Tag: Art

  • Approaching (Left-Behind-)Places through Geography and Art

    Approaching (Left-Behind-)Places through Geography and Art

    In what ways can knowledge from the social sciences and contemporary art relate to and complement one another? – This Public Exploration brings together geographer Rachel Franklin and visual artist Verity-Jane Keefe. Both have worked with and about places and communities described as ‚left behind‘.  In discussions about urban and regional development, ‚left-behindness‘ is associated with densification and…

  • Interview mit Julia Weber

    Interview with Julia Weber

    At the Public Data Lab, artistic, statistical, and scientific knowledge cultures come together. In this interview, Julia Weber talks about what artistic research can contribute – and how it makes visible the perspectives that are often missing from official data.

  • Tiefe Pensen, lange Arbeitstage in der Reinigungsbranche

    Low employment rates, long working days in the cleaning sector

    At the Public Data Lab, artistic, statistical, and scientific knowledge cultures come together. In this interview, Julia Weber talks about what artistic research can contribute – and how it makes visible the perspectives that are often missing from official data.

  • «Was wird möglich, wenn ihr eure Daten öffentlich macht?»

    What becomes possible when you make your data public?

    “Open data is an abstract topic that is still too rarely given priority,” says Anna Sigrist, co-director of Opendata.ch. In this interview, she explains how the PDL is helping her tackle this challenge.

  • Den Menschen Machine Learning über die Kunst näherbringen

    Bringing people closer to machine learning through art

    Lukas Drees is a Post Doc in the EcoVision Lab at UZH. In his research, he focuses on the interface between machine learning and environmental sciences.

  • R.I.P. – oder: Wie Klimadaten emotionalisieren?

    Wissenschaftliche Daten zeigen eindeutig, wie stark der CO2-Ausstoss das Klima verändert. Trotzdem handeln wir nicht konsequent danach. Genau hier setzt die Aktion R.I.P. – Wir beerdigen den Verbrennungsmotor an, die von der künstlerischen Forscherin Laura von Niederhäusern zur Diskussion gestellt wird.

  • «Dem Kanton Zürich geht es gut, aber…»

    "The Canton of Zurich is doing well, but…"

    Over 100 people joined us to celebrate the launch of the DIZH Public Data Lab (PDL) under the theme “How do we take the pulse of the Canton of Zurich?”.

  • Unsichtbares sichtbar machen

    Making the Invisible Visible

    The people and their employment situations that Karin Schwiter researches are often not captured by official statistics. In this interview, the Professor of Labour Geography at the University of Zurich explains how such data gaps arise and how they can be made visible.

  • «Die Gesellschaft braucht auch eine affektive Beziehung zu Daten und datenbasierten Entscheidungen»

    ”Society also needs an affective connection to data and data-driven decision-making”

    The DIZH Public Data Lab is not solely a data project. It also aims to build a relationship with civil society. The ideas come from Marcel Bleuler from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

  • «Wir möchten über Kunst und Design Vertrauen in datenbasierte Entscheidungsprozesse erzeugen»

    “Through art and design, we aim to build trust in data-driven decision-making”

    Marcel Bleuler represented the Public Data Lab in the panel discussion at the DIZH Plenary Assembly.