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Guided by EPFL + ECAL Lab, participants explored how AI technologies can be integrated into product design to enhance functionality and enrich the user experience. Over the week-long workshop, BA students engaged with the theoretical foundations of AI while experimenting with practical applications across multiple use cases.

Workshop (2023) with EPFL+ECAL Lab

Assistants
Bruno Pauli Caldas
Students
Alejandrina Hernandez, Dona Levy, Oriana Gonzalez Fernandez, Basile Avvanzino, Mathilda Zubek, Noah Stanley, Damien Gabriel, Jeanne Reymond, Eva Reymond, Diego Eiholzer, Giulia Burrus, Arthur Németh, Iris Gerbex, Titouan Longatte, Jean-Elie Matile, Archibald Simon, Jeremy Loup, Gabrielle Lefèvre, Melchior Myard, Benjamin Claus, Salla Vallotton, Gaëlle Palard, Séraphin Monnard, Victoria Guffroy, Chloé Hamel, Virginie Lienhart, Lélie Guiochet
Know-how
Machine learning (ML, AI)

 

Led by Delphine Ribes Lemay, Béatrice Marie Durandard, and Luis Carlos Rodriguez Aguayo, the workshop encouraged speculative thinking, hands-on experimentation, and reflection on how AI reshapes creative practice, enabling designers to leverage these tools throughout the design process.

 

Images by ECAL/Jasmine Deporta

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Video by ECAL / Marvin Merkel

Utilizing state-of-the-art AI tools for text-to-image generation, each group designed and constructed a stool, drawing inspiration from different thematic starting points. Students not only learned to employ the different AI tools but also gained a solid theoretical understanding of the technology’s technical foundations and its practical applications in parallel to the creative process.

Physical results of the workshop – Images by EPFL + ECAL Lab

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Titled TECHNO WORKSHOPS, a series of workshops explored the creative potential of different technologies in the context of industrial design. Students were able to discover Additive Manufacturing with Rapid Liquid Print, Artificial Intelligence with the EPFL+ECAL Lab, and 3D Scanning with Michel Charlot and the Technopôle Sainte-Croix. These workshops gave them the opportunity to experiment with and reflect on the potential of such technologies, and to envision how they can be integrated into the design process — from early ideation and exploration to the tangible realization of objects and concepts.

TECHNO WORKSHOPS - Video by ECAL / Marvin Merkel
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SHOE REFORM

Project

  The Shoe Reform workshop, led by designer Michel Charlot and Siddhartha Berns, representative of AddiPole — a hub for reverse engineering and additive manufacturing — brought students together for an innovative exploration of 3D scanning technologies, in collaboration with Technopôle Sainte-Croix.   

RAPID LIQUID PRINT

Project

A short and engaging workshop held in collaboration with Rapid Liquid Print, a Boston-based startup and spinoff of the MIT Self-Assembly Lab, explored the fundamentals of Embedded 3D Printing by questioning, in both technical and poetic terms, what defines a curve, a surface, or a thickened volume as it transitions from the digital to the physical world.  

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Yann Müller – Trame Noire

BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Yann Müller – Trame Noire

by Yann Müller

As cities light up, the night fades from our sight. Trame Noire is a night-exploration mobile app designed to raise public awareness about the impacts of light pollution on the wildlife and flora that come alive at dusk. Combining immersive experience and citizen science, the project offers a new way to observe and understand our coexistence with the living world. Guided by the seasons and natural cycles, the app invites users to explore the urban environment and capture, from one location to the next, the unique light footprint of each space. Through these explorations, Trame Noire maps a sensitive geography of the dark, bringing to light how artificial illumination alters the behavior of nocturnal life.
Reverse DIffusion – 2026

BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Reverse DIffusion – 2026

with Matthieu Minguet, Jamy Herrmann

This workshop explores the use of real-time video streams as a medium for transforming reality. Through live capture or interface-based processes, participants experiment with different ways of altering images using locally run diffusion models. The video stream is approached as raw material, opening up new perspectives on how reality can be perceived and transformed.
Brikeld Hoxha – Compliant

BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Brikeld Hoxha – Compliant

by Brikeld Hoxha

Welcome to Compliant, the first social network built entirely around you. Not around what you want to show, but around who you really are. During the setup phase, we show you exactly what we collect about you. Your profile is generated automatically. Your first posts, your behaviors, and your interactions feed your content. Then, hour after hour, Compliant updates itself for you. Without you having to do a thing. Your place in the community will be established. Compare yourself to your peers and climb the rankings. For the first time, others see you as you truly are. You no longer need to search for what to say, we already know the answers.
Thomas Gaudin – UnBubble

BA 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.
Dorian Pangallo – Sublime Démocratie

BA GRAPHIC DESIGN

Dorian Pangallo – Sublime Démocratie

by Dorian Pangallo

In an era where crises follow one another and justify a state of permanent exception, Sublime Democracy is a critical multimedia campaign portraying democracies stripped of their foundations, yet upheld by persistent symbols sustaining the illusion. Designed as a contemporary fable, the work draws on precise presidential speeches and polished visuals, integrating AI as the engine of a critical process where falsehood becomes language. By playing with the codes of power, it questions our habituation to fear, authority, and dominant narratives.

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