Christoph Miler
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Item type:Publication, Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy (extended version)(University of St. Gallen: Faculty of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities, 2025-07-03)Type:journal articleJournal:Unruly Natures - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Walking Tour Zurich North(University of St. Gallen: Faculty of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities, 2022-09-23); Isabel SeiffertType:journal articleJournal:Unruly Natures - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Tomorrow: Mostly CloudyWater is of outmost importance for the operation of the digital sphere. More often than not, the essential physical infrastructures for „the digital“—like server farms, datacenters or bitcoin mining facilities—are powered by and cooled down with the liquid element. In the alpine regions of Switzerland, new material geographies are emerging because rising temperatures make glaciers melt and enourmous amounts of water available. Cheap hydropower is generated, attracting big tech companies and datacenter operators, who brand their digital operations as „green“ and „sustainable“. In this essay, I explore how alpine landscapes are reconfigured through water-hungry digital industries. How many dams are errected, artifical lakes constructured and new water tunnels dug in order to guide the pretious water flows into the right direction? What are the ecological and social consequences of server racks and military supercomputers embedded in alpine territory? How do liquifying glaciers feed into rivers of data? And how do these new liquid ecologies generate financial liquidity?Type:book section - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Forest Gump VariationsThis essay explores the relationship between complex processes of globalization and the construction of personal identity. Using the example of the movei Forest Gump–with its main character going trough different phases and identities–four archetypical reactions to an increasingly "liquid life" (Zygmunt Bauman) are explored.Type:book section - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Error-free writing, at leasg most of the timr(2023-10-01); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Taming the Taxonomy(2023-03-25)This essay views existing botanical classification systems to be the result of design. The contribution, published in the catalogue of Vitra's exhibition "Garden Futures", poses the question: if we reframe conventional–perhaps outdated–perspectives on the plant world, could this help us reconsider our relationship with the natural world?Type:book section - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Intertwingled pedagogies: A note to the monolith‘Schools of Departure’ is a multi-year research project by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, with the aim of establishing a digital atlas mapping experiments in art and design education beyond the historical Bauhaus. This book aggregates a selection of texts that have initially been created for the online platform of the project. Addressing the histories and speculating about the futures of educational reforms seeking to decolonise ways of knowing and making, this issue titled Decolonising design education specifically looks at the role that different modes of instituting can take on for these struggles. Christoph Miler and Isabel Seiffert have contributed a personal history and critical reflection on their design education in the context of their evolving practice as designers and artistic researchers.Type:book sectionJournal:Schools of DepartureIssue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The image factory(Zurich University of the Arts, 2022-01-31); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Graphic design as a narrative toolThis essay explores the visual politics of maps. By dissecting various historical and contemporary examples, cartography is analyzed as non-neutral and political. In parallel, alternative modes of map-making are explored, which try to counteract certain map-ingrained distortions, ideologies and power relations.Type:book section - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Animal Big BrotherAn essay exploring the influence of camera traps and other surveillance techniques on human-wolf-relationships. The aesthetics, histories and politics of techno-scientific animal surveillance are explored in the context of wolf management techniques in Switzerland.Type:book sectionIssue:3