EXHIBITIONS
From December 9, 2022 to March 26, 2023, Bachelor Industrial Design students will take part in the exhibition Willy Guhl - Thinking with Your Hands at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, which invites the pulbic to rediscover the creations of the famous Swiss designer.
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From December 8 to 16, 2022, the 100 most beautiful posters of 2021 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) are back at Galerie l'elac! The exhibition organized by 100 beste Plakate e. V. and in collaboration with the ECAL presents the posters selected during the competition in 2022.
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On Wednesday, December 7, 2022, Bachelor Graphic Design invites Sébastian Strappazzon, Swiss designer and founder of the brand AVNIER, for a lecture at ECAL: four lessons on creativity. Free entrance.
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On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, Master of Advanced Studies in Desgin for Luxury & Craftsmanship invites Luca Nichetto, Italian designer, for a lecture at ECAL. Free admission.
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From December 1 to 18, 2022, la Ferme des Tilleuls hosts the exhibition of the Encouragement Prize of the City of Renens. A prize that rewards Lea Sblandano and Luis Rodgriguez, students respectively in Bachelor Photography and Master Product Design for the quality of their work.
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Invited by ECAL Cinema Department, Mexican director Tatiana Huezo presents a Masterclass on Monday, November 28, 2022, followed by the screening of her first feature film Noche de fuego and a Q&A.
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On Saturday, November 26, from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm, ECAL opens its doors and invites you to discover its programs (Foundation Year, Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, Master of Advanced Studies, Continuing Education) through presentations focused on the programs and professional perspectives.
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As part of the workshop weeks for first-year Bachelor students, ECAL invites international artists and designers.
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Within the framework of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Municipality of Renens is pleased to present the Innovation by Design Challenge Awards Night, which will celebrate its 6th edition on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at IKEA Auditorium at ECAL, in the presence of Thilo Brunner for a conference "Accelerating innovation through design".
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From November 10 to 12 2022, Jean Paul Gaultier opens the doors of its Paris headquarters to the general public. During Paris Photo, the House is partnering with ECAL to present the photography exhibition Under Your Smell. Students from Bachelor Photography will show their interpretation of Gaultier's perfumes. Free entry.
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From November 4th to 13th, the Geneva International Film Festival - GIFF offers films, series, interactive installations and works in virtual reality. On the occasion of the 28th edition and as part of its Virtual Territories program, Bachelor Media & Interaction Design students present 3 VR projects in total immersion.
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On Wednesday, November 2, ECAL presents Bachelor and Master graduation films at the Cinémathèque suisse. Then, from November 4 to 28 - opening on Thursday, November 3 from 6 to 8 pm - the diploma projects will be exhibited at ECAL, in its building in Renens.
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ECAL Bachelor Media & Interaction Design students are part of the Kikk Festival in Namur (Belgium) from October 27 to 30, 2022.
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From 21 October to 23 December 2022, ECAL and more specifically the students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship will unveil the result of their latest collaboration with the Italian brand Marsotto LAB and officially launch the collection of the same name, composed of a selection of accessories created between 2018 and today through collaborations with international designers.
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From 15 October 2022 to 16 April 2023 at Vitra Design Museum, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents "The ECAL Manual of Style - How to best teach design today?" - a book and an exhibition which propose a comprehensive presentation of the revered Swiss design institution’s fascinating teaching methodology, via design luminaries’ perspectives as well as a collection of its most innovative student’s projects.
EXHIBITIONS
After the Salone del Mobile in Milano, the Galerie l'elac and the KIKK Festival in Namur (BE), the Fantastic Smartphones exhibition will be held at the HEK - House of electronic Arts in Basel from 7 to 21 October 2022.
LECTURES
On the occasion of the release of his book Il y a bien longtemps, dans une salle de montage lointaine, très lointaine..., Paul Hirsch presents at ECAL his autobiography. A meeting led by Benoît Rossel (film director and teacher at ECAL) and Mykyta Kryvosheiev (film editor and Master Cinema ECAL/HEAD graduate).
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As part of ECAL x On exhibition in Zürich, meet the directors and assistants of the Product Design, Photography and Type Design Masters.
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Following a collaboration with the Swiss avant-garde brand On, ECAL presents the interdisciplinary work carried out jointly by the 2nd year students of the Product Design, Photography and Type Design Masters. An exclusive exhibition to discover from 23 September to 8 October 2022 in Zürich.
EXHIBITIONS
Following the success of the exhibition resulting from the Automated Photography research project at Paris Photo in 2021 and then at the Galerie l'elac in 2022, the ECAL is exporting this project to Plateform-L in Seoul from 17 September to 8 October 2022, through an immersive audiovisual exhibition.
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From 3 to 25 September 2022, photography in all its forms will take over the streets of Vevey, take over the parks and stroll along the banks of the lake. For three weeks, the Festival Images Vevey transforms the small town on the Riviera and welcomes a large audience. This year, three ECAL graduates are part of the programme.
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From August 26 to 28, the city center of Yverdon-les-Bains will host the Numerik Games Festival, whose 2022 edition will be dedicated to music. The Numerik Games Festival - a public event dedicated to digital art and culture - aims to promote digital technology through the various fields it can cover: musical, cultural, artistic, patrimonial, economic and academic. The ECAL invites you to dive into the heart of the experience, whether it is immersive, interactive or playful!
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On the occasion of the 75th edition of the Locarno Film Festival from 3 to 13 August 2022, many graduates of ECAL/Universityof Art and Design Lausanne will present movies:
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ECAL x Ferme des Tilleuls: Workshop cinema « One shot » by Patrick Muroni & workshop Photography "Dialogue en images" by Margot Sparkes
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The ECAL Talent Days provide a unique opportunity for professionals of all backgrounds to network with our recent graduates.
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At the initiative of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais and Fisheye , the second edition of the Palais Augmenté festival will be held from June 17 to 19, 2022 at the Grand Palais Ephémère in Paris. On this occasion, the Bachelor Media & Interaction Design of ECAL will be represented in several ways.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design, ECAL presents three exhibitions.
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Selection of exhibitions with ECAL graduates at Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milano.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (7 to 12 June 2022), Phaidon and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne are pleased to present "The ECAL Manual of Style" – a book which proposes a comprehensive, first-time revelation of the revered Swiss design institution’s fascinating teaching methodology, brought to life via a curated collection of its most innovative student projects.
EXHIBITIONS
On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (7 to 12 June 2022), Master Product Design students from ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne have created, in collaboration with Japanese brand Yamaha and its Design Laboratory, new types of music players in order to meet new requirements related to listening to music.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (7 to 12 June) and as part of the House of Switzerland Milano, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and praised Swiss bicycle brand BMC present a collection of handy and colourful accessories for the modern daily bike commute, created by ECAL’s Bachelor students in Industrial Design, under the guidance of Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Head of the programme, and Christian Spiess, Swiss designer and bicycle aficionado.
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Teaming up with iconic Finnish furniture company Artek, Bachelor Industrial Design students from ECAL, under the guidance of designer Julie Richoz, present a collection of playful objects for children made from salvaged b-quality, rejected and half-finished materials and offcuts. Staying true to the spirit of Artek and its founders, the products promote conscious manufacturing and seek to highlight the natural materials that have gone into producing these designs. Presented at the Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale – from 22 May to 4 September 2022 – at the Old Granary Building in Fiskars (Finland).
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On the occasion of the Munich Creative Business Week from 14 to 21 May 2022, ECAL and MINI present "Rethinking the Wheel" – a series of projets on steering wheels.
MECHANICAL MARVELS Craftsmanship in Movement: Celebrating Design and the Heritage of Switzerland’s Masters of Mechanical Art
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Arto Lindsay is an American artist, guitarist, singer and composer living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A genius of noise with collaboration as his main method, he has been working since the early 2000s on the carnival parade as a gigantic musical instrument.
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On the occasion of the "Time Design" exhibition organised by Watches and Culture - Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie and presented from 14 April to 8 May 2022 at the Pont de la Machine in Geneva, students from ECAL Bachelor of Industrial Design programme have created the display (windows), highlighting a hundred pieces that illustrate the inventiveness and diversity of watch design.
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On the occasion of Homo Faber a public exhibition of the finest European craftsmanship organised by the Michelangelo Foundation and staged at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice (Italy) from 10 April to 1st May 2022, ECAL presents a series of projects by Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship developed in collaboration with Association Mec-Art.
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ECAL Masterclass at Visions du Réel: Marco Bellocchio – Director, screenwriter, producer, Rome.
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ECAL Master Fine Arts Symposium: How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth.
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ECAL Conference: Joan Fontcuberta – Visual artist & photographer, Barcelona.
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On the occasion of the 5th edition of the Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne, an event initiated by the Swiss actor and director Vincent Perez, ECAL is hosting a series of online masterclasses by leading figures in the film industry.
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The Swiss Cinematheque and the ECAL Film Department invite you to an evening of support for the Ukrainian people on Friday 11th March at 7pm at ECAL.
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An increasing number of images are produced autonomously by machines for machines with a gradual exclusion of any human intervention. "Automated Photography" is a research project developed by the Master Photography at ECAL that addresses this situation by examining image production and distribution technologies, such as machine learning, drones CGI, augmented reality and photogrammetry.
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ECAL Masterclass: Nabil Ayouch – Director, Sarcelles/Casablanca
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On the occasion of artgenève from 3 to 6 March at Palexpo, ECAL presents projects by Bachelor Fine Arts students produced during a workshop with American artist Cheryl Donegan.
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In a relaxed and friendly atmosphere (drinks offered), we are happy to welcome you for portfolio reviews – do not forget to bring your files – and to answer all your questions related to some of our Masters.
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From 5 February (opening on 4 February at 6 pm) to 24 April 2022 at the Musée des beaux-arts in Le Locle, ECAL presents the exhibition "Smells Like Queer Spirit" created in collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier by third-year Bachelor Photography students, under the direction of Florence Tétier and Nicolas Coulomb (Novembre). Namsa Leuba and Erwan Frotin, two graduates of the Bachelor Photography programme at ECAL, will also be honoured with two monographic exhibitions.
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ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne and the Fondation Martin Bodmer have joined forces to celebrate typographic creation and the scripts of the world. ECAL will present original projects in contemporary typography and graphic design, from its Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Type Design programmes, comparing them with Fondation Martin Bodmer’s UNESCO listed heritage through a series of lectures, events and workshops on Sunday afternoons on 6 February, 27 February and 20 March 2022.
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On the occasion of the Solothurn Days from 19 to 26 January 2022, ECAL Cinema Department presents several Bachelor diploma films by students.
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ECAL Masterclass: Mathieu Amalric, actor, director, Paris