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re-source | Sustainability in the Arts carries out university-wide cross-cutting tasks and acts in a coordinating, supportive, and advisory capacity within the framework of the fourfold mandate of the Zurich University of the Arts. The unit connects internal and external expertise, strengthens forward-looking teaching and research in sustainability, and supports projects by students and faculty. In addition, it contributes its expertise to networks, represents ZHdK in the Zurich Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development, and works closely with operational sustainability.

The Team of re-source | Sustainability in the Arts:

Prof. Michael Krohn and Karin Zindel, Co-directors
Bamna Dadashzadeh, Research Associate
Juliana Schneider, Research Associate
Oliver Brunko, Research Associate

  • Tasks

    re-source | Sustainability in the Arts is based on a transdisciplinary and comprehensive understanding of sustainability in order to achieve a broad impact. Its key tasks and goals are:

    • To develop a well informed understanding of sustainability in relation to artistic, design and outreach practices and theories.
       
    • To convey its own positions, methods and practices based on the arts and design.
       
    • To interconnect expertise, individuals and partners (internal and external) who understand and communicate the need for ecologically relevant, economically viable and socially sustainable development, and who assume responsibility for such development, in particular with regard to new methods, diverse of transfer and outreach activities, receptions, aesthetics and artistic practices.
       
    • To anchor and promote offerings and activities across disciplines, inter- and transdisciplinarily, in teaching and research.
       
    • To initiate research and educational projects in conjunction with ZHdK’s departments, other universities, enterprises, NGOs and foundations.
       
    • To promote and support research and knowledge development in cooperation with institutions from the fields of social, economic, technical and ecological sustainability, nationally and internationally.
       
    • To participate in relevant debates, networks and initiatives.
       
    • To evaluate and present the impacts and results of its activities.

  • Networks

    ZHdK is connected nationally and internationally and collaborates with partners from culture, politics, society, and academia to pool knowledge and jointly make effective contributions to sustainable transformation.

    Zurich Knowledge Center for Sustainable Development (ZKSD)
    swissuniversities / Netzwerk Nachhaltigkeit
    Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
    Akademie der Naturwissenschaften (SCNAT)
    Sustainability Week Zurich