Leveraging Play for Innovation, Education, and Transformative Futures Games are a significant economic and cultural sector and shape social interaction, creative practice and civic participation. In the last 20 years, Zurich has established itself as a centre for game design, development and research. The universities offer relevant degree programmes and… Read More »LUDIC CULTURE HUB
An AI-powered inscription chatbot for research, education and cultural mediation Inscriptions are direct testimonies of real people (from soldiers to officials and craftsmen to families) and provide direct access to life in antiquity. However, they remain difficult for laypeople to understand, and even researchers find it difficult to map complex… Read More »Vox Lapidum
Measuring Societal Wellbeing under Changing Circumstances Challenges posed by societal disruptions impact cantonal governance. The Public Data Lab (PDL), hosted by Canton Zurich`s Statistics Office, creates indicators and new approaches to measuring change in society, economy and environment. Through transdisciplinary digital and artistic innovation the PDL will increase public trust… Read More »Public Data Lab
How does a spider perceive its world? The project ‘Being a Spider’ enables a change of perspective through a sensory-enhanced virtual reality experience. As a four-spotted spider, visitors go hunting for insects at night. They detect them with the help of highly sensitive sensory hairs that perceive air currents and… Read More »Being a spider – Virtual Realities as spaces for learning and experience
Complex natural spaces are under pressure all over the world today. The aim of the project is to communicate this acute threat posed by the climate crisis using innovative digital communication methods and artistic productions, without putting further pressure on these natural spaces. Artists and scientists from the Telematic Performance… Read More »Augmented Ecospheres
The ‘Media and Computer Science’ module is to be taught in elementary school in accordance with the requirements of Curriculum 21, largely in an integrated and interdisciplinary manner. The project focuses on computer science and builds a bridge to music through the conceptual proximity between computational thinking and musical-compositional thinking.… Read More »Computer science and computer music at school
“Conversations with Stanley” enables the audience to have conversations in real time with an emotionally responsive artificial intelligence. The project aims to make technology tangible in a low-threshold way, encourage critical reflection and open up a public and broad debate on the role of algorithms in our society. Learn more… Read More »Conversations with Stanley
Project state closed Project start March 2024 Funding duration 12 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 45’221 The project focused on developing an innovative image application that allows users to not only view visual content, but also experience and interpret it in new ways. The application… Read More »Re-Experiencing History
A knowledge archive of the art of film cineMINDS is developing an international online platform for the collection, research and publication of craft knowledge in the art of film. We open up innovative perspectives for dealing with large video corpora in the digital humanities, promote a low-threshold accessible publication of… Read More »cineMINDS
The research project “Histories for the Global Present” combined historical, didactic, curatorial, and design expertise to develop a new form of digital history education. The central method is “curatorial learning.” In a virtual museum, students can browse, view collection objects from all sides, try out bizarre analysis devices, discover formal… Read More »Histories for the Global Present. Curatorial learning in School and Museum