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…
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…
For most of us nowadays, taking a photograph usually consists of tapping a smartphone screen, setting off a series of operations which lead to a ready-to-share image for social media. The angle,…
This Media Design thesis by Mathilde Buénerd, defended in 2019, explores autocompletion, the omnipresent tools which help device users write their daily text messages or complete online forms. Starting from a reflection…
In this interview, Caroline Bernard returns to some practical experiments she conducted with colleagues for the research project “Design viral: méthodologies pour un buzz citoyen.” From an attempt at a “self heroisation,”…
This 2020 Media Design Master’s thesis is dedicated to the design space for Arabic letter-forms in motion. It is an excellent introduction to the subject, which François Harik tackles from the angle…
In this interview with Charlotte Laubard, the French anthropologist and India and Hinduism specialist Emmanuel Grimaud revisits some of the fascinating experiments and cinematographic research in which he tackled the inter-subjective borders…
The book Almanach Ecart. A collective archive, edited by Elisabeth Jobin and Yann Chateigné, concludes two years of research conducted in the archives of the Geneva collective Ecart (active between 1969 and…
In his Media Design Master’s Thesis, Simon Pinkas analysed the rise of outrage culture on social media, studying significant recent cases in which true or false information triggered important – and sometimes…
During a research project, the stage director Isis Fahmy and designers Laura Couto Rosado and Benoît Renaudin joined forces to assess the concept of performative objects. This notion, which they invented, covers…