Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.It feels completely odd that I live in Z\u00fcrich. My young son and I moved here from Glasgow during the pandemic because nearly all my art commissions collapsed \u2013 they were linked to public spaces and performance. By coincidence, I had just done an interview for a permanent teaching job at the University of the Arts. It\u2019s in this massive old yoghurt factory, and alongside the art college where I now teach there\u2019s design, dance and music. It\u2019s a beautiful mixture of people rushing around. In Switzerland, everyone talks about \u201cpercentages\u201d; you meet someone and quickly understand their entire setup by what per cent they work. I teach 50 per cent, which is\u00a0brilliant for an artist \u2013 you have enough headspace for your own solo career.When we came to the city we went around making a list of things you could do for two francs. We found a beautiful old-fashioned merry-go-round that was 50 cents a ride. Then in the Transa shop, where you can buy the most absurdly specific hiking equipment, they\u2019ve also got ridiculously comfy chairs and hot chocolate from a machine for SFr1.50.\u00a0My son and I love to go to Bruno Weber Park. It\u2019s like a\u00a0meta-world a short train ride away from the city. It has\u00a0very elaborate sculptures by Weber that are up to 18m high, all cast in concrete; they\u2019re unbelievably imaginative. There\u2019s a bridge with a dragon head, there are winged creatures. It\u2019s extremely outside normality.\u00a0Then there\u2019s the zoo that has the most ludicrously wonderful elephant house. The elephants have swimming pools; it\u2019s just total, absolute luxury. And on the side is a\u00a0special part of the \u201chotel\u201d for naked mole rats. There\u2019s a\u00a0piece of glass where you look in; they have clever social structures where they share looking after the young. While they look so incredibly disgusting, you end up having this weirdly mixed reaction because they\u2019ve got superior, intuitive ways of managing their communities.\u00a0There are some wonderful parks in the hills around the city. We live near K\u00e4ferberg, which means Beetle Mountain. On the other side there\u2019s the Oerlikon, which is basically huge hills with woods. Everyone raves about the lake here, but I am absolutely in love with the river. The banks are rough and ready, and you just stumble down into the rocks and riverbed. It\u2019s extremely fast-running, so you need to respect it. The other thing to know about is the badi, which\u00a0are like lidos. One of my favourites is in Wollishofen. They\u2019re\u00a0cheap and beautifully designed. They\u2019re very socialist. Every class of person enjoys the badi.\u00a0We made a list of things you could do for two francsWhen I have a guest here, I take them to two places. One is Nonam, the North American Native Museum. You think, what the hell is it doing in Z\u00fcrich? The collection\u2019s amazing. There are all these videos where indigenous people talk about what they\u2019re doing. It\u2019s not presented as if they\u2019re in some bizarre other world; they\u2019re given the same respect contemporary artists would be in New York or London. On the other side of the lake, you have the Rietberg, a beautiful villa in a park with Gandhara art, Buddhas and a lot of south-east Asian statues. You cannot help but feel intimidated, even though there\u2019s a\u00a0de-hierarchising agenda \u2013 it still just smacks of authority.Food-wise, there\u2019s a Neapolitan caf\u00e9 called Caredda with all these over-the-top sculptural pastries. They wrap them in the most beautiful pink paper with gold string. I\u00a0also love Stadelhofen Station, which has a little piazza in\u00a0front of it with a beautiful fountain and outdoor caf\u00e9s. In Wipkingen, the area I live in, Nordbr\u00fccke is to die for \u2013\u00a0it\u2019s like a hip Berlin caf\u00e9\u00a0\u2013 and for bread and cinnamon buns and loving service, I go to Flughafebeck.One of my favourite shops is Musik Hug, which has vinyl records and sheet music on the ground floor; upstairs there are pianos, violins and guitars, and everyone\u2019s busy playing music. It sold the tickets to the Cabaret Voltaire at the time of Dada. Second-hand or \u201cbrockie\u201d shops are a big thing too \u2013 if\u00a0you want glassware or crystal, it\u2019s all laid out in different colours. Another thing I love is candlemaking. You can be creative and learn to do it in seconds. I go to Exagon.The thing about Z\u00fcrich is it\u2019s all about lifestyle. If you\u00a0were just visiting the city, you\u2019d just think it\u2019s, like, whatever. But the people living here are so clever with how\u00a0they use the city. Oh God, it\u2019s efficient.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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