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’
2012 - first science & film project in Brazil and Costa Rica / EU FP7 project as a research technician at D-USYS ETH Zurich
2013 - Basel Culture Unlimited Trailer
2015 - Research cooperation with EPFL for 360-video investigation with the 'Venice Time machine' project.
2016 - Filmstill from the audiovisual publication about MOOCs (part of my Ph.D.)
2018 - 'Diversity of Empathy' Conference Experimental Docu, UniBasel
2018 -Manifesto for Videos in Higher Education
2018 - 'Massive Role Play Game' about different future scenarios (AI, Robotics, Space Travel, Climate Change) at the Brave New World Conference, Netherlands
2018 - VR-360 testing of the Leiden University pilots. In total, six educational pilot VR-experiences have been produced from the whole team.
2019 - Finding interconnections: Interwoven storytelling of four different case study portraits between Guatemala, Nigeria, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
2020 - Audiovisual keynote for the Silbersalz Festival 'Unspoken Truths'
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.