One of the funded projects develops a video game, which illustrates the correlation between pandemics and urban spaces. It was submitted by Andri Gerber from the Institut Urban Landscape . The game is meant to demonstrate in which urban areas, based on dense population, there is an increased risk of infection. The player has to traverse various urban areas while adhering to the rule of keeping two meters distance. The more advanced the level, the less room the player has to avoid others.

A project from the School of Management and Law deals with digital events. Even though teaching and internal collaboration at the ZHAW were digitalized more rapidly due to Covid-19, many events had to be canceled. Thanks to Daniel Hardegger’s project, templates should be created to facilitate digital events including networking at the entire ZHAW. “We are currently collecting events which had to be canceled and could benefit from the expansion of social interaction into the digital space,” says Hardegger. Digital events can therefore enhance existing “real” events with the digital space. Alternatively, if needed, events can be relocated into the digital space entirely.