Zurich meets Hong Kong 2017
As part of "Zurich meets Hong Kong – A Festival of Two Cities", a festival hub was set up in the centrally located "Times Square" shopping mall, which was enthusiastically received by the Hong Kong population. There, the visitors were able to virtually fly over the city of Zurich; ETH Zurich demonstrated its latest research in the field of augmented reality and creativity, while the ZHAW used a flight simulator to show how augmented reality makes the control of aircraft easier and safer.
Music, dance and film played a prominent role. Every evening a musical performance took place, for example a telematic concert played synchronously in Zurich and Hong Kong by the ZHdK and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. The film programme supervised by the International Short Film Festival Winterthur with a focus on the oeuvre of H.R. Giger met with great interest.
A high-ranking delegation from Zurich also travelled to Hong Kong with representatives from politics, science and business. Among other things, she participated in a conference on the future of energy and mobility in smart cities.
From 21 to 29 October 2017, the "Zurich meets Hong Kong" festival took place in Hong Kong. Zurich's performance in Hong Kong has found a large and interested audience. Around 4000 people attended the cultural and scientific events. The festival hub at Times Square and the Swiss Design Market at K11 attracted around 50,000 visitors. The Zurich institutions used the festival to consolidate existing cooperations and initiate new projects.