The ZHdK aims to develop and promote innovation in the arts, education, and design. The departments take corresponding measures to enable innovative projects to be carried out. They promote exploratory and open-ended research as well as innovative teaching and continuing education content. The ZHdK's specific culture of innovation is emphasized and respected.
Promoting exploratory research and teaching projects
The ZHdK departments develop small grants and seed money formats in order to enable exploratory and open-ended research and teaching content.
Strengthening cooperation projects
Innovation projects are established in consultation with specialist colleagues and external interest groups and designed as cooperative research projects. ZHdK takes care to ensure that the open-ended nature of innovation projects and the progress of the research process can be communicated.
Focus on specific target groups, participation of external parties
The people responsible for innovation projects in all disciplines of ZHdK and their target groups as well as specialist colleagues are defined explicitly. ZHdK incorporates the various communication formats from the areas of research, teaching and services into the process of developing innovation projects. It adopts a transversal mindset towards networking within innovation projects. Critical friends, challenging partners and stakeholders can come from other disciplines, especially from areas of society outside the university setting.
ZHdK as a reservoir of innovation
Storing and communicating the process for and provisional findings of innovation projects is of central importance for ZHdK. This multimedia “reservoir of innovation” takes into account both already existing university-wide instruments and those that are still in development.
Visibility of innovation arising from the arts
The departments of ZHdK maintain debates concerning innovation in the arts and make existing activities and people visible, bringing in individuals with strong art and design credentials.