Other Research Units

The artists-in-labs program (AIL) has been promoting artistic research since 2003 by curating, organising and supporting artist residencies lasting several months in renowned scientific laboratories. Exhibitions, publications and various forms of exchange bring the AIL’s transdisciplinary projects into dialogue with the general public. The AIL is temporarily based at the Research Focus in Transdisciplinarity (Department of Cultural Analysis).

→ artists-in-labs program (AIL)

    With its Immersive Arts Space, ZHdK has created an interdisciplinary teaching and research space dedicated to artistically exploring new technologies in the fields of virtual reality, augmented reality and real-time simulations.

    → Immersive Arts Space

      The Ecology Curatorium is committed to the targeted promotion of transdisciplinary research and teaching between the arts and sciences by making visible and by interrelating existing activities, actors and initiatives at ZHdK.

      → Kuratorium Ökologie

        In association with ZHdK’s Postgraduate Programme in Curating, the Department of Art at the University of Reading offers an English-language PhD programme in research in and as curatorial practice. The programme provides a critical framework that enables established curators, artists, art critics and designers from all disciplines to focus on specific curatorial and cultural research topics.

        → PhD in Practice in Curating

          Shared Campus is a cooperation platform initiated by seven art institutions and aimed at developing and operating sustainable international educational formats, research networks and co-productions.

          → Shared Campus

            As an international research and competence centre, the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE) engages in research, teaching, promotion and consultancy in and with the creative economies.

            → Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE)