Education
With its wide-ranging educational activities, the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich focuses on the fields of design education, participatory exhibition practice and cultural participation. The aim of education is to cultivate the museum as a place of dialog, active action and design and to enable the public to contribute diverse perspectives to museum projects.
In workshops and projects, elements of design thinking encourage people to think playfully, analytically and critically with their heads, hearts and hands, to communicate and strive for understanding, to experiment, to fail and to start again, to design and implement independently or in a team.
Design education is ideally suited to raising awareness of current socially relevant issues and initiating aesthetic education processes. It is also methodologically suitable for promoting creativity and social commitment, especially among young people. The exploratory examination of material culture, the physical handling of things and the practice of craft techniques appear to be highly relevant in a digitally transforming world.
Offers
Already designed today? The educational program offers a variety of insights into design topics. Workshops, guided tours and talks invite you to discuss, experiment and do it yourself and encourage creative processes.
Cooperations
As part of teaching and training projects with degree programs at Zurich University of the Arts as well as collaborations and partnerships in the cultural and educational sector, the mediation offerings open up interdisciplinary approaches.
Cooperations (selection):
- ZHdK Department of Cultural Analysis & Mediation: Master Art Education, Bachelor Art Education, Department of Design: BA Design - Industrial Design and Z Module Lasercut, Material Archive S4
- School+Culture Department of Education Canton Zurich
- School Culture City of Zurich
- Kultur macht Schule, Cultural Education Office Canton Aargau
- cultural mediation-zh
- Design Biennale Zurich
- mediamus
- KiKuKa
- Verein Ferienplausch (Pro Juventute)
- TiM Tandem in the museum
Museumjung
What makes the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich an important place for young people? How can the institution "museum" become part of their cultural identity(ies)?
As part of the three-year outreach project Museumjung with Schule Limmat (April 2021 to March 2024), the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is opening up to youth-oriented questions and perspectives.
