User-centred design has imposed itself solely on the development of computer interfaces and protocols. Far from being neutral, on the contrary, this approach to design is biased, because it is based on…
As part of a research project, Benjamin Stroun (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) sat down with Catherine Meurisse, author of the comics La Légèreté (Dargaud, 2016), Les Grands espaces (Dargaud, 2018), and more…
But what must fall? This podcast interviews members of French-speaking Swiss resistance collectives who stand against forms of oppression such as racism, patriarchy and police authority. This question broadens the notion of…
In this podcast combined with a large body of images, Charlotte Laubard (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) explores what she calls the ‘self-taught enigma.’ Multiform, this enigma questions the modes of art learning…
Portrayed as an absolute oddity, both solitary and providential, the American singer-songwriter and cartoonist Daniel Johnston (1961-2019) has often been labelled an outsider, ‘naïve’ and ‘crude,’ by artistic historiography. Based on readings…
This selection of works by students and alumni from the HEAD’s creative writing workshops testifies to the vitality and diversity of ways in which a text can be rendered. The variety of…
This new episode in the Head voices section, which revisits notable conferences held at the HEAD – Genève in a relatively distant past, gives the floor back to the artist Dora Garcia.…
During the weeks at the beginning of the second semester at the HEAD – traditionally dedicated to transversal workshops – the artist Vidya Gastaldon invited the sound artist Jonathan Frigeri to design…
Source of life or the « armed wing » of migration policies; object of contemplation for painters and object of fears for islanders; static or furious element, deceptive metaphor for commercial exchanges…
Passing through Geneva in 2018, the comic-book author and founder of the independent publishing houses L’Association and L’Apocalypse Jean-Christophe Menu sat down with Clément Paurd to talk about his obsessions. Menu explains…