Archives for everyone!

Location: ETH Zurich Zentrum, ETH main building, Rämistrasse 101, ETH Library Circulation (floor H)
Registration: please register here, maximum 40 participants

This guided tour is part of the Public Tours series. Additional information.

This guided tour is wheelchair-accessible and available in sign language on request. Please select the appropriate option when registering. We ask for your understanding that the registration deadline for sign language ends on 01 June 2022.

Location: ETH Zurich Zentrum, ETH main building, Rämistrasse 101, Audi Max (HG F 30)
Registration: please register here

Panel discussion
With: Nora Bossong (writer), Flavia Kleiner (co-founder of Operation Libero) and Jonas Lüscher (writer)
Chair: former cantonal councillor Markus Notter

Afterwards: Apéro

Information on the exhibition

An archive for everyone? Although the gta Archives are open to everyone as a public research institution, the acceptance of personal papers during the respective author’s lifetime or posthumously seems to be a very selective affair. Who makes it into the archives and will therefore be included in future research as part of the canon? Diversity is a central issue when it comes to a representative selection from the world of architecture. Should the focus therefore not be on how to integrate those who have hitherto been excluded?

Guided tour: 18.00 at the gta Archives, HIL B 70 (in German and English)
Panel discussion: 19.00, HIL E 67 (in English)
Location: ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
Registration: please register here for the guided tour, maximum 25 participants

Guided tour

During this guided tour, we will question the gta Archives about the gaps in its collection and examine the issue of underrepresented, hidden and lost holdings.

Panel discussion

In the subsequent panel discussion, we and our guests will discuss strategies for greater inclusivity. We will address the challenges of acquisition and also question the institution’s social role so that the archives remain relevant for future generations.

Additional information on the gta Archives

Location: ETH Zurich Zentrum, Archive of Contemporary History, Hirschengraben 62, main entrance
Registration: please register here, maximum 40 participants

To mark its 50-year corporate anniversary, the Zurich-based production company AVA Scheiner has gifted 87 audio-visual works (slide shows, multivision presentations and films) to the ETH Zurich Archive of Contemporary History, where they will be archived.

To mark Archive Week, you will have a first opportunity to delve into this interesting stock of productions commissioned by Swiss companies.

An online film quiz with excerpts from various productions invites you to engage with questions relating to target-group appeal, scriptwriting and the implementation on celluloid.

During a cinema session in the Archive of Contemporary History (Friday 10 June, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.), the films for solving the quiz will be shown in their entirety in the presence of Mr or Mrs Scheiner, and these pieces of Swiss commercial history will be discussed with the audience.

Location: ETH Zurich Zentrum, ETH main building, Rämistrasse 101, Reading Room Collections and Archives (floor H)

Would you enjoy writing biographical articles about the ETH Zurich professors for Wikipedia or adding images to existing articles? We have plenty of image material and writing resources for you.

During the Editathon, we will work together on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata as part of the external page Wiki project ETH-Portraits call_made.

Are you keen to prepare in advance? For inspiration, you can look at the external page Wikipedia tutorial call_made and the external page video tutorial by “Frauen für Wikipedia” (SRF) call_made.

Before the event, create a external page Wikipedia user account call_made, if you haven’t done so already.

Please bring along your own laptop.

external page Further information

Location: ETH Zurich Zentrum, Archive of Contemporary History, Hirschengraben 62, main entrance
Registration: not required

Archive of Contemporary History