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Camp Tilsammans Third-year BA students have been invited by architects Spacon & X, in collaboration with IKEA, to design a shelter for an event in Helsingborg, Sweden. The shelter is part of the Tillsammans ("All Together") camp. The goal was to design a micro-architecture that addresses current concerns, fosters social interaction, and provides a unique living experience. The selected project Hanging Shelter by Alex Nguyen & Gabriel Hafner offers both community life and privacy, depending on the circumstances and needs. During the day, with the parasol in the upright position, the shelter becomes a meeting point where people can gather and socialize. When needed, the parasol can be lowered to create a cozy, enclosed space for rest or to isolate from the outside world. The parasol transforms into a tent, and the benches into comfortable cots. No door at night, no walls during the day.
Sports Sports Clubs Whether you play sports regularly or only occasionally, you can do your favorite activities in summer and winter, either outside in nature or at a local sports center. There are hundreds of sports clubs in the region offering a wide range of sports, from volleyball, martial arts, swimming, mountaineering, fencing, and gymnastics to football, aerobics, skiing, tennis, basketb…
ECAL toys with Artek,22.05–04.09.2022,Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale Teaming up with iconic Finnish furniture company Artek, Bachelor Industrial Design students from ECAL, under the guidance of designer Julie Richoz, present a collection of playful objects for children made from salvaged b-quality, rejected and half-finished materials and offcuts. Staying true to the spirit of Artek and its founders, the products promote conscious manufacturing and seek to highlight the natural materials that have gone into producing these designs. Presented at the Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale – from 22 May to 4 September 2022 – at the Old Granary Building in Fiskars (Finland). Opening reception on Saturday 21 May, from 5pm. The resulting collection made of upcycled 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. This project was made possible with the kind support of the Summer University programme of the Board of Higher Education (DGES) – State of Vaud. www.ecal.ch www.artek.fi www.fiskarsvillagebiennale.com
Exhibition "Time Design" with ECAL,14.04–08.05.2022,Pont de la Machine, Geneva On the occasion of the "Time Design" exhibition organised by Watches and Culture - Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie and presented from 14 April to 8 May 2022 at the Pont de la Machine in Geneva, students from ECAL Bachelor of Industrial Design programme have created the display (windows), highlighting a hundred pieces that illustrate the inventiveness and diversity of watch design. Presented as a preview at the Watches and Wonders exhibition for the specialists, the exhibition is now accessible to the general public in the Pont de la Machine in Geneva. Over nearly 180 m2, visitors are taken on a journey through watchmaking creativity, from the 17th century to the present day. The display designed by Elie Fazel and Valentin Sieber - during a course given by Christian Spiess as part of the Bachelor s degree in Industrial Design - reveal a hundred or so exceptional pieces that have marked the history of the watch, bearing witness to this great watchmaking tradition or to a futuristic design. The display windows as well as some pieces of furniture imagined by the two former ECAL students are inspired by the urban grid pattern characteristic of La Chaux-de-Fonds, the cradle of watchmaking. Each module is based on the same construction of thermo-lacquered aluminum gratings. In addition, ECAL has also made a selection of a hundred watch advertisements from the archives of Europastar magazine, which was published from 1940 to 2000. These are presented on a dedicated screen within the exhibition.
Collaboration with CSEM Through a unique project, students from ECAL and CSEM s engineers have effortlessly combined modern arts & crafts and nanotechnology to create a series of innovative jewelry pieces, "Structural Colors". The complex jewelry forms envisioned by the students were created with 3D printing, pushing CSEM s engineers to reinterpret their nanotechnologies in a refreshing, esthetic way. Silicon nitride was deposited in thin layers on the surface of some pieces, enhancing the designs by creating a colorful iridescent effect. On the other pieces, customized nanotechnology scatters light to create a pearlescent effect. The result of this unique collaboration is five jewellery collections, created under the direction of the Lausanne-based studio Panter&Tourron by students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship at ECAL.
Languages Yes. For the Foundation Year and Bachelor programmes, non-French-speaking applicants who have not attended school in Switzerland must be able to attest that they are proficient in French at the B2 level of the European Language Portfolio. The B2 level is required on registration. Generally speaking, language proficiency is also checked by the juries during the entrance exam. Courses …
Languages Yes. For the Foundation Year and Bachelor programmes, non-French-speaking applicants who have not attended school in Switzerland must be able to attest that they are proficient in French at the B2 level of the European Language Portfolio. The B2 level is required on registration. Generally speaking, language proficiency is also checked by the juries during the entrance exam. Courses …
Languages Yes. For the Foundation Year and Bachelor programs, non-French-speaking applicants who have not attended school in Switzerland must be able to attest that they are proficient in French at the B2 level of the European Language Portfolio. The B2 level is required upon registration. Generally speaking, language proficiency is also tested by the juries during the entrance exam. Courses a…
Languages Yes. For the Foundation Year and Bachelor programmes, non-French-speaking applicants who have not attended school in Switzerland must be able to attest that they are proficient in French at the B2 level of the European Language Portfolio. The B2 level is required on registration. Generally speaking, language proficiency is also checked by the juries during the entrance exam. Courses …
The center occupies a 100m 2 area accommodated with meeting space, computer space, projection space. It serves as a showplace for new concepts in design, communications systems, and collaborative research. The goal is to ignite a new energy and connectivity within our visual communication departments. Partners USM , Loterie Romande , Canton de Vaud , EPFL+ECAL Lab Related programs BA Graph…
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.
What s The Prompt? During a week workshop given by Cyril Diagne, second year students explored the integration of machine learning tools in their creative process. By limiting the coding step in favour of using the concept of Prompt they experimented with Diffusion Models such as GPT3, Clip or DALL-E to create texts, images and videos. Comparing the way our brain seems to make our dreams and the way some AI models work, Elina Crespi used some Diffusion Model to represent her dreams. DREAMS Comparing the way our brain seems to make our dreams and the way some AI models work, Elina Crespi used some Diffusion Model to represent her dreams. By Elina Crespi LAMINAR SPACES After Midnight shows what the minutes, hours, days, months and years after the end of the world might look like. In 2021, the “Doomsay Clock” in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists shows that we are 100 seconds away from a possible end of the world on a 24-hour scale. Arthur Lucchesi imagined what the end of the world might look like after that time. By Arthur Lucchesi Rebirth By working hand in hand with several AIs (for the visuals, the music, the voice-over and the subtitles), Adryan Barilliet created a new mythology narrating the creation of a world after the fusion between divine and machine. By Adryan Barilliet THE Utopian City Tickie created a dialogue with the AI to ask it what a utopian city would be like. She collected the conversations and images and archived them into a website. By Tickie Bindner Au pied de la lettre Niki created an interactive quiz in which the user must find the French expression represented by the images. By Niki Zaal Explorations Jeanne used machine learning to give her access to universes in her favorite books that are poorly documented visually. With text inputs, she explored different environments like the forest, the ocean and the sky to create animated lock screens for smartphones. By Jeanne Weber
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…
Discovering the various fields and movements of contemporary art by developing one’s own artistic expression. Such is the opportunity offered by this Bachelor programme to young, passionate artists wishing to perfect their technique, experiment with discourse and consolidate a critical stance. Students benefit from practical and theoretical supervision provided by major actors of the contemporary…
The Bachelor's degree in cinema offers an introduction to the many different professions involved in filmmaking. Students are introduced to film writing, directing and acting, as well as shooting, sound, editing and post-production techniques, thanks to rigorous guidance from recognized professionals in all fields. In addition, a wide variety of theoretical approaches and numerous masterclasse…
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…
ECAL at artgenève 2022,03–06.03.2022,Palexpo, Geneva On the occasion of artgenève from 3 to 6 March at Palexpo, ECAL presents projects by Bachelor Fine Arts students produced during a workshop with American artist Cheryl Donegan. Nostalagia Is a Different Kind of Pain(t) ECAL x Cheryl Donegan Initiated in the context of a collaboration with the Art & Vie Foundation, whose mission revolves around textiles, this workshop aimed at crossing everyday objects, subverting craft processes and reproductive gestures. Produced by students from the first to the third year, the selection of works presented reflects the transdisciplinary approach of the programme, where tapestry meets painting in dialogue with more performative pieces or digitally printed and cut aluminium sculptures. Opening hours Thursday 3 March: 12 - 7pm Friday 4 March: 12 - 8pm Saturday 5 March: 12 - 8pm Sunday 6 March: 12 - 7pm Palexpo Rte François-Peyrot 30 1218 Le Grand-Saconnex https://palexpo.ch/DATESOpening reception: Wednesday 9 March , from 6pm to 8pm Exhibition: 10 March to 14 April, from Wednesday to Saturday, from 1pm to 5pm Opening hours: Thursday 3 March: 12 - 7pm, Friday 4 March: 12 - 8pm, Saturday 5 March: 12 - 8pm, Sunday 6 March: 12 - 7pmADRESSEPalexpo Rte François-Peyrot 30 1218 Le Grand-Saconnex https://palexpo.ch/ARTISTESPatricia Araujo, Roxanne Christinet, Alexis Colin, Oriane Emery, Salomé Engel, Maria Esteves, Albertine Grbic, Clément Grimm, Laura Hagmann, Mathilde Hansen, Mariana Isler, Charlie Jannes, Anna Kawahara, Nolan Lucidi, Ella Minton, Romane Roy, Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio, Flavio Visalli, Florentina Walser
ECAL×Cheryl Donegan Nostalagia Is a Different Kind of Pain(t) ECAL x Cheryl Donegan On the occasion of artgenève from 3 to 6 March at Palexpo, ECAL presents projects by Bachelor Fine Arts students produced during a workshop with American artist Cheryl Donegan Initiated in the context of a collaboration with the Art & Vie Foundation, whose mission revolves around textiles, this workshop aimed at crossing everyday objects, subverting craft processes and reproductive gestures. Produced by students from the first to the third year, the selection of works presented reflects the transdisciplinary approach of the programme, where tapestry meets painting in dialogue with more performative pieces or digitally printed and cut aluminium sculptures. Students Patricia Araujo Roxanne Christinet Alexis Colin Oriane Emery Salomé Engel Maria Esteves Albertine Grbic Clément Grimm Laura Hagmann Mathilde Hansen Mariana Isler Charlie Jannes Anna Kawahara Nolan Lucidi Ella Minton Romane Roy Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio Flavio Visalli Florentina Walser Opening hours Thursday 3 March: 12 - 7pm Friday 4 March: 12 - 8pm Saturday 5 March: 12 - 8pm Sunday 6 March: 12 - 7pm Palexpo Rte François-Peyrot 30 1218 Le Grand-Saconnex https://palexpo.ch/ Nostalagia Is a Different Kind of Pain(t)ECAL x Cheryl DoneganOn the occasion of artgenève from 3 to 6 March at Palexpo, ECAL presents projects by Bachelor Fine Arts students produced during a workshop with American artist Cheryl DoneganInitiated in the context of a collaboration with the Art & Vie Foundation, whose mission revolves around textiles, this workshop aimed at crossing everyday objects, subverting craft processes and reproductive gestures. Produced by students from the first to the third year, the selection of works presented reflects the transdisciplinary approach of the programme, where tapestry meets painting in dialogue with more performative pieces or digitally printed and cut aluminium sculptures.StudentsPatricia AraujoRoxanne ChristinetAlexis ColinOriane EmerySalomé EngelMaria EstevesAlbertine GrbicClément GrimmLaura HagmannMathilde HansenMariana IslerCharlie JannesAnna KawaharaNolan LucidiElla MintonRomane RoyLou-Anna Ulloa del RioFlavio VisalliFlorentina WalserOpening hoursThursday 3 March: 12 - 7pmFriday 4 March: 12 - 8pmSaturday 5 March: 12 - 8pmSunday 6 March: 12 - 7pmPalexpoRte François-Peyrot 301218 Le Grand-Saconnexhttps://palexpo.ch/
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
Necessary qualifications Maturity certificate or Professional Maturity certificate (vocational diploma) or certificate from a recognised three-year school of general education (ECG), each to be accompanied by a General Federal Certificate of Vocational Education (CFC) in the field of desired studies ( according to CFC list ) Maturity certificate plus at least one year attested vocat…
Necessary qualifications * ECAL evaluates title's equivalences. This procedure being relatively long, a request of examination (Diploma, transcripts & cv) must be submitted by email to ECAL Secretariat inscription@ecal.ch until March 2 nd 2026 the latest. > Request of evaluation submitted after the above mentionned date will not be processed. Bachelor’s degree in the field o…
What is the students' office (BDE) ? The students' office (in french, Bureau Des Étudiant.e.x.s, BDE) is a structure within the school that relies entirely on the students. It is a meeting point between the students, the associations and the management. It is independent from the school and tries to represent the students to the management. The association is elected every year by the students at …
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful learning and working environment for our students and staff members, regardless of their sex, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, age or any other characteristics that rightly or wrongly place individuals in a social group. Egality & inclusion at ECAL As an art university, we encourage our students to look at cultural pro…
Find housing Due to the relatively difficult housing situation in Lausanne and its surroundings, it can take several months to find a studio/apartment or a room. Students are therefore advised to make their arrangements well in advance, and if possible as soon as they are admitted. The price of renting a studio/apartment or a room usually starts at CHF 600/month. In addition, most agencies and …
ECAL x Fondation Martin Bodmer - Scripts of the World,24.01–20.03.2022,Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny (GE) ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne and the Fondation Martin Bodmer have joined forces to celebrate typographic creation and the scripts of the world. ECAL will present original projects in contemporary typography and graphic design, from its Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Type Design programmes, comparing them with Fondation Martin Bodmer s UNESCO listed heritage through a series of lectures, events and workshops on Sunday afternoons on 6 February, 27 February and 20 March 2022. 6 February 2022, 14:00-18:00 The Scripts of Aram: Syriac-Aramaic Typefaces (FR/EN) Registration At the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Switzerland and Liechtenstein office of the UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, collaborated with the students of the ECAL Master Type Design on a case: the Syriac script. Historically used to transcribe languages over a vast geographical area, Syriac is today mainly used as the liturgical script of Eastern Christians. Speakers of Modern Aramaic languages live in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, but compose mainly a worldwide diaspora. While only a few digital fonts exist, providing contemporary and innovative typefaces would contribute to broadening the possibilities for the language to thrive, as well as to cultivate community ties. This day proposes to celebrate Syriac writing and Aramaic culture through the collections of the Martin Bodmer Foundation, typography projects of the ECAL and various reflections on writing, its power, its relationship to politics, language and identity. Conferences 14:30 Politics and type design, Syriac script: a case study (FR) by Matthieu Cortat, head of MA Type Design, ECAL 15:00 About the publication "Aram" (FR) by Elena Baranowski, student MA Type Design, ECAL 15:15 Syriac in the collections of the Fondation Martin Bodmer (FR) by Nicolas Ducimetière, vice-director, Fondation Martin Bodmer 15:45 Break 16:15 Critical Regionalism in Type Design - A survey of moments in history when social, political, economic systems change in parallel with typography (EN) by Nicolas Bernklau, assistant MA Type Design, ECAL 16:35 Aramean communities in Switzerland today (EN) by Melki Toprak, president, and Tony Ürek, secretary, Federation of Arameans in Switzerland 17:00 Concert of the ARAM Ensemble, A view on Syriac traditions, led by Jalal Polus Gajo, soloist, with Ammar Ai Toumi, percussionist Carles Dorador, oud Liqaa Marooki, soloist Marie Wahida, soloist Fadi Wahida, Qanun preceded by an introduction by Véronique Nebel, board member, Laus Plena Foundation (ANG) Workshop 14:00 - 18:00 Gutenberg press with Yvan Hostettler Syriac-Aramaic script with the Aramean Federation of Switzerland 27 February 2022, 14:00-18:00 (FR) Typographic Art: From the Major Names to the Revival Registration This day will take you through the history of typeface design, from the major names to the collection of the Martin Bodmer Foundation, then confronting it with the contemporary practice of revival. With this technique, a typeface is digitally redesigned from a historical typeface, or serves as a template from which a new design is developed, more or less faithfully to its source. The success of these digital fonts and their distribution are interesting mechanisms, which will also be discussed, mirroring the long history of typography, reflected in the collections of the Martin Bodmer Foundation. Conferences 15:00 The major names in typography by Nicolas Ducimetière, vice-director, Martin Bodmer Foundation 15:45 Break 16:15 Revival: digital typography and its relationship to historical models by François Rappo, type designer and typographer, Lausanne with an introduction by Angelo Benedetto, head of BA Graphic Design, ECAL followed by a contribution by Gilles Gavillet, graphic designer and founder, Optimo and Gavillet & Cie on the distribution of revivals by a foundry followed by a Q&A session with all guest speakers Workshop 14:00 - 18:00 19th century press with Nicolas Regamey, Atelier Typo de la Cité 20 March 2022, 14:00-18:00 (FR/EN) Languages and Cultures: Inventing a Materiality Registration A selection of editorial and typographic projects will be presented by their authors, all students or alumni of the Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Type Design programmes at ECAL. Whether it is about Cypriot dialects, a Lukumí-Español dictionary, Chinese characters drawn with the help of artificial intelligence tools, the crossing of Hebrew and German in Hebrew Yiddish, Lebanese multilingualism or the history of Cyrillic writing in Russia, these innovative and personal projects are as many different ways of contributing to the perpetuation of a culture, of a language, through their transmission but also, to their possible evolutions. Conferences 14:30 Introduction (FR) by Angelo Benedetto, head of BA Graphic Design, ECAL 14:45 Κυπριώτικο Σκετς / [kipri otiko skets] / Cypriot Sketch (FR) by Clio Hadjigeorgiou, assistant BA Graphic Design, ECAL 15:00 Diccionario Lukumí-Español (FR) by Laura Issé-Tusevo, graphic designer, BA Graphic Design alumna, ECAL 15:15 Written communication in Lebanon, between Arabic, French and English (EN) by Karima Deghayli and Norma Elzoghbi, students MA Type Design, ECAL 15:30 Break 16:00 AIZI. Artificial Intelligence for Chinese type design (EN) by Shuhui Shi, type designer, MA Type Design alumna, ECAL 16:15 Cyrilic and the politics of writing (EN) by Sergei Rasskazov, student MA Type Design, ECAL 16:30 Yiddish Displayed (EN) by Noam Benatar, MA Type Design student, ECAL 16:45 Conclusion (FR/EN) by Irene Vlachou, type designer and visiting professor, ECAL & Matthieu Cortat, head of MA Type Design, ECAL followed by a Q&A session with all guest speakers Workshop 14:00 - 18:00 Intaglio printing with Alessandro Longo, Verssso General information Confirm your participation - free but registration is required via rsvp links above. Venue: Fondation Martin Bodmer, Route Martin-Bodmer 19, 1223 Cologny (Genève). Access to Fondation Martin Bodmer is subject to the current health regulations: 2G certificate and mandatory mask. This event marks the 200th anniversary of ECAL (1821-2021) and is organised by ECAL and Fondation Martin Bodmer with the support of: Fédération des Araméens en Suisse, World Council of Arameans, UNHCR, Fondation Laus Plena, Swiss Graphic Designers.
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Service Design - 2022 During the Service Design course, the 3rd year of the Graphic Design, Photography and Media & Interaction Design bachelors had to create multi-media projects. A collaboration of the Visual Communication department which had as subject the SDGs (*Sustainable Development Goals). The theme was called "For a good cause, make the SDGs a reality" and its objective was to allow students to develop a cause that is close to their hearts. Each project consists of at least two different media, one primary and one secondary. These projects could take any form that the students deemed relevant, be it a website, editions, posters, a video sequence or virtual reality. 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with more than 169 targets signed by all UN member states for the 2030 Agenda. They reconcile the economic, social and ecological dimensions of sustainable development and place the fight against poverty and sustainable development on the same agenda for the first time. This means that all states are called upon to play an equal role in finding common solutions to the world s pressing challenges. Switzerland is also required to implement the goals at the national level. In addition, incentives must be created to encourage non-governmental actors to make an increasingly active contribution to sustainable development.What are the SDGs?MELTING POINTS Leaflet / poster & website The Melting Points project is initially composed of a series of leaflets with the aim of warning and reporting on the environmental situation of glaciers in Switzerland. Rather than communicating the urgency of the situation, we decided to evoke the mass disappearance of certain glaciers, thus accentuating a process that has already begun and is partly irreversible. This printed dimension of the project serves as a bridge between an ephemeral physical object and a constantly evolving website. The latter is based on the analogy of the obituary, listing the disappeared, threatened and non-threatened glaciers while emphasizing the nostalgia and memory of these places. By Martial Grin , Hugo Le Corre , Basil PérotTHE CORAL RESCUE PROJECT Journal & instagram The coral rescue project deals with issues concerning aquatic life. We decided to look at the extinction of corals, which has accelerated in recent decades. This journal describes 14 solutions to help save them, alone or together. It is foldable and includes illustrations and QR codes to find out more about the cause. The edition is guided by an instagram page of GIFs, which helps us understand and reach out to more people. By Aurore Huberty , Iris Moine , Anaelle Iglesias CarballoESSENCE Edition & instagram The Essence project consists of a series of magazines dealing with subjects that are interested in families of natural products such as mushrooms, algae, fruit skins and many others that have the capacity to become biomaterials. The project is to be understood as a natural, artistic and avant-garde magazine. It includes recipes to make at home, articles, interviews, artworks and workshops as well as various photo pages. By Marion Marquet , Yolane Rais , Loris Briguet DISCOURS DE HAINE en ligne Edition & chrome extension Based on a study conducted by Dr. Lea Stahel at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Zurich in 2020. The Hate speech online edition aims to raise awareness, especially among young people, about the problem of hate speech on the Internet. Based on 8 points, this study deciphers the phenomenon and its problems in Switzerland. The project also includes Rate Hate, a Chrome extension designed to combat hate and hate speech on the Internet. With this application you can evaluate the hate content of a website and modify its content accordingly. The goal of Rate Hate is to transform hate speech into graphic visuals in order to divert and criticize its content. By Achille Masson , Camille Spiller , Raphaël CarruzzoLAISSER DISPARAÎTRE OU FAIRE DISPARAÎTRE Edition, moving poster & VR short film Laisser disparaître ou faire disparaître exposes the conflicts of interest between our desire to preserve the planet and our addiction to comfort. To act for the good of all or to protect one s own interests? In the privileged context inherent to Switzerland, eco-anxiety is soaring and, paradoxically, comfort is gradually reaching its peak. Feelings oscillate between guilt, denial and justification of acts that contribute to the deterioration of our Earth, of the ties that bind us and of our values. Through interviews and surveys, the edition gathers current concerns from subjects of various ages, the vast majority of whom are Swiss. They answer the questions: "What are you afraid of disappearing?" and "What comfort are you not ready to give up? Some systems of thought are developed in order to offer a varied range of opinions. One of them is narrated by a voice-over and a succession of images in a poignant VR experience. Moving posters highlight various issues such as travel, over-consumption and imports. Capturing a world in corrosion, the project is to be understood as the testimony of a concerned society. By , Hydro—Hegemony Website & edition Hydro-Hegemony presents water conflicts from 3000 BC to the 21st century, showing how water is the lifeblood of ecosystems; global environmental changes, especially climate change, further intensify competition between competing uses and users, leading to conflict and war. By , , ADELPHE Edition & Documentary video The ADELPHE project aims to represent the genders equally in order to raise awareness about this still taboo subject. The easily printable and distributable fanzine format allows easy access for anyone not directly concerned with gender issues. The video teaser allows for quick accessibility and digital visibility in order to introduce the subject of the fanzine. By Julie Corday , Tania Praz , Charlotte ViglinoREUSE REPURPOSE RECYCLE Magazine & video REUSE REPURPOSE RECYCLE has as its main support a magazine that highlights and sensitizes its readers to the current problem of consumerism, through the promotion of a lifestyle based on second-hand consumption. The book is aimed at a young and committed public and takes advantage of the current thrifting trend. In this first issue, the basics of the issue are discussed and the tone is set for the issues to follow. The magazine is supported by a series of three teaser videos that invite the public to consult the book and pique their curiosity. By Samara Krähenbühl , Nina Treichler , Mara Wohlfahrt
New website: ecal-typefaces.ch,15.12.2021,wwww.ecal-typefaces.ch Active since 2016 and having published nearly 30 fonts so far, the ECAL Typefaces website has been completely updated with a new design and new features: ecal-typefaces.ch Active since 2016 and having published nearly 30 fonts so far, the ECAL Typefaces website has been completely updated with a new design and new features: www.ecal-typefaces.ch ECAL Typefaces is the first online type foundry based within a university. Its initial remit was to respond to frequent requests to purchase typefaces featured in ECAL corporate communications such as posters, invitation cards and catalogues. The foundry is now fully embedded in the ECAL Master Type Design programme and also showcases work from the school s Bachelor Graphic Design programme. All the fonts are designed by students. From 2021 this new website will offer a broader overview of our students works. We have now added a ‘Stories tab to present an ever-evolving collection of student writings that reflect on the challenges that are driving contemporary type design forward. These essays are written and edited in the Master Type Design theory classes under the supervision of Wayne Daly and Roland Früh. The fonts sold on ECAL Typefaces typically originated from classes tutored by Kai Bernau, Matthieu Cortat, Alice Savoie or Radim Peško, as well as workshops led by internationally renowned guests. These provide students with the opportunity to help select typeface releases and determine how they represent their typefaces in a professional foundry. Their designs are developed from early sketches to workable files under the close supervision of Malte Bentzen. The new version uses broader criteria and includes text fonts and larger families, enabling students to demonstrate a wider range of skills, thereby highlighting the working process. In addition, a new license model adds a more precise and clear approach to licensing fonts so that clients may find a license model that meets their needs more precisely. The design of the new website was created with the aim of making it easier for users to browse, test and purchase the typefaces. Half of the income generated from sales goes directly to the students, with the remainder contributing to running costs, technical assistance and inviting guest lecturers to offer us their insights into the world of font design.
Launch of AIZI – a unique database of Chinese characters,08.12.2021,www.aizi.ch Developed by a team composed of both designers (ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne) and engineers (EPFL – The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), the AIZI research project offers a unique database of Chinese characters – consisted of 93,876 entries – in order to help type designers draw Chinese typefaces: www.aizi.ch www.aizi.ch Despite being used by some 900 million native speakers, the Chinese writing system currently relies on a small number of digital typefaces, in print or on screen. This is partly due to the quantity of characters. There is no official figure, but some dictionaries reach up to 106,230 glyphs, with the Unicode standard featuring “only” 20,902 glyphs. A Chinese scholar knows over 13,000 and being able to read a mere quarter of this figure is nothing to be ashamed of in contemporary China. For a designer, creating a Chinese typeface can easily take more than a year and represents a far greater investment, both in time and money, than a Latin (or Greek, or Cyrillic) one. These practical difficulties also limit foreigners interest in Chinese type design, as the task seems insurmountable. Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) help Chinese type design overcome its current limitations? Is it possible to teach a Machine Learning programme about the rules of Chinese composition and design in order to enable it to create the thousands of glyphs required for a typeface? “The initial idea behind the AIZI research project was to define a reduced set of basic “seed” characters that could be used as training data for an AI system, with the ultimate goals of democratising the design of Chinese typefaces and access to script for beginners and foreigners and to expand the stylistic range for a writing system that is largely dominated by traditional brush-based calligraphic shapes. Eventually, this could lead to greater quality in the production of fonts for Chinese script”, explains Shuhui Shi, who launched the project as part of the ECAL Master Type Design. Rooted in traditional structures, the system that has been developed analyses and rationalises the construction of glyphs and has resulted in a database – available in open access on www.aizi.ch – that could be used to train AIZI algorithms as well as any other future AI tools. The database contains 93,876 entries and is geared towards type designers, providing them with the reference needed to draw a set of Hanzi, even if they do not speak or read Chinese. AIZI was developed by a team composed of both designers (ECAL) and engineers (EPFL). As part of the ECAL Master Type Design programme, Shuhui Shi, initiator of the project, was in charge of the design part in collaboration with Kai Bernau, under the supervision of Matthieu Cortat. The Machine Learning process and algorithms were developed by Wei Wang, under the supervision of Mathieu Salzmann from the EPFL Computer Vision Laboratory. Information Shuhui Shi – Head of project, ECAL: shuhui.shi.ss@gmail.com Matthieu Cortat, Head of Master Type Design, ECAL: matthieu.cortat@ecal.ch – www.ecal.ch Mathieu Salzmann – Senior Researcher, Computer Vision Laboratory, EPFL: mathieu.salzmann@epfl.ch – www.epfl.ch/labs/cvlab/
Carhartt WIP x ECAL: launch and exhibition of WIP Magazine #5,23.11.2021,Hall Kudelski, ECAL Earlier this year, Carhartt WIP (for Work in Progress) teamed up with ECAL, inviting Bachelor Photography students to interpret in their own way some of the emblematic pieces of the American clothing brand, which develops its own collections from the original Carhartt work clothes. Earlier this year, Carhartt WIP (for Work in Progress) teamed up with ECAL, inviting Bachelor Photography students to interpret in their own way some of the emblematic pieces of the American clothing brand, which develops its own collections from the original Carhartt work clothes. The students, led by art director Nicolas Poillot, produced an editorial report, which was included in the latest issue of "WIP Magazine" published by Carhartt WIP and some of whose images will be exhibited at the ECAL on the occasion of the launch of this book. Students Dominique Bartels Julie Corday Diego Fellmann Florian Hilt Samara Krähenbühl Angèle Marignac-Serra Lisa Mazenauer Marvin Merkel Basil Pérot Yolane Rais Camille Spiller Launch and exhibition Tuesday 23 November from 6 to 8 pm at ECAL (Hall Kudelski). The exhibition will also be open on the occasion of the ECAL Open Day, Saturday 27 November from 8.30 am to 6 pm. ECAL Avenue du Temple 5 1020 Renens www.ecal.ch
"ECAL Grand Tour" at Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana in Venice,19–21.11.2021,Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, Venice ECAL is the guest institution for the 2021 edition of "Grand Tour", the annual event organized by Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana in Venice. As part of the Palazzo Grassi Fall exhibition activities focused on the languages of performance, video art and photography, ECAL confronts scholars and the public of the Venetian universities on some ongoing research projects of the Swiss school, related to the reflection on video art between the 1960s and 1980s, the representation of the forms of youth in the visual arts and the relationship between text and image in Concrete poetry. ARTISTS AND SPEAKERS Philippe Azoury, Leonardo Azzolini, Robin Bervini, François Bovier, Catherine de Smet, Davide Fornari, Linda Fregni Nagler, Alexis Georgacopoulos, Simon Mager, Stéphanie Moisdon, Federico Nicolao, Paola Nicolin, Simone C. Niquille, Grégoire Quenault, Bruno Racine, Salomé Voegelin, Cécile Vulliemin, Thibault Walter DATES Friday 19 November, 2:30pm – 7:30pm Saturday 20 November, 11:00am – 7:30pm Sunday 21 November, 4:00pm – 7:30pm VENUES Palazzo Grassi (Campo San Samuele, San Marco 3231, 30124 Venice, Italy) Punta della Dogana (Fondamenta della Salute, Dorsoduro 2, 30135 Venice, Italy) PROGRAMME & INFORMATION www.palazzograssi.it/en/events/all/grand-tour-with-ecal/ www.researchday.ch/ ACCESS Admission to all conferences and conversations of Grand Tour 2021 is free and open to the public. Workshops require previous registration, with limited number of participants. Safety guidelines to access the venues: www.palazzograssi.it/en/visit/information-for-the-visitors/ PARTNERS Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana Università Iuav Università Ca Foscari Consulate of Switzerland in Venice This event is part of the 200th anniversary of ECAL (1821-2021)
Higurashi book launch In Summer 2019, thirteen students from the ECAL Master s in Photography programme supervised by Milo Keller travelled to Japan to work on thirteen individual projects in collaboration with Japanese photographer Taisuke Koyama within the framework of the Tokyo Photographic Research project. The students artworks range from still and moving images to computer-generated photographic visuals and explore multiple facets of the Japanese megalopolis which is, once again, undergoing major transformation in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Some projects focus on aspects specific to the city, from the destruction of small residential houses to the construction of the gigantic Olympic Village and the conquest of new territories by the sea. Other works investigate distinctive Japanese culture such as home-cooked food, the appetite for designing humanoid robots, the blending of child and adult worlds in manga, pachinko gambling, the reinvention of ikebana and young girls as ‘rising stars. Finally, the works seek to visually represent more abstract concepts such as loneliness, emptiness and intimacy in a city that, due to its density, size and power, offers a challenging, fascinating and extremely stimulating complexity to the eyes of the thirteen photographers. Higurashi has been presented at Espace Commines in Paris in November 2021, inside the exhibition Automated Photography during Paris Photo. Head of Photography Milo Keller Invited Teacher Taisuke Koyama Assistants Florian Amoser Calum Douglas Graphic Design Thomas Le Provost Typefaces Craft by ECAL/Benoit Brun & Raphaël De la Morinerie ITC Garamond Std Head of Culture and Communications Embassy of Switzerland in Japan Jonas Pulver DGES/Summer University Maxline Stettler Photography Students Emidio Battipaglia Robin Bervini Jasmine Deporta Anja Karolina Furrer Alessia Gunawan Christian Harker Jung-Ting Hu Johanna Hullár Philipp Klak Doruk Kumkumoglu Igor Pjörrt Jelly Luise Gedvile Tamosiunaite Publisher ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne higurashi.zone Higurashi is available at ecal-shop.ch . In Summer 2019, thirteen students from the ECAL Master s in Photography programme supervised by Milo Keller travelled to Japan to work on thirteen individual projects in collaboration with Japanese photographer Taisuke Koyama within the framework of the Tokyo Photographic Research project. The students artworks range from still and moving images to computer-generated photographic visuals and explore multiple facets of the Japanese megalopolis which is, once again, undergoing major transformation in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Some projects focus on aspects specific to the city, from the destruction of small residential houses to the construction of the gigantic Olympic Village and the conquest of new territories by the sea. Other works investigate distinctive Japanese culture such as home-cooked food, the appetite for designing humanoid robots, the blending of child and adult worlds in manga, pachinko gambling, the reinvention of ikebana and young girls as ‘rising stars. Finally, the works seek to visually represent more abstract concepts such as loneliness, emptiness and intimacy in a city that, due to its density, size and power, offers a challenging, fascinating and extremely stimulating complexity to the eyes of the thirteen photographers. Higurashi has been presented at Espace Commines in Paris in November 2021, inside the exhibition Automated Photography during Paris Photo.Head of PhotographyMilo KellerInvited TeacherTaisuke KoyamaAssistantsFlorian AmoserCalum DouglasGraphic DesignThomas Le ProvostTypefacesCraft by ECAL/Benoit Brun& Raphaël De la MorinerieITC Garamond StdHead of Culture andCommunications Embassyof Switzerland in JapanJonas PulverDGES/Summer UniversityMaxline StettlerPhotography StudentsEmidio BattipagliaRobin BerviniJasmine DeportaAnja Karolina FurrerAlessia GunawanChristian HarkerJung-Ting HuJohanna HullárPhilipp KlakDoruk KumkumogluIgor PjörrtJelly LuiseGedvile TamosiunaitePublisherECAL/University of Artand Design Lausannehigurashi.zoneHigurashi is available at ecal-shop.ch.
Malik Sobgoui – Oblique Reasoning Nowadays, almost all of us have adopted the unconscious reflex of pulling out our smartphone when we are faced with some form of loneliness or passivity. Hence, it has become difficult for us to cope with waiting without the help of our cell phones. The aim of Oblique Reasoning is to invite users to question notions of attention economy and FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) while offering, in the manner of Oblique Strategies, reflections and alternatives. By recording unread notifications and quantifying them in units of time, this portable device offers us the possibility to step back and rethink our relationship with the smartphone.
Valerio Meschi – Tone Alembic The barrier of entry to sound synthesis software has historically been kept high by visually abstract, overloaded interfaces and expensive ecosystems like those of Pure Data or MAX. Tone Alembic seeks to make sound experimentation accessible to a beginner audience. It does so by offering a platform consisting of a digital interface that abstracts many of the concepts of synthesis in favour of a more visual approach and a set of MIDI controllers that allow more hands-on interaction with the interface while providing everything one needs to get started creating sounds.
Valentine Leimgruber – Sanctuaires Through a narrative experience, Sanctuaires invites visitors to discover their relationship with plants. This project is structured as an interactive exhibition on the great trees of the city of Lausanne. As in a treasure hunt, visitors have to look for the trees, thanks to clues and a map on the app. When they find one, they connect to it through touch, thus triggering the beginning of the experience. Like a wise storyteller, the sanctuary-tree shares a tale with the visitors, telling them about its sensitive experience and observable universe. Urban tree development coincides with the advent of issues related to the ecological crisis. What do trees have to say about this and how can their perception help us improve our lifestyles?
Ivan Chestopaloff – (un)load In a world dominated by images, where content is constantly blasted at our brain, the race for maximum performance and ultra-high definition feels endless. (un)load chooses to go beyond the classic forms of digital experience. With this tool, we will try to dive into a molecular state, where the single unit becomes the whole. In a kind of reverse cinema, you will be deprived of some of your senses and will reach overload through extreme reduction. Expressing the constant overload we experience as a society and the capacity we have to construct our own relationship to the world, (un)load explores the narrative potential of immersive technologies, based on the senses and beyond representation. Warning: this work contains flashing lights.
Laetitia Paroz – A–Z du sexisme linguistique Linguistic sexism expresses the gender-based discriminatory nature of some words and expressions in language. After drawing up an alphabetical list of misogynous terms in French such as “blondasse” (blonde bimbo), “pute” (whore) or “sorcière” (witch), I carried out research on each term, allowing me to take a variety of informative, funny, absurd or first-degree approaches to the word depending on its definition. This work took the shape of a book featuring a rich diversity of content. Page after page, archival images, rap punchlines and historical texts are mixed with series of popular images. The whole forms a book that questions and challenges readers according to their own sensitivity.
Julie Neuhaus – The Bio Mind Prix BG Ingénieurs Conseils | The Bio Mind illustrates eight principles of creation and function existing in nature and thus focuses on biomimetics. Between abstraction and analysis, scientific and sensitive language, each of the eight chapters aims to fuel reflection on our behaviours and the possible implementation of these principles at individual and/or societal level. The project consciously plays on the fascination that each of us may feel when observing nature and seeks to express the dichotomy that exists between our deep need for analysis and the reality of nature which often remains mysterious.
Benedetta Bovani – Acquerino Acquerino is a family project that revolves around the Acquerino Nature Reserve in Tuscany, Italy. Growing up near the place, the idea for this project was born out of the curiosity and affection that both me and my brother have for it. We felt the need to create something that reflected our thoughts and emotions about such a place while at the same time letting people know about it. Bringing together our knowledge, memories and skills we designed two books. The first book is a travel guide that aims to inform the reader about the reserve: from the flora to the fauna, hiking itineraries and nearby villages. The second one is an album where we collected words and photographs that reflect on the value of nature and of memory. Two specific typefaces were also designed for the books.
Alessandro Simone – Movement of Change The consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly important and time is running out to act. Protests are taking place on the streets and online through the promotion of information, media and visual content. Movement of Change has been developed to explore new protest tools to raise awareness of the climate emergency. The project links outdoor sports with climate propaganda to create unusual ways of spreading messages by collaborating with a growing community strongly connected to the natural playground and its protection. Movement of Change is a series of technical tools for sports that use athletes performances to create powerful visuals, shaping a community to protect what is, for some, a playground but above all our home.
Till Ronacher – Bæg In addition to awareness raising, one of the main challenges of our throwaway society is the disposal of recyclable waste. We have to start to see our waste as a material resource and sort it efficiently in order to keep it in the material cycle. Bæg is a hybrid between a shopping bag and a recycling bin, made from recycled truck tarp from FREITAG. Unlike ordinary bins, the portable bag eliminates the need for bin liners. A wall hook makes it easy to fix, fill and remove the bag. Bæg aims to change the stigma towards domestic waste and acts not only as a bin for home but also as a tote bag on the go.
Julian Ribler – Plinth Passive heating systems are constantly evolving and becoming ever more present, yet in the field of public construction, the need for radiators is recognised as predominant in large open spaces. This provides an opportunity to rethink the traditional radiator archetype and its integration as an architectural element in symbiosis with passive heating systems. Plinth is a reinterpretation of the traditional radiator typology that bridges the gap between seasonal use as an object of heating and comfort and a year-round sitting solution. In collaboration with Zehnder, the design is based on a modular construction system that allows freedom of customisation.
Jean-Paul Brkovic – Air Carbon in Product Design Mention Très bien Air Carbon is the topic of my graduation project. It is a promising new solution in the form of cutting-edge technology to combat climate change. My design research focused on the emission sources of materials that can be solidified as paper or polymers. This led to the creation of a structurally self-supporting frame concept made of carbon for a mirror. My design challenges the properties of air carbon and simultaneously explores its aesthetic value. I saw the growing need for new sustainable yet exquisite materials in the luxury industry. Many start-ups, institutions and researchers produce excellent but expensive materials. Through my design, I would like to build these essential bridges. Mention Très bienAir Carbon is the topic of my graduation project. It is a promising new solution in the form of cutting-edge technology to combat climate change. My design research focused on the emission sources of materials that can be solidified as paper or polymers.This led to the creation of a structurally self-supporting frame concept made of carbon for a mirror. My design challenges the properties of air carbon and simultaneously explores its aesthetic value.I saw the growing need for new sustainable yet exquisite materials in the luxury industry. Many start-ups, institutions and researchers produce excellent but expensive materials. Through my design, I would like to build these essential bridges.
Alizée Quinche – They Blossom at Night « They Blossom at Night explores the vision of a shifting biotechnological intimacy, the opening to an altered state of consciousness towards an undefined space, a moment in time when the connection between bodies becomes fluid(s), a form of sexuality where each partner, each relationship, transforms and helps beings evolve through sharing and emancipation. Featuring an immersive video-sound installation, the project appropriates the symbolic force of procreation. It explores the materiality of non-reproductive sexuality by developing a microbiological creature that represents the transmissions of polyamorous intimacy. The work expresses the cohesion between the organicity of relationships and a form of technology that allows for different social liberations, in reference to medically assisted procreation.»
Sofia Papaefthymiou – Το Ρόδι – The Pomegranate « Being half-Cypriot half-Swiss, I somehow felt the need to understand my relationship to the territory, borders, exile and my shared origins. Το Ρόδι–The Pomegranate is a short film that has become a tool for exploration and deconstruction, bringing the geopolitical conflicts of my country up to the level of my own conflicts. This project is also a space where I can dream freely of other places, my own island – the reflections of my desires. Unable to reach this homeland, I try to grasp what I do not have, to reproduce the sensations that I experienced there. I collect archives, I commission images. I bring my female body, which I appropriate and re-appropriate through various representations, back to its origin, to find my place and speak up again.»
Juri Römmel – CaddE Nowadays, many people work on electronic devices and this work can be done anywhere, since less physical material is required. Targeting those who work frequently from home and/or small spaces, CaddE becomes a functional bridge between work and daily life. CaddE is a portable and handy storage system with cable management made out of sheet metal. The built-in modular power strip allows users to choose the type of socket to be installed according to their appliances. The tray around the power strip helps to store the cables when not in use. Thanks to the automatic cable reel, the main power cable is quickly stowed away and always available at the right length. This project was developed in close cooperation with Lista Office AG.
Julie Racaud – Fealing Fealing is a collection of creative tools whose development is based on the field of art therapy. The project features a therapeutic approach that uses creation as an intermediary, allowing people to express themselves in ways other than with words. In this theme, the creative process, the emotions, the sensations felt, and the personality are paramount. However, behind the artists tools lies a level of requirement and expectations that can potentially limit the user s creativity. I have therefore chosen to offer original tools that allow us to transform this level of requirement into a quest for discovery and to help us express our creativity through different gestures, forms and textures.
Eugénie Perrin – Pince Pince is a continuation of my dissertation dedicated to objects made by farmers, who design their tools from existing objects that they reappropriate and transform to meet their own needs. Inspired by a homemade lamp found on a farm, Pince takes advantage of the raw and singular aspect of these objects, which are designed to be functional before any aesthetic consideration. The project thus borrows the robustness and the simplicity of design and construction from the typology of the tool and features a swivel head and fixing system that can be adapted to all types of supports. It is thus suitable for both DIY enthusiasts and craftspeople. Inspired by homemade objects, Pince is a product that has been designed in an industrial, ergonomic and aesthetic way.
Yael Vallotton – Sleeping Water In the small kitchen of a family home, two women in their fourties are chatting. Out of the blue, one of them kisses the other. Fiction / 16 min Synopsis In the narrow kitchen of a family home, two women in their forties are talking. Suddenly, one of them forgets herself and kisses the other. After the intimacy of this encounter, reality soon resurfaces. The two women are married, one to the other s brother. Comment This graduation project expresses a desire to talk about a new form of sensuality and sexuality in two women in their forties who are not looking for anything but who nevertheless find themselves animated by troubling emotions that they do not want to keep silent because it awakens a part of themselves they still have to discover – a desire that is not a need to be met but rather an attempt to rediscover oneself. Yael Vallotton
Keerthigan Sivakumar – Doosra Vinoth, a refugee, is looking for a volunteer activity to escape his loneliness, but no one is willing to accept his help. Fiction / 29 mn Synopsis Vinoth Nataraja, a young Sri Lankan asylum seeker, has been living alone in Switzerland for two years. Every morning, he drives his van through Lausanne to deliver bread. This regular job is the only thing he has in his life here, far from his roots. He then decides to get out of his routine and to look for a volunteer activity that would allow him to help others, meet people and perhaps make friends with Swiss people. But in doing so, he is confronted with another reality. Student s statement In the story I developed, my character is constantly faced with a world that does not want what he has to offer. As a consequence, a great feeling of loneliness is constantly fuelled by the way people ignore each other.