Strategic Workshops

ZCCE

A series of strategic workshops on the challenges facing future higher education in the arts and culture

Designed and curated by Frédéric Martel, the first workshop, "Leonardo Express (2015)," focused on the digital revolution. Martel set up a provocative two-day closed session as a kind of temporary cluster where original conversations and unconventional ideas were developed with the aim of sketching out smart universities and the arts of tomorrow. The different perspectives were shared and disseminated through various tools and applications. In this way, the independent initiatives of the workshop participants, who identified digital disruption as a challenge or opportunity, were further developed beyond the workshop itself.

14 December 2017

"In the Eye of the Storm"

5 October 2017

"Critical Thinking: The Future of Judgment"

The symposium was part of a series of events including various workshops on “digital culture” conducted by Prof. Dr. Dieter Mersch (ZHdK) and Prof. Dr. Simon Grand (University of St.Gallen). The keynote was given by Prof. Dr. Fred Turner, University of Stanford.

17 October 2016

"Sensory Hacking"
 

Strategy Workshop #2 at the ZHdK – an initiative of ZHdK’s CreativeEconomies Research Venture (the predecessor of today’s ZCCE in cooperation with the RISE Management Innovation Lab, University of St. Gallen, and the Critical Thinking Initiative, ETH Zurich.

25 November 2015

"Cultural policy in and from Switzerland: Phantom or possibility?"

A joint workshop with the “ZHdK Lectures on Global Culture” involving Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Hedy Graber, Alfredo Häberli, Andrew Holland, Andreas Homoki and Chus Martínez, among others. What are alternative formats for discussing Swiss cultural policy when the cultural sector is being dramatically transformed by global phenomena such as digitalisation? Which alternative institutionalisations exist for implementing these new strategies?

ZHdK Lectures on Global Culture: Cultural Policy in and from Switzerland: Phantom or Possibility?

Cultural Policy in and from Switzerland: Phantom or Possibility? A one-day think tank at ZHdK. Participants: Wolfgang Amadeus Brülhart, diplomat (written statement) / Beate Eckhardt, Managing Director, SwissFoundations / Hedy Graber, Head of Migros Kulturprozent / Simon Grand, ZHdK Research Fellow and Professor at University of St. Gallen / Alfredo Häberli, Alfredo Häberli Design Development / Andrew Holland, Director Pro Helvetia / Andreas Homoki, Director Opera House Zurich / Chus Martínez, curator and Head of the FHNW Institute of Art / Thomas D. Meier, President, Zurich University of the Arts / Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator  and co-director of the Serpentine Gallery London / Michael Schindhelm, author, international cultural advisor and curator of the ZHdK Lectures on Global Culture / Christoph Weckerle, Head of the Department of Cultural Analysis, ZHdK