Cinema, BA in Cinema, Fine arts, BA in Fine arts, Space design, BA in Interior design, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, BA in Product Design/Jewellery and Accessory, Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication

05.03.2021

ISSUE #6 – Talking Words

Creative writing practices at HEAD – Genève

The HEAD offers various workshops devoted to writing in art and design, and this feature looks at writing practices at the school through student productions and interviews with two specialists: Carla Demierre…

Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Research Institute for Art and Design, Research projects

01.09.2020

La maille anticapitaliste

Interview de Valentine Ebner, responsable du projet KnitGeekResearch

Historically, the clothing industry has often been in the vanguard of great economic rationalisation movements. It was one of the first industries to be industrialised in the 19th century, and in the…

Fine arts, CCC Research-based Master Programme, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, MA in Fashion and Accessory Design, Visual communication, MA in Media Design, Space design, MA in Space and communication, Fine arts, MA TRANS - Art, education, engagement, Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices

23.06.2020

ISSUE #5 – Masterful thesis

A selection of Master Thesis

This edition features a selection of thesis completed in 2019 and 2020 in the HEAD – Genève's different Master’s orientations. The selection is a testimony to the diversity of issues at stake,…

Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, MA in Fashion and Accessory Design

12.06.2020

Sustainability revisited

MA in Fashion and Accessory Design Thesis by Tara Mabiala

In her Fashion and Accessory Design Master’s thesis, Tara Mabiala tackles the question of sustainability in fashion through an affective and political approach. Instead of focusing on an optimisation of production modes…

Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, BA in Fashion Design

10.12.2019

Third culture clothes

Having graduated as a Bachelor in Fashion Design in 2019, Maëva Weissen created an upcycled women’s collection titled “1213 Onex or the Manifest of a Third Culture.” Her source material was used…

Space design, BA in Interior design, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts

06.11.2019

ISSUE #3 – Models on the jetty

Form and function of the fashion show today

Aude Fellay has interviewed designers for this special feature dedicated to the issues facing contemporary fashion shows. Although they all condemn the industry’s overproduction and the image effects, at the expense of…

Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory

06.11.2019

A piecemeal conversation on bus No. 6 on 8 November

A short play by Ambroise Tièche

Invited by the Fashion Department to evoke the fashion show, artist and Visual Arts teacher Ambroise Tièche imagines a conversation that drifts from one thread to the next following a Geneva bus…

Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory

06.11.2019

The Fashion Show at the Heart of Debate

The recent climate change protests have affected the Fashion Weeks. The event in Stockholm was cancelled, while it was symbolically buried by the Extinction Rebellion activists in London. In other words, it…

Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory

22.10.2019

Alex Mullins: designer d’images

Une interview de Bertrand Maréchal

In this interview carried out in connection with a master class focusing on prints, which he conducted at HEAD – Genève, Alex Mullins evokes his obsessional relationship with ideas. The London fashion…

Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication

08.01.2019

Jean-Pierre Greff – Foreword

Jean-Pierre Greff, the HEAD – Geneva’s director, returns to the founding of the school’s interdisciplinary project, and of the AC/DC (contemporary art/contemporary design) symposium, a cornerstone event for the school in 2007.…