Shared Campus is a cooperation platform for international education formats and research networks launched by seven arts institutions. Close cooperation is imperative to tackling issues of global significance. The arts, especially, can, and indeed ought to play an important role in this respect. Shared Campus establishes connections that generate value for students, academics and professionals by developing and offering joint transcultural education and research activities. These collaborative ventures enable participants to share knowledge and competencies across cultural and disciplinary boundaries.


The platform is designed around thematic clusters of international relevance with a distinct focus on transcultural issues and cross-disciplinary collaboration and is partnered with Hong Kong Baptist University, Kyoto Seika University (SEIKA), LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (LASALLE), School of Creative Media, 
City University of Hong Kong (SCM), Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), University of the Arts London (UAL) and Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

Core aims
To consolidate joint interests, complementary competencies, common resources and infrastructures among partners, in order to develop and implement joint international education formats, research collaborations/networks, as well as collaborative productions or services.

To develop a sustainable teaching, learning and knowledge platform along cross-disciplinary themes of international relevance with a view to extending the existing teaching and learning environment and to create new educational and mobility opportunities for students (e.g. joint masters, structured mobility, co-teaching across the partner institutions, etc.).

To implement advanced teaching and learning methods in the context of digitalization and to develop new standards for international programmes and cooperation considering ecological criteria.

To embed transcultural awareness as a basic stance, and transcultural collaboration as its fundamental practice.

To develop a high-quality education and research label (Shared Campus) in order to strengthen the partners’ strategic influence in the global education environment.

Daniel Späti is trained as a designer, is an organizer and curator of cultural events, and teaches at ZHdK mainly in cross-disciplinary and international contexts. In recent years, he initiated an MA semester program called “Trans-cultural Collaboration” and is now further developing a collaboration platform involving art universities from East Asia and Europe. His research focuses on event culture and city development.

Oolong, Transcultural Collaboration, 2016

Someone Else’s Secret, Transcultural Collaboration, 2017

0.142921, Transcultural Collaboration, 2016

Someone Else’s Secret, Transcultural Collaboration, 2017

Dull Boy Jack, Transcultural Collaboration, 2017

Standing Like a Post, Transcultural Collaboration, 2017

Daniel Späti is trained as a designer, is an organizer and curator of cultural events, and teaches at ZHdK mainly in cross-disciplinary and international contexts. In recent years, he initiated an MA semester program called “Trans-cultural Collaboration” and is now further developing a collaboration platform involving art universities from East Asia and Europe. His research focuses on event culture and city development.