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Admission Procedure 2026
Portfolio Review | BA Interaction Design | 15.01.2026 | 16:00 – 18:30 | Hybrid
MA Interaction Design: Online Q&A Session | 13 January 2026 | 17.00 – 18.00
Junior Design Research Conference at ZHdK || 28 November 2025
Interfacing Ecologies || Anna Lerchbaumer & Kilian Jörg || 27 November 2025 || 16.00 – 17.00 || Online
Interfacing Ecologies || Rasa Smite || 25 November 2025 || 17.00 – 18.30 || Cinema 3.G02
Info Event BA & MA Major Interaction Design 2025
Lecture Evaluating Art and Design Research in Europe || Karmen Franinović & Anton Rey || 15.10.25
CHORNOZEM wins Biodesign Challenge Summit 2025
Interfacing Ecologies || Sandra Bračun || 26 June 2025 || 17.30 on Zoom
IAD at Polit-Forum Bern Exhibition, 15. May 2025 – 13. December 2025
CHORNOZEM to Represent IAD and ZHdK at Biodesign Challenge Summit 2025
Artificial Eternity || IAD x BitsnBolts 2025
Interfacing Ecologies || Lovina Füllgrabe || 26 May 2025 || 15.00 on Zoom
Plan B || Prototype Exhibition || MA Interaction Design || 29 + 30 April || Aktionsraum 5.K06
Field Trip 25 Copenhagen
Interfacing Ecologies || Raviv Ganchrow || 10 April 2025 || 17.00 on Zoom
Portfolio Review | BA Major Applicants | 16.01.2025
MA Interaction Design: Online Q&A Session | 20.01.2025 | 17.00 – 18.00
Admission Procedure 2025
Interfacing Ecologies || Bettina Möllring || 28 November 2024
Information Event BA & MA Major Interaction Design
MA Graduate Dzhuliia Kolodko Wins Gebert Rüf First Ventures Programme
More Moor by Riva Pinto Wins Punch Prize and Is Exhibited at NY Climate Week
ZHdK Graduate Award Design 2024
Diploma Exhibition 2024
Minor Info Day, 14.03.2024
ZHdK Minors in Design Information Day
Call for Applications | ifk Summer Academy 2024 | 02 – 11 September, Brijuni, Croatia
MA Interaction Design: Online Info Event | 25.01.2024 | 12.30 – 13.30
Portfolio Review || Admission Procedure BA Major || 18 January 2024
Information Event BA & MA Major Interaction Design
Open PhD Position | SNF Project «Interfacing the Ocean»
Interfacing Ecologies || Jill Scott || 25 September 2023
Ludovica Galleani d’Agliano Wins 2023 Master Design Förderpreis
Diploma Exhibition 2023
Interfacing Ecologies || Andrea Zaccuri & Lorenzo Fassi || 03 May 2023
Interfacing Ecologies || Annemarie Bucher & Tuan Mami || 25 April 2023
FIBI || Fabio Colledani || 20 April 2023, 18.00
Impressions from the Education Summit 23
Interfacing Ecologies Lecture Series || Delfina Fantini van Ditmar || 28 March 2023
Interaction Design Education Summit
Portfolio-Review – 25.01.23
Application Procedure 2023
Alumni Seminar 22
Insights Workshop Day || Collaboration in Artistic PhDs
Info Day BA Major Design 2022 || 15+25 November 2022
Info Event Master Design 2022 || 30 September 2022, 17.30–19.30
Soil Interfaces and Interactions || CCA Annex Thu 8.9.22 || With Karmen Franinović, Roman Kirschner, Duy Bui
«Track-track: Let’s follow the cat!» received Best Demo Recognition at the ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference 2022
Biodesign Challenge 2022 Finalist: Soil Exploration Program
Diploma Exhibition Interaction Design 2022
Call For Application: Wholesome Living 2022
Interfacing Ecologies Lecture Series || Michael Leung || 31 May 2022
Interfacing Ecologies Lecture Series || Katherine Ball || 17 May 2022
Interfacing Ecologies Lecture Series || Dr. Alexandra Toland || 03 May 2022
Interfacing Ecologies Lecture Series || Marcus Maeder || 30 March 2022
Interaction23 Conference in Zurich!
Rasa Weber: Designing (in/with) the Ocean || Sustainability Science Dialogue || Thu 10.03.2022
All the Lives & Stop Hate Speech || At Planet Digital, Museum für Gestaltung || 11.2. – 6.6.2022
you+care Research Project
Interfacing Ecologies Lecture Series || Jordan Lab & WSL || 17 & 18 January 2022
Portfolio-Preview – 20.01.22
Admission Procedure
Alumni Seminar 2021
Dr. Adam Zaretsky | Human Applications: Aesthetics and Loss – Beyond Enlargement
Infoday Interaction Design
Digital Shapers 2021 — 1st place
MA Infotag 1.10.2021.
Join us physically at ZHDK!
Infinite Nows @ Ars Electronica : Celebrating 20th Anniversary Interaction Design at ZHdK!
Collabo Hub 2021
NEBULOSUS at Design Biennale Zurich
2 x UX Design Awards 2021 Nomination
Biodesign Challenge 2021
Workshop 04: Attunement with More-than-Human Worlds
Gold, Silver + Recognition @ aed Neuland
Remote Materialities featured on «Creative Applications»
Visit exhibition space for Ars Electronica Campus exhibition
Becoming realists of a larger reality
More-than-Human Situated Design
DGTF Conference – Material Trajectories
IAD Process Class x Conversations with Ten Thousand Things – On Non-Human Centric Approaches
Programming as design process – Florian Bruggisser @ Zett
Application procedure Bachelor 2021: Important dates
Portfolio Preview – 21.01.21
MA Interaction Design – Work in Progress Exhibition 2020
TOFI wins Swiss Science Slam at Swiss Medtech Day
Swiss Design Award + Förderpreis go to Journey to Recovery
BA/MA Diploma 2020 NOW ONLINE
Punkt-Ausstellung 2020
BA Aufnahmeverfahren 2020
Portfolio
Beratung 2020
Reactive Poster
Ausstellung
Hacking Values
MA Interaction Design – Work in Progress Exhibition 2019
Alumni Seminar 2019
Lunch Talk with Gabriel Bach
Vortrag an der Tagung MAKING FUTURE CONFERENCE am Plymouth College of the Art 18. November 2019 || 13:30 Uhr
Tag der Forschung 2019
Design for Sustainable Development
Zwischenzeiten || 14.-16.11./17.11.19
Infotage 2019
Lecture || James Bern and Maria Smigielska: Robotics || October 2019
«votetandem» in den Medien
FIBI x Julijonas Urbonas – Talk 23.10.2019
Vortrag an der Konferenz DR_SOM DIGITAL PRACTICE || Technischen Universität Graz || 24. Oktober 2019 || 17:30 Uhr
Infotag Master Design || 03.10.2019
HSGYM-ZHdK-Tag der Mittelschulen || 26. September 2019
Shelly und Chili – Zwei animierte Installationen
REFRESH #2
Joëlle Bitton talk "Intimacy at distance, the fabric of interaction” on 7 August
Virtual Tour
Diploma Exhibition 2019
«Public Privacy» in the media
Förderpreise Bachelor und Master Design vergeben
Interaction Design students presenting at the Biodesign Challenge Summit this week, at MoMA and Parsons
BA diploma project «votetandem.org»
Nicole Foelsterl wins National Competition with her film "Eigentlich Vergangen"|| Vienna Shorts Festival: 28.05. - 2.06.2019
Roman Kirschner || Lecture: Material activity, methods and approaches || Hochschule für Künste Bremen || 29.05.2019
Diplomausstellung 2019 Design
Designstudierende erwecken per Webapp Alfred Escher zum Leben
Paper: Shape Changing Surfaces and Structures
«adero» liefert autonom und mit Charme
For Interaction by Interaction with Gabriela A. Sanchez || Talk 21.05.2019
For Interaction by Interaction with Jeff || Talk 23.05.2019
Kein Kino. Madeline Schwartzman
Lecture || Michael Naimark: "They’re Different! VR Art Work at Google Silicon Valley and at NYU Shanghai" || 15.05.2019
UXCamp Switzerland 2019 || 11.05.2019
For Interaction by Interaction with Ginetta || Talk 17.04.2019
For Interaction by Interaction with Max Frischknecht || Talk 9.04.2019
Lecture || Jean-Baptiste Labrune: Radical Design: augmented environments for building dynamic objects with active matter || 10.04.2019
Interacting with Electroactive Polymers in Responsive Environments @ TEI conference in Phoenix, Arizona || March 17-20, 2019 || by Karmen Franinović, Luke Franzke, Andrés Villa Torres and Florian Wille
Clemens Winkler || Workshop: Welcome to the Cloud Factory || Bauhaus Dessau || 21.-22.03.2019
Aed Neuland Wettbewerb
Prof. Jürgen Späth ist Jurymitglied
PUNKT. || 21.-24.02.2019
Karmen Franinović, Roman Kirschner || Lecture: Material Activity in Art and Design Practices
IAD at Zauberwald Lenzerheide
Showcase Design
Portfolio
Preview 2019
Tag der Forschung ZHdK || 30.11.2018
Clemens Winkler || Lecture: Per-Forming Clouds || Konferenz Matters of Communication, Panel Object and Interaction || 17.11.2018
Karmen Franinović || Lecture: The Joy of not Knowing : With Active Materials || 27.11.2018
Infotage 2018: Design
Verena Ziegler || Lecture: Pop-Up || Konferenz Matters of Communication, Panel Object and Interaction || 17.11.2018
Women in Business: Karmen Franinović unter den Top 100
Pop-Up-Workshop-Reihe - wie wollen wir in der Zukunft wohnen?
Digital Shapers 2018: Karmen Franinović und Max Rheiner
Infotag Master Design || 04.10.2018
ZHdK Highlights 2018
Antonio Scarponi: Impact through design || 27.06.2017, Cabaret Voltaire || Open talk
Diplomausstellung 2018 Design
Lecture || Lalya Gaye: Somewhere in-between / physical and digital / an alternative || 04.05.18
come closer || 05.05./06.05.2018
UXCamp Switzerland 2018 || 04.05./05.05.2018
ZHdK Sommeratelier 2018: Interaction Design-Workshop «Eine stürmische Angelegenheit»
Karmen Franinović: Enactive Environments: materials, experiences, values || Lecture Kunstuniversität Linz
17.04.2018 || 11.00h
Florian Wille || Talk: Designing for Humans – Methods of Human Centred Design || 28.03.2018
MA Sound Design: ab Herbstsemester 2018
FIBI
David Jenny
"Extinction / I'm still here" Interaction in a transdisciplinary dance performance
Lecture || Jo Kazuhiro: A Building of Structures that Produce Sound After Post-digital Tendencies || 16.03.18
MAD CHIT CHAT || 21.02.2018
PUNKT. || 22. - 24.02.2018
World Information Architecture Day 2018
Design with social impact - Symposium 16.02.2018
Portfolio Preview 2018
Encoding Design
Talk 23.11.2017 || 11:30
Tag der Forschung 2017
BA-Abschlussprojekt LUCE @Grafik 17
Infotage 2017: Design
Through Momentum
Intersections Conference. Verena Ziegler on «InBetween: material encounters in human/non-human interactions»
Lecture Noam Toran: Monsters, Anarchists and Indians
Informationsveranstaltung Master Design — Studienbeginn Februar 2018
Interaction Design @Museum für Gestaltung: Design Studio: Processes
ZHdK Highlights with contributions from Interaction Design
Digital Shapers 2017: Karmen Franinović voted as influential researcher
Karmen Franinović: Interview in Hochparterre
Electric Animal Plant: Installation at the Design Biennale Zurich 2017
Becoming Neighbours: Press report about diploma project
Design promoviert | Kolloquium 01.07.2017
International Sound Awards 2017
Daniel Hug is a jury member
Joëlle Bitton: Harvard Graduation
on May 25th 2017 - Congratulations!
Degree Show 2017 Design
For Interaction by Interaction with Fjord
It´s all just air - Symposium
Lasst die Puppen tanzen
UXCamp Switzerland 2017
Scale up! Scale down! Enhancing everyday experiences through virtual reality
Patent granted: «Detecting and Evaluating Movements of a User»
ZHdK Sommeratelier 2017 mit Interaction Design-Workshop
Video in the Social Design Process
For Interaction By Interaction
IAD at Lichtcampus Hildesheim
BA Enrolement 2017
Join our Interaction Design BA program at ZHdK!
Open Food Data Hackdays, ZHdK, 10. und 11. Februar 2017
WORLD IA DAY 2017 am 17. - 18. Februar 2017, Zürich
Lenzerheidner Zauberwald 2016
Tag der Forschung 2016
Karmen Franinović: «Forschende Lehre», Keynote an der UDK Berlin
11.11.2016
Infotag Design 2016
SOLO am Laokoon-Festival
Phono-Luminous Paper
ZHdK Day & ZHdK Night 2016
Sonic Playgrounds at Audio Mostly 16
Workshop at Audio Branding Academy
Daniel Hug to give workshop at Audio Branding Academy Day 2016
SCHOOLS OF NORMAL
Diplomausstellung MA & BA
Nebula Ausstellung
Temporary Desirable Spaces
International afternoon - Whose learning?
UX Camp
Informatiktage 2016
A MAZE Festival Berlin
Grafik 16
CAS Design Thinking
Fluid Morphologies
Object Experience
