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re-source | Sustainability in the Arts is the operational unit and office of the Sustainability Dossier. It performs cross-sectional tasks for ZHdK as a whole and assumes a coordinating, promoting and advisory function within the framework of the University’s fourfold performance mandate. It brings together internal and external expertise and actors, promotes future-oriented teaching and research, supports faculty and student projects, collaborates with internal and external partners and represents ZHdK in national and international networks.

Prof. Michael Krohn and Karin Zindel, Co-directors
Lara Francesca Cucinotta, Administrator
Bamna Dadashzadeh, Research Associate
Nick Zamsa, Media & Communication

  • re-source | Sustainability in the Arts is based on a transdisciplinary and comprehensive understanding of sustainability in order to achieve a broad impact. Its key tasks and goals are:

    • To develop a well informed understanding of sustainability in relation to artistic, design and outreach practices and theories.
       
    • To convey its own positions, methods and practices based on the arts and design.
       
    • To interconnect expertise, individuals and partners (internal and external) who understand and communicate the need for ecologically relevant, economically viable and socially sustainable development, and who assume responsibility for such development, in particular with regard to new methods, diverse of transfer and outreach activities, receptions, aesthetics and artistic practices.
       
    • To anchor and promote offerings and activities across disciplines, inter- and transdisciplinarily, in teaching and research.
       
    • To initiate research and educational projects in conjunction with ZHdK’s departments, other universities, enterprises, NGOs and foundations.
       
    • To promote and support research and knowledge development in cooperation with institutions from the fields of social, economic, technical and ecological sustainability, nationally and internationally.
       
    • To participate in relevant debates, networks and initiatives.
       
    • To evaluate and present the impacts and results of its activities.

  • ZHdK belongs to various national and international networks and working groups, where iit co-operates with leading organisations. The effective, sustainable transformation of how we act as a society requires joining forces in order to attain the University’s sustainability goals through constructive and inclusive knowledge transfer.

    Zurich Knowledge Center for Sustainable Development (ZKSD)
    swissuniversities / Netzwerk Nachhaltigkeit
    Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
    Akademie der Naturwissenschaften (SCNAT)
    Focus Sustainability