ZHdK digital

Now On

Digitality is a dynamic task to which we devote ourselves continuously and in ever new constellations and formats. More news about digitality at ZHdK can be also found in the #digital newsletter.

- Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH)
  Eight new projects to boost visibility and networking
- Two successful ZHdK projects on the fifth DIZH Project Call
- Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH)
  Two successful ZHdK projects on the DIZH Founder Call
- Survey
  “AI at ZHdK”: Three data stories | 180 voices

Digital Council

Since 2018, ZHdK has had an interdisciplinary expert body, the Digital Council, which provides strategic advice to the university management on digital topics and promotes exchange among university members on digital issues. The Digital Council team supports the committee in the areas of communication and knowledge transfer, as well as with the implementation of programmes.

Focal topics

In its strategic work, the Digital Council focuses on specific current topics. Its latest work also features in the report Fokus Digitalisierung (in German) in ZHdK's Annual Report 2024.

Archive Topics

ZHdK+Futures Thinking (2022–2023)
What might possible futures of digital learning and creative work at ZHdK look like? For the annual theme "ZHdK+Futures Thinking", a working group looked at various methods and tools which can be used to make possible futures palpable and communicable. Practical insights and suggestions for futures thinking can be found in the corresponding booklet (in German).

→ Atelier Futures 2
→ Atelier Futures
→ EUA-ELIA Webinar "Beyond ChatGPT"
→ AI-Scounting
→ Futures Flipboard
→ ViVisions (with ZHdK login); documentation: ViVisions Tagblatt (PDF; in German)

Futures Thinking will be continued as one of the key themes of the programme Digital Skills & Spaces.
Digital Reports + Fictions (2020–2022)
The project Digital Reports + Fictions provided a framework for discussion and exchange on various aspects of digital working, learning and teaching in order to use the insights from the Corona crisis to consciously shape the digital transformation at ZHdK.

→ Digital working at ZHdK
→ Home-X | TransformaTONI
→ Structures, innovations, dynamics
→ Social, informal & personal
→ Digital didactics
→ Hybrid events | Digital displays
«Do you speak Digital?» (2020–2022)
In the campaign «Do you speak Digital?», the artist Kati Rickenbach shows the human and humorous side of the digital world at an arts university. Each of the short comic strips explains a phrase of «digital speak».

→ Home-X
→ Digital Art Education
→ Distant Creative & Collaborative Practices
→ Rules in art
→ Online Mentoring
→ Digital Excursion
→ Breakout Session
→ Hybrid Teaching

Programmes

Programmes are means to implement the goals of ZHdK's strategy in the area of digitalization.

Network

ZHdK's digital expertise thrives on the exchange with various national and international organisations.

Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH)
The Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) joins the four higher education institutions of the Canton of Zurich over a period of ten years in order to devolop the digital aspects of Zurich as a higher education location and to support cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional projects in research, innovation and education. Via various projects, centres and initiatives, ZHdK is involved in all three areas of the DIZH.

→ ZHdK activities within the DIZH framework
→ DIZH website
digitalswitzerland
digitalswitzerland is a Swiss-wide, cross-industry initiative that aims to strengthen and anchor Switzerland as a leading global location for digital innovation. ZHdK has been a member of digitalswitzerland since 2016 and has been represented at the Swiss Digital Days organised by digitalswitzerland since their launch in 2017.
European University Association (EUA)
The European University Association (EUA) represents more than 850 universities and national rectors’ conferences in 49 European countries and provides members with unique opportunities to shape European policies and initiatives affecting higher education and research. Dr Susanne Schumacher, Co-Chair of the Digital Council, has been Chair of the Digital Transformation Steering Committee since 2022.
ELIA
ELIA is a globally connected European network that provides a dynamic platform for professional exchange and development in higher arts education, thus advocating strategically for higher arts education.
Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (HFD)
The Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (German Forum for Higher Education in the Digital Age) is a nationwide think-&-do tank which brings together a broad community around digitalization in learning and teaching, makes new developments visible and tests innovative solutions. The Digital Council at ZHdK is working together with the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, particularly in the context of the current annual theme ZHdK+Futures Thinking.