23.06.2022
Les faussaires d’éclipses
Martin Zambaz explores a little-known historical episode, namely the blackout during the Second World War in Great Britain, when artificial lights were banned to protect towns and cities from German air raids.…
Category : MA in Space and communication
23.06.2022
Karelle Ménine : rencontres entre le poème et la ville
In the city, the passer-by, in turn a stroller, a tourist and – more often than not – a worker in a hurry, is confronted with an overabundance of textual material: advertising…
12.05.2022
Design of the Mind
Gadgets, Cinéma, Manipulations mentales et Espionnage
Cold War spy films bear witness to a polarity between overt technophilia and a critique of technology’s hold on the human mind. In this text, which prefigures an exhibition that Alexandra Midal…
07.04.2022
Talking Heads – matali crasset
A time for restitution
matali crasset is an admired designer, known for her public commissions and numerous editions with brands. In this Talking Heads event hosted by Alexandra Midal, crasset addresses the more subterranean and essential…
20.01.2022
Talking Heads – La voix dans tous ses états
With Véronique Auguereau, Philippe Peythieu, Olivier Lebrun, Marge & Homer Simpson
Actress Véronique Augereau and actor Philippe Peythieu are the voices behind the French Marge and Homer Simpson. For this Talking Head, Augereau and Peythieu sit down with graphic designer Olivier Lebrun, author…
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,…
11.06.2020
Earth( e)scape. The Raising of Chicago
Master Thesis by Jozef Eduard Masarik
Raising of Chicago, a visionary project of the 19th century engineering, was a project consisting of lifting the whole city up to 14 feet above the city’s original location. Such projects blending…
10.06.2020
Face à face
Master Thesis by Amandine Lécuyer
In 1935, during French colonialism in Maghreb, the Franco-British moviemaker Edmond Thonger Gréville finished his movie Princess Tam Tam, starring Joséphine Baker as a poor young Tunisian woman named Aouïna. In the…
04.07.2019
Head to head II – Alexandra Midal
In this portrait, which takes the form of an interview, Julie Enckell Julliard seeks to grasp the originality and radicality of Alexandra Midal’s thinking, which enlarges the field of design theory by…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Space design, MA in Space and communication, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
11.12.2018
Oliver Ressler – Gathering around the Wreckage
Not too long ago, global warming was science fiction. Now it has become hard science, and a reality we already live in. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, average global temperature…