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Samuel Spreyz – MSM. Rx "Are cis gay men trapped in the medical system forever? Like desiring clones under chemical influence, they are enjoying a new sexual revolution – a revolution under legal drugs. If they want to bring liberalism into their sexuality, they have to become long-term patients. By virtue of PrEP, their use of the health system intensifies and MSM Rx is an attempt to represent this era. My visual essay is driven by my fascination for this lifestyle, a fusion of legal and illegal drugs, sultry parties and consensual hardcore practices."
Documentary film workshop with Guillaume Brac 2nd year students took part in a documentary workshop led by Guillaume Brac, on the theme of friendship. Head of workshop: Guest teachers: (editing) (photogrpahy) (writing) "After a successful first experience last year, I once again had the pleasure of helping second-year students make their documentary films. This time, I didn t give them a mandate, but rather a theme - friendship - to interpret freely. What I wanted above all was to get them to film the bond, the feeling. To delve into their experiences and emotions. The watchword of the workshop was sincerity. To make the most accurate, honest film possible, in terms of point of view and relationship to the filmed subject. To find the cinematographic language, the directing, that corresponds to and resembles them. This workshop is as fascinating as it is demanding, because it involves students getting to know themselves better, as filmmakers of course, but also as people. From these almost five months of work and trial and error have emerged ten very fine films, all very personal, dealing with a wide variety of bonds. The bond with the distant or missing father, with the prisoner to whom we write, with friends left on the other side of the world, with the party gang, with the friend undergoing reconstruction, with the famous young actor, with old Michel, with God, with his dog. We cry at some, laugh at others. And we tell ourselves that making films is a great way to grow up." Guillaume Brac, director • , La simple science du vol, 27 35 • , Celui qui n est pas mon grand-père, 25 13 • , Dolo et son ogre, 16 • , SABAI SABAI, 17 14 • , Kacey, 19 28 • , Crise de foi, 26 51 • , WOOF WOOF, 25 35 • , Papa et ses paillettes, 25 • , ...please bear with me, 20 27 • , Loin du bruit des machines, 15
Upcycling Design For the second year, students from the MAS in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship were invited to create objects based on the container produced for La Prairie s flagship range. The glass packaging bears the signature cobalt blue that defines the Swiss brand s Luxe Skin Caviar collection, the result of a meeting with Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1980s. Noticing the vivid cobalt blue in the world-famous artist s paintings and sculptures, La Prairie enquired about the significance of this blue in her work. For Niki de Saint Phalle, this resplendent hue, her favourite colour, symbolised femininity, boldness, strength and serenity, describing it as "the colour of joy and luck". With the help of glassmakers based in Switzerland, these glass containers were cut, drilled or sandblasted to give the object a function, while retaining the brand s codes.
Realtime Narratives During the Realtime Narratives course, second-year students had to create a real-time narrative experience using Unreal Engine software. Based on the theme of "Chrysalis", the students developed the scenario, the graphic assets and the interactions. The aim of the project was to raise students awareness of the use of 3D realtime engines and the various links with other software specific to each stage of development. FLOWER DREAMS In this immersive adventure, the user is plunged into the dreamlike world of a flower. When it falls asleep, it escapes through the doors of its room, revealing its dreams and nightmares. The game offers a poetic exploration of the flower s imagination, revealing unexpected situations. By Julie TurinPhisus "Phisus" is an interactive narrative experience in which the user embodies a water bubble bringing a fallen world back to life. In the universe of Phisus, humans have destroyed the Earth through wars and ecological crises. We retrace his history in the temple of a future religion that worships a vanished nature. By Théo Déchanez, Odran JobinThe persistence of notification We live our lives bombarded by notifications and distraction. What if we could escape and run away from all of them? That s what this experience explores - escaping the mundane and indulging in serenity. Or does it? By Sasha Iatseniafading away Through this project, the user explores the concept of mourning the loss of a place. The experience takes the user on an emotional journey, from the housewarming party to the move, culminating in an abstract world evoking nostalgia for the old home. By Ayten GönelLight "Light" is a mini game based on electricity. After a curse in the village, the player seeks a cure to regain the light. He takes on the role of a character who travels through various darker and darker places, accompanied by his own light: his light-bulb-headed companion. By Emma GrosuGirlhood This VR interactive game explores girlhood through the vices of mother-daughter relationships, insecurities and the journey to find oneself. This unsettling experience allows for multiple different endings according to the choices made by the player. Par Mélanie Martinshame of me As the protagonist embarks on a fascinating psychological journey through an environment dotted with mirrors, he moves and confronts himself. The experience prompts reflection on self-acceptance and the will to overcome inner obstacles. By Gary Sandoz, Jérémie KursnerChrysalid In this project, the user evolves in the heart of a city saturated with hijacked advertising. As the player explores, he or she is led to question the mechanisms of consumer society. By Charlotte Pralongcongruence "Congruence is a puzzle-based escape game. Players must solve a variety of puzzles to progress towards the ultimate goal: a golden trophy that challenges the notions of reward and victory in games. By Marius Parisodwish i was here "I wish I was here" is an interactive experience about grief. In this game, the player takes on the role of a little girl s ghost. She travels through different eras in the house where she failed to grow up, and watches her family mourn. By Isaïa Delaplace, Viktor Gagné
Type Bulletin #6 The 6th issue of Type Bulletin showcases the typographic work of students graduating from the 2022 Master Type Design program. Type Bulletin 6 presents a collection of typefaces of many genres, including Arabic and Japanese script, drawn at ECAL Master Type Design between 2021 and 2022. This purple and silver issue also includes a poster documentation of the travel in Greece and results of Irene Vlachou s Greek type class. All the typefaces used in this publication have been designed by students, including the font used in this text, Modern Gothic Light Mono, a diploma project by . These are just some highlights from a more extensive body of work. The typefaces used on the cover are Radiolar by , Phaedon by and Metago by . The English sample text is taken from the Thesis of ‘Soft Influence , a study of the influence of the software in graphic design. Type Bulletin #6 is available on ecal-shop.ch. All the fonts are designed by students are available on ecal-typefaces.ch.GRAPHIC DESIGNECAL/Nicolas Bernklau & PRINTECAL/Benjamin PlantierPUBLICATION YEAR2023
Festival HYPER OUEST: HYPER LAB,28.04–07.05.2023,Espace Veillon, Bussigny From April 27 to May 7, ECAL is taking part in Hyper Ouest festival, which will be held in the municipalities of western Lausanne. Bachelors Media & Interaction Design, Graphic Design and Photography students will present the Hyper Lab exhibition in the former Veillon halls. Opening: Thursday, April 27th. Hyper Ouest festival offers the opportunity to (re)discover the western municipalities of Lausanne through concerts, shows, exhibitions, workshops, walks, unusual meetings, and a party venue: Hyper Club. As the festival s heart, the former Veillon halls and their 1600m2 of industrial wasteland become Hyper Club for two weekends of clubbing in this evolving space. It is in this abandoned factory that Bachelors Media & Interaction Design, Graphic Design, and Photography students present Hyper Lab. The immersive exhibition plunges its audience into an industrial atmosphere composed of video sequences projected onto the worn walls of this exceptional place. Created during a week-long workshop, the visual fresco questions the abstract future of the Western district of Lausanne through the prism of all the HYPERlatives. The exhibition will be inaugurated as part of the opening of Hyper Ouest festival, free admission. Then accessible during the clubbing nights at the venue, paid admission. Information about the exhibition opening and the opening party Hyper Club s full schedule and ticketingOPENINGThursday, April 27th, 6.30pm, free admission (only for the exhibition opening and opening night of the festival)DATES AND SCHEDULES28-29 April and 5-6 May, 10pm - 5am Information and ticketing: hyperouest.chVENUEHyper Club, Espace Veillon Rte de Buyère 2, 1030 Bussigny STUDENTSCandice Aepli, Karim Akel, Rebecca Alfandary, Eve Aybran, Maude Bally, Amélie Bertholet, Coraline Beyeler, Elena Biasi, Valentin Bonzon, Steve Bouillant, Olympe Boutaghane, Delphine Brantschen, Ettore Bruni, Jonas Buxcel, Olivia Capol, Camille Choquard, Léa Corin, Matteo Cortesi, Gabrielle Coué, Alexandra Cupsa, Adel Debabéche, Sacha Décoppet, Emanuele Delpozzo, Mathilde Driebold, Eliot Dubi, Rebecca Dubuis, Marc Facchinetti, Sébastien Follet, Yang Yi Fung, Thomas Gaudin, Morgane Gilliéron, Baptiste Godart, Lisa Grobet, Sofia Grytsiv, Flora Hayoz, Flaurant Kadrija, Yohann Kampmann, Belinda Kiela, Lester Kielstein, Quentin Kohler, Maël Le Guével, Mathias Liniger, Sebastian Lou, Jerome Luginbühl, Fredrik Maag, Emilie Maier, Constance Mauler, Simon Maurer, Delphine Moënnat, Lidia Molina Gonzales, Emilie Müller, Monica Müller, Aryana Noorani, Dorian Pangallo, Océane Pasteur, Paul Paturel, Eliot Pizzera, Luca Reichenbach, Melanie Rengifo, Inès Riber, Luca Riva, Angeline Rossetti, Clément Rouzaud, Adam Saragoussi, Livia Schmid, Ashley Schneiter, Hugo Scholl, Simon Schönmann, Alexine Sierro, Lisa Simoncini, Diego Steiner, Mehdin Talovic, Pierre Teissier, Delio Testa, Baptiste Torrent, Héloïse Tourrenc, Elsa Trummer, Vladislav Tschumi, Cyprien Valenza, Shiny Vallenas, Chloé Vandewalle, Alfredo Venti, Charlotte Waridel, Arnaud Wenger, Kristina Yenza, Cedric Zellweger, Valère Zen-RuffinenPROJECT SUPERVISED BYEurostandard - Ali-Eddine Abd El Khalek and Clément Rouzaud Jean-Vincent SimonetHEADS OF THE PROJECT- head of Bachelor Graphic Design - head of Visual Communication departmentSUPPORT AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTElodie Anglade , Roberto Canas, Julien Gurtner , Jamy Herrmann , Achille Masson , Lisa Mazenauer , Matthieu Minguet , Antonin RicouCOORDINATION
Visual Identity During the visual identity course, the 1st year Graphic Design bachelors had to realize a communication project around a district of Lausanne. MON-REPOS Affiche & carnet de recherche The aim of this project was to create a poster for a fictitious festival taking place in the park of Mon-Repos in Lausanne. This fictitious concert poster seeks to oppose nature and synthetics, in resonance with the historical past of the place; an artificially shaped green space. Par Le flon Carnet de recherche & affiche Although the roofs are at the same level as the ground of the Flon district. This place is inscribed as a floor in the city. It is organized according to a grid of similar rectangular buildings and thus represented by assemblies of blocks inducing the notion of floors by playing on the modification of the perspective. Par Eliot DubiOUCHY Drapeau & carnet de recherches This project of creation of a visual identity is produced for the district of Ouchy in Lausanne. The identity system of this one was reflected from the nautical language and the particularities of this district at the edge of the lake of Geneva. Par MONTCHOISI Carnet de recherches & panneaux The visual identity of the Montchoisi district is based on a struggle between two parties. A population using a set of pictograms in the form of authoritarian signs, against a minority displaying protest posters in order to overthrow order and discipline. Par
PRATIQUE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE By conceptualizing and producing the visual content for a magazine, themed - RESISTANCE - the students approached the notion of applied photography in a practical, creative and professional way in close collaboration with an Art Director.
L Or Bleu Une exposition par les étudiant·e·s en Année Propédeutique – option Photographie de l ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne Sous la direction du photographe Nicolas Haeni, les étudiant·e·s invitent à se questionner sur la symbolique de l eau. Depuis la nuit des temps, cet or bleu intrigue et inspire, laissant naître des interprétations qui, encore aujourd hui, et peut-être même plus que jamais, habitent la littérature, les arts visuels ou encore les arts vivants. Partant de la citation de l astrophysicien Hubert Reeves « À l échelle cosmique, l eau liquide est plus rare que l or », les jeunes photographes proposent leur vision personnelle et individuelle, en explorant différents domaines de la photographie : nature morte, portrait, architecture ou mise en scène. Photos © ECAL/Marvin Merkel
ECAL×Jean Paul Gaultier: Under Your Smell,03.03–21.05.2023,Photo Elysée From March 3 to May 21, 2023, ECAL presents Under Your Smell at Photo Elysée. In collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier, Bachelor Photography students propose their interpretation of the brand s perfumes through an immersive exhibition celebrating gender diversity and new definitions of beauty. Opening Thursday, March 2 at 6pm. DATES AND SCHEDULEFrom March 3 to May 21, 2023 Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 10am-6pm Thursday: 10am-8pm Tuesday: closedVENUEPhoto Elysée, Place de la Gare 17, 103 LausanneSTUDENTSDominique Bartels, Julie Corday, Diego Fellmann, Florian Hilt, Samara Krähenbühl, Angèle Marignac-Serra, Lisa Mazenauer, Marvin Merkel, Inès Mermoud, Basil Pérot, Yolane Rais, Camille Spiller, Gwendoline Albasini, Tony Altermatt, Matteo Angelé, Laure Brandford Griffith, Noa Chevalley, Sara De Brito Faustino, Yann Difford, Jessica Dreier, Valerie Geissbühler, Eloïse Genoud, Ulises Lozano, , , Lea Sblandano, Samuel Spreyz, Gaétan Uldry, Antoine Woeffray,UNDER THE DIRECTION OFFlorence Tétier - creative directorJean Paul Gaultier Nicolas Coulomb - photographer and consultant Novembre GlobalHEAD OF PROGRAMMEASSISTANTS, , COORDINATIONWEBSITEwww.elysee.chOPENINGThursday, March 2 at 6 pm
DEDON BY NATURE: NEW COLLECTION IN COLLABORATION WITH ECAL In collaboration with DEDON, acclaimed designer Sabine Marcelis and Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship students present DEDON by Nature: Lighting the Future, an innovative digital exhibition of a nature-inspired light concepts collection. To be discovered on studio.dedon.de Under the direction of Sabine Marcelis, acclaimed New Zealand designer, and Nicolas Le Moigne, head of Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship, the students imagined, designed and developed an inspiring series of light concepts that resulted from an exploratory reflection on our relationship with nature through design. Nine months of work have resulted in a collection that is as elegant as it is committed; a collection that attests to the creative powers of an emerging generation and the enduring attraction of nature to us all. Lighting the Future is the first exhibition in the DEDON by Nature program, an ongoing series of collaborations between DEDON Studio and forward-facing design practitioners across disciplines and levels The exhibition is exclusively digital and can be viewed at studio.dedon.de 3D animations and visuals by Benjamin MuzzinSTUDENTS, , , , , , , , , , , , , UNDER THE DIRECTION OFSabine Marcelis, New Zealand designerHEAD OF PROGRAMME
Much Faster, Much Slower Second year Interaction Design students developped a messaging app centered around the theme of “Much Faster / Much Slower”. The goal is to create a unique mobile messaging app that offers a distinctive experience compared to existing instant messaging apps. The project explores the impact of technology on our relationship with speed and communication. It focuses on how advancements in technologies have shaped our experiences and preferences for speed. The project also looks at the role of instant messaging apps in changing the way we communicate and interact, taking up a significant amount of our daily engagement time. The goal is to translate this fascination with speed and slowness into innovative interaction design concepts related to communication. NOMAD NOMAD aims to elevate conversations with loved ones, creating a sense of special and unique moments where both parties feel truly connected. This is achieved through key features such as appointment management, live streaming during chats, and a typewriter tool that adds a natural flow to the conversation. By combining space and time into one platform, NOMAD elevates the essence of meaningful conversations. By Viktor GagnéBOUNCY BOUNCY is a messaging app that uses simple shapes to chat with your friends. The use of these shapes quickly gives the appearance of an abstract and funny conversation. The messages in the system come to life through interaction, allowing the user to personalize their messages with shape, color, and emotion. The elasticity and physical properties of the messages add a dynamic quality as they bounce off one another. As a result, the conversation becomes an abstract representation of shape and color, showcasing the messages history. By Julie TurinSOUNDS LIKE YOU SOUNDS LIKE YOU is a unique app that connects people through their shared love of music. The app assigns a color-coded genre to each user and offers a built-in radio and database to personalize the listening experience. To start a conversation, users answer 10 questions based on their musical data, unlocking the ability to chat freely with others. By Jérémie KursnerSCRABBLES SCRABBLES is a messaging app that adds a fun twist to communication. Users send messages by playing games like Pictionary, Tic Tac Toe, Battleship, and Heads or Tails. In Scrabbles, users can play simultaneous games or send challenges to friends. This creates a playful and entertaining way to communicate, reminiscent of classic paper games. Whether looking for a fun distraction or a unique messaging experience, Scrabble offers a creative and enjoyable way to connect with friends. By Ayten Gönel
L or bleu,20.01–28.02.2023,Docks, Lausanne From January 20 to February 28, 2023, Les Docks in Lausanne will host the exhibition L or bleu, a project realized by the students of the Foundation Year - Photography Option at ECAL. Opening : Thursday, January 19 at 6:30 pm. This project developed by students in Foundation Year - Photography at ECAL, under the direction of photographer Nicolas Haeni, invites us to question the symbolism of water. Since the dawn of time, this blue gold has intrigued and inspired, giving rise to interpretations which, even today, and perhaps even more than ever, inhabit literature, fine arts and performing arts. Based on the quote by astrophysicist Hubert Reeves "AT THE COSMIC SCALE, LIQUID WATER IS RARER THAN GOLD", the young photographers propose their personal and individual vision, exploring different fields of photography: still life, portrait, architecture or staging. Free admissionDATE AND SCHEDULEfrom January 20 to February 28, 2023 from Monday to Friday, 5pm to 6pmVENUELes Docks, Av. de Sévelin 34, 1004 LausanneSTUDENTSJanine Agbayani , Salomé Billato , Lee Eggenschwiler , Antoine Genoud , Rose Graf , Léa Huguenin-Vuillemin , Silas Tutuyapa Lenz , Auriane Nicollier , Lara Niklas , Fanny Sherifi , Louise Tapponnier , Léna VoélinTEACHERHEAD OF PROGRAMMEOPENINGThursday, January 19, 2023, from 6:30 pm
FIGURE LIBRE Within the project "Figure libre," students are provided with the opportunity to express themselves on a subject of their choosing. The project encourages the incorporation of personal research, or thesis and to select a field aligning with their desired career paths post-studies, be it in furniture, mobility, connected objects, or any other area.
Summer University Finland — ECAL toys with ARTEK Teaming up with iconic Finnish furniture company Artek, Bachelor Industrial Design students, 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. The resulting collection made of up-cycled components features a modernist inspired dolls house, a convenient wagon to move toys and other things around, quirky plush toys in the form of fish and sea creatures, a minimalist sledge to enjoy the snowy Lapland winter, a hanging ladder to reach for the stars, mesmerising marble mazes, a tiny theatre for a spontaneous play with your best friends, and a handy clothes rack to help tidy up your children s room after a busy day – to name just a few.During our journey in Finland, students were able to visit multiple manufacturers, craftsmen, designers and cultural landmarks such as: Fiskars scissors factory, Artek main wooded furniture factory, Iittala glassblowing plant, up and coming Vaarnii founder, and several historical buildings from famous architect and designer Alvar Aalto, including his house and studio, to name only a few. In partnership with the iconic finish design brand Artek and the Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale, the students discovered the bountiful nature that inspires and nurtures Finnish industry and craftsmanship, one of the pillars of contemporary Scandinavian design. This project was made possible with the kind support of the Summer University programme of the Board of Higher Education (DGES) – State of Vaud.RELATED EVENTS
Abundance & Scarcity When we live in a society with so much abundance yet at the same time so much scarcity, how do we discern the resources around us? How can we look to our surroundings to learn about where things come from, or how we might apply them in our own lives? More importantly, how can we live more harmoniously with nature by respecting it and taking only what we need? Within the workshop held by Nadine Sterk from Atelier NL the BA Industrial Design students were asked to create tableware around the theme ‘Abundance & Scarcity from vernacular earth collected together in the Sauvabelin woods in Lausanne. Students and crew had no hesitation in getting their hands (and clothes) dirty to knead, turn, form, glaze, and fire ceramic tableware that tells a story.
ECAL×JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: Under Your Smell,10–12.11.2022,Paris 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. DATES AND SCHEDULEFrom Thursday 10 November to Saturday 12 November 11 am - 8 pmVENUEJean Paul Gaultier HQ, 325 rue Saint-Martin, 75003 Paris, FranceSTUDENTSDominique Bartels, Julie Corday, Diego Fellmann, Florian Hilt, Samara Krähenbühl, Angèle Marignac-Serra, Lisa Mazenauer, Marvin Merkel, Inès Mermoud, Basil Pérot, Yolane Rais, Camille Spiller, Gwendoline Albasini, Tony Altermatt, Matteo Angelé, Laure Brandford Griffith, Noa Chevalley, Sara De Brito Faustino, Yann Difford, Jessica Dreier, Valerie Geissbühler, Eloïse Genoud, Ulises Lozano, , , Lea Sblandano, Samuel Spreyz, Gaétan Uldry, Antoine Woeffray,UNDER THE DIRECTION OFFlorence Tétier - creative director Jean Paul Gaultier Nicolas Coulomb - photographer and consultant Novembre GlobalHEAD OF PROGRAMMEASSISTANTS, , COORDINATION
ECAL × JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: Under Your Smell The exhibition Under Your Smell offers a hypnotic and immersive experience in Jean Paul Gaultier s headquarters by imagining new definitions of beauty and body expression. Under the direction of Florence Tétier and Nicolas Coulomb, 3rd year Bachelor Photography students brought to life the brand s iconic perfumes through an immersive photographic experience. In the first season, with the complicity of Claude Emmanuelle Gajan Maull, the young photographers have fluidified the iconic bottles with their gendered silhouettes — Le Mâle, Le Classique, Le Beau and La Belle — in a fresh LGBTQIA+ perspective. With this upcoming season, the project evolves around the Scandal fragrance, with the creation of still lives in which the liquid, dry and organic contrasting textures evoke the essence of the perfume, its bottle design and its complexities. Through staging, the perfumes become the backdrop for stories of transgression and fantastical projections. In addition to monumental fabric prints, giant image-cushions welcome the public to lay down and celebrate gender fluidity and the ever changing definitions of beauty and self expression. STUDENTSDominique Bartels, Julie Corday, Diego Fellmann, Florian Hilt, Samara Krähenbühl, Angèle Marignac-Serra, Lisa Mazenauer, Marvin Merkel, Inès Mermoud, Basil Pérot, Yolane Rais, Camille Spiller, Gwendoline Albasini, Tony Altermatt, Matteo Angelé, Laure Brandford Griffith, Noa Chevalley, Sara De Brito Faustino, Yann Difford, Jessica Dreier, Valerie Geissbühler, Eloïse Genoud, Ulises Lozano, , , Lea Sblandano, Samuel Spreyz, Gaétan Uldry, Antoine Woeffray,UNDER THE DIRECTION OFFlorence Tétier - directrice de création Jean Paul Gaultier Nicolas Coulomb - photographe et consultant Novembre GlobalHEAD OF PROGRAMMEASSISTANTS, , COORDINATIONUnder the direction of Florence Tétier (Jean Paul Gaultier) and Nicolas Coulomb (Novembre Magazine), 3rd year Bachelor Photography students of ECAL present a visual interpretation of Jean Paul Gaultier s perfumes. In the first season, with the complicity of Claude Emmanuelle Gajan Maull, the young photographers have fluidified the iconic bottles with their gendered silhouettes — Le Mâle, Le Classique, Le Beau and La Belle — in a fresh LGBTQIA+ perspective. With this upcoming season, the project evolves around the Scandal fragrance, with the creation of still lives in which the liquid, dry and organic contrasting textures evoke the essence of the perfume, its bottle design and its complexities. Through staging, the perfumes become the backdrop for stories of transgression and fantastical projections. Under Your Smell offers a hypnotic and immersive experience through monumental fabric prints all around the iconic spaces of the Jean Paul Gaultier House. Giant image-cushions welcome the public to lay down and celebrate gender fluidity and the ever changing definitions of beauty and self expression.RELATED EVENTS
ECAL×JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: Under Your Smell The exhibition Under Your Smell offers a hypnotic and immersive experience in Jean Paul Gaultier s headquarters by imagining new definitions of beauty and body expression. Under the direction of Florence Tétier and Nicolas Coulomb, 3rd year Bachelor Photography students brought to life the brand s iconic perfumes through an immersive photographic experience. STUDENTSDominique Bartels, Julie Corday, Diego Fellmann, Florian Hilt, Samara Krähenbühl, Angèle Marignac-Serra, Lisa Mazenauer, Marvin Merkel, Inès Mermoud, Basil Pérot, Yolane Rais, Camille Spiller, Gwendoline Albasini, Tony Altermatt, Matteo Angelé, Laure Brandford Griffith, Noa Chevalley, Sara De Brito Faustino, Yann Difford, Jessica Dreier, Valerie Geissbühler, Eloïse Genoud, Ulises Lozano, , , Lea Sblandano, Samuel Spreyz, Gaétan Uldry, Antoine Woeffray,UNDER THE DIRECTION OFFlorence Tétier - directrice de création Jean Paul Gaultier Nicolas Coulomb - photographe et consultant Novembre GlobalHEAD OF PROGRAMMEASSISTANTS, , COORDINATIONUnder the direction of Florence Tétier (Jean Paul Gaultier) and Nicolas Coulomb (Novembre Magazine), 3rd year Bachelor Photography students of ECAL present a visual interpretation of Jean Paul Gaultier s perfumes. In the first season, with the complicity of Claude Emmanuelle Gajan Maull, the young photographers have fluidified the iconic bottles with their gendered silhouettes — Le Mâle, Le Classique, Le Beau and La Belle — in a fresh LGBTQIA+ perspective. With this upcoming season, the project evolves around the Scandal fragrance, with the creation of still lives in which the liquid, dry and organic contrasting textures evoke the essence of the perfume, its bottle design and its complexities. Through staging, the perfumes become the backdrop for stories of transgression and fantastical projections. Under Your Smell offers a hypnotic and immersive experience through monumental fabric prints all around the exhibition areas. Giant image-cushions welcome the public to lay down and celebrate gender fluidity and the ever changing definitions of beauty and self expression.RELATED EVENTS
The ECAL Manual of Style – How to best teach design today?,15.10.2022–16.04.2023,Vitra Design Museum 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. DATES AND SCHEDULEFrom October 15 to April 16 10am - 6pmVENUEVitra Design Museum Gallery Charles-Eames-Straße 2, 79576 Weil am Rhein, AllemagneLUMINARIESJohanna Agerman Ross – Yves Béhar – Camille Blin – Erwan Bouroullec – Ronan Bouroullec – Pierre Charpin – Kim Colin – Alexandra Cunningham Cameron – Konstantin Grcic – Marva Griffin – Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard – Mette Hay – Jaime Hayon – Anniina Koivu – Nicolas Le Moigne – Sabine Marcelis – Ravi Naidoo – Hans Ulrich Obrist – Eugenio Perazza – Alice Rawsthorn – Deyan Sudjic – Patricia UrquiolaECAL Alumni – – BIG-GAME – – – – – – – – – – – – Francisco Torres – & – – & EXHIBITION DESIGNExhibition design based on a concept by , and - ECAL Master Product Design students - following a one-week workshop led by Jonathan Olivares, in close collaboration with Glas ItaliaCOLLABORATIONSPhaidon Vitra Design Museum Glas ItaliaOPENINGFriday, 14. October 6pmUPDATE About Style and Attitude: Learning Design On Thursday, February 2, from 6 to 7:15 pm, a talk around the question "How to best teach design today" will be conducted at the Vitra Design Museum. Speakers: Julie Richoz, designer Paris Bachelor Industrial Design graduate and lecturer at ECAL Kim Colin/Industrial Facility, designer, Londres ECAL Master Product Design lecturer Jaime Hayon, designer Valencia ECAL lecturer Moderator: Anniina Koivu
The ECAL Manual of Style – How to best teach design today? ECAL 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. LUMINARIESJohanna Agerman Ross – Yves Béhar – Camille Blin – Erwan Bouroullec – Ronan Bouroullec – Pierre Charpin – Kim Colin – Alexandra Cunningham Cameron – Konstantin Grcic – Marva Griffin – Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard – Mette Hay – Jaime Hayon – Anniina Koivu – Nicolas Le Moigne – Sabine Marcelis – Ravi Naidoo – Hans Ulrich Obrist – Eugenio Perazza – Alice Rawsthorn – Deyan Sudjic – Patricia UrquiolaECAL Alumni – – BIG-GAME – – – – – – – – – – – – Francisco Torres – & – – & COLLABORATIONSPhaidon Vitra Design Museum Glas ItaliaEXHIBITION DESIGNExhibition design based on a concept by , and - ECAL Master Product Design students - following a one-week workshop led by Jonathan Olivares, in close collaboration with Glas Italia“How to best teach design today?” – The ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne has pondered the question of teaching methods for future designers. Widely considered to be among the leading art and design institutions themselves, the ECAL approached internationally renowned designers, critics, and writers, whose answers reveal multiple approaches to teaching, in which individual style is not only encouraged, but rigorously pushed to develop into its most coherent professional form. Curated by acclaimed designer Jonathan Olivares and ECAL Director Alexis Georgacopoulos, the exhibition surveys a selection of twenty groundbreaking and defining projects by students and their tutors, all of them made out of fascinating teaching methods, leading to unconventional objects and revealed by a creative methodology in action, readily molding to accommodate the needs of the future. The exhibition shows a selection of these iconic projects and retraces their design process through a historical context. In other words, it challenges the question “How to best teach design today?”. A question that Max Bill and Ettore Sottsass tried to answer in 1983 in the context of the Design Since 1945 exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Their answer? Each gave a response that reflected his own image: the first emphasized the pragmatism and practicality of design. The second, its utopian and metaphorical character. These two lines of thought are found at the heart of the exhibition through its scenography: from the eccentric and colorful glass material to the functional and straightforward wooden structure, the exhibition answers the question in itself: there is not one but many best ways to teach design today. Beside the exhibition, the findings are also presented in a publication, published by Phaidon and edited by Jonathan Olivares et Alexis Georgacopoulos.
COLLABORATION WITH DEDON 2022 LIGHTING THE FUTUR Dedon by nature An initiative of DEDON Studio, Lighting the Future presents a striking array of nature-inspired light concepts by master stu- dents from the prestigious ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. This innovative digital exhibition opens in January 2023 exclusively on DEDON channels, including a dedicated microsite enhanced by AR tools. DEDON Studio initiated the ECAL collaboration with a challenge to students in the Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship Masters program: Explore our relation to nature through lighting design, drawing inspiration from DEDON s groundbreaking fiber. Under the supervision of the acclaimed designer Sabine Marcelis and Nicolas Le Moigne, head of the program, students designed, developed and digitally elaborated their concepts over a nine- month period. The results—beautiful, beguiling, thoughtful and engaging—attest to the creative powers of an emerging genera- tion and the enduring attraction of nature to us all.
Language English Qualification issued Certificate of course - 1/5 Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) Fees CHF 1 200.-, Alumni EXECAL CHF 1 000.- Credits 2 ECTS Length 4h for 5 weeks, Friday afternoon 1:30pm - 5:30pm Useful links Admission , Contact Course format Hybrid teaching (real-time online and on site at ECAL) Registration deadlines 21.03.2025 Date of course 10, 17, 24 April and 01, 08…
Masters programmes presentations and Q&A,29.09–01.10.2022,Zürich As part of ECAL x On exhibition in Zürich, meet the directors and assistants of the Product Design, Photography and Type Design Masters. Interested in studying at ECAL ? For one hour, come and discuss with the people who will accompany you throughout your Master s degree at ECAL - Academic year 2023: registration for Master s courses possible until 3.04.2023. No prior registration is necessary for the Masters programes presentation.DATES AND TIMESMaster Photography : Thursday 29.09 – 6pm - 7pm Master Type Design : Friday 30.09 – 6pm - 7pm Master Product Design : Saturday 1.10 – 4pm - 5pmVENUEOn, Hardturmstrasse 173, 8005 ZürichSPEAKERSMaster Photography : Florians Amoser – assistant Master Type Design : Raphaela Häfliger and Nicolas Bernklau – assistants Master Product Design : Camille Blin – head of programme
Partnerships with Mec-Art Within the framework of the partnership between ECAL/University of Art & Design Lausanne and Mec-Art (Pour la Mécanique d Art), the students of the Master in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship had the opportunity to visit the manufactures and meet the artisans based in the town of Sainte-Croix. This region of the Franco-Swiss Jura arc gathers a great deal of know-how in watchmaking and art mechanics and is now part of UNESCO s Intangible Cultural Heritage. These visits and encounters should enable the students of the ECAL program to create simple and fun mechanical parts that will illustrate the various skills specific to the region, such as automatons, music boxes or watchmaking. Wind Shangwei Zhou, Somchai Thumthatanuk The mechanical components contrast with the natural and organic aesthetic of this clock, inspired by the iconic landscapes of Switzerland. Realized by the best craftsmen based in the small village of Sainte-Croix, this unique piece illustrates a perfect harmony between three typical Swiss mechanical arts: watches, automatons and music boxes. After every full turn of the minute hand, a music starts to ring and the blue metal pieces wave slowly, as the wind over the surface of the Leman lake. Colours, illusions and concept of time Sarah Yao Based on a gradient optical illusion by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, our eyes perceive colours differently depending on the shade of the background they are placed against. I wanted to visualise the passage of time through colour - the resulting objects are a translation of this animated effect through the use of simple but elegant mechanics.
Partnership with the FHH For many years, the ECAL and the FHH (Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie) have worked together regularly on activities or projects related to the watchmaking world: - Annual visits to the Watches & Wonders watch fair in Geneva; - Participation of the students in a workshop (assembling and reassembling each component of the mechanical movement of a watch); - Collaboration on exhibition projects; - Collaboration on research projects (publications, ...).
ECAL x BMC - Daily Mobility In collaboration with renowned Swiss bicycle brand BMC, second year Bachelor Industrial Design students, under the guidance of Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Head of the programme, and Christian Spiess, Swiss designer and bicycle aficionado, present a collection of handy and colourful accessories for the modern daily bike commute. Featuring add-on equipment or revamped bikes, the students projects offer a glimpse into the future of mobility on two wheels and highlight the potential of an enhanced rider experience. In the cycling world, BMC is synonymous with state-of-the-art and high-performance cycling products. With urban mobility, the brand s target shifts radically to comfortable, pleasurable and practical products. “Design is something that is constantly evolving. Getting to grips with the next generation s perspective on our industry was just a great experience”, explained Christof Bigler, Industrial Design Team Leader at BMC. The resulting collection of concepts features a seamlessly integrated textile lock; stroboscopic reflective rim covers to enhance visibility; recycled plastic confetti style mudguards, chain guard and pedals; a convenient shopping trolley that attaches easily to the bike frame; a sturdy handlebar that includes a basket; and a compact model that allows easy storage or a quick hop on public transport – to name but a few. On the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2022, the projects were shown as part of the House of Switzerland Milano.
Bachelor HES-SO CINEMA Laurence Wegener (coordinator) FINE ARTS GRAPHIC DESIGN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN PHOTOGRAPHY VISUAL COMMUNICATION Autres départements FOUNDATION YEAR RA&D Davide Fornari THEORY Anniina Koivu (Master) Deodaat Tevaearai (Bachelor) Master & MAS HES-SO CINEMA (coordinator) FINE AR…
Mayara Yamada – That Night Marara Kelly Played in My Town That Night Marara Kelly Played in My Town is a visual appearance peripheral to the Marara Kelly Art Show, a series of performance in which Mayara Yamada creates a form of self-mythology where she seeks out, throughout an evening divided into five chapters, Marara Kelly, her personal party entity, the guardian of her childhood dreams. The project showcases a series of photographs that begin in the Brazilian Amazon and end in Lake Geneva. As well as a typical banner of the Brazilian Amazon, that here announces an otherworldly party, the world in which Marara transits is magical and disrupts the established reality. There one could imagine a party where the entrance is made during the dive in the river and the after-party begins with the emersion in Lake Geneva.
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Coffee spots & restaurants For an aperitif in the sun in a beautiful medieval garden in the heart of the city, go to Bar Giraf at Le Vieux-Lausanne. Not far away, cozy restaurant Evêché serves fondues and other Swiss specialties. A little further north, you can sit down at La Couronne d’Or, one of the oldest cafés in Lausanne, or you can get a craft beer at Brasserie du Château. Towards the south …
Today, one of the greatest challenges for designers is to adapt to the ever more specific and demanding needs of contemporary audiences. The Creative Leadership courses aims to train the participants to the development of innovative and responsible projects that meet the current challenges of a changing society. It offers the possibility to explore new practices in within the creative industries …
IMD and ECAL expand partnership with the signature of an agreement and a new executive program. Vaud neighbours will co-create design-focused executive program as they strengthen collaboration in teaching and knowledge exchange. IMD , the Institute for Management Development, and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne will develop a new design-oriented executive education program as part …
ECAL Milano 2022: The ECAL Manual of Style,07–12.06.2022,Spazio Orso 16, Milano 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. Founded in 1821, ECAL is widely considered to be among the world s leading art and design institutions, described byIt s Nice That as ‘the Oxbridge, the Harvard, or the MIT of the design world . In The ECAL Manual of Style", ECAL s design pedagogy is introduced via a central question posed to the internationally renowned designers, critics, and writers linked to ECAL: ‘How to best teach design today? . The answers from luminaries highlight the school s unique approach to teaching, in which individual style is not only encouraged, but rigorously pushed to develop into its most coherent professional form. Edited by acclaimed designer and writer Jonathan Olivares and ECAL Director Alexis Georgacopoulos (graphic design: Gavillet & Cie), this book surveys a selection of defining projects, simultaneously groundbreaking and functional, by students and their tutors. Published to coincide with the school s 200th anniversary, The ECAL Manual of Style reveals a creative methodology in action, readily molding to accommodate the needs of the future. Luminaries Johanna Agerman Ross – Yves Béhar – Camille Blin – Erwan Bouroullec – Ronan Bouroullec – Pierre Charpin – Kim Colin – Alexandra Cunningham Cameron – Konstantin Grcic – Marva Griffin – Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard – Mette Hay – Jaime Hayon – Anniina Koivu – Nicolas Le Moigne – Sabine Marcelis – Ravi Naidoo – Hans Ulrich Obrist – Eugenio Perazza – Alice Rawsthorn – Deyan Sudjic – Patricia Urquiola ECAL Alumni Ini Archibong – Thilo Alex Brunner – BIG-GAME – Michel Charlot – Jung-You Choi – Christophe Guberan – Moisés Hernández – Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska – Fiona Krüger – Carolien Niebling – Léa Pereyre – Julie Richoz – Adrien Rovero – Brynjar Sigurðarson – Francisco Torres – Alexis Tourron & Stefano Panterotto – Hongchao Wang – Giorgia Zanellato & Daniele Bortotto Opening hours 7 – 11 June, 11am – 8pm / 12 June, 11am – 4pm Spazio Orso 16 Via dell Orso 16 20121 Milano HD images https://press.ecal.ch
COLLABORATION WITH MEC-ART MECHANICAL MARVELS Craftsmanship in Movement: Celebrating Design and the Heritage of Switzerland s Masters of Mechanical Art 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. Downolaod flyer with descriptions of the projects For a number of years, the MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship programme at ECAL has enabled its students to work in close collaboration with prestigious maisons to further their design education in numerous areas of excellence. The university s partnership with Association Mec-Art is fully in line with this approach, creating the opportunity for students to collaborate with artisans based in Sainte-Croix, the town in the French Swiss Jura which is home to all the know-how involved in the creation of art mechanics. Here, artisans perpetuate their time-honoured expertise in the mechanical arts, including music boxes and automatons—traditions recently added to UNESCO s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This ambitious project has brought together international students and world-renowned artisans in order to combine design, innovation and engineering. “Mechanical Marvels” features five interactive installations that mix visual and sound effects and enables visitors to operate the mechanical masterpieces by winding a crank, thereby bringing the various automatons to life. Horloger: Denis Flageollet Automatier: François Junod Horloger: Nicolas Court Technicien en mécanique: Boris Masur Marqueterie de bois: Bastien Chevalier Ebéniste: Luigi Mondia
Mechanical Marvels" exhibition at Homo Faber 2022,10.04–01.05.2022 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. For a number of years, the MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship programme at ECAL has enabled its students to work in close collaboration with prestigious maisons to further their design education in numerous areas of excellence. The university s partnership with Association Mec-Art is fully in line with this approach, creating the opportunity for students to collaborate with artisans based in Sainte-Croix, the town in the French Swiss Jura which is home to all the know-how involved in the creation of art mechanics. Here, artisans perpetuate their time-honoured expertise in the mechanical arts, including music boxes and automatons—traditions recently added to UNESCO s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This ambitious project has brought together international students and world-renowned artisans in order to combine design, innovation and engineering. “Mechanical Marvels” features five interactive installations that mix visual and sound effects and enables visitors to operate the mechanical masterpieces by winding a crank, thereby bringing the various automatons to life. Curator: Nicolas Le Moigne Tutor: Fiona Krüger Design and scenography: Charlotte Therre Students: Chia-Ling Chang, Ebony Lerandy, Sunny Oh, Charlotte Therre Assistant: Clara Martin Photography: Santiago Martinez Animation: Benjamin Muzzin Graphic design: Chi-Long Trieu Watchmaker: Denis Flageollet Automaton maker: François Junod Watchmaker: Nicolas Court Mechanical technician: Boris Masur Wood marquetry maker: Bastien Chevalier Cabinetmaker: Luigi Mondia
HOW SOON IS NOW? HISTORIES AND FIGURES OF YOUTH Symposium : HOW SOON IS NOW? HISTORIES AND FIGURES OF YOUTH This symposium is the first stage of the research project How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth. It questions “youth” as a conceptual, aesthetic, andpolitical figure born with modernity in the visual arts, popular culture, and the humanities. At the same time, this project proposes to examine the implications ofthe problematic category of "youth" in contemporary art and thought. By exploring the processes in which youth is constituted through its forms of representation, thisproject intends to render intelligible the aesthetic and political dimensions of youth, and to grasp it as a historical allegory allowing for a reconsideration of thecontemporary in the light of its most lively site. What image(s) does the notion of youth carry with it? What idea does it have of itself? How can we talk about it beyond ingrained ideas and the fantasies that society projects on it (at least in Western culture), making it simultaneously a force, a market, an age, a culture, a piece of a history which which we only began writing inthe twentieth-century, and which today has reached its critical stage? In recent history, the notion of youth has so often been conflated with “bringing down the house” that we now expect everything from it: to reinvent us, to shake us up, to carry us, to succeed in what others have failed at (establishing the most open communities possible), to build bridges for the future, to be radical, to be uncompromising where anyone outside of youth has already given up, to be desirable where others are overwhelmed. But with what means? If not those that young people make themselves, for themselves, with elements that they alone will have chosen? With their culture, their places, their clandestinity. Because that which is not yet over happens in the shadows of the world. Youth is a secret. “How Soon Is Now?”, The Smiths once asked. When is it, now? 9.30am Welcome, Stéphanie Moisdon Introduction, Philippe Azoury and Vincent Normand 10am Ludivine Bantigny : Representing Youth / Experiencing It. A Historical Perspective 11.30am Agnès Gayraud : "Will You Love Me When I m Sixty Four?" Pop Music as an Art of Ages 12.30pm Ludivine Bantigny and Agnès Gayraud in conversation 1pm Lunch break 2pm The Rave Continuum. Researching Plot and Politics of "Europe s Last Youth Culture" Persis Bekkering 3pm Break 3.30pm About Bébé Colère Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel 4.30pm Conclusion Apéro — Ludivine Bantigny Representing Youth / Experiencing It. A Historical Perspective The representations, discourses and other obsessions about "youth" often say less about young people than about the authorities that forge them: politicians, institutions, media, artists... In themselves, these representations are interesting: they express anxieties, doubts and hopes, but also strong opinions, sometimes peremptory visions that often translate fantasies. In such a landscape, cinema in particular is an excellent medium when it projects its lights and cameras on youth. It is these ways of telling the story of youth that this presentation addresses. But it does not stop there. For beyond the representations, what remains the most fascinating are the modalities of socialization that young people know and come across, in all their diversity. In this sense, this presentation will also question the relationship to time, historicity as an awareness of taking part in history and situating oneself in it, age identities, and generational belonging. Agnès Gayraud "Will You Love Me When I m Sixty Four?" Pop Music as an Art of Ages Folklore has long been interpreted as the "childhood of art", a form of expression invented by popular classes and considered as the living vestige of humanity s childhood. From its outset, recorded folk music has been appreciated as a form of "primaverism", the conviction that things in their prime are the most valuable, that authenticity stems not only from the origin but from the beginning. A recording fixes individual voices and their organic idiosyncrasies at the moment of their expression, and in so doing, it captures the aura of a primitive past. The fixed expressivity of recorded voices represents countless individual incarnations, and this has made pop music the most powerful musical art form to bear witness to all ages of life, not just childhood or youth. Rather than associating pop music with a particular stage of life, with a phase of inexperience (innocence, naivety, regression or youth), it is tempting to question its rooting in the expression of ages in general. Contemporary musicians such as Angèle, Oklou, and Arca accurately represent post-adolescence, sexual maturity, and the pleasure of finally flirting with the pornographic category of "adult" content, all while reflecting on youthism, contemporary ageism, and sexist domination. Here, individual embodiment takes as its theme its own situated expression. In contrast to these younger artists, Bob Dylan sang later in his life,"It s not dark yet but it s getting there". This priority given to the expression of individuality at various ages (one s body, one s sexuality, one s race, which make sense only by situating a generation in terms of someone s legal and physiological age), is what binds deeply popular recorded music to what the history of western musical art has at some point thought to have overcome during the 20th century: the romantic confidence in situated individualities, in particular incarnations, in singularities. In the contemporary artistic field, reflexive forms of art only recognize their historical age. Individual age is not a key to understanding the content of their gesture, one deciphers it rather in light of their epoch. Popular music, to the contrary, presents itself as a musical art powerfully carried by the expressiveness of the ages, even if it means sometimes to render eternal a youth whose legal status as such proceeds from the whole liberal system. Persis Bekkering The Rave Continuum. Researching Plot and Politics of "Europe s Last Youth Culture" As much as any experience fails to be adequately grasped by language, the experience of the rave presents the storyteller with a specific, intriguing challenge. As the narrator in Rainald Goetz experimental novel Rave (1998) remembers: "It was the wordless time, when we were always looking around with our big eyes so strangely in every possible situation, shaking our heads, and could almost never say anything but: speechless – pf –" The rave, at its best, is a wordless suspension of time; a limit experience; an event blurring linear understandings of time and space, proposing its own logic. As music theorist Simon Reynolds once quoted the (unbelievably perfect) shouts of an MC at a hardcore party: We ve lost the plot . What does this mean if one tries to translate the rave into narrative? How to grasp its thwarted, warped, halted temporality? For her last novel Exces, part of which is published in English as the novella Last Utopia, writer Persis Bekkering has attempted to find an answer to these problems. The questions of narrative structure and temporality of the rave may look like purely formal ones, but they are closely tied to bigger, historical or even philosophical questions: how to understand the rave and the emergence of rave culture, at the end of the 1980s, in its time? Why did it emerge at that peculiar historical moment, when the end of history and telos of progress was famously declared, utopian ideologies lost their claim, and capitalism entered a new phase? And what did the rave propose to it: resistance or acceleration? Maybe both? In her presentation, Bekkering takes us through a meandering journey along her ongoing artistic and literary research, sharing images, texts, fragments and shouts in the dark, from her archive. Throughout the various parts and fragments, one can hear the constant drone of the search for the aesthetic expression of the permanent presence of crisis in our time. Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel About Bébé Colère Screening of the film followed by a round table discussion. For more than ten years now, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel have been weaving together a body of work that has no equivalent within French cinema. Whether through their first feature film Jessica forever (2018), or through their numerous short and medium-length films, (Martin pleure, 2017; Notre héritage, 2015; or Tant qu il nous restera des fusils à pompe, 2014, which won the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival), they follow the destiny of their own generation (they are both less than 35 years old). This is a generation which feeds on heroism through the virtual, a generation that met porn before love and online violence before friendship, a generation for which the video game is its lost paradise. Yet they draw from it, and this is their strength, a form of romanticism, which never wants to believe in the end of emotions. Their lyricism is unprecedented because it comes after: after the images, after the clichés, after the disillusionment, after they have been told that “no, really, sorry, there is nothing left to expect from anything, everything has been played out”. In the spring of 2020, when the earth had just come to a halt due to the Covid pandemic, Jonathan and Caroline retreated to Corsica where they dreamed of an unseen body that escaped from a video game: Bébé Colère [Baby Anger]. Bébé Colère denies his parents, Bébé Colère has no friends, Bébé Colère vomits the world and feeds on emptiness. In 13 minutes, Bébé Colère is an irreducible work that paints a portrait of a 2.0 youth caught in disarray. A post-human body, which has denied its origins and only sees the future through the features of an avatar. Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel will discuss the possibility of romanticism today, and the conditions that allow them to invent new characters, generating their own disordered chronology. They will also talk about their aesthetic relationship with video games: the baby in Bébé Colère is a pre-programmed asset purchased online to be animated and then integrated into the film. In close collaboration with Lucien Krampf, they are also currently developing a project conceived inside a game engine. In their work, they consider the game as a new narrative track while also using pre-existing elements. The conversation will take place in French. — Ludivine Bantigny is a historian, teacher and researcher attached to the Laboratory of History of the University of Rouen-Normandy. She works on the history of commitments, social movements, insurrections and revolutions, but has also devoted numerous books and articles to the history of youth and generations. She has published Le Plus Bel Âge ? Jeunes et jeunesse en France de l aube des « Trente Glorieuses » à la guerre d Algérie (Fayard, 2007), La France à l heure du monde (Seuil, 2017, rééd. 2019), 1968. De grands soirs en petits matins (Seuil, 2018, rééd. 2020), Révolution (Anamosa, 2019), « La plus belle avenue du monde ». Une histoire sociale et politique des Champs-Élysées (La Découverte, 2020) and La Commune au présent. Une correspondance par-delà le temps (La Découverte, 2021). Persis Bekkering is a metamorphic writer, engaging with a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines. She is interested in the emotional landscape of the contemporary, searching for new narrative forms that reflect a present permanently marked by crisis. Her recent publications include (fictocritical) essays, art criticism and fiction. Her debut novel Een heldenleven (The Life of a Hero), published in 2018, was shortlisted for the ANV Debut Prize. Her second novel Exces, shortlisted for the BNG Bank Prize for Literature, was published in 2021, part of which has been translated in English as Last Utopia by the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Recent and forthcoming publications include texts for M HKA Antwerp, Girls Like Us, Extra Extra and NRC Handelsblad. With choreographer Ula Sickle she worked as dramaturg on the concert performances The Sadness (2020) and Echoic Choir (2021). She also teaches at the Creative Writing department of ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. Agnès Gayraud was born in Tarbes in 1979. Under the name La Féline, she is the author and composer of several pop records released since 2014 by Kwaidan Records, including the albums Adieu l enfance, Triomphe, and Vie Future, as well as other contributions under the moniker GRIVE. She published a book of aesthetic philosophy, Dialectic of Pop (Urbanomic, 2019), dealing with the expressive changes induced by the advent of recorded popular music since the beginning of the twentieth century. She is currently professor of art and theory at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Jonathan Vinel, born in Toulouse in 1988, studied editing at the Fémis. Caroline Poggi, born in 1990 in Ajaccio, studied at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV) and at the University of Corsica (CREATACC degree). They have directed several films, separately (Chiens for Caroline, Notre amour est assez puissant for Jonathan) and together. Their short film Tant qu il nous reste des fusils à pompe received the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. They then directed Notre héritage, also selected at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015, followed by their first feature film Jessica Forever in 2018. They are currently working on their second feature film entitled Eat the Night. — Concept and organization: Philippe Azoury, Vincent Normand, Shirin Yousefi For registration or further information please contact: shirin.yousefi@ecal.ch — How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth is a research project supported by ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and HES-SO/University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland.
Switzerland is a privileged country in terms of know-how in the field of luxury and craftsmanship. Building on this tradition, this Master of Advanced Studies is for the holders of a Bachelor or Master’s degree wishing to further their knowledge in industrial design and investigate sectors of excellence as diverse as fine watchmaking, tableware or specific techniques using noble materials. Thr…
Designers play a vital role in innovation. They turn emerging technologies into something that makes sense to the user and becomes part of everyday life. They also provide answers to the challenges raised by such advanced technology. They devise new usage scenarios, explore innovative forms of expression and ensure that novel ideas fit in with the users’ social and cultural environment. This chal…
Developing a personal cinematographic vision, understanding the filmmaking process and apprehending the stakes of production so as to pave the way for graduates to smoothly join professional circles – such are the main objectives of this programme. This Master course, which is unique in Europe, is aimed at the holders of a Bachelor’s degree, or with equivalent experience, wishing to further their…
At the start of the 2016 academic year, ECAL is proud to have introduced its Master’s degree in Photography. Relying on massive use of photographic images – a key element in today’s visual communication – this two-year program, unique in Switzerland, gives students with a related Bachelor’s degree an opportunity to develop projects in the long term. It especially pushes the boundaries of applied …
At the start of the 2016 academic year, ECAL is proud to have introduced a new Master’s degree in Type Design. Unique in Switzerland, this two-year program gives graduate students with a Bachelor in Graphic Design an opportunity to develop projects in the long term. This training provides privileged access to one of the flagship disciplines in Swiss graphic design, relying on ECAL’s expertise in …
As a decisive turning point in a career or as a follow-up to a Bachelor in Industrial Design, this Master's program is for students wishing to focus on two fundamental aspects of a designer’s practice: personal research as well as the professional handling of commissions for clients, companies or producers. Besides the steadily ongoing refinement of design research abilities and practical desi…
From artistic photography to commissioned work, via still-life, documentary, portrait or fashion, this programme is for students passionate about photography as a medium and wishing to sharpen their eye and refine their technique. Prospective, pragmatic and experimental, this Bachelor course is provided in the framework of the Visual Communication Department, which concurrently offers crossover c…
From the conception to the production of all related media and printed matter (posters, books, newspapers and magazines), including the experimentation of digital media, digital publishing and motion design, this programme targets students wishing to master the tools and languages inherent in graphic design. Prospective, pragmatic and experimental, this Bachelor course is provided in the framewor…
Retrouvez tous les documents du programme ci-dessous Working with materials, designing or redefining an object’s function, creating new products, challenging production technologies, conceiving a scenography – this programme is for passionate, curious students wishing to make product design their profession. This vocational Bachelor course provides a high level of skills and know-how required by…
ECAL Masters Tour 2022,16–18.02.2022,Bern, Lugano, Zürich 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. ECAL Master Tour 2022 Fine Arts, Photography, Product Design and Type Design 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. BERN Wednesday 16 February, 17h00 - 19h30 Restaurant Bar Löscher, Viktoriastrasse 70, 3013 Bern DE/EN/FR – www.loescher.be Master Fine Arts Stéphanie Moisdon – Head of programme Shirin Yousefi – Assistant Master Photography Florian Amoser – Artistic associate Master Product Design Maxwell Ashford– Assistant Master Type Design Matthieu Cortat – Head of programme ----- LUGANO Thursday 17 February, 17h00 - 20h00 Teatro delle Radici, Viale Cassarate 4, 6900 Lugano IT/EN/FR – www.teatrodelleradici.net Master Fine Arts Lucas Erin – Assistant Master Photography Milo Keller – Head of programme Robin Bervini – Assistant Master Product Design Margo Clavier – Assistant Master Type Design Sophie Wietlisbach– Assistant From 16 to 18 February, a VR experience by Robin Bervini, MA Photography graduate, will be displayed at Teatro Pan (opposite Teatro delle Radici). In collaboration with Biennale dell immagine di Chiasso. ----- ZURICH Friday 18 February, 18h00 - 20h00 Atelier Christian Spiess, Fabrikstrasse 17, 8005 Zürich DE/EN/FR – www.christian-spiess.com Master Fine Arts Lucas Erin – Assistant Shirin Yousefi – Assistant Master Photography Sara Bastai – Assistant Master Product Design Camille Blin - Head of programme Maxwell Ashford– Assistant Master Type Design Nicolas Bernklau – Assistant
Creativity, motivation, energy and curiosity are the main ingredients to enter our Propaedeutic Year. This preparatory stage is aimed at students who wish to work in the fields of art or design and allows them to acquire the necessary skills for a Bachelor's program. During one year, this training offers the possibility to holders of a Maturité or a Baccalauréat to familiarize themselves with the…
ECAL x Jean Paul Gaultier: Smells Like Queer Spirit,05.02–24.04.2022,Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle 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. In the 1980s Jean Paul Gaultier overturned dress codes and showed the porous boundary between masculine and feminine. The fashion designer playfully reversed roles, overturned gender and designed silhouettes that combined masculine sensitivity with feminine power. When they were launched, the brand s perfume bottles also broke with the androgynous fashion of the 1990s. Now iconic, these served as the starting point for photographic exploration by students of the Bachelor in Photography at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. For this research project directed by Florence Tétier and Nicolas Coulomb – under the watchful eye of Claude Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, consultant LGBTQIA+ – the photography class questioned the human body and its representations. The images created in 2021 by the 12 students relate to themes of pride and tolerance. These works show that commitment to a more inclusive society also relies on images. A publication, co-edited by ECAL x Jean Paul Gaultier x Novembre and designed by Baptiste Gerbelot Barillon & Jean Marques, is also being published to coincide with this exhibition.DATESOPENING RECEPTION Friday 4 February, 6pm EXHIBITION From 5 February to 24 April 2022 ADRESSEMusée des beaux-arts du Locle Rue Marie-Anne-Calame 6 2400 Le Locle www.mbal.chARTISTSDominique Bartels, Julie Corday, Matthieu Croizier, Diego Fellmann, Florian Hilt, Samara Krähenbühl, Angèle Marignac-Serra, Antoine Martin, Lisa Mazenauer, Marvin Merkel, Inès Mermoud, Basil Pérot, Yolane Rais, Camille Spiller, Yul Tomatala
ECAL x Jean Paul Gaultier: Smells Like Queer Spirit "Smells Like Queer Spirit" at Musée des beaux-arts du Locle - an exhibition created in collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier by third-year Bachelor Photography students, under the direction of Florence Tétier and Nicolas Coulomb (Novembre magazine). In the 1980s Jean Paul Gaultier overturned dress codes and showed the porous boundary between masculine and feminine. The fashion designer playfully reversed roles, overturned gender and designed silhouettes that combined masculine sensitivity with feminine power. When they were launched, the brand s perfume bottles also broke with the androgynous fashion of the 1990s. Now iconic, these served as the starting point for photographic exploration by students of the Bachelor in Photography at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. For this research project directed by Florence Tétier and Nicolas Coulomb – under the watchful eye of Claude Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, consultant LGBTQIA+ – the photography class questioned the human body and its representations. The images created in 2021 by the 12 students relate to themes of pride and tolerance. These works show that commitment to a more inclusive society also relies on images. A publication, co-edited by ECAL x Jean Paul Gaultier x Novembre and designed by Baptiste Gerbelot Barillon & Jean Marques, is also being published to coincide with this exhibition. STUDENTS Dominique Bartels Julie Corday Diego Fellmann Florian Hilt Samara Krähenbühl Angèle Marignac-Serra Lisa Mazenauer Marvin Merkel Inès Mermoud Basil Pérot Yolane Rais Camille Spiller ASSISTANTS Matthieu Croizier Antoine Martin Yul Tomatala OPENING RECEPTION Friday 4 February at 6pm EXHIBITION AT MBAL From 5 February to 24 April 2022 OPENING HOURS Mon-Sun, 11am-5pm First Sunday of the month free ADDRESS Rue Marie-Anne-Calame 6, 2400 Le Locle https://www.mbal.ch