Ongoing Projects
Selection
The Inheritance of Looting. Medieval Trophies to Modern Museums
The project examines how looted objects become „art”. Key case studies will reveal how museum collections have been formed through histories of displacement and (mis)appropriation, and how cultural heritage has been defined through acts of war and violence. The interdisciplinary team is also developing a virtual exhibition that digitally brings together looted artworks – some scattered across the globe, some lost or destroyed – and attempts to tell their stories to scholars and the broader public alike.
Mapping for Green Cities
The project analyses the role of map design in ecological mapping and tests new forms of presentation to address identified deficits.
Augusta Raurica – Digitalität und Wissensvermittlung
Development of a vision of how different formats of knowledge transfer can be generated in the future.
The detailed analysis and the development of a basis for the orientation and information measures in the Augusta Raurica open-air museum resulted in the project documentation and the booklet „Konklusion und Teilprojekte”. Based on this, the various topics and issues were critically analysed with the Augusta Raurica project team. The next step will be to initiate and implement the tree sub-projects „Signaletik”, „Zielkonflikte” and „Digitalität und Wissensvermitlung”.
Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digitalized Image Archives
The project explores the practices of collecting, archiving and communicating knowledge from an interdisciplinary and application-oriented perspective. In co-operation with the photo archive of the Swiss Society for Folklore Studies (SGV), we are investigating the transformation of the analogue archive into a digital one from an anthropological, technical and communicative perspective. We are also developing a participatory interface for academic and non-academic users.
Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Sinergia.
