Prof. Carel van Schaik, UZH, Institute of Anthropology
'Evolution and the Human & Social Sciences: New Perspectives'
This series of talks presents introductions to new developments in evolutionary biology and their relevance to the study of human behaviour and history. The seminars took place at the Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich on Sept. 30th, Oct. 21st, Nov. 4th, and Dec. 2nd. 2013. They were hosted by Marcelo Sánchez and Naomi Beck, with the support of the Cogito Foundation (cogitofoundation.ch)
Successful cooperation of common marmosets
The board is too long to enable one individual member to operate the lever and reach the food at the same time. However, the individual can do the other members of the group a service by bringing the food into reach.
The study „The evolutionary origin of human hyper-cooperation“ by Dr. Judith Burkart and colleagues, Anthropological Institut & Museum, University of Zurich is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF):
Copyright: Anthropological Institute & Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland
University of Zurich - Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology
The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zurich emphasises the importance of an empirical approach to research as well as the importance of fieldwork at an undergraduate as well as graduate level. Whilst Asia has become the department's key regional focus, staff research and teach on other areas of the world including Europe. The department also has its own ethnographic museum.
The University of Zurich – Main Building
Over 26,000 students attend the University of Zurich, Switzerland, which is one of the leading research universities in Europe. The university was founded in 1833, and this film, with a mood music soundtrack, shows views of the outside of the fine main building on Rämistrasse, which was designed by the architect Karl Moser in 1914. Students enjoy the sun on the terrace, while others are seen from above sitting at tables in groups. This building is on the City Campus, while the rest of the university is scattered all over the city, some being on the Irchelpark Campus, opened in 1979, and on the Oerlikon Campus. The Zoological Museum, The Anthropological Museum and the Botanical Gardens are just some of the city’s public attractions that come under the University.
Cooperation of capuchin monkeys
The board is too long to enable one individual member to operate the lever and reach the food at the same time. The individual doesn’t think of doing the other members of the group a service by bringing the food into reach.
The study „The evolutionary origin of human hyper-cooperation“ by Dr. Judith Burkart and colleagues, Anthropological Institut & Museum, University of Zurich is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF):
Copyright: Anthropological Institute & Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Der Affe in uns
Fortsetzung der Vorlesungsreihe „Was ist der Mensch?“
Wo steckt der Affe in uns? Was haben wir mit Menschenaffen gemeinsam? Welche Merkmale teilen wir mit anderen Organismen? Worin erweist sich der Mensch als einzigartig? Um diese und andere Fragen näher zu beleuchten, stellt der Referent des Vortragsabends der Reihe „Was ist der Mensch?“, Prof. Dr. Carel van Schaik, Primatenforscher (Orang Utan in Borneo und Sumatra), Anthropologe und Direktor des Instituts und des Museums für Anthropologie an der Universität Zürich, die sogenannte „cooperative breeding hypothesis“ vor.
Den Abend moderierte Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karl Lackner, Direktor des Institutes für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin der Universitätsmedizin Mainz.
Der Themenabend fand am Mittwoch, 1. März 2017 um 19.15 Uhr im Hörsaal Chirurgie (Gebäude 505H) der Universitätsmedizin Mainz (Langenbeckstraße 1, 55131 Mainz) statt.
Cooperation of japanese macaques
The board is too long to enable one individual member to operate the lever and reach the food at the same time. However, the individual at the lever can steal the food in time from other members of the group.
The study „The evolutionary origin of human hyper-cooperation“ by Dr. Judith Burkart and colleagues, Anthropological Institut & Museum, University of Zurich is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF):
Copyright: Anthropological Institute & Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Predicting Conflict Zones in African Civil Wars
Speaker: Sebastian Schutte , International Conflict Research Group at ETH Zurich
A long-standing, but understudied problem in Peace Science is the spatial prediction of zones of violent conflict. The relevance of this problem is twofold: First, a far reaching understanding of what conflict parties are fighting over partially translates into what they are fighting for, thereby allowing theoretical claims on motivation to be tested from a different angle. Second, reliable predictions of conflict zones can inform humanitarian relief operations and help to anticipate refugee flows. To solve this problem, a method for estimating conflict zones in civil wars based on Spatial Point Patterns Analysis (Baddeley, 2008) is presented in this paper. The study region is delimited to eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have experienced civil wars. Following the classic literature on counterinsurgency (McColl 1969) and contemporary research (Raleigh and Hegre 2009; Hegre et al. 2009), stylized models of guerrilla activity are derived and checked for their predictive performance. All out-of-sample predictions are also visualized to allow side-by-side comparisons with the empirical record. Generally, predicting regions that face an increased risk of becoming conflict zones in civil war seems possible based on the presented approach.
About the speaker
Sebastian Schutte is PhD Student in the International Conflict Research Group at ETH Zurich and has assisted in teaching methodology at the Universities of Freiburg and Zurich. He has published in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, as well as in Political Geography. His PhD topic explores the relationship between geography, violence, and mobilization in civil wars. A central contribution lies in the combination of theoretical claims with GIS technology and Agent-Based Simulation. He studied Anthropology, Computer Science, and Cognitive Science at the University of Freiburg, as well as Political Science at ETH Zurich and holds two MA degrees. His current research interests include: complex dynamics in insurgent civil wars, methodological problems of prediction and risk analysis, and empirical Agent-Based Simulation.
Interview with Prof. Stefanie Walter (University of Zurich) at the 4th GPPF Chania Forum 2015
FROM PROSPERITY TO AUSTERITY –
FROM AUSTERITY TO PROSPERITY?
The 4th Annual GPPF Chania Forum organised by the Greek Public Policy Forum took place on October 09 and 10, 2015, at the Κiani Beach Resort in Chania, Crete, thanks to the kind sponsorship of Decidendi Consultants, Europe Direct Region of Crete, and the solar systems company CALPAK S.A.. We also wish to thank the Hellenic Alumni Association of the London School of Economic, the Economic Chamber of Greece (Department of Western Crete), the ELIAMEP Crisis Observatory, and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania for their support. Last but not least, we would like to thank Mr. Eleftherios Eleftheriadis (Audiovisual Pro: for generously volunteering his services for the filming and photo coverage of the event.
The 4th Annual GPPF Chania Forum aimed at continuing the discussion we started four years ago on how Europe and its Member States are changing because of the crisis. During our 1st Annual Chania Forum in 2012, we tried to examine these questions from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the comparative dimensions of the crisis and primarily the division between ‘North’ and ‘South’, the ‘core’ and the ‘periphery’. During the 2nd Annual Chania Forum in 2013, we focused on the supranational level and examined how, despite the rise of euroscepticism, extremism and populism, this crisis may be a catalyst for deeper political and economic integration. Our third meeting analysed and projected the impact of European Parliament elections on the integration process and assessed the overall level of ideological polarisation both across national parties and regions with secessionist tendencies (e.g., Scotland). We further delved into the political economy and legal issues pertaining to the design of fiscal and banking union. The aim of this year’s Forum was to take stock with the cumulative effects of the European debt crisis at the level of ideas, institutions, and actors. We discussed the economic rationale and political limits of austerity, as well as issues such as financial and political contagion in the context of the European debt crisis. As always our intention was to trigger a multidisciplinary interaction, focusing on the comparative dimensions of our chosen themes of discussion, while bearing in mind the persisting challenges in the intergovernmental relations between EU member states.
The Greek Public Policy Forum ( is an initiative led by Greek scholars from British Universities. Our aim is to establish a tribune for dialogue on public policy issues affecting Greece and Europe. Until now, we have organised a number of fora at the University of Oxford, the University of Nottingham, in Chania, as well as at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, tackling questions surrounding the crisis and its impact on Europe and its democratic foundations. We have also been running a research project on Greek constitutional reform in the aftermath of the crisis. Our next project will be aiming at fostering dialogue and generating new ideas and insights about the reform of the Greek judicial system.
For the full programme of the workshop, its executive summary, and other related material, please visit our website at greekpublicpolicyforum.org, where you can also register.
The Greatest UNIVERSITIES In The World!
The Greatest Universities In The World! Universities are where all of us find ourselves and is one of the most important phases of our lives. As such, it is pretty important to choose the right University to attend and we bring you a list of the best universities in the world.
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University of California.
Founded in 1868, the University of California in Berkeley has seen many great names passing through its halls who have achieved great things in life.
ETH Zurich.
Also known as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH is known especially for its computer science program which is considered to be the best in the world.
Imperial College.
When a University gains the reputation for being the most innovative university in Europe, you know that it will be one of the best in the world.
Princeton University.
Being accepted in the Princeton University is a thing of much prestige. After all, this private Ivy league research university is the 4th oldest institution of higher education in the US.
Harvard University.
When getting an honorary degree from a university becomes a big deal even for Presidents of the world’s most powerful country, the University must be special right?
MIT.
The Massachusetts institute of Technology is a private research university which was founded in 1861 in response to the increased industrialization that was spreading across the US.
Cambridge University.
Cambridge University is the second oldest university in the English speaking world and as such it commands a lot of respect.
Stanford University.
If we said that the Silicon Valley is one of the pillars on which technological innovations of the world stands, we would not be far from the truth.
California Institute Of Technology.
The California Institute of Technology began as a preparatory and vocational school which gained the attention of a few scientists.
University of Oxford.
When it comes to the most prestigious universities in the world, there is no one that can lay a claim to a heritage that is richer than that of the University of Oxford.
MIT Museum—Ideas in the Making
The MIT Museum is a place that explores invention, ideas, and innovation. Here is a behind the scenes look at this special museum and its unique collections.
What is plate tectonics?
Damian Nance, co-author of Physical Geology Today, on the emphasis of plate tectonics.
Damian Nance is Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, and along with Brendan Murphy (St. Francis Xavier University), is co-author of Physical Geology Today, coming January 2015.
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TEDxZurich - Peter Schmid - Australopithecus sediba
In 2008 Peter Schmid and his team made a discovery that would have a profound impact on the way we explain the emergence of mankind. The bones and fragments of this new species they had discovered, showed both human and australopith, or pre-human, characteristics. After publishing many articles in Science about the discoveries, overthrowing decade-old theories with his new evidence, and creating a stir within the anthropological community, Mr. Schmid wants to tackle the following question for us: Is Australopithecus sediba the missing link?
Peter Schmid, Anthropologist
Peter Schmid, senior lecturer at the Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich
Peter Schmid got his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 1983, and has been doing research in the field of anthropology ever since. He is also the curator of the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Zurich.
Web: Museum of Anthropology
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Anxieties about Race in Egyptology and Egyptomania, 1890–1960
Donald Reid, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Georgia State University; Affiliate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington
Despite ideals of scientific and scholarly objectivity, both Egyptologists and non-specialists have often projected their own racial anxieties onto ancient Egypt. Recurrent attempts to prove that the ancient Egyptians were white or black, for example, reveal more about modern societies than about ancient Egypt. Donald Reid will discuss the history of how such debates have played out among Western and modern Egyptian scholars, artists, and writers, and how interpretations of ancient Egypt are intertwined with personal values.
Presented in collaboration with the Departments of Anthropology, Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.
Recorded 4/6/17
Research Video Conference: Dr. Darcy Alexandra
Digital Storytelling as engaged research: Visual anthropology in governmental, university and community contexts
Dr. Darcy Alexandra, Researcher, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
Darcy Alexandra is assistant researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern where she specializes in co-creative ethnographic practices and audiovisual anthropology. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Practice Based, Socially Engaged Research, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. Since 2007, Dr. Alexandra has designed and facilitated participatory media research centering audiovisual production as a means of inquiry and public engagement. She has conducted audiovisual research in the US-Mexico borderlands, El Salvador, Uruguay, Cuba and Ireland, and taught digital storytelling in collaboration with university, non-governmental and governmental agencies including the Dublin City Council, the Forum on Migration and Communications, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (DEZA/EDA). She is the first-place recipient of the 2018 Ethnographic Poetry Prize awarded by the American Anthropological Association.
During her presentation, Darcy will screen short films from community-based, governmental and university initiatives that she has directed. The stories will serve as a means to consider the ethical and aesthetic possibilities and challenges of visual anthropology with diverse practitioners.
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Conference
14.01.2019
Research Video: The Art of Scientific Storytelling
Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
The conference aims to connect scientists and storytellers from various disciplines who actively use video in their practices, in order to glimpse on possible future forms of scientific publication on video - instead of “paper”. Could a “research video” be structured with classical scriptwriting-based rules?
“Research Video” is a SNSF-funded multidisciplinary research project of the Institute of Performing Arts of the Zurich University of the Arts and Cast / Audiovisual Media, Department Design. The project aims to explore the use of video in practice-based and artistic research and develops a software tool for publication of research results through audiovisual material and video-annotation.
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Cast / Audiovisual Media auf Social Media:
Cast / Audiovisual Media ist eine Fachrichtung an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.
Online- und Mobile-Media sind die am stärksten wachsenden Bereiche der Medienbranche. Kreative Profis für Qualitätsinhalte sind gefragt in Newsrooms, crossmedialen Redaktionen oder Social Media-Abteilungen – genau für diesen Bedarf bildet Cast / Audiovisual Media Studierende aus. Als eigene Fachrichtung experimentiert Cast / Audiovisual Media mit neuen digitalen Erzählformen im Netz, meist Videos/ Bewegtbild oder Animationen.
Bei Cast / Audiovisual Media steht die Gestaltung und Produktion von audiovisuellen Inhalten für Online- und mobile Medien im Mittelpunkt. Studierende lernen, Geschichten multimedial und interaktiv auf Smartphone-, Tablet-, Computer- und anderen vernetzten Bildschirmen zu erzählen, und finden ihr Publikum in Social-Media-Netzwerken und digitalen Kanälen. Das innovative Angebot bildet vernetzt denkende, kreative Online-Publisher für ein junges und stark wachsendes Berufsfeld aus.
Unsere Webseite: cast.zhdk.ch
List of natural history museums | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:34 1 Africa
00:00:42 1.1 Algeria
00:00:56 1.2 Angola
00:01:12 1.3 Botswana
00:01:24 1.4 Canary Islands
00:01:44 1.5 Egypt
00:02:00 1.6 Ethiopia
00:02:14 1.7 Kenya
00:02:28 1.8 Mozambique
00:02:41 1.9 Namibia
00:02:56 1.10 South Africa
00:03:58 1.11 Sudan
00:04:10 1.12 Tanzania
00:04:24 1.13 Tunisia
00:04:36 1.14 Uganda
00:05:04 1.15 Zimbabwe
00:05:17 2 Asia
00:05:26 2.1 China
00:06:38 2.2 India
00:07:26 2.3 Indonesia
00:07:39 2.4 Iran
00:08:23 2.5 Iraq
00:08:35 2.6 Israel
00:09:03 2.7 Japan
00:11:35 2.8 Jordan
00:11:46 2.9 Kyrgyzstan
00:11:59 2.10 Malaysia
00:12:14 2.11 Mongolia
00:12:32 2.12 Oman
00:12:44 2.13 Pakistan
00:12:56 2.14 Philippines
00:13:16 2.15 Qatar
00:13:28 2.16 Singapore
00:13:42 2.17 South Korea
00:14:04 2.18 Taiwan
00:14:34 2.19 Thailand
00:17:35 2.20 United Arab Emirates
00:17:48 2.21 Uzbekistan
00:18:00 2.22 Vietnam
00:18:16 3 Central America
00:18:25 3.1 Belize
00:18:38 3.2 Costa Rica
00:19:16 3.3 Dominican Republic
00:19:37 3.4 Grenada
00:19:48 3.5 Guatemala
00:20:19 3.6 Honduras
00:20:31 3.7 Nicaragua
00:21:26 3.8 Panama
00:22:24 4 Europe
00:22:33 4.1 Albania
00:22:45 4.2 Armenia
00:23:00 4.3 Austria
00:24:49 4.4 Azerbaijan
00:25:12 4.5 Belarus
00:25:29 4.6 Belgium
00:25:46 4.7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:26:00 4.8 Bulgaria
00:26:50 4.9 Croatia
00:27:50 4.10 Czech Republic
00:28:09 4.11 Denmark
00:28:35 4.12 Estonia
00:28:52 4.13 Finland
00:29:23 4.14 France
00:31:21 4.15 Georgia
00:31:44 4.16 Germany
00:35:08 4.17 Greece
00:35:45 4.18 Greenland
00:35:57 4.19 Hungary
00:37:14 4.20 Iceland
00:37:27 4.21 Ireland
00:37:52 4.22 Italy
00:40:51 4.23 Latvia
00:41:03 4.24 Liechtenstein
00:41:15 4.25 Lithuania
00:41:32 4.26 Luxembourg
00:41:45 4.27 Macedonia
00:41:58 4.28 Malta
00:42:11 4.29 Moldova
00:42:24 4.30 Monaco
00:42:36 4.31 Montenegro
00:42:50 4.32 The Netherlands
00:43:58 4.33 Norway
00:44:27 4.34 Poland
00:45:00 4.35 Portugal
00:46:21 4.36 Romania
00:49:15 4.37 Russia
00:50:21 4.38 Serbia
00:50:43 4.39 Slovenia
00:50:58 4.40 Slovakia
00:51:14 4.41 Spain
00:52:53 4.42 Sweden
00:53:55 4.43 Switzerland
00:54:57 4.44 Turkey
00:55:17 4.45 Ukraine
00:56:09 4.46 United Kingdom
00:56:18 4.46.1 England
00:57:49 4.46.2 Scotland
00:58:23 4.46.3 Wales
00:58:37 4.46.4 Northern Ireland
00:58:48 5 North America
00:58:57 5.1 Bermuda
00:59:10 5.2 Canada
00:59:18 5.2.1 Alberta
00:59:41 5.2.2 British Columbia
01:00:11 5.2.3 Manitoba
01:00:51 5.2.4 New Brunswick
01:01:02 5.2.5 Newfoundland
01:01:17 5.2.6 Nova Scotia
01:01:34 5.2.7 Ontario
01:02:04 5.2.8 Quebec
01:02:43 5.2.9 Saskatchewan
01:03:13 5.2.10 Yukon
01:03:30 5.3 Mexico
01:04:34 5.4 United States
01:04:43 6 Oceania
01:04:52 6.1 Australia
01:07:01 6.2 Indonesia
01:08:29 6.3 New Zealand
01:09:02 7 South America
01:09:11 7.1 Argentina
01:13:12 7.2 Bolivia
01:13:41 7.3 Brazil
01:15:04 7.4 Chile
01:15:29 7.5 Colombia
01:16:06 7.6 Ecuador
01:16:20 7.7 Guyana
01:16:32 7.8 Paraguay
01:16:45 7.9 Peru
01:17:04 7.10 Trinidad and Tobago
01:17:21 7.11 Uruguay
01:17:40 7.12 Venezuela
01:18:49 8 See also
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This is a list of natural history museums, also known as museums of natural history, i.e. museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology.
Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science. In addition, nature centers often include natural-history exhibits.
Aleksanteri Conference 2019 panel: Late Soviet Village and New Technologies
Forming Infrastructure – Transforming Society: Late Soviet Village and New Technologies
Chair: Anna Klimova (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Discussant: Ekaterina Melnikova (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russia & European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)
Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller (University of Zurich, Switzerland): A TV in a Late Soviet Village House: An Object and a Thing Between Rural and Urban Life Styles
Anna Sokolova (University of Zurich, Switzerland & Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences): Late Soviet Timber Production Settlements: Between Technologies and Nature
Ekaterina Kurilova (University of Zurich, Switzerland): A View from Inside: Everyday Life in the Late Soviet Village Through the Eyes of the Local Amateur Filmmaker
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Research Video Conference: Léa Klaue
Case Study “Research Video”: A look into the meaning of “work” in children’s and adolescent’s lives in urban Bolivia: An audiovisual ethnography and the impossibilities of picturing the other’s reality (work in progress)
Léa Klaue, PhD candidate and Research Fellow, Cast /Audiovisual Media
In Bolivia, child labour is not only omnipresent, but it is also anchored in cultural roots. The starting point of this research are the working children’s organizations, who represent and defend the voice of this large but invisible group. Through observation, video workshops, filmed interviews and mixed methods, this research attempt to create a picture of the life realities of young people who had to start lucrative activities at an age Western understanding of childhood qualifies as too early. Child and youth worker’s lives are observed and analyzed but the external gaze upon it is also questioned: Eurocentric and Western discourses on “child labour” but also the own gaze of the researcher as a videographer and Westerner. This research is a Case Study of the “Reseach Video” SNSF project and an attempt to use audiovisual means not only as publication method, but throughout the research project as a tool and common thread.
Léa Klaue is a visual anthropologist and videographer. She studied Media Studies, Social and Visual Anthropology in Basel, Santiago de Chile and Tromsø, Norway. She was a production assistant for documentary, video and webdoc productions and a teaching assistant for Cast / Audiovisual Media at the Zurich University of the Arts. She is now a research fellow at Cast / Audiovisual Media and a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Bern.
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Conference
14.01.2019
Research Video: The Art of Scientific Storytelling
Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
The conference aims to connect scientists and storytellers from various disciplines who actively use video in their practices, in order to glimpse on possible future forms of scientific publication on video - instead of “paper”. Could a “research video” be structured with classical scriptwriting-based rules?
“Research Video” is a SNSF-funded multidisciplinary research project of the Institute of Performing Arts of the Zurich University of the Arts and Cast / Audiovisual Media, Department Design. The project aims to explore the use of video in practice-based and artistic research and develops a software tool for publication of research results through audiovisual material and video-annotation.
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Abonniert unseren Kanal:
Cast / Audiovisual Media auf Social Media:
Cast / Audiovisual Media ist eine Fachrichtung an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.
Online- und Mobile-Media sind die am stärksten wachsenden Bereiche der Medienbranche. Kreative Profis für Qualitätsinhalte sind gefragt in Newsrooms, crossmedialen Redaktionen oder Social Media-Abteilungen – genau für diesen Bedarf bildet Cast / Audiovisual Media Studierende aus. Als eigene Fachrichtung experimentiert Cast / Audiovisual Media mit neuen digitalen Erzählformen im Netz, meist Videos/ Bewegtbild oder Animationen.
Bei Cast / Audiovisual Media steht die Gestaltung und Produktion von audiovisuellen Inhalten für Online- und mobile Medien im Mittelpunkt. Studierende lernen, Geschichten multimedial und interaktiv auf Smartphone-, Tablet-, Computer- und anderen vernetzten Bildschirmen zu erzählen, und finden ihr Publikum in Social-Media-Netzwerken und digitalen Kanälen. Das innovative Angebot bildet vernetzt denkende, kreative Online-Publisher für ein junges und stark wachsendes Berufsfeld aus.
Unsere Webseite: cast.zhdk.ch
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 300 shows.
So far in 2018, Obrist has co-curated at the Serpentine Galleries solo shows for Rose Wylie, Wade Guyton, Ian Cheng, Sondra Perry, Tom Abts and Christo. In 2014 he curated the Swiss Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, where he presented Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price—A stroll through a fun palace; the building was designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, and the program was developed with artists Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno, Tino Sehgal and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Obrist's Art of Handwriting project is taking place on Instagram and is a protest against the disappearance of handwriting in the digital age.
In 2013, Obrist co-founded with Simon Castets the 89plus, a long-term, international, multi-platform research project, conceived as a mapping of the digitally native generation born in or after 1989. In 2011 Obrist received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2009 he was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and in 2015 he received the International Folkwang Prize for his commitment to the arts. Obrist has lectured internationally at academic and art institutions, and is contributing editor to several magazines and journals.
Obrist’s recent publications include Mondialité, Somewhere Totally Else, Conversations in Colombia, Ways of Curating, The Age of Earthquakes with Douglas Coupland and Shumon Basar, and Lives of The Artists, Lives of The Architects.
Rachel Dorothy Tanur Lecture: Jan Gehl, Livable Cities for the 21st Century
4/12/16
In an important paradigm shift around 1960, urban planning was undertaken at a very large scale in response to the challenges of rapidly growing cities. At the same time, traffic planning began to dominate planning at eye level, to address the rapid influx of cars into cities. The concern for the people using cities that had been maintained over centuries of tradition and experience was completely left behind. The idea of cities for people was overlooked and forgotten.
In his lecture, Jan Gehl will summarize this history, which is laid out in his book Cities for People (Island Press, 2010), and go on to explain why looking after people is crucial for the quality of cities in the 21st century; how it can be accomplished; and how it is actually done now in many projects and cities. He will show how, after decades of neglect, cities for people is once again a central theme in architecture, urban design, and city planning; and how the transformations carried out by Gehl Architects in Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, New York, Moscow, and other cities exemplify this new people oriented direction in planning.
Jan Gehl began his practice in the early 1960s with a period of research on public space, supported by a grant from his university, which resulted in the book Life Between Buildings (1971). Focusing on the spaces between buildings, he developed an approach to urban design and planning, based on observation of life in public spaces, in particular the assessment and measurement of usage patterns and quality of life.
Gehl is founder and senior advisor of the urban design consultancy Gehl Architects, with expertise in architecture, urban design, and city planning. With members who have backgrounds in architecture, urban design, sociology, anthropology, and cultural theory, the firm has made a name for itself with a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to urban planning that entails not only the application of urban design theory and ideology but also the use of data and analytical strategy. It has undertaken major improvement projects for cities, including Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Riga, Edinburgh, Perth (WA), Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Amman, Oman, Cape Town, London, New York and Moscow.
Parallel to his firm’s work, Jan Gehl has authored and coauthored various publications—including New City Life (2006), Cities for People (2010), and How to Study Public Life (2013)—in which he has further developed and shared his techniques of observation and analysis. He has taught at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where, in 1998, he founded the Center for Public Space Research; he has also taught at universities in Edinburgh, Vilnius, Oslo, Toronto, Calgary, Melbourne, Perth, Berkeley, San José, Guadalajara, and Capetown.
Among many honors, Gehl has been awarded the International Union of Architects' Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for Exemplary Contributions to Town Planning, as well as honorary doctoral degrees from Universities in Edinburgh and Toronto. He is an honorary fellow of architectural institutes in Denmark, England (RIBA), USA, Canada, and Scotland, as well as the planning Institutes in Australia and Ireland. His work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2012) and the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2008, 2012 and 2016.
“First life, then spaces, then buildings – the other way around never works.” ~Jan Gehl