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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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Swiss Creative Tech Startups Report 2024

The Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE) at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), in collaboration with Fuelarts, USA, are pleased to release the Swiss Creative Tech Startups Report 2024 – a pioneering initiative designed to spotlight the burgeoning Creative Tech sector in Switzerland. This report promises to be an invaluable annual resource for industry stakeholders both in Switzerland and…
Christoph Weckerle
June 19, 2024
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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…
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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
Smart Cities

Long Live the Smart, Sustainable and Creative City

Introduction to the study on "Smart City" and the 10 case studies For a few years now, politicians, corporations and academics around the world have been talking about "smart cities". All cities want to become "smart" or "smarter" and nobody knows what it means anymore. Some consider the “smart city” – at times a concept, at others a buzzword –…
NataliaSmatsi
May 8, 2022
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