up to one of our live participatory sessions.

• Wiktoria Furrer: Urgent Classroom: Art Education in Times of Wasteocene
• Silke Lange: Creating Transdisciplinary Stories
• John Wigley (Part 2): Dérive in the Hidden City

The best way to learn, connect and bond with new collaborators is to share creative experiences. If you are more “do” than “watch”, like to veer towards the edge of your comfort zone, sign up to one of our live participatory sessions.

• Gertrud Fischbacher: Idiosynkrasia - The Nexus of Textile and Sound
• Andreas Liebmann: Independent art spaces as fragile metadisciplinary artwork
• Electa Behrens: Sit With Me

The focus of this virtual visit will be on:

Transdisciplinarity within and beyond the arts

Get to know Collegium Helveticum, a center for transdisciplinarity run by the University of Zurich, the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and the ZHdK, where the arts and the sciences intertwine. Within the framework of the various fellowship and doctorate programs we will introduce you to a research and exhibition project on digital infrastructures led by artist and ZHdK lecturer Prof. Hannes Rickli and Prof. Dr. Monika Dommann, professor for history at the University of Zurich.

And get acquainted with the artist-in-labs-programme of ZHdK, which has been facilitating artistic research by way of long-term residencies for artists in scientific laboratories since 2003. Irène Hediger, director of the artist-in-labs-program of ZHdK will portray and evaluate her experiences centred around the cooperations between artists and scientists of all disciplines, in Switzerland and around the world. These long-term interdisciplinary and cross-border collaborations provide artists with an opportunity to critically engage with the sciences and their experimental and aesthetic dimensions.

This year, teachers are invited to bring students into interactive dialogues about transdisciplinarity. Collaborating with art schools from across the globe, a virtual think-tank will forge connections and generate fresh, collaborative thinking about the future of higher arts education.

• Clyde Doyle: Using Design Charrettes to Foster International Cross-Institute Interdisciplinary Practice and Collaboration (full day)
• Simone Fehlinger: Text Battle
• Celia Quico: ReThink Before Act

Learn from experiments and experience, explore (un)finished symphonies and accidental discoveries. Dive into interdisciplinary education, interactive storytelling, curriculum development, skills enhancement, learning spaces and styles, the collision between arts, science, society and our environment. Listen, share and participate.

• Úna Henry: Be the Future of Something Else / Norbert Palz: Design & Computation
• Hanna Husberg: Towards Atmospheric Care / Patricia de Kort: Meet P. Putida
• Zaki Razak: Blangah Travels presents: A 1-day Special Trip, from the Taste of Southeast Asia to the Mysterious Global Pot of Soup
• Matthias Ziegler: Disembodied Routine / Chungyean Cho: Creative Convergence Education with Randomness and Chance
  

This year, teachers are invited to bring students into interactive dialogues about transdisciplinarity. Collaborating with art schools from across the globe, a virtual think-tank will forge connections and generate fresh, collaborative thinking about the future of higher arts education. 

• Patrick Müller: Boundary Work: Exploring Transdisciplinary Education Combining Arts and Sciences
• Lies Colman: Parnassus - Collaboratively Shaping Interdisciplinary Creations
• Michelle Teran: Trans-European Mobile Academy (TEMA)
  

The best way to learn, connect and bond with new collaborators is to share creative experiences. If you are more “do” than “watch”, like to veer towards the edge of your comfort zone, sign up to one of our live participatory sessions.

• Edit Kaldor: What can Happen Here?
• Kerry Gough: Rethinking the Future of Art & Design Pedagogic Practice
• Bob Verheijden: Try Out
  

The focus of this virtual visit will be on:

Inclusion

During this virtual visit, you will explore how design and arts are interfering in social, interdisciplinary and intercultural settings. “Hic et nunc” was developed at ZHdK’s design department and has established a collaboration with the theatre department (Theatre Education). Together they devise interdisciplinary teaching formats and new approaches to everyday questions in a center for recently arrived refugees in Zurich, and “Power to the people”; an initiative of a ZHdK student who is herself a refugee, proposes city tours from refugees for residents of Zurich as a new tool for empowering a marginalised minority of society. Discover how unexpected alternative experiences can develop into a discursive tool for exchange, education, empowerment and inclusion.

Learn from experiments and experience, explore (un)finished symphonies and accidental discoveries. Dive into interdisciplinary education, interactive storytelling, curriculum development, skills enhancement, learning spaces and styles, the collision between arts, science, society and our environment. Listen, share and participate.

• Isis Fahmy, Benoît Renaudin, Laura Couto Rosado: How to create a performative object? / Dieuwke Boersma: Symzoegraphy
• Bori Feher: Resilient Communities
• Adnan Hadzi: Immersive Lab (Part 2: VR experience) / Nadja Lipsyc, Fredrik Gråver: Lone Wolves Stick Together
• Peter McAllister: Virtual Reality, Competence, and Innovation / Marcin Wichrowski: Teaching Interactive Storytelling in Practice