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| © ETH Zürich/Allesandro Della Bella |
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| © Arnd Wiegmann |
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| From September 8 to October 15, 2023, "OPEN YOUR EYES" will present a festival of creative photography to the public in Zurich – as a plea for understanding the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The photographs will be exhibited in the streets, squares and parks of Zurich to break the boundaries with viewers and involve them in the process of reflecting on these works, which have been created around the globe and show the social, political, scientific and cultural diversity of our world from a different perspective. |
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| © Renée C. Byer |
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| Spacious open-air installations intertwine documentary photography and scientific knowledge in 17 exhibition islands to create a plea for peace, tolerance and togetherness borne of a humanist spirit. "The exhibited works are testimonials that prove that the connection between man, technology and nature is more than ever of unique social relevance," says Lois Lammerhuber, co-initiator of the festival and himself a multiple award-winning photographer. |
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| © George Steinmetz |
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Through the aesthetic magic of picture narratives, the gardens, streets and squares of Zurich are transformed into a picture city. Public space becomes the setting for a Gesamtkunstwerk, whose energy culminates in research findings that affect us all. This results in surprising perspectives full of sensual creativity. The aim of open your eyes is to invite visitors to engage with the challenging issues of our time in a sensual way and to be amazed by great images. Nature, beauty, art, insight – and inspiration to reflect on the world we live in.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by 193 United Nations member states in September 2015 and provides a common blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet today and in the future. "OPEN YOUR EYES" also means being very clear about the transformation of our world. In the design and implementation of the goals, the importance of people is emphasised as the central force of sustainable development – in the sense of people, earth and welfare. |
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| © Randy Olson |
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The presented photographic works are not to be understood as illustrations of the SDGs, but as comments and remarks in the sense of Cornell Capa’s "Concerned Photographers". Capa chose this term to describe works that go beyond documenting events and show them with a humanitarian impulse. This school of thought is also known as a concept in the context of science: The term "Concerned Scientists" is used to describe harnessing rigorous, independent science to solve our planet’s most pressing problems.
The exhibitions engage with the human condition in such an intense and easily understandable way that their experience becomes a highly empathetic international communication benchmark that is unparalleled. |
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| © Jennifer Hayes |
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| ETH Zurich adds around 50 contributions from its own universe of science and innovation to the pictorial works. The projects and solutions selected by ETH for each of the SDGs provide orientation for options for action. In terms of content, this means making the successes of our civilisation visible. And further, it means triggering national and international media communication to strengthen the Sustainable Development Goals as a frame of reference for peaceful and just coexistence in a global society. Successful living as the matrix of our existence, because: Without peace, everything is nothing. The chosen themes will celebrate life. |
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| © Maryam Firuzi |
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| "OPEN YOUR EYES" is dedicated to all people and the natural and built environment. The goal is to reach the breadth of globalised society with a unique exhibition format in the fall of 2023. It creates a new narrative of art and science as a collaborative intellectual-artistic narrative, thus creating an impact with the highest possible social dimension of sustainability. |
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| © Ciril Jazbec |
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With open your eyes, the cityscape of Zurich will put on a different dress. From the Polyterrasse of the ETH Zurich, where the sustainability goal 4 "High Quality Education" is thematised, the view glides over to the Lindenhof and up to the lake. The two rounds of photography and science begin at the Lindenhof and at General Guisan Quai and extend over a length of around three kilometres through the city and along Lake Zurich to the lakeside resort of Enge.
More information and full program: here |
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| © ETH Zürich/Allesandro Della Bella |
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| The festival catalogue is available directly from the visitor centre on General Guisan Quai, Zurich and online from Edition Lammerhuber: it not only presents the quintessence of the exhibitions but also enchants with its typical scent of hay. Printed CO2-neutral on grass paper, it underlines the motto of the festival stop. think. feel. act. |
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| Edition Lammerhuber |
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