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Fiction opens up possibilities
Metaphors (Denkbilder) and storytelling can be instruments for thinking about the future. This is what cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen suggests.
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Attitude is the prerequisite for flexibility
Chris Bühler is a digital ethicist. He is sceptical about buzz words like flexibility and disorientation and pleads for calmness in an anxious period.
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Supposed freedom and the urge to optimise oneself
About Ulla Klingovsky Ulla Klingovsky holds the professorship for Adult Education at the Institute of Adult Education and Counselling at the University of Teacher Education Northwestern Switzerland (PH FHNW). She is also head of the adult education specialisation in the Master of Educational Sciences at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Basel.…
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«We are living in a homo sapiens/robot symbiosis»
About Eduard Kaeser Eduard Kaeser was born in Bern in 1948. He studied theoretical physics, followed by the history of science and philosophy, at the University of Bern. Until 2012, he taught physics and mathematics at secondary level. He has published work on issues at the cross-section of science and philosophy. Alongside books, he has…
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Creativity as applied lateral thinking
About Paolo Bianchi and Gabrielle Schmid Paolo Bianchi, founding director of CAS Creationship and lecturer in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Mediation at the ZHdK, curator, cultural journalist and creativity researcher. Gabrielle Schmid, Co-Leader CAS Creationship, coach, supervisor and creativity trainer. Creativity is an enticing but vague term. What do you understand by it? …
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«One of my fears is that adults stop learning deeper issues»
About Jyri Manninen Jyri Manninen is professor of adult education at the University of Eastern Finland. Change has become a very popular term nowadays. How do you understand change in the context of adult education? Jyri Manninen: Change is a very demanding process for individuals, societies and organisations. Compared to traditional learning approaches, change-oriented learning activities go…
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The possibility of a direct experience with the senses remains essential
About Erik Haberzeth Erik Haberzeth is Professor of Higher Vocational and Professional Education and Adult Education at the Zurich University of Teacher Education (PHZH). At the January 2019 event of the Think Tank TRANSIT you ran a workshop on learning and experience spaces. To what extent are spaces a topic for the future of continuing…
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Change is always a creative process
About Sonja Schenkel Sonja Schenkel combines art with sustainability and social change. With the Creative Change approach, she accompanies and explores creative processes designed to develop new perspectives. Interview: Irena Sgier You are an ethnologist and filmmaker, your work moves between art, culture, and business. In which area do you feel most at home? I…
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There’s no way back
About Felix Stalder Felix Stalder is Professor of Digital Culture and Networking Theories at the Zurich University of the Arts and author of a book entitled “The Digital Condition” (Image: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0). In your book entitled “The Digital Condition”, you give a new twist to the discussion on digitalisation. Your scientific and cultural…
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It is all real to our brain
About Isabella Pasqualini Isabella Pasqualini is a researcher at the Centre of Neuroprosthetics (EPFL) in Lausanne and is a guest professor at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles. She is a member of the TRANSIT network of experts. You investigate the relationship between the body and space. How do you do that? I am…
