01.10.2019
Enseigner par le milieu
A text by Yann Chateigné
Upon entering his final year as Head of Visual Arts in September of 2017, Yann Chateigné addressed some of the key principles he had learnt during his eight years in the department.…
Category : long read
08.07.2019
An Initial Conversation
Denise Bertschi with Giulia Bini
Exploring places in the world where Switzerland has played an active historical role, whether as a nation or through its nationals, the artist Denise Bertschi works on the notion of « Swiss…
24.06.2019
Diasporas of the So-Called Anthropocene
Notes in the Margins of "The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva" - An essay by Gene Ray (HES-SO)
Gene Ray (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) calls for a post-modernism that would fully overcome capitalist modernity and its catastrophes. From a reading of Walter Benjamin’s Thesis on the Philosophy of History and…
17.04.2019
The Alien and the Alibi
A text by Christophe Kihm
Christophe Kihm (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) outlines the history of extra-terrestrial life representations through a series of scientific, philosophical and artistic speculations. The field Kihm calls “alienology” — which is intended to…
12.03.2019
A Dialogue on Interior Design Education
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…