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Can Design make the world a better place? It must.

The Design education at ZHdK builds on a vivid exchange between disciplines. It encourages to envision wishful futures and imparts state-of-the-art research practices that contribute to planetary well-being. Fearlessness, urgency and a strong will to engage with the world and pressing issues of our times characterise graduates from the Department of Design.

Together with the Swiss magazine Wohnrevue, the Department of Design has launched the special edition «Design is the Future». Young talents, faculty members, graduate students, and employees of the Department of Design develop responsible and tangible visions of the future and share insights into their critical thinking and into their design processes.

Starting now, photo collages of chosen graduate projects featured in the magazine will be presented in illuminated poster boxes at Milchbuck.

The special edition can be ordered on Wohnrevue’s website.

We thank VBZ for the collaboration, especially for providing the illuminated poster boxes at Milchbuck to present design projects by students of the Department of Design.

Credits Special Edition Wohnrevue x Departement Design

Overall Responsability
Prof. Hansuli Matter
Head of the Department of Design

Concept + Realisation
Maike Thies
Head of Communication & Scientific Associate
Department of Design

Art Direction + Design
Abhash Mittal
Scientific Associate
Department of Design

Photography Editorial
Jennifer Anger
Graduate BA Major Trends & Identity
Photographer and Fashion Producer

Editorial
Flurin Fischer
Scientific Associate
Department of Design

Maike Thies
Head of Communication & Scientific Associate
Department of Design

Proofreading
Nadina Hadzic
Tool-e-byte GmbH

Leonie Blasi
Administrative Assistant
Subject Area Game Design

Consultation
Rebecca Morganti-Pfaffhauser
Lecturer
Department of Design

Corina Zuberbühler
Head of Programme BA / MA Design
Department of Design

Video Documentation:
Emilia Trog
Student BA-Major Visual Communication

Special Edition Wohnrevue x Design. Design is the Future. Photo: Emilia Trog.
Special Edition Wohnrevue x Design. Design is the Future. Photo: Emilia Trog.
Special Edition Wohnrevue x Design. Design is the Future. Photo: Emilia Trog.
Special Edition Wohnrevue x Design. Design is the Future. Photo: Emilia Trog.
Special Edition Wohnrevue x Design. Design is the Future. Photo: Emilia Trog.
Special Edition Wohnrevue x Design. Design is the Future. Photo: Emilia Trog.
Special Edition Wohnrevue x Design. Design is the Future. Photo: Emilia Trog.
Special Edition Wohnrevue x Design. Design is the Future. Photo: Emilia Trog.
Hidden object picture by Jennifer Anger, graduate Trends & Identity, for the Special Edition Wohnrevue x Department of Design, November 2025.
Hidden object picture by Jennifer Anger, graduate Trends & Identity, for the Special Edition Wohnrevue x Department of Design, November 2025.