In an interview with Katia Soland, Anna Sigrist, co-director of Opendata.ch, talks about the importance of open data and Opendata.ch’s involvement in the DIZH Public Data Lab (PDL). She explains why open data is often perceived as an abstract topic and why it is important to highlight the concrete social… Read More »Why open data needs more visibility
How can objects in museums remain accessible when they are too large, too fragile, or too valuable to be displayed? The exhibition “Museum of the Future – 17 Digital Experiments” addresses this question and shows how digital technologies and artificial intelligence enable new forms of communication. Seventeen digital experiments transform… Read More »Museum of the Future – 17 Digital Experiments
A big thank you to all DIZH members and colleagues for their commitment this year. 2025 has once again demonstrated the value of cross-university collaboration, interdisciplinary exchange and the connection between science and practice. We published five Calls for proposals in the Innovation program (4th Rapid Action Call, 2nd Founder… Read More »Goodbye 2025
The ZHdK Digital Council has published the results of its second AI survey. The three data stories show that the use of artificial intelligence is becoming more commonplace at ZHdK, but also more critical and reflective. 73 percent of respondents now use AI tools, up from 59 percent last year.… Read More »AI at ZHdK: Results of the 2025 survey
Roland Meyer, DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and Arts at UZH and ZHdK, has published two new papers. In his essay Images from Images: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‘Photographic’, published in the journal Photography and Culture, Roland Meyer examines how AI image generators are changing our… Read More »New publications on AI image generation and visual similarity
If you want to develop innovative AI solutions, you should focus not on the majority of users, but on disadvantaged groups. This is the thesis put forward by Oriane Pierrès, a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Society Initiative (UZH), in her article on Inside IT. Many technologies that are now… Read More »AI innovation begins with disadvantaged groups
Food production in agriculture requires a lot of energy and often has negative effects on the environment. Special sensors based on artificial intelligence (AI) inspired by the human brain could counteract this. Neuroinformatician and DSI Postdoc Chiara de Luca explains how this technology, known as neuromorphic computing, works and how… Read More »How intelligent sensors can improve farming
digilinguo is being funded in the second Structure Call and now has its own website and LinkedIn channel. digilinguo supports public institutions such as hospitals, courts, and schools in overcoming language barriers in everyday life, thereby reducing the burden on everyone involved. The project is a collaboration between UZH and… Read More »digilinguo now also online
The Digital Society Initiative (UZH) is looking to fill a research assistant position (30–40%) starting in March 2026 for the DIZH-funded project “ZuReach: Zurich Urban Reachability & Accessibility Enhancement through Digital Technology”. The project investigates the accessibility of Zurich for people with limited mobility. It is being carried out in… Read More »Research Assistant wanted: ZuReach
On December 11, 2025, the Coordination Committee Education Program met at the ZHAW School of Engineering to discuss a forward-looking topic: physical AI and robotics in education. Dr. Jorge Peña Queralta from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at ZHAW provided representatives from UZH, ZHAW, ZHdK and PHZH with insights into… Read More »Physical AI and robotics in education