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…
The complex of works RIDDLES consists in five projects and exhibitions that took place in 2017 on the High Line in New York, at C L E A R I N G…
Mathieu Lehanneur draws his audience into a travelogue about his projects and the wishes of his sponsors, from a priest to a champagne brand. It appears that, beyond a considerable use of…
As soon as the colloquium is over, Alexandra Midal undertakes the flashback exercise. Her synthetic and personal re-reading unravels the spool of time and narratives, proceeding in between myth, animism and apocalypse but also…
For its 10th anniversary, HEAD – Geneva is hosting the International Conference Narratives of a Near Future which addresses the challenges that the next generation will have to meet by crossing, in…