Plenary Sessions
Unlike the parallel workshops, which require participants to choose a session, the plenary sessions will involve everyone and provide a shared learning experience.
Table of contents
Keynote by Prof. Dr. Nivedita Prasad
Monday, 8 June
Prof. Nivedita Prasad, is Professor of Action Methods and Gender-Specific Social Work at Alice Salomon University in Berlin, where she heads the MA programme in Social Work as a Human Rights Profession, among other roles. Her research methodology is strongly oriented towards (feminist) participatory action research – a research method that tends to be neglected in Western Europe.
Project Marketplace
Monday, 8 June
At the Project Marketplace, various local Citizen Science Projects will showcase their work and invite participants to engage in discussions around their project posters. It is about getting to know the challenges, failures, and open questions behind the projects — and learning from what didn’t work as much as from what did.
Keynote 2
Wednesday, 10 June
TBA
Bar Camp
Wednesday, 10 June
A Bar Camp is a participant-driven, informal conference where you lead discussions, workshops, and presentations. Instead of a fixed program set by organizers, participants shape the agenda, sharing knowledge and ideas on topics that matter to them. This will be your chance to explore and discuss whatever interests or challenges you. You might initiate a discussion on a pressing question, host a skill-sharing session, or organize a roundtable with peers from your field. The technical details will be explained during the school, but for now, start thinking about what you’d like to bring to the Bar Camp.
Excursion - Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich
Thursday, 11 June
Exploring Citizen Science for Collaborative Exhibition Curation & Archiving
As part of the Summer School, participants will visit the Ethnographic Museum to engage with Rumble in the Archive, a participatory and community-driven space that critically examines Zurich’s colonial entanglements and postcolonial present. Rather than functioning as a conventional exhibition, Rumble in the Archive is a collective space for archiving, learning, and encounter, created by artists, researchers, civil society actors, and the museum team.
In addition, the visit will include an exchange on the museum’s ongoing renaming process. Participants will discuss how participatory citizen science approaches are being embedded in this institutional transformation, and explore different modalities of public involvement in reshaping archives, narratives, and the museum’s identity.