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 –…

May 8, 2022

Smart Cities

Stillstand! Welcher Stillstand?

Die Kreativen tragen einen grossen Teil zum Schweizer Wohlstand bei. Jetzt geht es für viele von ihnen ums Überleben. Andere aber werden von der Krise profitieren. Von Martina Läubli und Peer Teuwsen (Text) und Elisa Forster (Infografik) Mit Aussagen, die die Zukunft betreffen, sollte man vorsichtig sein, gerade angesichts dieses Virus. Aber eins ist schon heute sicher: Der Wirtschaftszweig der…

May 7, 2021

Smart Cities

The smart city is dead — long live the creative city!

Wherever artists shape our future, economic perspectives play a role. Enter the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies, to engage in new relationships between art and business: from research to entrepreneurship.

July 29, 2020

Digitalisation Smart Cities

Simon Grand, Christoph Weckerle, “Curating as Strategy” (2018)

4 years, 40 projects, 1’000 participants: Patrick Müller and Nuria Krämer gathered the wealth of activities that took place within the framework of “Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich” in With: A Bookazine on Collaboration between Cultures, Art Forms, and Disciplines. The volume includes an essay by Christoph Weckerle and Simon Grand. Simon Grand, Christoph Weckerle, "Curating as Strategy" (2018)

March 1, 2018

Smart Cities

Long Live the Smart, Sustainable and Creative City

Stillstand! Welcher Stillstand?

The smart city is dead — long live the creative city!

Simon Grand, Christoph Weckerle, “Curating as Strategy” (2018)

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