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Transcultural Collaboration is a unique international semester programme in the arts and design. In collaboration with partner institutions in Asia and Europe, 30 participants from all arts and design disciplines have the opportunity to explore different cultural contexts and collaborate on artistic experiments with open outcomes.

On our Blog and Instagram-Channel, you find articles about the ongoing project.

Exchanging Protection – Protecting Exchange - group show | Transcultural Collaboration 2023 (https://youtu.be/gWSGRAKNAZ8)

Transcultural Collaboration Trailer 2023 – Final Exhibition @ C-Lab, Taipei

The Transcultural Collaboration 2023 took place in Zurich and Taipei between August and December 2023. Students from different art schools in Asia and Europe got together to experience how transdisciplinary and transcultural collaboration can unfold. Based on theoretical inputs from the faculty, practical tryouts and lived experiences and adventures in Zurich and Taipei the artists conceived different smaller and bigger projects and ideas together. The final works were shown in C-Lab in Taipei. Feel free to browse and have a look at the latest and past works from the different Transcultural Collaboration participants.

News TC 2023

Guest speakers 2023

by Larissa Platz

Zurich Taipei Orchid Island (Field Trip)

March 19, 2024

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People 2023

by Mara Djukaric

PARTICIPANTS We are happy to present you the Transcultural Collaboration participants of 2023, connecting students from eight countries and several different Art Schools. To give you a chance to get to know the participants better, we asked them to talk to us about their motivations, their passion for collaboration, their concerns regarding their artistic practice and about what makes them feel safe. When do...

March 1, 2024

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Faculty Team 2023

by Larissa Platz

Daniel Späti, Head of Transcultural CollaborationDaniel Späti originally studied design and worked for Bally, a global fashion brand, in his early career. In 2001, he was appointed as a lecturer in the Design Department at the Zurich School of Art and Design (HGKZ, since 2007 ZHdK). Soon afterwards, he became part of the leading team tasked with establishing the new BA Trends & Identity. Passionate about...

February 29, 2024

People, People 2023

Living traces

by Larissa Platz

Which traces are yours? Which are mine? Where do they connect? Whether their origins are internal or external, all traces are deeply tied to the traces of others, forming a collective system of memory, which exerts influence on groups and individuals, often in unforeseen ways. The installation “living traces” invited visitors to introspect, connect and leave traces, to engage as much as they would...

February 29, 2024

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What’s in my Name?

by Larissa Platz

An Orchid is not just a flower but an accumulation of layers of claims, projections and violence within and through time. Defined by a name, categorization, and stories about heroes and hunters it becomes a symbol for things it has not given its consent to.

February 29, 2024

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大木一人，木棚三友

by Larissa Platz

A piece of driftwood is perhaps too big for one. It is shared amongst three friends, who build everything they could out of it. Lots of items, stories, memories and time – contained in a shed. A piece of driftwood that was once borrowed. It has provided and it has given. And now, it has been returned.

February 29, 2024

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Home of the Scattered

by Larissa Platz

The multi-speaker sound installation conceived by Xu Chia-Chun, Jamira Estrada and Piero Scherer explored the interplay between shelter and isolation, protection and constraint. It invited the visitors to navigate a space where the boundaries of inside and outside, protection and limitation blur into an evocative soundscape.

February 29, 2024

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Anthropocene

by Larissa Platz

Drawing on many influences, from displacement systems to futuristic utopian scenarios and habitual reflection, “Anthropocene” explores power structures in the context of sacrifice zones, dwelling upon the fragile equilibrium of protecting and using land and the unequal consequences that the waste of resources produce.

February 29, 2024

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