events / in conversation
«Who goes to museums – and who is left out?» Key insights from the roundtable «Cultural Participation» on 20 March 2026, organised in collaboration with Kuverum.
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events / exhibition / media culture
In October 2025, a self-driving PostBus appeared on Münsterhof — not to drive, but to ask what happens when we let automated systems guide us. In this look-back, we revisit Lauren Lee McCarthy’s AUTO and the collective experiment it created in the middle of Zürich.
events / guest post / interview
Hannah-Katharina Chabbani and Marc Bredemeier, winners of the Friends of HEK Open Call, interview each other about their project.
do it yourself! / events / guest post
Guide to DAOs invites you to explore shared governance, ethics & digital culture—together. Add your thoughts on the Live Annotation Wall.
events / exhibition / guest post / what is...?
What connects the air in your lungs with glowing oceans and towering cliffs? Artist and researcher Anthea Oestreicher explores how microscopic plankton shape our world – from oxygen and climate to stone and memory. Experience it live at her TechBrunch on August 10 at HEK, during the “Other Intelligences” finissage weekend.
Artificial Intelligence / events / interview
More than a One-Hit Wonder: My Name is Fuzzy, AKA Bastien Bron, on “La machine à tubes” [The Hit Machine] his installation showcased at HEK during Museumsnacht 2025.
events / guest post / media culture
When youngsters play Minecraft together for a week, a lot of surprising things happen… Here’s a look back at the one-week Minecraft workshop, which took place in the summer of 2024 as a children’s holiday activity at HEK.
events / for schools
As part of the Holiday Pass Workshop: “Build an extended world – with found objects, paper and augmented reality” with Mirjam Fruttiger (K’Werk and SFG Basel) and Anna Flurina Kälin (Freisicht and HEK), children invent a future city. With towers, stairs, slides, and flying ships, the inhabitants of the future city, dinosaurs, dragons, and characters move around in their own way.