Recent
Highlights

D-ARCH Visual Storytelling in the Archive - Audiovisual Essays

Spring Semester 2025
With the gta archive of the ETH Zürich, we co-developed a new course with an audiovisual essay assignment format. The Master, MAS and Ph.D. students developed audiovisual essays with archive material, thesis and visual storytelling practices. They also started to use some audio GenAI for the voice-over - which worked very well.

MR-experience: Peebee bot for onbording of new ETH spaces

Mixed Reality Storytelling for our new “project-based labs” PBLabs at ETH Zurich. First character design drafts and tests for the prototype ongoing. see research

D-USYS Umweltsysteme Seminar - sciences meets meme cultures

Spring Semester 2025
This years assignment task for the around 60 Environmental Sciences students was to create short engaging science communication videos, focusing on current memes and internet trends (heat) to connect them to scientific knowledge. The results were varying from humorous, quirky, funny, entertaining, edutaining - and some quite provocative versions.

D-BAUG Three Stories of Swiss Urban Landslides

In Production
With Prof. Alexander Puzrin, we co-design and investigate new ways of storytelling narratives for three unique case studies, which happened in the last decades in Switzerland, at the Zurichberg, St.Moritz and Nendaz.

D-USYS conference Davos

06/24 Keynote on Science Communication: "I'm not a cat- or the art of personalized SciComm in Social Media
Today's situation is a result of a structural deficit in academic culture. Over decades, the only career relevant media was the written word. In contrast, the digital world exploded with a multitude of media communication formats. Most of them are visual, or audiovisual. Hence, we have some catching up to do if we want to stay relevant in the digital world.

Longterm milestones

Media & Methods Lab, ETHZ

My long-term dream came to life: I was able to build up the Media & Methods Lab (MML) at the UTL, ETH Zurich. The team members from my previous team, the EduMedia, all merged to the MML.

‘Difference as a resource for peace’ – r4d programme SNF

An ETH case study portrait about the political and historical situation of the Mayan minorities in Guatemala in the light of SDGs.

‘Beyond’ – the transformative power of science film’

(1) Audiovisual reflections about the interdisciplinary co-design of our 68min research doc "Inequality and Conflict - Beyond us and Them", r4dprogramme SNF.
(2) Blog article about the process: ‘Capturing Conflict - the Power of Images’

Topics

  • science-society interface

  • translation of scientific complex concepts

  • audiovisual & image theories and practices

  • deepfakes & truths

  • science and education

  • mixed realities

  • work philosophy co-design

  • new legacy of media & methods

In the rapidly evolving media landscape of the 21st century, media competencies have emerged as one of the most critical skills. In an era characterized by the proliferation of digital platforms and the democratization of content creation, individuals are required to navigate a complex and ever-expanding media ecosystem.

Media competencies encompass a diverse set of skills, including but not limited to critical thinking, digital literacy, visual communication, and audiovisual media production. These proficiencies enable individuals to effectively consume, analyze, and create audiovisual media content, empowering them to become informed and discerning participants in the global discourse.

Audiovisual media fully captivates and resonates with audiences across the globe.