The figures show the development of the number of employed persons in the Creative Economy Switzerland for the quarters 2010Q1 to 2023Q2.
Roman PageAugust 30, 2023
Zurich Centre for Creative Economies
The figures show the development of the number of employed persons in the Creative Economy Switzerland for the quarters 2010Q1 to 2023Q1.
Roman PageJuly 13, 2023
The figures show the development of the number of employed persons in the Creative Economy Switzerland for the years 2010-2022.
Roman PageMay 16, 2023
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Ausgehend von den laufenden Diskussionen um die Einkommenssituation von Künstler:innen und Kreativschaffenden weisen wir auf grundsätzlichen Klärungsbedarf für die kulturpolitische Diskussion in der Schweiz hin. Das Papier versteht sich als Beitrag des ZCCE zur bis Ende September laufenden Vernehmlassung des Bundes zur Kulturbotschaft 2025 – 2028.
On June 13th, ZCCE's has released its long-awaited report on the creative and cultural industries, or ICC, in Geneva. The presentation of this report and the press conference that took place, in the presence of Sami Kanaan, "deputy mayor" of Geneva or "Conseiller administratif", in charge of the Department of Culture and Digital Transition, concluded a year of research by…
Frédéric MartelJune 26, 2023
English I Focus on cultural policy: Philanthropy and the Creatives - a new dynamic yet to be shapedPrivate foundations and arts and culture have always been intertwined. Both areas have undergone majordevelopments in recent past. The foundation sector is increasingly being professionalized; arts and culture have broken out from their bubble into other fields of society and economy, creating thereby…
Carole Guertler, lic. phil. I / MASMay 30, 2023
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The International Labour Organization (ILO, or OIT in french), the UN labour agency, has just published a long study on "the future of of work in the arts and entertainment sector". The Zurich Centre For Creatives Economies at ZHdK University had prepared a "working paper" in 2022, part statistics, part policy, which was used for this research. A technical meeting,…
Frédéric MartelMarch 8, 2023
Discover startups, spin-offs, and non-profit organisations from the ZHdK ecosystem The ZHdK Startup Finder is a new online database launched under the label of the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE). It offers an overview of the various startups, spin-offs and non-profit organisations that have emerged in the ZHdK ecosystem in recent years. The Startup Finder also showcases the innovative potential and diversity…
In “The Future of the Creative Economies” (2021), Deloitte predicts that “most people would welcome a world in which a larger share of the workforce is engaged with creative work.” According to an in-depth UNESCO report “Creative Economies are one of the youngest and fastest growing economic sectors in the world” (Re-Shaping Policies for Creativity – Addressing culture as a…
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A review of the book Russia Today, un média au service de l’État russe, written by Maxime Audinet. Today, with the war in Ukraine, RT has found itself under European sanctions, and many personalities linked to this structure, such as Margarita Simonian, are under international sanctions. In this 2021 book, written before the 2022’s war, Audinet attempts to tell the…
Dilan RadjibJune 18, 2023
Contemporary art is much decried. Using Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst as their main villains and only examples, countless essayists and pamphleteers have castigated the direction in which modern art has moved and continue to denounce its futility. The radical right is sickened by the pretensions of woke or eco-leftist artists, while the extreme left ironizes art that is created…
Frédéric MartelMay 27, 2023
Subtitled “The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire,” Unscripted is an incisive book. Like a surgical operation, it meticulously dissects its subject, the recent history of one of Hollywood’s five major studios: Paramount Pictures. In so doing, it also paints a (black) picture of the current state of America’s creative industries — and, as this case shows, some of…
Frédéric MartelMay 3, 2023
How do platforms impact the news media? Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter, The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society (Oxford University Press, 2022).Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is the director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, (1) which publishes the annual Digital News Report. He works alongside Sarah Anne Ganter, a research associate at the same…
David LavaudJanuary 16, 2023
Edited by Catherine Hoad, Geoff Stahl, and Oli Wilson. Since the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic worldwide in early 2020, global music industries have been severely threatened by regional and international lockdown policies. Live music performances had stopped, music productions came to a halt, funding was cut, media exposure and promotion in the traditional sense became impossible, and music and…
Yvette Lok Yee WongNovember 14, 2022
* Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Yale University Press, 2021 * Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do, Harvard University Press, 2021 For those merely remotely interested in artificial intelligence (AI), this type of intelligence may seem cryptic or even magical. All…
Théo CorbucciNovember 12, 2022
The Astonishing Generosity of the Arts In this age of metrics and data the imaginative ground without which art cannot exist has quietly come under threat. Our culture in the democratic West has given up the belief that the arts have their own, independent significance. This is the basic motivation revered American art critic Jed Perl lays out for having…
Fabian OderbolzOctober 31, 2022
A review of the new book by Erich Schwartzel, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy (Sept. 2022) Erich Schwartzel, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy (Sept. 2022) Erich Schwartzel worked as a reporter for the American newspaper Wall Street Journal, where he oversaw “Hollywood coverage”. As he worked his beat, he began “seeing China…
Simon CostesSeptember 25, 2022
