Content and structure of the programme
Doctoral research
3rd Cycle Research at the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (IPF) foster experimental artistic and art-based research that is firmly embedded in national and international research discourses. The ZHdK, like all Swiss art schools, lacking promotion right, IPF’s 3rd Cycle Research have developed an extensive network of partners, with whom they collaborate on eye level to design a doctoral research program that is content-driven and responding to the urgencies of its time, while recognizing their practical need to connect.
Through cooperations with universities in Switzerland and abroad the possibilities for both institutional and individual research trajectories have been created. Additionally relating to various local allies and global institutional partners, a dynamic and open, pioneering research environment is formed, where sharing is key.
The conditions for it are shaped in Seminar Weeks and hybrid collective gatherings that focus on peer-to-peer learning; in mentoring schemes and (together with the ZHdK PhD Center) language courses and research retreats; through ZHdK’s infrastructure – its library and labs, workshops and stages.
Bringing together a variety of themes and perspectives, voices and approaches, 3rd Cycle Research strive for an inclusive and diverse research environment. They invite research that recognizes the disciplines of dance, theater and film on which the department rests, yet pushes the boundaries of the traditionally separate subject areas. Courageous transdisciplinary research that dares to rethink existing paradigms and walk untrodden paths is supported in this way, simultaneously nurturing the potential of the arts to generate other worlds.