Highlights Aesthetics

Excerpt from: «Typescripts»/Peter Weiss installation, © J.S. 2014
Excerpt from: «Typescripts»/Peter Weiss installation, © J.S. 2014

    «The Research Focus in Aesthetics combines interdisciplinary scientific discourses of humanities at ZHdK with philosophical and systematic questions about the arts. Working close to the arts, we are interested in diagnosing contemporary artistic activity and maintain close relations with the international scientific community, whose ideas and work we present at ZHdK, among other places.»

    Prof. Dr. Judith Siegmund, Head of the Research Focus in Aesthetics (RFA)

        Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

        • The Sinergia project «Practices of Aesthetic Thinking» has been completed and has created a designated website «What does aesthetic thinking mean?»
        • The RFA co-organised the «Aesthetics and Cognition» conference with the German Society for Aesthetics.
        • PhD programme on «Epistemologies of the Aesthetic» (whose second term is underway and will run until 2024).

        → Overview «Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact»

          Promotion of Talents and Careers

          • We have established and are in the process of establishing one more postdoctoral and two doctoral positions (qualification positions).
          • The RFA is co-directing a PhD programme «Epistemologies» in association with the University of Zurich and the ETH (Collegium Helveticum).

          → Overview «Promotion of Talents and Careers»

            Cooperation and Internationality

            • Graduate College on «The Knowledge of the Arts» (with Berlin University of the Arts)
            • German Society for Aesthetics (DGÄ)
            • We have founded a working group to co-direct the «Centre for Arts and Cultural Analysis ZKK» with the University of Zurich.

            → Overview «Cooperation and Internationality»

              External Funding

              • SNF «Denken mit den Händen – Willy Guhls Entwurfspraxis als angewandte Designforschung»
              • Sinergia project: «Practices of Aesthetic Thinking»

              → Overview «Research Projects»