ZHdK digital
At ZHdK, we consciously design a culture of digitality, creatively and critically.
Now On
Digitality is a dynamic task to which we devote ourselves continuously and in ever new constellations and formats.
Digital Council
From 2018 till 2026, ZHdK had an interdisciplinary expert body, the Digital Council, which provided strategic advice to the university management on digital topics and promoted exchange among university members on digital issues. The current Digital Council Team, chaired by Susanne Schumacher, implements strategic measures and manages the corresponding programmes and projects.
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Focal topics
The Digital Council's strategic work always focused on a specific current topic. ZHdK's Annual Report 2024 highlights the Digital Council's activities in the report Fokus Digitalisierung (in German).
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 websitedigitalswitzerland
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.
Newsletter
The ZHdK #digital newsletter was published from 2021 to 2026 and provided information on all aspects of digitalization within the context of ZHdK.
Contact
Do you have questions, comments, suggestions? We are looking forward to hearing from you!
- Dr. Susanne Schumacher, Chair Digital Council; + 43 446 32 76
- Dr. Irene Ragaller, Research Associate Digital Council
- Maja Ruzic, Assistant Digital Council