Cities raise their NEXPLORER flags
01. August 2021, NEXPO Team
The NEXPLORER flag of St. Gallen is installed. Photo by ExtraMileFilms
The innovative online opinion survey shows what moves us as a society and which topics should shape the next national exhibition. On 1 August, the first interim results of the ten NEXPO founding cities were hoisted as flags and presented by the city presidents and mayors in short videos. Join in! https://umfrage.nexplorer.ch/en/chapter/1
NEXPLORER takes the step from the individual to the collective and becomes a tangible experience. On 1 August 2021, the values survey of "NEXPO - the new Expo" will present the first interim results from the ten largest cities in Switzerland. Not only digitally, but as waving flags above the roofs of Basel, Bern, Biel/Bienne, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano, Lucerne, St.Gallen, Winterthur and Zurich. From the individual results of the more than 2,000 participants, Swiss crosses with very special characteristics were generated for each city. These will be hoisted as flags at emblematic locations.
The NEXPLORER flag of Biel. Photo by ExtraMileFilms
During this special Tour de Suisse, ten video clips with commentaries by the mayors of the cities were created to document the raising of the NEXPLORER flags for the flagging on 1 August.
To the video clips from the NEXPO cities: www.nexplorer.ch/de/album
Taking the pulse of Switzerland - first insights
From the first interim results, it is already possible to outline similarities and differences between the ten largest cities in Switzerland.
People from Zurich, Lucerne and Biel/Bienne favour the value of freedom, while in Basel, Winterthur and St.Gallen equality is prioritised. In Geneva and Lausanne, on the other hand, curiosity emerges as the strongest value. Bern has a particularly committed profile for all three values equality, freedom and curiosity, while Lugano stands out for its strong relationship to origin. In Basel, Lausanne, Bern and Biel/Bienne, the relationship to nature is very strong, whereas people in Lausanne and Bern, but also in St.Gallen, show the strongest affinity to technology.
The crosses of Biel/Bienne, Lucerne and St.Gallen show the most harmonious profiles overall. St.Gallen in particular seems to be wary of extremes. Basel, Lausanne and Bern, on the other hand, show multi-faceted enthusiasm in all four poles, while Geneva reaches for "there", Lugano for "here", Zurich for "I" and Winterthur for "we".
What makes friends, family and neighbours tick? What makes us tick?
As of 1 August, NEXPLORER will become faster. Participants can now choose between a short and a long version and create their own profile. The results can be saved, shared and compared with friends. Who stands more for freedom and independence and to whom is nature or living together more important than individual development?
The NEXPLORER values survey uses surprising questions to draw an individual Swiss cross - based on the well-known smart spiders - and aims to use the diversity of the resulting profiles to find out what makes Switzerland special and what values hold the country together.
With their initiative, the NEXPO cities invite the whole of Switzerland to join in with NEXPLORER from 1 August! To the website with the survey: www.nexplorer.ch
NEXPLORER is supported by the Mercator Foundation Switzerland, the Gebert Rüf Foundation and the Citizen Science Center of the UZH/ETHZ.
The NEXPLORER flag of Basel is installed. Photo by ExtraMileFilms
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