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…
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…
For the first time, the Department of Interior Design has been commissioned to design the scenography of the fashion show for the Fashion Design graduates’ collections which will be held on 8…
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…
Interior design is subject to the growth of architecture and design, which appropriate its own field of competence. Yet interior design’s particularities — flexibility and timeliness as well as its own considerations…
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.…
The architect and design theorist Mark Wigley has engaged in a re-evaluation of the notion of design, so as to uncover some of the features that led mankind to design its own…
Our age has been described as the age of winter – an ice age for possibilities. Faced with this ‘crisis of the future’ that the early 21st century is undergoing, Les Impatients…
Digital technologies are radically reshaping our perception and occupation of cities. Join speculative architect Liam Young and an all-seeing smart city operating system as they take a tour in a driverless taxi…
Cybernetics has addressed all these issues, which have made a major comeback in the public discourse about technology, while also constructing a framework (in particular around Norbert Wiener’s public commitments) for political…