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Löhne und Honorare von Designer:innen in der Schweiz 2025

„Lohn ist Ausdruck von Wertschätzung“ — diese Haltung spiegelt sich in zahlreichen Rückmeldungen der befragten Designer:innen wider. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat die Swiss Design Association (SDA) das Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE) an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) mit einer vertieften Untersuchung zur Einkommens-und Honorarsituation von Schweizer Designer:innen beauftragt. Dieser Bericht liefert erstmals eine systematische Auswertung von Einkommen,…
Samuel Meier
January 30, 2026
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DADA 2035 – 28 Prospective scenarios for the Future of Artists in 2035. An Overview.

Working Papers on Cultural Policy Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE) / FRÉDÉRIC MARTEL, 2025 This prospective paper is the result of a commission from the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE), at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). It was conceived in response both to the strategic needs of the ZCCE and to a specific request formulated by…
Frédéric Martel
January 19, 2026
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Visual Protest: The Roles of Political Cartoons and Graphic Arts on Hong Kong’s Anti-ELAB Movements

The 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (ELAB) Movement marked a turning point in Hong Kong’s history, sparking widespread protests and intensified control by the Chinese government. The 2020 national security law brought further suppression, triggering emigration, media shutdowns, and widespread self-censorship, especially within the creative sector. Political cartoonists and artists faced mounting pressure, with some removing critical works or ceasing…
Justin Wong
April 22, 2025
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Cultural Policies in Ticino

A new research by Sébastien Peter for the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies of the ZurichUniversity of the Arts (ZCCE/ZHdK).This article is part of a series of publications by ZCCE on cultural policies, creative industries and the arts sector in Switzerland: after Geneva, Zurich, Swiss philanthropy etc., this research on cultural policies in Ticino and Italian-speaking Switzerland completes the serie.…
Sébastien Peter
January 18, 2024
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“Les empreintes créatives”: ZCCE’s report on the ICC in Geneva.

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 Martel
June 26, 2023
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Philanthropy and the Creatives – a new dynamic yet to be shaped

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 / MAS
May 30, 2023
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Geolocalization

Inaugural conference at ZHdK by Dr. Frédéric Martel, Professor (creative economies), Zurich, June 2, 2022. Let me begin by thanking Andy Pratt for his introduction. He is one of a group of researchers and academics, along with Roman Page, Claudio Bucher, Simon Grand, Carole Guertler, Peter Haerle, Desmond Hui in Hong Kong, Sebastiano Peter in Lugano, Abbas Saad in Lebanon,…
Frédéric Martel
September 30, 2022
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Focus on cultural policy: What the City of Zurich is doing differently

---- English below ---- Deutsch | Schwerpunkt Kulturpolitik: Was die Stadt Zürich anders macht Was sind kulturpolitische Herausforderungen Zürichs? Was haben die Jugendunruhen von 1980 mit der Kulturförderung von heute zu tun? Als Auftakt einer Reihe von Städteprofilen beschreibt Peter Haerle die Kulturpolitik Zürichs als Balanceakt zwischen Erhalten und Erneuern. Der Einführungstext bietet eine umfassende Übersicht zu den historischen Entwicklungen…
Peter Haerle
September 28, 2022