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Clara Aboulker – Babel, Bαβέλ, لباب ,לבב In Genesis 11 , it says: “The whole Earth was of one language, and of one speech.” People decided to build a tower that would reach the heavens. To punish their pride, God destroyed the tower and confused their language. Babel is a multilingual book (four languages: Greek, English, Arabic, Hebrew) that relates this biblical episode as well as the unfinished search for a unique and perfect language. This book considers translation as a solution to a universal language and proposes to visualize the text in an architectural way. In Genesis 11, it says: “The whole Earth was of one language, and of one speech.” People decided to build a tower that would reach the heavens. To punish their pride, God destroyed the tower and confused their language. Babel is a multilingual book (four languages: Greek, English, Arabic, Hebrew) that relates this biblical episode as well as the unfinished search for a unique and perfect language. This book considers translation as a solution to a universal language and proposes to visualize the text in an architectural way.
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Clio Hadjigeorgiou – Κυπριώτικο Σκετς / [kipri otiko skets] / Cypriot Sketch Cypriot dialect was first broadcast in the media through radio in 1950. Via three stories by Andreas Koukkides, Cypriot Sketch highlights some cultural and linguistic elements of Cypriot dialect. The language barrier is no longer an obstacle but a communication challenge. Compound words, proverbs and phrases are translated visually and in a playful manner. Considerable linguistic borrowing happened as a glossary of loanwords shows at the end of the book; the words are all taken from the transcribed stories and are translated into the related languages of the dialect. Cypriot dialect was first broadcast in the media through radio in 1950. Via three stories by Andreas Koukkides, Cypriot Sketch highlights some cultural and linguistic elements of Cypriot dialect. The language barrier is no longer an obstacle but a communication challenge. Compound words, proverbs and phrases are translated visually and in a playful manner. Considerable linguistic borrowing happened as a glossary of loanwords shows at the end of the book; the words are all taken from the transcribed stories and are translated into the related languages of the dialect.
Thomas Prost – From Public to Public From Public to Public is a research project that explores how public debates are communicated. With the advent of communication tools, the number of actors taking part in these debates has increased. Because of its media coverage, I chose the theme of climate change and compared a scientific report to a citizen manifesto in an edition. This book is composed of 4 different analyses and studies the construction of these 2 texts. This research is complemented by a browser plug-in, which serves as a tool for the reader to continue these analyses. From Public to Public is a research project that explores how public debates are communicated. With the advent of communication tools, the number of actors taking part in these debates has increased. Because of its media coverage, I chose the theme of climate change and compared a scientific report to a citizen manifesto in an edition. This book is composed of 4 different analyses and studies the construction of these 2 texts. This research is complemented by a browser plug-in, which serves as a tool for the reader to continue these analyses.
Aesthetics of Sustainability Aesthetics of Sustainability aims to explore and define the aesthetics of a new generation of sustainable materials. Sustainability is one of the most important topics of the 21st century. Design, as a discipline of innovation, must play a leading role in optimising the environmental impact of all by-products and processes in the production of designed goods. All too often, most people take a stereotypical view of “sustainable products”. They are often associated with dirty colours and unpleasant aesthetics, owing to the use of second-grade, recycled, “primitive”, natural or non-processed materials. Furthermore, they are usually associated with higher prices or inferior quality. Aesthetics of Sustainability aims to explore and define the aesthetics of a new generation of sustainable materials. The goals of the project are to push boundaries, explore aesthetics and define a contemporary language of sustainable materials and products through a systematic process of investigation, experimentation, creation and development within the context of product design. The low impact of products is not only necessary, but it is also about to become a unique selling point for manufacturers. The tipping point when eco-friendly materials become more easily available and financially competitive on a larger scale will soon be reached. The outcome of the project is a series of 14 dossiers on the explored materials as well as mock-ups and prototypes of the resulting products. The project offers a future generation of designers an array of operational tools and knowledge which explain how to discover, analyse and process seminal materials, how to work best with their qualities and how to turn them into functional yet aesthetically intriguing objects.Main applicant sECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (project leader)Research team (senior researcher) (professor) (professor) (research assistant) (research assistant) (photographer) (photographer)Visiting lecturersYves Corminboeuf, Alexandre Echasseriau, Adam Fairweather, Beat Karrer, Chris Lefteri, Yves Leterrier, Mieke Meijer, Axel Norlander, Martin PostlerStudents1st-year MA students in Product Design, ECAL, class of 2018-2019: , , , , , , , ,, , , , , Periodseptember 2017 – july 2019Supported byECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Strategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO RCDAV)DisseminationPublication Thilo Alex Brunner, Aesthetics of sustainability. Material experiments in product design, Zurich: Triest verlag, 2020 (contributions by Christophe Guberan, Chris Lefteri, Ala Tannir)
Benedek Takács – Miniatűr Utópia Miniatűr Utópia is a modular travelling exhibition introducing Hungarian miniature books made during the Soviet era in Hungary. The project goes hand in hand with a detailed research that includes interviews with members of the miniature book society. Miniatűr Utópia is a modular travelling exhibition introducing Hungarian miniature books made during the Soviet era in Hungary. The project goes hand in hand with a detailed research that includes interviews with members of the miniature book society.
ECAL Digital Market,23–29.05.2019,CIBONE, Tokyo ECAL Digital Market: Milan Design Week, Vitra Design Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, CIBONE Tokyo UPDATE: After the Milan Design Week, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the exhibition "ECAL Digital Market" will be presented from 23 to 29 May 2019 at CIBONE Tokyo. With the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Japan. CIBONE Aoyama 2F 2-27-25 Minamiaoyama Minato-Ku Tokyo 107-0062 www.cibone.com UPDATE: After the Milan Design Week and the Vitra Design Museum, the exhibition "ECAL Digital Market" will be presented from 15 to 23 September 2018 at the Victoria & Albert Museum on the occasion of the London Design Festival. With the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom. Victoria and Albert Museum Blavatnik Hall Cromwell Road London, SW7 2RL www.vam.ac.uk UPDATE: After the Milan Design Week, the exhibition "ECAL Digital Market" will be presented from 9 to 17 June 2018 (including a few days during Art Basel et Design Miami/ Basel) at the Vitra Design Museum (Schaudepot) in Weil am Rhein. Opening: Every day, from 10am to 6pm Vitra Design Museum Charles-Eames-Str. 2 D-79576 Weil am Rhein www.design-museum.de In partnership with the 3D printing company Formlabs, ECAL Master Product Design students present a range of innovative everyday life objects, produced through a print farm within the exhibition and sold directly on site. Projects from ECAL faculty and alumni are also available. The concept was imagined by Camille Blin, head of the Master Product Design, and Christophe Guberan, ECAL tutor. HD Images Brochure with explanations ECAL has turned Spazio Orso 16, a 17th century Milanese palazzo, into a contemporary production site and retail shop inspired by a new vision of digital manufacturing. Lately, most of the product design research into 3D printing has been focusing on new technologies and the shapes they can generate. The idea of this project is to present digital manufacturing as an industrial production tool thanks to a print farm composed of numerous machines printing the same pieces simultaneously. “ECAL Digital Market” offers functional and well-designed everyday objects, created by Master Product Design students as well as by a selection of ECAL-related designers (faculty members and alumni). The project looks into the possibilities of production on demand. It examines the changing environment of manufacturing processes, it emphasizes how fast and transparent today s design industry could become, and experiments with new design details that are too intricate to achieve with traditional manufacturing techniques. Finally, “ECAL Digital Market” highlights the role of the designer in this new production cycle. Thanks to the 3D printers and know-how provided by Formlabs, a large variety of objects such as combs, tape dispensers, mechanical pencils, shoehorns, coat hooks, scissors, spinning tops, shelves and many more are produced and sold on site by the students. The digital files of the objects can also be purchased online: www.ecal-digital-market.ch Press preview Monday 16 April, 4 pm – 6 pm Opening hours Tuesday 17 April – Saturday 21 April, 11 am – 8 pm Sunday 22 April, 11 am – 4 pm Spazio Orso 16 Via dell Orso 16 20121 Milano
Best Design Student Project: Design with Social Impact Congratulations to Iskander Guetta who won the award of the Best Design Student Project: Design with Social Impact at WantedDesign Brooklyn thanks to his BA Industrial Design diploma project. Presented by swissnex Boston, Consulate General of Switzerland in New York and the Federal Office of Culture – Switzerland. https://www.swissnexboston.org/event/swiss-design-awards-at-wanteddesign-nyc/
The INFORMATION MESH project,17.05.2019,swissnex San Francisco INFORMATION MESH is a web platform celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web that explores social, technical, cultural and legal facts throughout different interactive timelines. The project was realized by BA Media & Interaction Design students from ECAL. www.infomesh.org It was initiated in October 2018 during a one week workshop in partnership with swissnex San Francisco, where students visited key partners and began developing the project. The timelines present an overview of Web history, starting with the proposal for hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989, initially under the name "Information Mesh." From this start date, users can then explore 30 years of evolution. The ECAL study group is part of the swissnex Salon, a series of activities exploring the impact of technology on fundamental societal values drawn from the preamble of the Swiss Constitution. This project playfully examines the Utopian idealism at the heart of the Web, reconnecting us to the original optimism surrounding these communication technologies with a critical engagement regarding where we have arrived today. This presents an opportunity to return a collective focus on how we might bring the human back to the center of innovation. Participants: Team ECAL: Vincent Jacquier, Pauline Saglio, Laura Perrenoud, Tibor Udvari, Pietro Alberti Team swissnex: Benjamin Bollman, Mary Ellyn Johnson, Eryk Salvaggio Students: Alfatih, Becheras Diane, Bisseck Iyo, Boulenaz Jonathan, Breithaupt Kevin, Chenaux Maëlle, Matos Sébastien, Mouthon Bastien, Palauqui Mathieu, Sassoli De Bianchi Luca, Simmen Guillaume, Virág Tamara, Vogel Nathan, Zibaut Anouk Partners and sponsors: swissnex, Internet Archive, Wikipédia, Canton de Vaud
ECAL at OFFPRINT London,17–19.05.2019,Tate Modern, London From 17 to 19 May 2019, ECAL presents a selection of its books on the occasion of OFFPRINT London. ECAL publishes about ten books every year through ECAL Editions or in collaboration with famous publishing houses such as JRP/Ringier, Lars Müller Publishers, Novembre Magazine or RVB Books. Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London Friday: 14:00 – 22:00 Saturday: 11:00 – 22:00 Sunday: 11:00 – 18:00 http://offprint.org/
Infomesh Information Mesh is a web platform celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web that explores social, technical, cultural and legal facts throughout different interactive timelines. It was initiated in October 2018 during a one week workshop in partnership with swissnex San Francisco, where students visited key partners and began developing the project. The timelines present an overview of Web history, starting with the proposal for hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989, initially under the name “Information Mesh.” From this start date, users can then explore 30 years of evolution. infomesh.org
ECAL Conference: Claudia Comte,14.05.2019,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: Claudia Comte – artist and ECAL BA Fine Arts graduate, Berlin Conférences ECAL (mai 2019) Claudia Comte artiste et diplômée de l ECAL en BA Arts Visuels, Berlin www.claudiacomte.ch Mardi 14 mai à 18h Auditoire IKEA, ECAL A l occasion de l exposition «Bunnies and ZigZag» présentée du 17 mai au 29 juin 2019 à la Galerie Joy de Rouvre à Genève. www.galeriejoyderouvre.ch Née en 1983 à Morges (Suisse), Claudia Comte est diplômée de l ECAL en Bachelor Arts Visuels (2007). Son travail s articule autour de la mémoire des matériaux et l observation attentive du rapport de la main à différentes technologies. Sa production artistique intègre un large éventail de supports allant de la sculpture à la peinture, en passant par diverses installations multimédia. Elle a exposé dans des lieux prestigieux aux quatre coins du monde comme Art Basel à Miami et Bâle, le Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, le Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, la Gladstone Gallery à New York, la König Galerie à Berlin ou encore le Kunstmuseum Luzern. Elle a également remporté de nombreux prix (Kiefer Hablitzel, Swiss Art Awards, Prix Mobilière…) et son travail fait partie de collections importantes (MoMA, Baltimore Museum of Art, Musée Jenisch Vevey…). ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33
ECAL x MacGuffin,02–26.05.2019,Arles + Istanbul Biennial Design "A School of Schools: Design as Learning" is a multi-platform knowledge-based exhibition that uses, tests, and revises a variety of educational strategies UPDATE: "A School of Schools: Design as Learning" is a multi-platform knowledge-based exhibition that uses, tests, and revises a variety of educational strategies. Curated by Jan Boelen — co-founding artistic director of the research program Atelier Luma — with Vera Sacchetti and Nadine Botha for the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Cultureand Arts, it presents the work of over 90 artists and designers from around the world. Among these, ECAL presents "ECAL x MacGuffin (read below). A School of Schools is presented at Luma Arles as part of the Guest Program of Luma Days #3,a yearly forum of art and ideas, which takes place in Arles from May 22to 25, 2019, and presents public events, conferences, professional workshops, displays and art installations. This year, the topic of the forum is: “TOGETHER, a declaration of inter- dependence”. From 02/05/2019 to 26/05/2019 Parc des Ateliers, 45 chemin des Minimes, 13200 Arles, France www.luma-arles.org/fr/articles/school-of-schools Can a magazine be a design school? Or a design school a magazine? This autumn, MacGuffin and Swiss art and design school ECAL present the results of their collaboration during the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, which is all about design as learning, and learning as design. The exhibition explores the ways in which the two can enrich the other. Last autumn, Dutch product designer Chris Kabel tutored Bachelor Industrial Design students at ECAL in collaboration with design magazine MacGuffin. The students used the magazine s editorial model as a methodology to study the use of everyday things and to design objects derived from them. They modelled their approach on the way the magazine themes its issues, and chose MacGuffins like The Roof, The Shade, The Wheel, The Ruler, The Lock and The Socle as the focus of their investigations. Their research resulted in a range of observational studies, contextual reportages and visual essays on the materiality of the objects, to be used as a basis for designing new objects. The outcome is an exciting collection of narratives and objects that explore The Life of Things, presented in the form of a 3D magazine. From Umbrella Stories and Wheel Stoppers to Real-Life Rulers and a platform for the Bottom of Things. 22 September – 4 November 2018. The Life of Things Istanbul Design Biennial – A School of Schools, curated by Jan Boelen Pera Museum, Meşrutiyet Caddesi 65, İstanbul aschoolofschools.iksv.org
"U-Joints" exhibition,01–29.05.2019,Gallery l elac Curated by Andrea Caputo and Anniina Koivu, the "U-Joints" exhibition features the first chapter of an ongoing research initiated on the occasion of the Milan Design Week 2018. A large selection of nails, screws, rivets, bolts and nuts is shown alongside products created by international designers and a new taxonomy of basic fasteners, graphically developed by Graphic Thought Facility. Opening reception 1.05.2019, 18 h – 20 h Dates 2.05.2019 – 29.05.2019 Wednesday – Friday 13 h – 17 h Galerie l elac 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens IMAGES HD U-Joints is a research project led by Andrea Caputo and Anniina Koivu, as well as a group exhibition that explores the idea of connections in design.Initiated on the occasion of the Milan Design Week 2018, the first U-Joints exhibition was an eclectic introduction to the topic of connections. Taking a look at the multifaceted world of joints, curators Andrea Caputo and Anniina Koivu broke joints open, organised them by material and production processes, reassembled them into prototypes, and used them in real-world applications. For eight days, U-Joints brought together 919 pieces – from the most common joints to design s most innovative ones, as well as those that have had the greatest influence on contemporary design. This captivating introduction launched the U-Joints research project, which is now in the process of investigating different kinds of connections even more deeply. Ultimately, the research project s findings will be published in a large volume that examines joinery in furniture and product design. U-Joints takes a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach. Featuring technical information about joinery as well as stories and commentaries, U-Joints looks at human history through its details, and invites us to see our built environment in whole new ways. The ongoing U-Joints research is accompanied by a series of exhibitions. Each show reads like a chapter of the future book. The first chapter in this series is the current U-Joints exhibition at Galerie l elac at ECAL/University of Art & Design Lausanne. Dedicated to very basic fasteners, the exhibition features a large selection of nails, screws, rivets, bolts and nuts, alongside products created by 20 international designers and a new taxonomy diagram created just for U-Joints. Andrea Caputo says: “Within the world of ‘connections we imagine including any field of investigation, from architecture to product design to fashion. It is an extremely scalable concept, and we aim to investigate not only the fundamental constructive principles but also to conduct methodological analysis. The manufacture of the joint can coincide with an industrial, artisanal or extremely extemporaneous and experimental process.” Anniina Koivu says: “Designers appropriate standard connectors; they assemble and personalise them. Sometimes, they invent new joinery from scratch. Always, they use joints to create unique objects. But because a joint is often invisible, hidden elegantly inside an object, it can pass by unnoticed. U-Joints seeks to change this.” The Taxonomy of Joints Taxonomy is the science of describing, identifying, naming and classifying organisms. The Taxonomy of Joints traces the macrocosm of joinery in furniture and product design today. Starting from the most common production techniques, the structure creates a genealogical tree that is divided into four families, twenty subfamilies and a still-to-be-defined number of individual joints. The taxonomy exhibited here looks at basic fasteners: nails, screws, rivets, bolts and nuts, in 192 of their most common examples. Much like that of an organism, The Taxonomy of Joints can grow or change its form: it is a work in progress. The taxonomy on display was graphically developed by British studio Graphic Thought Facility. U-Joints – A Taxonomy of Nails, Screws, Rivets, Bolts and Nuts A project by Andrea Caputo and Anniina Koivu Exhibition design: Camille Blin Graphic design: Graphic Thought Facility Senior researcher: Eleonora Castellarin Project managers: James Anicich, Margherita Banchi, Marta Redigolo ECAL: Director Alexis Georgacopoulos Exhibition: Antoine Vauthey Communication: Selim Atakurt Printing: PCL Presses Centrales SA, Renens Featured joint projects Massimiliano Adami, Ron Arad/Vitra, Camille Blin, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec/Magis, Joschua Brunn/UTIL, Thilo Brunner & Jörg Mettler, Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni/Zanotta, Janez Cestnik/Aereform, Thomas Edison, Konstantin Grcic/Magis, Levi Strauss, Vico Magistretti/ DePadova, Enzo Mari, Ingo Maurer, Noah Guitars, Jasper Morrison/Alessi, Marc Newson, Gio Ponti/Olivari, Saara Renvall, Paul Schärer & Fritz Haller/USM, Swatch Industrial joints Berardi Bulloneria, Biopsybell, Climbing Technology, Colombo, Dialmedicali, Immediate Load, Mero Italiana, Mondial Horse Nails, North-Lock, Officina Bonacina, Parravicini, Poggipollini, Pro-Bolt, Rivit, Sariv, Stil Group, Tecom Implantology, Titanmed, Univiti, Viteria Fusani Special thanks Janez Cestnik/Aereform, Alessi, Sandro Bolzoni, DePadova, Fondazione Vico Magistretti, Sam Hecht, Magis, Sally McGrane, Noah Guitars, Swatch, USM, UTIL, Vitra Design Museum, Zanotta Press Andrea Caputo press@andreacaputo.com www.andreacaputo.com Studio Anniina Koivu ak@anniinakoivu.com www.anniinakoivu.com ECAL ecal@ecal.ch www.ecal.ch Téléchargements
ECAL Milano 2019: Objects for Nomadic Life by ECAL/Sebastian Maluska,09–14.04.2019,SaloneSatellite, Rho Sebastian Maluska, ECAL Master Product Design graduate (2018), presents three outdoor projects related to a nomadic lifestyle, including camping and travelling. HD Images “Nest” is a low-profile car volume extension, acting as a tent and storage space. Inspired by the sailing world and its technology, it is made up of two frames covered with waterproof sailing fabric. Once it opens up, “Nest” provides sheltered sleeping space for two people. While driving, sport equipment, such as surfboards or skis, can be stored on top or inside of “Nest” between the two fabric layers. Modern mountaineers travel as fast and light as possible, trying out new routes and pushing the boundaries of distance and time. They are never assured of being able to make it home before dark or of getting to the next safe spot before the weather changes. Naturally, a backup option becomes an essential part of your kit. This backup comes in the shape of an “Odon” backpack, essentially a hyper-light shelter solution. This shelter is so light that it can always remain attached to your daypack. “TRS 1” is a trail running shoe with a replaceable outsole. This lets users personalise their own trail running shoes. The inner shoe can be changed to adapt to colder or warmer temperatures or even for washing when needed. An added advantage is that certain parts of the shoe can be easily repaired or replaced when worn or damaged. Opening hours: Tuesday 9 April – Sunday 14 April, 9.30 am – 6.30 pm SaloneSatellite Hall 22 – 24, Stand S18 Fiera Milano 20017 Rho www.ecal.ch www.salonemilano.it www.sebastianmaluska.com
ECAL Milano 2019: ECAL x Marsotto Lab,09–14.04.2019,Corso Garibaldi 50 In partnership with the Italian marble manufacturer Marsotto LAB, ECAL Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship students present a series of home accessories devised during a workshop with French designer Pierre Charpin. HD Images Brochure with explanations The Italian marble manufacturer that entrusted the project development to ECAL Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship with a clock collection for last year s Milan Design Week, chose to repeat the collaboration to create home accessories for this year s edition. Marsotto LAB, the new laboratory of the family business founded in 2018 for which the students had worked before, gives talented young aspiring designers an opportunity to present simple yet functional objects while learning about the specific properties of marble, namely its weight, hardness and aesthetics. A tour of the factory in the outskirts of Verona provided the students with a unique opportunity to discover the Marsotto manufacturing plant as well as the leading-edge machines that enable them to optimise production while maintaining the level of handcrafted quality to which the Marsotto brand has been equating for six generations now. After their trip, the students were able to develop their ideas alongside Pierre Charpin, the French designer who shared with them his enthusiasm for perfect and well-balanced shapes. The result is an original and surprising collection of kitchenware (a champagne bucket, containers, trays and other accessories) vases and incense burners, all these objects form a fresh yet useful range that aims to complement the marble furniture collections created by renowned designers for Marsotto edizioni, a brand that has been internationally successful for a number of years. Opening hours: Tuesday 9 April & Sunday 14 April, 10 am – 5 pm Wednesday 10 April – Saturday 13 April, 10 am – 8.30 pm Corso Garibaldi 50 20121 Milano www.ecal.ch www.lab.marsotto.com
ECAL Milano 2019: Sound & Vision,09–14.04.2019,Spazio Orso 16, Milano On the occasion of the “Sound & Vision” exhibition, ECAL and the design research centre EPFL+ECAL Lab awaken your senses through a range of immersive experiences, from surprising ringing bells to audiovisual music recordings. ECAL showcases “Ring my Bell”, an offbeat collection of interactive doorbells, while the EPFL+ECAL Lab unleashes the potential of Virtual Reality with “Hands on Vision”. Ring my Bell www.ecal-ringmybell.ch HD Images Brochure with explanations Video on vimeo DONG! TRRRRRR! Or maybe even GLING! Or BLING!, MHHHH! And sometimes even BRAOUM! ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents an offbeat collection of interactive doorbells developed by first-year Bachelor Industrial Design students, under the joint guidance of Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Head of Bachelor Industrial Design, and Mathieu Rivier, a Bachelor Media & Interaction Design graduate. This project is part of the “Sound & Vision” exhibition, shown for the first time, in collaboration with EPFL+ECAL Lab, at the 2019 Milan International Furniture Fair. Sound and object design are two notions that industrial designers rarely have the opportunity to combine. Nevertheless, most everyday objects potentially produce sounds. Just pull up a chair, open or close a drawer or even flip a switch and you will create sound. What do all these actions have in common? Movement, friction and interaction which draw on the basic laws of physics to create tones. With this in mind, the students have offered a fresh and original take on an everyday object, one that is unremarkable yet never silent—the doorbell. They have designed a range of mechanical and electrical doorbells that offer a unique, sometimes even thunderous, sound experience. Well-known chimes step aside and are replaced by a curious metallophone triggered by a punch card reminiscent of traditional mechanical music boxes. The former door knocker is now amplified by a vibrant dong! The familiar buzzer has been replaced by an energetic drum roll. The everyday doorbell has been replaced by a curious device that makes a sound like thunder. At last, where you might expect a ding-dong, there is now a stertorous mooing mhhhh! These are just some of the contraptions displayed. Come in and ring! Hands on Vision In the “Sound & Vision” exhibition, the EPFL+ECAL Lab takes you to others worlds with “Hands on Vision”. The immersion turns into a sensory, social and nomadic experience. The design research shapes a new future for immersion and mobility. Six installations demonstrate how objects bring new life to virtual content, – in the company of celebrities such as singer, Nina Simone, and designer, Roger Tallon. For “Hands on Vision, information directly from the EPFL+ECAL Lab: geraldine.morand@epfl.ch Press preview: Monday 8 April, 4 pm - 6 pm Opening hours: Tuesday 9 April – Saturday 13 April, 11 am – 8 pm Sunday 14 April, 11 am – 4 pm Spazio Orso 16 Via dell Orso 16 20121 Milano www.ecal.ch www.epfl-ecal-lab.ch
Collaboration with Marsotto Lab 2019 In partnership with the Italian marble manufacturer Marsotto LAB, ECAL Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship students present a series of home accessories devised during a workshop with French designer Pierre Charpin. The Italian marble manufacturer that entrusted the project development to ECAL Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship with a clock collection for last year s Milan Design Week, chose to repeat the collaboration to create home accessories for this year s edition. Marsotto LAB, the new laboratory of the family business founded in 2018 for which the students had worked before, gives talented young aspiring designers an opportunity to present simple yet functional objects while learning about the specific properties of marble, namely its weight, hardness and aesthetics. A tour of the factory in the outskirts of Verona provided the students with a unique opportunity to discover the Marsotto manufacturing plant as well as the leading-edge machines that enable them to optimise production while maintaining the level of handcrafted quality to which the Marsotto brand has been equating for six generations now. After their trip, the students were able to develop their ideas alongside Pierre Charpin, the French designer who shared with them his enthusiasm for perfect and well-balanced shapes. The result is an original and surprising collection of kitchenware (a champagne bucket, containers, trays and other accessories) vases and incense burners, all these objects form a fresh yet useful range that aims to complement the marble furniture collections created by renowned designers for Marsotto edizioni, a brand that has been internationally successful for a number of years.
ECAL & EXECAL Residences at La Becque,20.03.2019,La Becque, La Tour-de-Peilz UPDATE (20.03.19) EXECAL Residence at La Becque – Announcement of the laureates. UPDATE (20.03.19) EXECAL Residence at La Becque – Announcement of the laureates ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne is delighted to announce the laureates of the first EXECAL Residences at La Becque I Artists Residency. This initiative, part of the partnership that binds the two institutions, aims at fostering research projects and promoting excellence in art and design education. Each will be granted with a month-long residency program, between July and September 2019, with the objective to develop a project connected to their practices but also to the thematic focus of La Becque, the exploration of the intersection of nature and technology. Therefore, the jury composed of Catherine Othenin-Girard (President, EXECAL –Association des anciens étudiants et des amis de l ECAL), Luc Meier (Director, La Becque) and Alexis Georgacopoulos (Director, ECAL) selected: Aladin Borioli (BA Photography) Since 2014, Aladin Borioli has pursued his DYI research project "Apian", looking at the links between honeybees and humans, and at how both beings mould each other. Being drawn closer to the humanities, Aladin graduated in 2018 with an MA in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. "Apian" has been then presented in artistic contexts as well as in anthropological forms. Pauline Lemberger & Iris Andreadis (BA Industrial Design) In 2015, Pauline Lemberger co-founded “Bouchée Double”, in Brussels, a studio where she explores the culinary world at the intersection of scenography, photography, product design and illustration. She investigates cuisine through a global approach, enhanced during residencies in Japan and Mexico but also through the conceptualization of pop-up restaurants. For her part, Iris Andreadis is currently studying architecture in Paris. At the heart of her practice lays her deep fascination for building processes and structures, as well as for smart objects and their economy of means, all of which she had the chance to observe during stays in Greece and Hong Kong. Thomas Grogan (BA Industrial Design) With a background in industrial and speculative design, Thomas Grogan, based in London, has developed an artistic practice that investigates current and future social issues around emerging technologies through various artistic outputs like sculpture, installation, animation and digital platform. His work uses a visual language that is strongly influenced by corporate branding, manufacturing and product hacking. Call for applications: EXECAL Residence at La Becque ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, in partnership with La Becque | Artist Residency, launches an open call for its alumni, for three residency programs during summer 2019 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland. Programs dates The three four-week residencies will be offered to three different ECAL alumni. Applicants must select a time period during which they can participate in the EXECAL Residence: July 8 - August 2, 2019 August 5 - August 30, 2019 September 2 - September 27, 2019 Application deadline: January 20, 2019, at 11:59 pm CET. The residency program EXECAL Residence at La Becque results from the partnership between ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and the artist residency La Becque, launched in 2018 by Fondation Françoise Siegfried-Meier and located on the shores of Lake Geneva, between Lausanne and Montreux. The first joint venture between the artist residency and an art and design school, the ECAL x La Becque initiative aims at fostering research projects and promoting excellence in art and design education.Therefore, during summer 2019, the EXECAL Residence at La Becque will offer three ECAL alumni the opportunity to each participate in a four-week residency, exploring the intersection of nature and technology, La Becque s lead thematic orientation, while benefiting from the unique infrastructure that the residency has to offer. Regardless of the discipline it is developed in, the residency project will later be integrated into a digital catalogue showcasing the EXECAL Residences at La Becque. The call for applications is open to all ECAL alumni from all disciplines having graduated at least three years before the beginning of the residency programs at La Becque in summer 2019. The call for applications for the EXECAL Residence at La Becque is now closed. The selected 2019 residents will be informed in February 2019. PDF FAQ Announcement of our year-long partnership with artist residency La Becque, in la Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland. ECAL is pleased to announce its partnership with La Becque, the newly launched artist residency located on the beautiful shores of Lake Geneva, between Lausanne and Montreux. The first joint venture between the artist residency and an art and design school, the ECAL x La Becque initiative aims at fostering research projects and promoting excellence in art and design education. The collaboration will start in February 2019 with the first ECAL Residence at La Becque featuring Mitch Paone, partner and creative director at renowned Brooklyn-based creative design agency DIA Studio. Specialized in kinetic identity systems, graphic design and typography, Mitch Paone will spend four months at La Becque developing his own research project while guest lecturing during the entire spring semester at ECAL, in the Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Type Design programmes. The next guest resident will be invited in fall 2019, for a residency spanning the entire semester. Additionally, ECAL will offer its alumni the opportunity to apply for a summer residency at La Becque, with the EXECAL Residence at La Becque. Between July and September 2019, three ECAL alumni will be selected to each partake in a month-long residency, developing their practice while exploring the intersection of nature and technology, the current thematical focus of La Becque. More information on the call for applications for the EXECAL Residence at La Becque will be announced early December. Stay tuned! http://labecque.ch http://dia.tv
Raster Walker Content produced during two one week workshops led by Gaël Hugo in 2018 and 2019, around experimenting with image rasterisation and particle systems.
Encouragement award of the City of Renens,14–29.03.2019,Espace CJS, Renens Encouragement award of the City of Renens 2018 Encouragement award of the City of Renens 2018 Julie Monot – 2nd year Master Fine Arts Quentin Coulombier – 2nd year Master Type Design Opening reception: Thursday 14 March from 6pm to 8pm Lecture by Caroline Bourrit: Friday 22 March from 4pm to 8pm Ending — Intervention by Jérôme Pfister: Friday 29 March from 4pm to 8pm Exhibition: Opening on demand from 15 to 29 March 2019 (021 632 75 04) Installation by the 2018 winners presented at Espace CJS, rue de Lausanne 21 in Renens. Entrance via rue Neuve 1. www.renens.ch
3D Graphics Showreel Produced during video and 3D design courses led by Sami Benhadj, Patrick Keller & Benjamin Muzzin between 2015 and 2018.
ECAL and La Fémis at Louxor, Paris,14.02.2019,Louxor, Paris L ECAL et La Fémis adorent le Louxor In order to celebrate more than thirty years of collaboration between La Fémis (National School of Image and Sound, Paris) and ECAL, we are pleased to invite you to the screening of six movies from the last five promotions (Bachelor Cinema ECAL - Montage Department La Fémis) on Thursday 14 February 2019 at 6:45pm at Luxor - Palais du Cinéma (Room 2), Paris. Free entrance by reservation: reservation@cinemalouxor.fr Suspendu by Elie Grappe, 2015, 15 Editing: Félix Rehm Valet noir by Lora-Mure Ravaud, 2017, 23 Editing: Suzanna Pedro Ici le chemin des ânes by Lou Rambert-Preiss, 2018, 23 Editing: Gabrielle Stemmer Blind date à la juive by Anaëlle Morf, 2015, 16 Editing: Souliman Schelfout Nirin by Josua Hotz, 2015, 16 Editinge: Youri Tchao-Debats Discipline by Christophe M. Saber, 2014, 12 Editing: Jonathan Vinel Cocktail at 10pm Le Louxor – Palais du cinéma 170 Boulevard de Magenta 75010 Paris www.cinemalouxor.fr www.femis.fr Visual: ECAL/Bilal Sebei Fonte: ECAL/Matthieu Visentin
Workshop Mode Suisse lt is with great pleasure that we are presenting a selection of works by students of the Bachelor s degree courses in Photography and Graphic Design, curated by photographer Peter Puklus for Mode Suisse Edition 15. The workshop initiated by Noir Associates and carried out in November 2018, aim to produce the current Mode Suisse campaign through a interdisciplinary business-oriented youth promotion collaboration. The outcome of this workshop was so convincing that the means of communication for both Mode Suisse editions in 2019 will be implemented in cooperation with the ECAL students, beginning with work from Raphaèle Rey, Hugo Plagnard and Théo Barraud. The beginning of this fledgling collaboration is marked by the students smart approach to meeting the needs of MADE VISIBLE, whose partnership with Mode Suisse is a way of making creativity visible in unexpected ways. Work has already started on the collaboration highlights to be shown at the end of summer 2019, at Mode Suisse Edition 16. Main partners: Engagement Migros, The Zurich Silk Association ZSIG, the Hulda and Gustav Zumsteg Foundation and The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia lt is with great pleasure that we are presenting a selection of works by students of the Bachelor s degree courses in Photography and Graphic Design, curated by photographer Peter Puklus for Mode Suisse Edition 15. The workshop initiated by Noir Associates and carried out in November 2018, aim to produce the current Mode Suisse campaign through a interdisciplinary business-oriented youth promotion collaboration. The outcome of this workshop was so convincing that the means of communication for both Mode Suisse editions in 2019 will be implemented in cooperation with the ECAL students, beginning with work from Raphaèle Rey, Hugo Plagnard and Théo Barraud.The beginning of this fledgling collaboration is marked by the students smart approach to meeting the needs of MADE VISIBLE, whose partnership with Mode Suisse is a way of making creativity visible in unexpected ways. Work has already started on the collaboration highlights to be shown at the end of summer 2019, at Mode Suisse Edition 16. Main partners: Engagement Migros, The Zurich Silk Association ZSIG, the Hulda and Gustav Zumsteg Foundation and The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
ECAL Open Day 2019,02.02.2019,Auditorium Leenaards, ECAL ECAL Open Day 2019 – Saturday 2 February We invite you to discover the various programmes of ECAL (Foundation Year, Bachelor, Master, Master of Advanced Studies) in lectures given by the Heads of Departments and by former students who will discuss their career (Auditoriums IKEA and Leenaards). All the team of the Admissions Office will also be able to answer the questions of the potential candidates (Hall Kudelski). On this occasion, we will offer a tour of the building and its infrastructure, including the Foundation Year with various projects presented (Gallery l elac), as well as an exhibition (Hall Kudelski) of projects made by Bachelor and Master students during the first semester 2018-2019. Both exhibitions will also run from 4 to 8 February, from 10am to 5pm. Conferences programme (subject to change): 08h30 – 9h00 Doors opening 09 h 00– 9h45 BA Graphic Design (Auditorium IKEA) 10 h 00 – 10 h 45 BA Media & Interaction Design (Auditorium IKEA) MA Type Design (Leenaards) 11h 00 – 11 h 45 BA Photography (Auditorium IKEA) MA Fine Arts (Auditorium Leenaards) 12 h 00 – 12 h 45 Foundation Year (Options: Fine Arts, Cinema, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design, Photography) 12H45 – 13h30 Break 13 h 30 – 14 h 15 BA Cinema (Auditorium IKEA) MA Product Design (Auditorium Leenaards) 14 h 30 – 15 h 15 BA Fine Arts (Auditorium IKEA) MA Photography (Auditorium Leenaards) 15 h 30 – 16 h 15 BA Industrial Design (Auditorium IKEA) MA Cinema (Auditorium Leenaards) 16 h 30 – 17 h 15 MAS Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship (MAS) (Auditorium IKEA) MAS Design Research for Digital Innovation (MAS EPFL+ECAL Lab) (Auditorium Leenaards) 18h 00 End ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens
Huge success for ECAL graduates at the Solothurner Filmtage Congratulations to Zoel Aeschbacher, who won the Upcoming Talents Award for best Swiss short film (SSA / SUISSIMAGE, worth 15 000 francs) for hir diploma film "Bonobo". In addition: Lou Rambert Preiss with "Le soleil" and Lora Mure-Ravaud with "Euricide" won the Upcoming Lab development grants (5 000 francs). Finally, Lila Ribii received a Migros Pour-cent culturel grant worth CHF 480,000.- for her documentary film "(Im) mortels" (production maximage, Zurich). https://www.solothurnerfilmtage.ch/fr/
L ECAL at Applied Machine Learning Days,26–29.01.2019,Swiss Tech Convention Center, EPFL ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne collaborates for the first time with the Applied Machine Learning Days, a conference at EPFL focusing on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. It takes place at the Swiss Tech Convention Center from January 26 to 29, 2019. Our Bachelor program in Media & Interaction Design showcases a selection of recent projects, resulting from workshops and collaborations using machine learning and artificial intelligence through a creative and artistic perspective. The following projects are on display: Point and Shoot; https://vimeo.com/295762050 With "Talking Camera" by ECAL/Amélie Demay, Pierry Jaquillard and Hanieh Rachid and "Move n Pick" by ECAL/Pierre Allain-Longval, Manfred Gordon Baud and Iskander Guetta Resulting from a collaboration between Bachelor Industrial Design and Bachelor Media & Interaction Design students, under the guidance of Map Project Office, on the occasion of the exhibition “Ligne de Mire: Design Létal” at mudac, from March 14 to August 16, 2018. Teaching the Machine: https://vimeo.com/302452465 With "Dr Headset" by Alfatih, "Human Detection" by Iyo Bisseck and "The sound of things" by Anouk Zibaut et Diane Becheras. Resulting from a workshop led by Gene Kogan together with Bachelor Media & Interaction Design 3rd year students. DeepMaps: https://vimeo.com/299628717 Initiated during a workshop led by Gene Kogan on machine learning, by ECAL/Nathan Vogel Electrical Insight: https://vimeo.com/310374326 Initiated during a workshop led by Dries Depoorter on the creative use of APIs, by ECAL/Luca Sassoli de Bianchi. More information on the Applied Machine Learning Days: www.appliedmldays.org
Ring My Bell DONG! TRRRRRR! Or maybe even GLING! Or BLING!, MHHHH! And sometimes even BRAOUM! ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents an offbeat collection of interactive doorbells developed by first-year Bachelor Industrial Design students, under the joint guidance of Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Head of Bachelor Industrial Design, and Mathieu Rivier, a Bachelor Media & Interaction Design graduate. Sound and object design are two notions that industrial designers rarely have the opportunity to associate. However, most common objects potentially produce sounds. All you have to do is pull a chair, open and close a drawer or press a switch to generate sound. Common factors: movement, friction and interaction, which allow basic physics processes to create tones. In this perspective, the students offered a fresh and original look at an ordinary object, often invisible, but never discreet: the doorbell. Whether mechanical or electrical, the bells they have invented reveal a unique, sometimes even thundering, sound experience. Here, the classic carillon gives way to a curious metallophone powered by a perforated card reminiscent of traditional mechanical music boxes. The old door knocker is exchanged for a vibrating dong! The familiar buzzer is replaced by an efficient drum roll. The usual bell replaces a strange device that makes a great sound. Finally, the usual ding-dong is swapped for a resounding mhhhhh ! dear to the bovine race, to name but a few of the devices presented. Come in and ring the bell! www.ecal-ringmybell.ch
ECAL Cinema at Solothurn Days 2019,24–31.01.2019,Solothurn Big success of the BA Cinema graduates from ECAL at the Solothurn Days. UPDATE: Big success of the BA Cinema graduates from ECAL at the Solothurn Days. Congratulations to Zoel Aeschbacher, who won the Upcoming Talents Award for best Swiss short film (SSA / SUISSIMAGE, worth 15 000 francs) for his diploma film "Bonobo". In addition: Lou Rambert-Preiss with "Le soleil" and Lora Mure-Ravaud with "Euricide" won the Upcoming Lab Grants for Development (5,000 francs). Finally, Lila Ribi will benefit from a Migros Culture Percentage grant worth CHF 480 000.- for her documentary film "(Im) mortels" (production maximage, Zurich). ----- On the occasion of the Solothurn Days from 24 to 31 January 2019, ECAL Cinema Department present several films by students or graduates: •«Bonobo» de Zoel Aeschbacher •«Rendez-vous vendredi» by Colombe Rubini •"ll prezzo del biglietto" by Mariama Baldé •"La maturité" by Antoine Flahaut •"La source" by Yatoni Roy-Cantu •"Ici le chemin des ânes" by Lou Rambert-Preiss •"Lirio da Paz" by Louis Hans-Moevi & Maxime Beaud • "Hors piste" by Jules Pourchet (Master) www.solothurnerfilmtage.ch/fr/
Network Related Design Selection of videogames produced in 2018 during a course about Network Related Design led by Gaël Hugo. Projects by ECAL/Pablo Bellon, Bastien Claessens, Evan Kelly and Aurélien Pellegrini
Le Temps de l ECAL,04.12.2018,Cinéma CityClub Pully A l occasion de ses 20 ans, Le Temps a proposé une carte blanche aux réalisateurs de demain afin de raconter son quotidien. Cinq étudiants du Département Cinéma de l ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne ont ainsi relevé le défi. Conjointement, l ECAL vernit sa sélection online de films 2018 ainsi que pour la première fois un livre, présentant son année cinéma. Le mardi 4 décembre 2018 au Cinéma CityClub de Pully de 19h à 22h: 19h Accueil 19h30 Introduction de Stéphane Benoît-Godet, rédacteur en chefLe Temps, et Lionel Baier, responsable du Département Cinéma ECAL 19h40 Projection des films réalisés par des étudiants: Mariama Baldé, Adèle Beaulieu, Nikita Merlini, Sayaka Mizuno, Lou-Théa Papaloïzos 20h20 Débat avec les étudiants et Lionel Baier, animé par Stéphane Gobbo, chef de Rubrique Culture Le Temps: «Comment filmer le journalisme?» 21h Questions du public 21h15 Apéritif et vernissage du livre«ECAL Cinéma 2018» Inscription:www.letemps.ch/evenements Cinéma CityClub Pully Av. de Lavaux 36, 1009 Pully www.cityclubpully.ch Image Lea Kloos, Le Temps
Workshop Renate Buser For a week, the Swiss artist Renate Buser led a workshop with students in first year Bachelor Photography. The ECAL building, a former factory converted into an art school in 2006 by architect Bernhard Tschumi, was the starting point for their photographic explorations. The rules of the game: two black and white films per student and darkroom prints that helped define the initial framework. By taking advantage of the constraints, the varied results illustrate the creativity of the students who experiment with options in shooting, drawing and installation. For a week, the Swiss artist Renate Buser led a workshop with students in first year Bachelor Photography. The ECAL building, a former factory converted into an art school in 2006 by architect Bernhard Tschumi, was the starting point for their photographic explorations. The rules of the game: two black and white films per student and darkroom prints that helped define the initial framework. By taking advantage of the constraints, the varied results illustrate the creativity of the students who experiment with options in shooting, drawing and installation.
Olivia Wünsche – Anima Mundi Anima Mundi is a transmedia platform designed to revive some of the most fundamental philosophical virtues. The project carries out both theoretical and visual research about the «Deep Ecology» movement, which promotes the development of a physical, intellectual and, above all, emotional bond with nature. Different facets of the same content evolve across three mediums:the video-collage unveils an immersive and sensory experience while the book offers a personal study of conceptual matter. Both the book and video are published on a website. Anima Mundiis a transmedia platform designed to revive some of the most fundamental philosophical virtues.The project carries out both theoretical and visual research about the «Deep Ecology» movement, which promotes the development of a physical, intellectual and, above all, emotional bond with nature. Different facets of the same content evolve across three mediums:the video-collage unveils an immersive and sensory experience while the book offers a personal study of conceptual matter. Both the book and video are published on a website.
"100 beste Plakate 17" exhibition,22.11–07.12.2018,Gallery l elac, ECAL A competition rewarding the most beautiful posters of 2017 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), awarded in 2018. An exhibition organised by 100 Beste Plakate e. V. in collaboration with ECAL. HD IMAGES Opening on Thursday 22 Novembe 2018 from 6pm to 8pm at the Gallery elac. Exhibition from 23 November to 7 December 2018 Monday to Friday, from 1 pm to 5 pm Scenography Maria Fechner, Johanna Ellerhold, Farid Haupt, Berlin Catalog Jakob Mayr, Kilian Wittmann, Vienna This exhibition is presented jointly with the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2017 ----- Conference Wednesday 5 December at 6pm IKEA Auditorium ECAL Noémie Gygax, graphic designer, winner of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books, Neuchâtel Hubertus Design (Kerstin Landis, Jonas Voegeli), graphic designers, winners of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books and 100 beste Plakate, Zurich Denis Roueche, graphic designer, winner of the 100 beste Plakate, Neuchâtel Chi-Long Trieu, graphic designer, winner of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books, Lausanne Galerie l elac & ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens www.100-beste-plakate.de
"The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2017" exhibition,22.11–07.12.2018,Gallery l elac, ECAL A competition rewarding the most beautiful Swiss books of 2017, awarded in 2018 by the Federal Office of Culture. Opening on Thursday 22 November 2018 from 6pm to 8pm at the Gallery elac. Exhibition from 23 November to 7 December 2018 Monday to Friday, from 1 pm to 5 pm Scenography Damian Fopp, Zurich Catalog Design graphique: Teo Schifferli, Zurich Photographie: Clément Lambelet, Lausanne This exhibition is presented jointly with the 100 beste Plakate 17. Conference Wednesday 5 December at 6pm IKEA Auditorium ECAL Noémie Gygax, graphic designer, winner of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books, Neuchâtel Hubertus Design (Kerstin Landis, Jonas Voegeli), graphic designers, winners of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books and 100 beste Plakate, Zurich Denis Roueche, graphic designer, winner of the 100 beste Plakate, Neuchâtel Chi-Long Trieu, graphic designer, winner of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books, Lausanne Galerie l elac & ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens www.swissdesignawards.ch
Constellations Constellations is a one-week workshop held by Béatrice Lartigue for the first year Bachelor M&ID students in November 2018. The idea behind the workshop is to explore the invisible physical process of electrical conduction. Using Touchboards, students explored different ways of giving form to this idea of electrical conduction by creating diverse projects using sound, video projection and/or installation. MIDI Box MIDI Box is a Touchboard based MIDI controller that allows you to manually play back and create sequences for different virtual instruments. ECAL/Sébastien Galera Larios and Valerio Meschi The Sound of Planets The Sound of Planets is a Touchboard based audiovisual installation. Working like a theremin, it allows the user to play with the sound and the visuals generated by the project in real-time. ECAL/Malik Sobgoui and Basil Dénéréaz
Workshop Antony Cairns For one week Ecals bachelor students had the chance to work with photographer and artist Antony Cairns. The workshops aim was to investigate a variety of processes within the history of photography. Since the invention of the medium, photography has shared a close relationship with technology. Students had the chance to explore a range of forgotten techniques and machines to create artworks around the theme of time while researching its connection to other art pieces, films, books, and images that shared the same theme. Cairns practice has been hugely inspired by cyberpunk science fiction and Futurology. These subject matters led him to explore new ways to interpret the photographic medium. For one week Ecals bachelor students had the chance to work with photographer and artist Antony Cairns. The workshops aim was to investigate a variety of processes within the history of photography. Since the invention of the medium, photography has shared a close relationship with technology. Students had the chance to explore a range of forgotten techniques and machines to create artworks around the theme of time while researching its connection to other art pieces, films, books, and images that shared the same theme.Cairns practice has been hugely inspired by cyberpunk science fiction and Futurology. These subject matters led him to explore new ways to interpret the photographic medium.
ECAL Conference: atelier oï,15.11.2018,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: atelier oï – Architects and designers, La Neuveville (CH) Conférences ECAL (novembre 2018) atelier oï, Architectes et designers, La Neuveville (CH) www.atelier-oi.ch Jeudi 15 novembre à 18h Auditoire IKEA, ECAL Fondé en 1991 à La Neuveville (CH), atelier oï est composé de trois architectes et designers: Aurel Aebi, Armand Louis et Patrick Reymond. Leur studio aspire au décloisonnement des genres et à la transversalité des disciplines. Leur travail à l échelle internationale varie entre l architecture, l architecture d intérieur, le design et la scénographie. Transdisciplinarité, esprit d équipe et rapport direct à la matière sont leurs maîtres-mots. Leurs réalisations naissent souvent d un rapport intuitif et émotionnel dans le façonnage des différents matériaux, permettant à leurs projets d être récompensés à travers le monde (Design Preis Schweiz, Kenneth Hudson Award, Red Dot Award…). Entre expérimentations, échanges culturels et évènements dédiés à leurs créations, ils signent également pour des marques de prestige comme Artemide, B&B Italia, Bulgari, Foscarini, Louis Vuitton, Moroso, Passoni, Pringle of Scotland, Rimowa, Röthlisberger, USM ou encore Victorinox. ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33
Benjamin Bucher – Hunters Two men in their sixties spend day and night in a camper. They hunt meteorological balloons coming down to earth. These objects don t have a value for the scientists anymore, but do become the reason for a treasure hunt. Documentary / 17min Synopsis Two men in their sixties spend day and night in a camper. They hunt meteorological balloons coming down to earth. These objects don t have a value for the scientists anymore, but do become the reason for a treasure hunt. For my documentary film "Hunters" I had the pleasure to meet two men with an adventurous spirit. They share a peculiar activity that depends on wind. I sometimes had the impression to film grown children. Comment The three hunters of... "hunters" don t have guns but they take us on a poetic journey to hunt the weather probe! Benjmain Bucher follows them in their absurd, harmless and good-natured quest. He offers us a film outside of the economy, a stroll off the beaten path, a short moment of pure gratuity. And it is precious. Annette Dutertre / Editor, head of the Editing Department at La Fémis
Garage At the edge of a rail traffic, in an abandoned garage four people of different backgrounds live in a perfect harmony. Fiction / 20 min Synopsis Milda is a young lituanian dancer. She lives in a garage with three roommates. Even though they all have different backgrounds, it seems like they really found each other well and live in a perfect harmony. One night, some freaking noises wake them up : constructions works have started on the railway, just next to them. Those sounds announce the very near demolition of their home. From then, Milda, Alan, Nadine and Selena try to forget that their life togeter is about to end. Comment The film Garage, by Lorraine, and edited by Brandon Beytrison, seems to me to be emblematic of what the journey of an edit is. The first cut was far from the final film... Out of fear of boring the spectator, of assuming her scenario, Lorraine had artificially stretched the story and, in doing so, killed the very idea of her film! Dryness of the scenes, imbalance between the characters, mechanical rhythm, etc. Lorraine couldn t see her dailies anymore and Brandon was limited to pacing, for lack of direction. So we went back to the dailies to find Lorraine s original intentions, and they were there! It was a matter of finding the heart of the scenes, of redeploying them around the details that Lorraine had so meticulously put in place during the shooting and of giving back its soul to the film. Brandon then became a real force of proposal! The rest is up to them, and from the second cut, the film was there, obvious, in place. From that moment on, their collaboration was able to work fully to achieve the film you are about to see! Fabrice Rouaud / Editor
Antoine Flahaut – Wasteland Jérôme has failed his High-School leaving exams. He spend the day with his best friend, David before to go to a party. Fiction / 18 min Synopsis Jérôme has failed his High-School leaving exams. His best friend, David, has passed his exams and is getting ready to leave. They spend the day hanging out around their village, where they know every nook and cranny, and in the evening go to a party with their old schoolmates... Summer is just beginning but their friendship seems doomed to end. Comment Antoine Flahaut was to write a feature film script to conclude his studies at ECAL. His preliminary documentation work soon took on the scope of a gigantic research project, commensurate with the ambition of the project. By telling the story of a young man from a working class family in Montbéliard in the spring of 1968, Antoine was indeed proposing to resurrect a world. Wasteland is a gesture. An almost improvised short film, faithful in the background to the scenario of the feature film, but which also frees itself from it to better reconnect with the original inspiration of its author. A series of sensitive and fragile moments that reveal a soul, that of a boy on the border between childhood and manhood. A poem of vertigo in the face of the opacity of life, between nostalgia and the call of the sea, between early disenchantment and great hopes. Emmanuel Salinger / Actor, screenwriter, director
Lour Rambert Preiss – Stone Age In a vast stone quarry, an explosion reveals an object from the past. Fiction / 22 min Synopsis A great rock quarry today. Antonin, 27, discovers a face in the rock after an explosion. We shut down the sector, the company is stormed by mysterious scientists. During free time, we speculate on the origin of the face... Antonin s obsession grows. Comment Lou s film asked essential questions to him: to represent or not to represent? To put in form, at what point? The film is inscribed on this fine border, where our imaginations as spectators can be engulfed if we are not forbidden to enter by too many "pronouncements". Lou creates a space of cinema, situated between the spectator and the screen, in a dialogue oriented but not constrained. Thus, the film has the space to exist within us, and it succeeds in bringing to life the mystery it does not define. Each of the students, in his or her own place, has had to face these questions. And if Lionel Baier were Lao Tseu, he would tell them "The Tao that we try to grasp is not the Tao itself; the name we want to give it is not its proper name." Uh... Lou and his editor Gabrielle Stemmer knew how to play skillfully with duration and its variations, with the play of actors and non-actors together, with the relationships of scale (of space and time), with the interference of the supernatural... In short, Big, Small, Doubt... Bravo to him and his team. Alain Gomis / Director
Louis Hans-Moevi – Intercontinental Sarjo is fired from the laundry of a luxury hotel where he was working. At night, before leaving this place for good, he steals an access card and enters into the clients corridors of the building. Fiction / 20 min Synopsis As the funicular railway car Sarjo is sitting in climbs upwards, he looks down at the small town below and up at the mountains above. He works up there in the labyrinthine corridors of a luxury hotel, folding and ironing laundry. In the midst of the constant noise and churning of the washing machines, he is fired. But before Sarjo finally leaves the premises, he takes on a new identity, out of revenge or just total despair, and gets access to the lavish corridors reserved for guests.
ECAL at Dubai,13–17.11.2018,Dubai On the occasion of the Dubai Design Week from 13 to 17 November, ECAL will participate in the Global Grad Show. With 3 projects, ECAL is proud to participate in the "Global Grad Show" of the Dubai Design Week, a world-first exhibition of the most innovative projects from world s leading design schools. Curated by Brendan McGetrick, "Global Grad Show" offers an overview of the issues and technologies that will shape the future. The "Global Grad Show" will take place in Building 6, Dubai Design District, 13 - 17 November 2018. Open to public from 10am - 10pm (7pm on Saturday). www.globalgradshow.com ----- Besides, a conference by Ini Archibong, graduated from ECAL in MAS in Design for Luxury & Crafstmanship, will be given on 13 November at 4pm at the Dubai Design District.
ECAL at Designers Saturday Langenthal,02–04.11.2018,Mühlehof, Langenthal UGOKU In collaboration with the Japanese mobile brand TEMPO (mother tool) located in Ashikaga, Bachelor Industrial Design students from ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, under the guidance of Danish designer Nicholai Wiig Hansen, created mobiles based on different production techniques, know-how and local materials sourced during a recent study trip to Japan. IMAGES HD On the occasion of Designers Saturday Langenthal, a selection of edited projects is presented in the "DS Young Talents" exhibition from 2 to 4 November 2018 at Mühlehof. Exclusive preview (professionals only) Friday 2 November from 1pm to 9pm Public days Saturday 3 November from 9am to 6:30pm Sunday 4 November from 10am to 6pm Designers Saturday Mühlehof Mühleweg 23 4900 Langenthal www.designerssaturday.ch
ECAL Conference: Alex Prager,31.10.2018,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: Alex Prager – Photographer and filmmaker, Los Angeles Conférences ECAL (octobre 2018 Alex Prager Photographe et cinéaste, Los Angeles www.alexprager.com En conversation avec Nathalie Herschdorfer, enseignante et directrice du Musée des beaux-arts du Locle. Mercredi 31 octobre à 18h Auditoire IKEA, ECAL A l occasion d une semaine de workshop avec les étudiants en Bachelor Photographie et de l exposition Silver Lake Drive au Musée des beaux-arts du Locle du 3 novembre 2018 au 27 janvier 2019. Née en 1979 à Los Angeles, Alex Prager est une photographe et cinéaste qui crée des scènes minutieusement orchestrées, s inspirant d un large éventail d influences et de références comme le cinéma hollywoodien, les films expérimentaux, la culture populaire et la photographie de rue. La nature très chorégraphiée de ses photographies et de ses films révèle la manière dont les images sont construites et consommées dans notre société saturée en médias, mettant son travail en relation directe avec des artistes engagés tels que Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand et Cindy Sherman. Représentée par la galerie Lehmann Maupin à New York et à Hong Kong, Alex Prager a exposé dans de nombreux lieux prestigieux, dont le MoMA à Manhattan, la Photographer s Gallery à Londres ou la Galerie des Galeries à Paris. Elle a également reçu plusieurs prix majeurs pour son travail, notamment un Emmy Award pour Touch of Evil, un film de commande du New York Times, avec entre autres Jessica Chastain, George Clooney, Glenn Close et Brad Pitt, ainsi que le Foam Paul Huf Award, la désignant comme une personnalité majeure de la photographie ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33
Summer University Tehran Some thoughts and starting points for an art event about Ta ârof to be held at Bon Gah Thinking the interrelations within the art world, taking as a starting point an Iranian artist run space inviting a visiting Swiss art school wishing to understand (or underscore…) if and how Ta ârof may be of any help to try to build a temporary community, and make art. Drawing on some recent UN General Assembly speeches, that Trick or Treat is the ultimate geopolitical strategy tool, where USA is working towards a « more just and peaceful future ». Assuming that Switzerland is a neutral country and thereafter represents consular and diplomatic interests of USA in Iran. Taking in consideration that the art community doesn t differ from society in general: it is just a reductio ad absurdum. Artists tend to recognize each other globally, assuming some kind of moral superiority towards the rest of society, or at least pretending to understand the complex tissues of relationships and power relations that makes (and destroys) a community. But fundamentally there is almost no solidarity within the artists. Ta ârof continually questions hierarchy, be it the artist towards other artists, the artist towards the spectator and so on. Ta ârof plays the game of an ideal society, like art, where the artist is benevolent and humble towards the spectator. Ta ârof shows that every word always tends to have a hidden desire. Some thoughts and starting points for an art event about Ta ârof to be held at Bon GahThinking the interrelations within the art world, taking as a starting point an Iranian artist run space inviting a visiting Swiss art school wishing to understand (or underscore…) if and how Ta ârof may be of any help to try to build a temporary community, and make art.Drawing on some recent UN General Assembly speeches, that Trick or Treat is the ultimate geopolitical strategy tool, where USA is working towards a « more just and peaceful future ».Assuming that Switzerland is a neutral country and thereafter represents consular and diplomatic interests of USA in Iran.Taking in consideration that the art community doesn t differ from society in general: it is just a reductio ad absurdum. Artists tend to recognize each other globally, assuming some kind of moral superiority towards the rest of society, or at least pretending to understand the complex tissues of relationships and power relations that makes (and destroys) a community. But fundamentally there is almost no solidarity within the artists.Ta ârof continually questions hierarchy, be it the artist towards other artists, the artist towards the spectator and so on.Ta ârof plays the game of an ideal society, like art, where the artist is benevolent and humble towards the spectator.Ta ârof shows that every word always tends to have a hidden desire.
Empowerment Summit at ECAL,04.10.2018,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL Empowerment Summit – Artificial Intelligence: Redefining the World of Tomorrow Empowerment Summit – Artificial Intelligence: Redefining the World of Tomorrow 4 October 2018 – 08:30–20:00 Auditorium IKEA, ECAL, Renens Register and programme: https://empowerment-summit.ch This event brings together world-renowned experts on Artificial Intelligence. You will be able to meet experts who fully grasp issues related to the exponential development of these technologies. A multidisciplinary approach is essential to the understanding of societal and economic changes already in progress due to Artificial Intelligence. Anticipate! Get first hand information from key players who are already making this revolution to understand how AI is impacting your industry. ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Visual: ECAL/Amaury Hamon
ECAL presents "The Oracle" at C/O Berlin,28–30.09.2018,C/O Berlin Foundation On the occasion of C/O Berlin (28-30 September), ECAL presents "The Oracle", an installation by Clément Lambelet (BA Photography graduate) and Thomas Le Provost (BA Graphic Design graduate). Curated by Milo Keller (Head of BA & MA Photography) and in collaboration with Self Publish Be Happy. "The Oracle" has no gender, no ideology, no pre-conception. An interactive multimedia altar to Photobook:Reset that resides in the foyer of C/O Berlin. Using light and shadow, sound and silence and an artificial intelligence,The Oraclewill offer visitors advice and make forecasts about the future of photography, books and life. Analysing data – predictions made by experts participating in the workshops and as well as visitor feedback – it acts as stimulator for future action. In a time of great uncertainties "The Oracle" will shine as a beacon questioning our blind faith in technology. C/O Berlin Foundation Amerika Haus Hardenbergstraße 22–24 10623 Berlin www.co-berlin.org/photobook-reset
Margaux Piette – Afterglow « Afterglow is about the phenomenon of beauty tutorials on social media. I obsessively collected screenshots from videos to make a book with the aim to highlight the frenzy and the eccentricity of these practices but also to move them out of their context in order to upgrade them to picture status and to put forward their pictorialness. As an answer to the phenomenon, I made a series of self-portraits. I used various processes, among them digital manipulation and I played at digitally deconstructing my face too. »
Anastasia Mityukova – Project Iceworm In 1959, the US Army built a military base under the Greenland ice cap to deploy missiles. Due to global warming, nuclear waste left behind after the base was abandoned is resurfacing, threatening the Thule Inuit ecosystem. This installation (a composition of cyanotypes, collages, archives, aerial views, video) and the book break down events and transgressions: a colonial attitude, destruction and pollution, showing an inaccessible and invisible reality. In 1959, the US Army built a military base under the Greenland ice cap to deploy missiles. Due to global warming, nuclear waste left behind after the base was abandoned is resurfacing, threatening the Thule Inuit ecosystem. My installation (a composition of cyanotypes, collages, archives, aerial views, video) and my book break down events and transgressions: a colonial attitude, destruction and pollution, showing an inaccessible and invisible reality.