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Long Live the Smart, Sustainable and Creative City

The Zurich Centre for Creative Economies analyses the emergence and evolution, whether positive or critical, of the concept of the “smart city.” This essay is accompanied by nine case studies. Click here to open the PDF file.

Roni LekarMay 8, 2022

Digitalisation Review Main Article

Thinking ecology and the digital humanities

An atypical figure in the sciences, Bruno Latour is one of the most influential French philosophers today. “Où atterrir?”; “Où suis-je ?”: These are the titles of French philosopher Bruno Latour’s two most recent books and also their main questions. Latour, a thinker of ecology and the digital humanities, has his feet on the ground rather than above. His best-selling…

ZHdK/ZCCEApril 21, 2022

Data Mobile

Creative Economy Switzerland 2010Q1–2021Q4

The figures show the development of the number of employed persons in the Creative Economy Switzerland for the quarters 2010Q1 to 2021Q4.

Page RomanMarch 29, 2022

Switzerland

Creative Economy Switzerland 2010Q1–2021Q4

The figures show the development of the number of employed persons in the Creative Economy Switzerland for the quarters 2010Q1 to 2021Q4.

Page RomanMarch 29, 2022

Data Mobile

Jobradar for Creative Occupations Switzerland 2012Q1–2021Q4

The jobradar shows the development of the number of open job positions (vacancies) in creative occupations Switzerland for 2012 to 2021.

Page RomanFebruary 28, 2022

Switzerland

Jobradar for Creative Occupations Switzerland 2012Q1–2021Q4

The jobradar shows the development of the number of open job positions (vacancies) in creative occupations Switzerland for 2012 to 2021.

Page RomanFebruary 28, 2022

Entrepreneurial Strategies Insight Main Article

Creative radar: Mapping the UK’s creative industries (PEC, 2020)

Major urban centres are the sorts of places we would expect to find creative businesses clustered together. Yet go beyond London’s Shoreditch, Manchester’s Northern Quarter, or Edinburgh’s Cowgate, and you can find microclusters of creative firms in places that we wouldn’t necessarily expect them to be. SEE PUBLICATION

ZHdK/ZCCEDecember 29, 2021

Art & Design Careers

The Art in the Artificial (PEC, Nesta 2020)

Artificial intelligence (AI) will play an important role in the creative industries in the future. AI algorithms are already recommending creative content on websites such as Spotify and Netflix, and recent developments in AI have further enhanced the ability of algorithms to analyse image, text and sound data that are found throughout the creative industries. Against this background, the report…

ZHdK/ZCCEDecember 29, 2021

Portraits

Spotlight Cases

Businesses and Employees in the Creative Industries Switzerland by District

Creative Economy Switzerland 2010–2020

Kulturwirtschaftsstatistik (BFS 2020)

Frédéric Martel, “Cultural Policies: Mapping a field in reinvention” (2020)

Creative Industries Report 2016

Long Live the Smart, Sustainable and Creative City

Thinking ecology and the digital humanities

Creative Economy Switzerland 2010Q1–2021Q4

Creative Economy Switzerland 2010Q1–2021Q4

Jobradar for Creative Occupations Switzerland 2012Q1–2021Q4

Jobradar for Creative Occupations Switzerland 2012Q1–2021Q4

Creative radar: Mapping the UK’s creative industries (PEC, 2020)

The Art in the Artificial (PEC, Nesta 2020)

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