Transdisciplinarity

Until plasma burns

The Swiss Plasma Center of EPFL in Lausanne is researching the future of electricity. In the thick of things is David Simon, an MA Transdisciplinary Studies stu...

Fast forward: 2045

Between reality and imagination, euphoria and dystopia, flying cars and avatars.  The future has a lot in store and challenges our imagination. In “Footnotes,” ...

8 x Silence

Silence is used in many ways in art, design and education. This is also the case in Anna Iphigenia Siradakis’ art education degree project. Painted on porcelai...

Filmallmende

A selection of nine of the 16 cameras used: the oldest camera dates from the 1920s, the newest from 2019. All film stills were photographed with the respective...

Letters and Etherpad

«Initially, we wrote everything by hand and sent each other the texts by post,» Dominic Oppliger about the collaborative writing process. Photograph: Dominic O...

Reunion

“Reunion”: a short story documents a collaborative writing process. Illustration: Luigi Olivadoti OLIVER BRUNKO, SUSANNE HOFER, CHIARA ALISSA ESTIVARIZ LOPE...

Top of Zett Online 2020

The 10 most-read Zett articles in 2020 This year once again, Zett, the magazine of Zurich University of the Arts, portrayed students and lecturers and presente...

Shared campus, shared future

Daniel Späti at the closing session of the 2015 semester programme in “Transcultural Collaboration” in Hong Kong. Photograph: Katja Gläss “International c...

Playful and Poetic

Creative Responses to Technology  BY JESSICA SEQUEIRA AND JÖRG STERNAGEL ___ How can technology’s focus on ideas with an application be reconsidered or...