Research project, ECAL 2018
in PROJECTS / R&D RESEARCH PROJECTS (R&D)
Swiss Graphic Design and Typography
Revisited
The
research project “Swiss Graphic Design and Typography Revisited” is divided
into three sub-projects: ‘Principles of Education’, ‘Networks of Practice’ and
‘Strategies of Dissemination’. This three-year project is the biggest research
collaboration established in the design field since the SNSF began its
activities.
Swiss
graphic design and typography are representative of Swiss culture, but have
themselves also had an impact on this country’s national identity. In the SNSF
project ‘Swiss Graphic Design and Typography Revisited’, seven universities
engage in joint research into the status of Swiss graphic design from today’s
perspective. Coordinated by the Bern University of the Arts, researchers of the
universities of applied sciences from Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano, and
Zurich, as well as from the University of Bern are participating.
In
the three sub-projects, mixed groups of researchers from the different
institutions investigate into different aspects of Swiss graphic design – its
teaching, its networks and its forms of publication.
The
result is a critical contribution to our understanding of the emergence and
current self-perception of Swiss graphic design and typography. Above and beyond
this, the project helps to consolidate ‘design history’ as a field of research
and practice in Switzerland, and provides new, relevant findings for the
international scholarly discourse on visual communication.
Participants
FHNW
HGK – Academy of Art and Design Basel
HKB
– Berne University of the Arts (Main applicant)
University
of Berne, Institute of Art History
HEAD
– Genève – Geneva School of Art and Design
ECAL
– Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne
SUPSI
– University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
ZHdK
– Zurich University of the Arts
Applicants:
Arne
Scheuermann
Michael
Renner
Sarah
Owens
Peter
J. Schneemann
Co-coordinators
and researchers:
Davide
Fornari
Robert
Lzicar
Researchers:
Chiara
Barbieri
Rudolf
Barmettler
Roland
Früh
Jonas
Niedermann
François
Rappo
Doctoral
students:
Jonas
Berthod
Sandra
Bischler
Constance
Delamadeleine
Ueli
Kaufmann
Sarah
Klein
Sara
Zeller
Partners
Aiap
– Associazione italiana design della comunicazione visiva
Federal
Office of Culture
Graphis
Museum
für Gestaltung – Schaudepot
Swiss
National Library
ZHdK
– Zurich University of the Arts – Medien und Informationszentrum MIZ, Archiv
ZHdK
Period
Ongoing,
October 2016 – September 2019
Funded
by the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation)