Monica Ursina Jäger

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate Sustainability Communication, Narrative Environments

www.zhaw.ch/de/lsfm/institute-zentren/iunr/bildung-und-kommunikation/nachhaltigkeitskommunikation/

Expertise and research interests

Narrative Environments, Drawing and Installation, artistic Research, communication in art and culture, art history and theory (Modernist visions and utopia, landscape, architecture and Urbanisation, nature and aesthetics

Educational background

2006-2008 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
1999 LaSalle College of the Arts Singapore
1997-2000 BA University for Art and Design, Lucerne, Switzerland, BA Art and Education,

Professional milestones

since 2016 Research Associate Sustainability Communication, Narrative Environments

since 2006 Solo and group shows in international Museum and Galleries i.e. Kunstmuseum Thun, Haus Konstruktiv Zurich, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Arroniz Art Contemporaneo, Mexico and Galerie Pilar, Sao Paulo.

2000-2015 Lecturer Art and Environment Silviva ZHAW

2007 Swiss Art Award

since 2004 Lecturer Institut for Natural Ressource Sciences ZHAW

since 2003 visual Artist

since 2001 Art Lecturer

Membership of networks

• Visarte, Berufsverband bildende KünstlerInnen
• Contemporary Art Society London
• Goldsmiths, University of London

Projects

• Dekarbonisierungsausstellung Umweltarena: Umsetzung, Entwicklung Texte und Materialien / Team member / Project ongoing
• Parco Villa dei Cedri Bellinzona: Vom historischen Park zum lebhaften Garten / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Dekarbonisierungs-Ausstellung / Team member / Project completed
• Dekarbonisierungsausstellung in der Umwelt Arena Schweiz / Team member / Project completed
• Vorprojekt Umweltarena - Ausstellung Dekarbonisierung / Team member / Project completed
• Exhibition on Nutrition / Project leader / Project completed
• Soil Garden / Team member / Project completed
• Future Landscapes / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Vision Gärten / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Bättig-Frey, Petra; Jäger, Monica Ursina; Treichler Bratschi, Regula,

  2018.

  Combining art with science to go beyond scientific facts in a narrative environment.

  Journal of Museum Education.

  43(4), pp. 316-324.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/10598650.2018.1523624

• Jäger, Monica Ursina,

  2021.

  Erdreich - the treasure beneath our feet

  .

  In:

  Gee, Gabriel N.; Franchette, Anne-Laure; Caceres Mardones, Jorge, eds.,

  Mobile Soils.

  Zürich:

  TETI press.

  pp. 15-20.

• Jäger, Monica Ursina,

  2021.

  Liquid territory

  .

  In:

  Gee, Gabriel N.; Wiedmer, Caroline, eds.,

  Maritime Poetics : From Coast to Hinterland.

  Bielefeld:

  transcript.

  pp. 143-148.

  Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 219.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839450239

• Bättig-Frey, Petra; Jäger, Monica Ursina; Müller, Urs,

  2020.

  Narrative environments : new settings for environmental education.

  In:

  Conference Abstracts : Health, Environment, and Education in Challenging Times.

  The 14th Winter Meeting : The International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Education about Health and the Environment, online, 4-5 December 2020.

  pp. 2.

  Available from: https://hee-journal.uni-koeln.de/winter-meeting

• Bättig-Frey, Petra; Jäger, Monica Ursina,

  2020.

  Using impact orientation for effective climate communication.

  In:

  SGM 2020 Symposium, Abstract booklet Session 19 (Tackling the Climate Crisis).

  18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2020, Zurich (Switzerland), 6-7 November 2020.

  Swiss Academy of Science : Platform Geosciences.

  pp. 477.

  Available from: https://geoscience-meeting.ch/sgm2020/wp-content/uploads/abstract_volumes/SGM_2020_Symposium_19.pdf

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

2015 'Dystopie', Kulturplatz SRF1 und 3Sat
2014 'Leben für die Kunst' Dokumentarfilm von Antonia Meile für Sternstunde Kunst SRF
2014 Topographies, Monica Ursina Jäger, Kodoji Press, Baden
2013 100 London Artists, Volume 2: 50 Other Media, iBook
2011 RAISING – 100 Artists to Keep an Eye on, Daab Köln
2010 IBK Art Award‘Drawings’
2007 Swiss Art Award, Bundesamt für Kultur

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