Successful ZHdK Researchers
Research Projects Approved in 2023
2023 was a highly successful year for ZHdK researchers: They raised around CHF 3 million in external funding.
In 2023, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) awarded funding to six ZHdK research projects:
- Sigrid Adorf, Department of Cultural Analysis, «Echoing the Un(fore)seen. Kulturanalytisches Zuhören in den Künsten»
- Karmen Franinović, Department of Design, «Interfacing the Ocean: Towards a Sea Change in Design»
- Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken, Department of Design, «A human-centered approach to the application of AI in Emergency Medicine: A scenario-based evaluation of different levels of AI support»
- Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken, Department of Design, «Ethical dimensions of digital technology-assisted physiotherapy: fundamentals for ethics education of physiotherapists» (Project partner)
- Dieter Ringli, Department of Music, «Gymnasialer Musikunterricht als Spiegel einer praxisbasierten Didaktik. Wissensordnungen in einem Schulfach ohne wissenschaftliche Disziplin und diskursiv konturierte Fachdidaktik»
- Christopher Salter, Department of Performing Arts and Film, «Probing XR’s Futures: Design fiction, Bodily Experience and Critical Inquiry»
Project funding is an important SNSF funding instrument. It enables experienced researchers to work independently or collaboratively on self-selected topics. Grantee use the funding to pursue cutting-edge, innovative and richly faceted research projects on fundamental questions or practical challenges.
- Lukas Franciszkiewicz, Department of Design; «TerraKit. Empowering Farmers’ Transition From Synthetic Fertilizers to Soil Regeneration»
- Irène Hediger, Department of Cultural Analysis; «Fungi Cosmology Switzerland 2024»
- Niklaus Heeb, Department of Design; «St. Galler Globus Online. Basismodell zur Erforschung des interaktiven Potentials des St. Galler Globus» [The St. Gallen Online Globe: A Basic Model for Exploring the Interactive Potential of the St. Gallen Globe] and «Zukunftsbilder Burgdorf Netto Null» [Future Images of Burgdorf Net Zero]
- Liliana Heimberg, Department of Performing Arts and Film; «Lebendiges Kulturerbe als Lernfeld für soziale Aushandlungsprozesse und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt (LeKuLab)» [Living Cultural Heritage as a Learning Field for Social Negotiation Processes and Social Cohesion]
- Sandra Lutz Hochreutener and Annkathrin Pöpel, Department of Music, «Wirkung von live gespielten Monochordklängen. Untersuchung zur Wirkung von live gespielten Monochordklängen auf die Stressregulation gesunder Erwachsener» [Effects of Live Monochord Performance on Stress Regulation in Healthy Adults]
- Christopher Salter, Department of Performing Arts and Film, «Self-Organized Reality: Development of Emergent Person-Environment Behaviors in Mixed Reality Environments»
- Pascale Schreibmüller, Department of Cultural Analysis; «queer archives of stillborn (m)others – Subjectivation in Loss»
- Sophie Walker, Department of Design, Preliminary study
- Julia Weber, Department of Fine Arts; «Urban Wastelands as Ambiguous Spaces for Appropriation and Participation»
Congratulations to all ZHdK researchers on a successful year!
