Digital working at ZHdK

At ZHdK, digital working is practiced and discussed in many different ways, and it is one of the university's strategic goals. In the wake of the Corona crisis, it has rapidly gained in scale and importance, initially mainly in a pragmatic way. How, though, can the insights from this period now be used strategically? How could we better support digital working on an institutional level? How can the needs of the various stakeholders best be reconciled in the specific context of an arts university?

Addressing these and similar questions shows that digital working is a multidimensional issue that affects the entire university. In that it transcends the technical level, it needs to be considered as a comprehensive cultural topic. State-of-the-art digital working includes transparent and networked collaboration with others as well as efficient individual work, and seamlessly bridges temporal asynchronies and spatial distances. Towards the end of 2020 and at the beginning of 2021, the Digital Council and the Information Technology Centre (ITZ) drew up a vision for digital working at the ZHdK, which takes into account those activities that are not explicitly digital; the aim is to give both working modalities equal standing and to ensure their seamless integration. For further information on ZHdK's vision of digital working, please contact Dr Susanne Schumacher.

On the basis of ZHdK's vision of digital working, and on behalf on the university management, Renato Soldenhoff conceptualised a programme Digital working in 2021. The programme was launched in 2022 under the leadership of Paolo Del Ponte and is currently being implemented.

→ More information about the programme on the current programme page