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ECAL Open Day,29.11.2025,ECAL, Renens

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ECAL Open Day,
29.11.2025,
ECAL, Renens

ECAL opens its doors and invites you to discover its activities in the fields of Fine Arts, Cinema, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Digital Design, and Photography.

INNOVATION BY DESIGN 2025,12.11.2025,ECAL, Renens

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INNOVATION BY DESIGN 2025,
12.11.2025,
ECAL, Renens

Immerse yourself in innovation and design during an inspiring evening organized by the Municipality of Renens as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, on November 12 at ECAL.

ECAL at GIFF Festival 2025,31.10–09.11.2025,Genève

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ECAL at GIFF Festival 2025,
31.10–09.11.2025,
Genève

From 31 October to 9 November, ECAL will be present at the GIFF Festival 2025.

EXHIBITION ECAL DIPLOMAS 2025,30.10–05.12.2025,ECAL, Renens

EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITION ECAL DIPLOMAS 2025,
30.10–05.12.2025,
ECAL, Renens

From 31 October to 5 December, ECAL presents the Diploma Projects 2025. Opening on Thursday 30 October at 6 pm.

Screening of diploma films 2025,28.10.2025,Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne

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Screening of diploma films 2025,
28.10.2025,
Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne

On Tuesday October 28, the ECAL presents the graduation films of the Bachelor Cinema at the Cinémathèque Suisse.

ECAL AT KIKK FESTIVAL 2025,23–26.10.2025,Namur, Belgique

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ECAL AT KIKK FESTIVAL 2025,
23–26.10.2025,
Namur, Belgique

ECAL Bachelor Media & Interaction Design is taking part in the KIKK Festival 2025 in Namur (Belgium) from October 23 to 26, 2025 with a selection of projects.

Design for Recycling through Automation and Robotics in Apparel Accessories and Footwear

Design for Recycling through Automation and Robotics in Apparel Accessories and Footwear

with Maxwell Ashford

This project develops design for recycling textile-based goods, one of the most damaging waste streams, using contemporary toolsets to dismantle products into pure fractions.

Masterclass ECAL – JAZMÍN LÓPEZ,15.10.2025,Auditoire Leenaards, ECAL

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Masterclass ECAL – JAZMÍN LÓPEZ,
15.10.2025,
Auditoire Leenaards, ECAL

ECAL Cinema Department welcomes Argentine filmmaker and artist Jazmín López for a lecture as part of her ECAL residency at La Becque.

Thomas Gaudin – UnBubble

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Thomas Gaudin – UnBubble

with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Lara Défayes, Laura Nieder

Unbubble is an interactive installation in which a robot explores a user’s smartphone to analyze their Instagram usage. This intrusive act highlights a paradox: if it’s rare to hand one’s phone to a machine, we nonetheless do so every day by letting algorithms collect our data. Our online habits shape a tailor-made reality that filters, sorts, suggests, and sometimes limits our horizons. Unbubble questions how our digital traces construct a fragmented image of ourselves — one that is then used to guide our choices, desires, and attention. The installation invites us to become aware of these mechanisms and opens up a space to imagine other narratives, other ways of navigating, and other worlds to explore beyond the paths laid out by algorithms.

Livia Schmid – Trail Sync

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Livia Schmid – Trail Sync

with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Laura Nieder, Gaël Hugo, Lara Défayes

In remote alpine regions, access to reliable information — such as trail conditions or weather alerts — becomes difficult in the absence of network coverage. Trail Sync addresses this challenge through a participatory and decentralized approach: local information boxes, integrated into hiking infrastructure, are passively updated by hikers using an offline mobile application. Each person passing near a box synchronizes contextual data, leaving a digital trace that benefits those who follow. Reinforcing existing signage without increasing technological dependency, the system is rooted in the mountain values of collective responsibility and solidarity.

Valère Zen-Ruffinen – Memoria

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Valère Zen-Ruffinen – Memoria

with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Lara Défayes

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.” - Roy Batty, Blade Runner (1982). Many of the moments we share with our loved ones fade from memory when nothing brings them back to life. Little by little, they disappear. Memoria is a photo album application that explores the fragility of memory, and how we maintain — or allow to fade — our connections through it. Through a process of gradual disappearance, the people in our photos slowly fade if no new memories shared with them are added. To keep their faces visible, users are invited to regularly enrich their album with new shared moments.

Elena Biasi – Magnetic Fragments

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Elena Biasi – Magnetic Fragments

with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Laura Nieder, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Lara Défayes

Before the rise of digital technology and social networks, everyday moments were captured on analog media and watched with family in one uninterrupted flow. These long VHS tapes, composed of successive sequences, gradually disappeared, victims of their obsolescence. Magnetic Fragments offers a way to rediscover these forgotten memories through a three-dimensional web interface, where each bubble represents a memory to explore and comment on. Designed for a private circle, the collaborative platform allows free navigation, revisiting each memory fragments in a dynamic way and breaking with the monotonous structure of past viewings. Magnetic Fragments thus becomes a space for intergenerational transmission, where the past is shared in the present.

Alexine Sierro – Spira Memoriae

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Alexine Sierro – Spira Memoriae

with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Lara Défayes

In a world where ecosystems are dying out and certain smells are evaporating, what is happening to the places and stories that gave them form? Spira Memoriae is an immersive olfactory experience in virtual reality that invites users to journey through a fragmented sensory world. Original fragrances, created in collaboration with perfumer Tennessee Macdougall, extend the reflection through the language of odours. Beacons of an abstract landscape, they reveal rare materials, sometimes extinct, but still present in our collective memory. Spira Memoriae explores the tensions between disappearance and persistence, industry and territory, reality and reconstruction. Smell becomes a vehicle for storytelling, transmission and shared fiction.

Lidia Molina González – Toilet Break Magazine

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Lidia Molina González – Toilet Break Magazine

by Lidia Molina González

It all started with taking a break. A pause. A moment alone in a shared space: quiet, ordinary, a little strange. Toilets might not be the first place you’d look for big ideas, but that’s why we chose them. Toilet Break uses this overlooked space to explore how we live together, take space, and connect. This first issue is about in-betweens: between public and private, inside and outside. It gathers voices from Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, across generations and practices. A place where ideas circulate freely, where serious things can be said with a wink. A collective and personal space to test new editorial forms, listen more carefully, and believe in detours as a way forward. To take, quite literally, a moment to reflect and sit with things.

Flora Hayoz – FACE À FACE

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Flora Hayoz – FACE À FACE

by Flora Hayoz

FACE À FACE is an exploration of loneliness through two mediums: dance and graphic design. This project brings together two practices to give shape to a hybrid creation. On one hand, a choreographic piece co-choreographed with Gaia Menchini, centred on states of loneliness and then captured on video. The second medium is a publication that extends the piece. By questioning the book as an object, it is designed to be read by two people and becomes a tool for dialogue and listening. The publication thus diverts from its usual uses, creating a sensory experience. The two media interact with each other, inviting us to experience solitude both in movement and in the sharing of reading. Thus, FACE À FACE offers an experience where solitude becomes the starting point for an encounter.

Paul Paturel – Modulat – 2025 #2

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Paul Paturel – Modulat – 2025 #2

by Paul Paturel

Grime Index is an interactive VJ-ing project that centralizes, visualizes, and enables navigation through iconic moments of grime — a chaotic genre born on London’s pirate airwaves. By turning audio data into visual identity and live signage, the project makes a performance-based, oral, and improvised culture more readable. Designed for both newcomers and longtime fans, it is built around three interchangeable modules — MC, instrumental, and lyrics — honoring the culture of sampling, MCing, and mixing. Diarization, transcription, dynamic typography, and real-time effects combine to reveal grime’s living and navigable memory.

Léa Corin – Neither Fully Free, Nor Fully Captive

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Léa Corin – Neither Fully Free, Nor Fully Captive

by Léa Corin

Neither Fully Free, Nor Fully Captive explores the theme of day parole. Through a video installation and a book, this project archives and documents the activities of an association dedicated to reintegration. The projection, conceived as an emotional archive, combines experimental videos with sound testimonies from individuals on day parole supported by the association, revealing the complexity of this transition. The book, as a complement, adopts a documentary and sensitive approach, blending stories and visual creations. This project transcends graphic form to foster social dialogue and shed light on an essential yet often overlooked issue.

EXPOSITION DU PRIX PLATEFORME 10 X ECAL: Gary Sandoz – Reminix,27.09–21.12.2025,Plateforme 10 – Les arcades

EXHIBITIONS

EXPOSITION DU PRIX PLATEFORME 10 X ECAL: Gary Sandoz – Reminix,
27.09–21.12.2025,
Plateforme 10 – Les arcades

From 27 September to 21 December 2025, Reminix, the exhibition by Gary Sandoz, winner of the Plateforme 10 × ECAL Prize, can be discovered under the arcades of Plateforme 10.

Cuvée Pierre Keller 2025,25.09.2025,Saint-Saphorin

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Cuvée Pierre Keller 2025,
25.09.2025,
Saint-Saphorin

On Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 5pm, the 7th edition of the limited cuvée "lâche-moi la grappe" will be tasted and sold at the Vinothèque du Château de Glérolles.

EXHIBITION OF THE PRIX IMAGES VEVEY X ECAL: LEA SBLANDANO,24.09–21.12.2025,L'Appartement – Espace Images Vevey

EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITION OF THE PRIX IMAGES VEVEY X ECAL: LEA SBLANDANO,
24.09–21.12.2025,
L'Appartement – Espace Images Vevey

From 24 September to 21 December 2025, as part of L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey, Lea Sblandano, winner of the Prix Images Vevey x ECAL 2024, presents Neijuan, her Bachelor Photography project.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS 2024

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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS 2024

A dozen personalities with links to the ECAL - graduates, professors or lecturers - were honoured at the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2024" awards

ECAL × micasa

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ECAL × micasa

HOMEWORKS: a limited collection designed by ECAL's Bachelor of Industrial Design programme for the swiss brand micasa

ECAL x La Becque Résidence 2025 : Jazmín López

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ECAL x La Becque Résidence 2025 : Jazmín López

Argentinian filmmaker and artist Jazmín López is an ECAL resident at La Becque during the fall semester.

AWARDS & GRANTS 2025

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AWARDS & GRANTS 2025

The graduation ceremony held on 27 June 2025 was also an opportunity to highlight many diploma projects through the awarding of Grants and Prizes. Congratulations to all the graduates and award winners!

Two ECAL photographers honoured with the Dior Prize for Photography 2025

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Two ECAL photographers honoured with the Dior Prize for Photography 2025

Sara de Brito Faustino and Aline Savioz, respectively a graduate and student of the Bachelor's programme in Photography at ECAL, are among the winners of the 2025 edition of the prestigious Dior Prize for Photography and Visual Arts for Young Talents.

ECAL label for the Vaud Parliament wine

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ECAL label for the Vaud Parliament wine

To celebrate the collaboration between the three branches of government, the Vaud Parliament is unveiling its very first vintage wine – adorned with a label designed by ECAL.

Of the 28 ECAL graduates who were finalists for the 2025 Swiss Design Awards, 13 received awards

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Of the 28 ECAL graduates who were finalists for the 2025 Swiss Design Awards, 13 received awards

Following the nomination of 28 of its graduates as finalists for the Swiss Design Awards 2025, ECAL is proud to announce that 13 have been awarded this prestigious distinction by the Federal Office of Culture. This strong representation once again demonstrates the quality and diversity of the talent trained at the university

A Graduation Film Selected at Annecy Animation Film Festival 2025

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A Graduation Film Selected at Annecy Animation Film Festival 2025

The animated short film Qui part à la chasse by ECAL graduate Léa Favre has been selected for the official competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Manor Cultural Prize 2026 awarded to Lucas Erin

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Manor Cultural Prize 2026 awarded to Lucas Erin

Congratulations to artist Lucas Erin, ECAL graduate, who has been awarded the 2025 Manor Cultural Prize for the canton of Vaud. The jury was impressed by his approach, both precise and poetic.

ECAL × EHL

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ECAL × EHL

When gastronomy meets design to elevate the dining experience

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