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L ECAL at Applied Machine Learning Days,26–29.01.2019,Swiss Tech Convention Center, EPFL ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne collaborates for the first time with the Applied Machine Learning Days, a conference at EPFL focusing on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. It takes place at the Swiss Tech Convention Center from January 26 to 29, 2019. Our Bachelor program in Media & Interaction Design showcases a selection of recent projects, resulting from workshops and collaborations using machine learning and artificial intelligence through a creative and artistic perspective. The following projects are on display: Point and Shoot; https://vimeo.com/295762050 With "Talking Camera" by ECAL/Amélie Demay, Pierry Jaquillard and Hanieh Rachid and "Move n Pick" by ECAL/Pierre Allain-Longval, Manfred Gordon Baud and Iskander Guetta Resulting from a collaboration between Bachelor Industrial Design and Bachelor Media & Interaction Design students, under the guidance of Map Project Office, on the occasion of the exhibition “Ligne de Mire: Design Létal” at mudac, from March 14 to August 16, 2018. Teaching the Machine: https://vimeo.com/302452465 With "Dr Headset" by Alfatih, "Human Detection" by Iyo Bisseck and "The sound of things" by Anouk Zibaut et Diane Becheras. Resulting from a workshop led by Gene Kogan together with Bachelor Media & Interaction Design 3rd year students. DeepMaps: https://vimeo.com/299628717 Initiated during a workshop led by Gene Kogan on machine learning, by ECAL/Nathan Vogel Electrical Insight: https://vimeo.com/310374326 Initiated during a workshop led by Dries Depoorter on the creative use of APIs, by ECAL/Luca Sassoli de Bianchi. More information on the Applied Machine Learning Days: www.appliedmldays.org
ECAL Made at Maison & Objet, Paris,18–22.01.2019,Maison & Objet, Paris From 18 to 22 January 2019 at Maison et Objet in Paris, MA Product Design students present "ECAL Made". HD IMAGES The first year students of the Master Product Design faced the stakes of the job of designer, from idea to manufacture and sale. The products created, everyday objects made in Switzerland with the help of local craftsmen, are the happy result. From Friday to Monday: 9.30 am to 7 pm Tuesday: 9.30 am to 6 pm Parc des expositions de Paris-Nord Villepinte Hall 2 — Stand A2 ZAC Paris Nord 2 93420 Villepinte, France www.maison-objet.com
Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship,07.12.2018–06.01.2019,Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Gallery Mun, Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul On the initiative of the Swiss Embassy in South Korea and Dongdaemun Design Plaza, the MUN Gallery, one of the cultural spaces of the Neofuturist complex designed by architect Zaha Hadid, hosts a selection of objects created by international graduate students from the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship of ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. With three topics (Fine Tableware, Swiss Craftsmanship and Fashion Accessories), this exhibition highlights some of the many collaborations with luxury & crafts brands. In addition to the prototypes presented, a selection of models and sketches illustrates the students creative process. Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship From 7 December to 6 January 6 2019 Opening on Thursday 6 December at 5pm Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) Gallery Mun, Eulji-ro, Jung-gu Seoul - South Korea
Yatoni Roy Cantu – La Source In the middle of the darkness of a chalet of a past century, between the cracks and the dirt of an old mirror, somebody appears. It is Lisbeth. She moves forward in her dressing gown with precaution, trying not to wake Anne who is still sleeping. In front of her reflection, she discovers her shoulder. The skin is cracked, darkened and in blood. The disease is back. Fiction / 17 min Synopsis In the middle of the darkness of a chalet of a past century, between the cracks and the dirt of an old mirror, somebody appears. It is Lisbeth. She moves forward in her dressing gown with precaution, trying not to wake Anne who is still sleeping. In front of her reflection, she discovers her shoulder. The skin is cracked, darkened and in blood. The disease is back. Comment Attracted by genre cinema, inhabited by the need to tell this story, Yatoni Roy Cantu knew, during the writing process, how to show tenacity and great capacities of rebound to make us share his singular universe, made of mysticism, strangeness and sensuality. Olivier Loustau / Actor, screenwriter, director
Antoine Flahaut – Wasteland Jérôme has failed his High-School leaving exams. He spend the day with his best friend, David before to go to a party. Fiction / 18 min Synopsis Jérôme has failed his High-School leaving exams. His best friend, David, has passed his exams and is getting ready to leave. They spend the day hanging out around their village, where they know every nook and cranny, and in the evening go to a party with their old schoolmates... Summer is just beginning but their friendship seems doomed to end. Comment Antoine Flahaut was to write a feature film script to conclude his studies at ECAL. His preliminary documentation work soon took on the scope of a gigantic research project, commensurate with the ambition of the project. By telling the story of a young man from a working class family in Montbéliard in the spring of 1968, Antoine was indeed proposing to resurrect a world. Wasteland is a gesture. An almost improvised short film, faithful in the background to the scenario of the feature film, but which also frees itself from it to better reconnect with the original inspiration of its author. A series of sensitive and fragile moments that reveal a soul, that of a boy on the border between childhood and manhood. A poem of vertigo in the face of the opacity of life, between nostalgia and the call of the sea, between early disenchantment and great hopes. Emmanuel Salinger / Actor, screenwriter, director
Lour Rambert Preiss – Stone Age In a vast stone quarry, an explosion reveals an object from the past. Fiction / 22 min Synopsis A great rock quarry today. Antonin, 27, discovers a face in the rock after an explosion. We shut down the sector, the company is stormed by mysterious scientists. During free time, we speculate on the origin of the face... Antonin s obsession grows. Comment Lou s film asked essential questions to him: to represent or not to represent? To put in form, at what point? The film is inscribed on this fine border, where our imaginations as spectators can be engulfed if we are not forbidden to enter by too many "pronouncements". Lou creates a space of cinema, situated between the spectator and the screen, in a dialogue oriented but not constrained. Thus, the film has the space to exist within us, and it succeeds in bringing to life the mystery it does not define. Each of the students, in his or her own place, has had to face these questions. And if Lionel Baier were Lao Tseu, he would tell them "The Tao that we try to grasp is not the Tao itself; the name we want to give it is not its proper name." Uh... Lou and his editor Gabrielle Stemmer knew how to play skillfully with duration and its variations, with the play of actors and non-actors together, with the relationships of scale (of space and time), with the interference of the supernatural... In short, Big, Small, Doubt... Bravo to him and his team. Alain Gomis / Director
ECAL Conference: Alex Prager,31.10.2018,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: Alex Prager – Photographer and filmmaker, Los Angeles Conférences ECAL (octobre 2018 Alex Prager Photographe et cinéaste, Los Angeles www.alexprager.com En conversation avec Nathalie Herschdorfer, enseignante et directrice du Musée des beaux-arts du Locle. Mercredi 31 octobre à 18h Auditoire IKEA, ECAL A l occasion d une semaine de workshop avec les étudiants en Bachelor Photographie et de l exposition Silver Lake Drive au Musée des beaux-arts du Locle du 3 novembre 2018 au 27 janvier 2019. Née en 1979 à Los Angeles, Alex Prager est une photographe et cinéaste qui crée des scènes minutieusement orchestrées, s inspirant d un large éventail d influences et de références comme le cinéma hollywoodien, les films expérimentaux, la culture populaire et la photographie de rue. La nature très chorégraphiée de ses photographies et de ses films révèle la manière dont les images sont construites et consommées dans notre société saturée en médias, mettant son travail en relation directe avec des artistes engagés tels que Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand et Cindy Sherman. Représentée par la galerie Lehmann Maupin à New York et à Hong Kong, Alex Prager a exposé dans de nombreux lieux prestigieux, dont le MoMA à Manhattan, la Photographer s Gallery à Londres ou la Galerie des Galeries à Paris. Elle a également reçu plusieurs prix majeurs pour son travail, notamment un Emmy Award pour Touch of Evil, un film de commande du New York Times, avec entre autres Jessica Chastain, George Clooney, Glenn Close et Brad Pitt, ainsi que le Foam Paul Huf Award, la désignant comme une personnalité majeure de la photographie ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33
Credo The aim of the Centre intercantonal d information sur les croyances (CIC) is to map the religious diversity of our regions and to explain in a neutral way how the cantonal communities function. The director, Brigitte Knobel, contacted the ECAL to create a visual cartography of the communities. Second-year students were asked to photograph the project. They worked throughout the year on an assigned religious community, selected beforehand according to geographical and diversity criteria.
ECAL at the Mexico Design Week 2018,10–14.10.2018,Mexico City As part of the Mexico Design Week from 10 to 14 October 2018 and its special programme "Swiss Design Mexico 2018" organised by Francisco Torres (ECAL Bachelor Industrial Design graduate), ECAL and the CENTRO University of Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City exhibit at the Museo de Arte Popular a multidisciplinary project, involving industrial design, graphic design and typography, on the topic of corn through gastronomic, cultural and socio-economic aspects. As part of the Mexico Design Week from 10 to 14 October 2018 and its special programme "Swiss Design Mexico 2018" organised by Francisco Torres (ECAL Bachelor Industrial Design graduate), ECAL and the CENTRO University of Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City exhibit at the Museo de Arte Popular a multidisciplinary project, involving industrial design, graphic design and typography, on the topic of corn through gastronomic, cultural and socio-economic aspects. With the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Mexico and the Summer University programme organised by the General Board of Higher Education of State of Vaud. Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm Wednesday from 10am to 9am Museo de Arte Popular Revillagigedo 11 Colonia Centro, Centro 06050 Ciudad de México https://abiertodediseno.mx www.swissdesignmexico.mx ----- In addition, Giacomo Bastianelli, ECAL Bachelor Graphic Design graduate, presents his diploma work "Next Eleven Paper", which redefines the way we promote music and fills the gap between physical object and digital media with this first issue which takes place in Mexico City. Monday to Friday from 10am to 6pm Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 3pm Palacio Postal Planta Baja Tacuba 1 06000 Cuauhtémoc, Centro Ciudad de México https://abiertodediseno.mx www.swissdesignmexico.mx --- Besides, Alexis Georgacopoulos, ECAL Director, and Nicolas Henchoz, EPFL + ECAL Lab Director, will also give a conference (October 12 and October 10, respectively) at the Museo Franz Meyer. The EPFL + ECAL Lab also presents an exhibition in partnership with the ZHdK + ETHZ Design Tech Lab. Various alumni and ECAL teachers will also be featured in various exhibitions, including Camille Blin, Julie Richoz. Download the full program!
Ardita Meha – Hvala mama « I was a two-year-old as we had to flee the city of Zvornik in Bosnia. In 1995 my father arrived in Switzerland as a refugee. We joined him only in 1996. As a child, I used to imagine a story around a reproduction of Renoir s painting Bal du moulin de la Galette. The story was about my grandmother, my mother and my father as they first met, and about a painter who had died during the war. I would stage vivid memories I didn t have, with the idea of war always present unconsciously. In my family everyone kept silent about our story. But their gestures never lied. »
Les acteurs de la vigne,08–30.09.2018,Musée de la Confrérie des Vignerons, Vevey L ECAL participe à plusieurs titres au Festival Images Vevey. Les acteurs de la vigne De Lavaux au Chablais vaudois, l univers viticole a été réinterprété pendant un semestre par les étudiants en 2e année de Bachelor Photographie de l ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne, en collaboration avec la Confrérie des Vignerons. Sous la direction de Jonas Marguet, photographe et enseignant, les étudiants ont exploité des indices récoltés sur le terrain auprès des vignerons. Les séries d Elisa Ribeiro et d Adrien Sgandurra, sélectionnées et présentées dans le cadre du Festival Images Vevey, nous éclairent ainsi sur un patrimoine qui semble traditionnel et immuable mais se révèle source inépuisable de création. Dates des expositions Elisa Ribeiro – du 8 au 30 septembre 2018 Adrien Sgandurra – du 8 septembre 2018 au 30 avril 2019 Pendant le Festival Images Vevey, tous les jours de 11h à 19h, entrée libre. Dès le 1er octobre 2018, du mardi au dimanche de 11h à 17h Vernissage du nouveau volume de la Revue historique vaudoise (Société vaudoise d histoire et d archéologie) sur «Les acteurs de la vigne», comprenant quatre portfolios d étudiants, et finissage de l exposition: le samedi 29 septembre 2018 dès 16h30 Musée de la Confrérie des Vignerons Rue du Château 2 1800 Vevey www.confreriedesvignerons.ch www.images.ch Galerie des Bustes Insérez-vous dans un décor d un autre temps et faites-vous immortaliser tel un buste sculpté ! Pour la quatrième édition consécutive, le Festival Images s associe à l ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne en proposant aux étudiants de 2e année en Bachelor Design Industriel de concevoir un photomaton interactif et ludique en lien avec le thème de l édition 2018 : Extravaganza. Hors de l ordinaire. Prenant comme point de départ l univers de la fête foraine, le projet Galerie des Bustes d Aurore Piedigrossi (1995) et d Alex Tran (1995) réactive le dispositif historique du «passe-tête». Apparue sur les champs de foire au début du XXe siècle, cette attraction photographique populaire permet de glisser sa tête dans un fond peint représentant une scène amusante. La Droguerie Rue du Théâtre 6 1800 Vevey www.images.ch Image ECAL/Adrien Sgandurra
Bobst Graphic 1972–1981 Bobst Graphic, 1972–1981, with a preface by François Rappo, an interview with six important actors and further selected texts, documents, at a distance of 48 years, the hitherto relatively unknown history of a Bobst company division: Bobst Graphic, pioneers in photocomposition. At the beginning of the 1970s, Bobst, a packaging company already far advanced in packaging manufacture, decided to start to sell its photocomposition machines with a view, amongst other things, to improving Swiss typographical quality. It started to manufacture a series of innovative photocomposition machines, patented by their French inventors, Hugonnet and Moyroud. Bobst Graphic products, with their streamlined service and close collaboration with first-rate researchers, soon came to occupy a secure position in photocomposition, now called on to assume the mantle of a hundred-year-old traditional profession. Numerous families of typographical characters were developed, some from scratch, with the help of many of the best graphic artists in the country, some, like Team 77, which boasted international renown. Despite the energy invested in these new inventions, and the signal advantage enjoyed by this division with its considerable in-house talents, the company faced stiff competition internationally, almost exclusively from the United States. Ultimately, financial difficulties obliged the firm to hand over its project to Autologic, an American company. We are able, by exhibiting this archive, to tell a story which might never have received the attention it truly deserves within the context of Swiss graphic design.Main applicantsECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (project leader)Research team (researcher) (supervisor) (supervisor)PeriodApril 2017 – August 2018Supported byStrategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO RCDAV)DisseminationPublication Giliane Cachin (ed.), Bobst Graphic 1972–1981, Zurich: Triest verlag, 2019 (with contributions from Bruno De Kalbermatten, Robert Flach, Roland Jan, Christian Mengelt, Jean-Luc Monnard, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, François Rappo). Talks Launch of the Archives visuelles series, with Giliane Cachin, Davide Fornari, Sarah Klein, Robert Lzicar, Simon Mager, Andrea Wiegelmann, Zurich, Never Stop Reading, 29 January, 2020. Press Claudia Gerdes, Bobst Graphic 1971–1981, in Page Magazine, March 2020, p. 62.
Diploma Jury 2018 Jury : Bethan Laura Wood, Designer, London Fabien Vallerian, International Director of Arts & Culture, Ruinart, Paris Kieron Marchese Executive editorial director, Designboom, Milan
Workshop Olivier Cablat On July 2nd 2018 Ecal s second year Bachelor photography students presented their "guerrilla communication" project at the opening of Rencontres d Arles. Under the direction of Olivier Cablat (artist, teacher and artistic director of Cosmos Arles Books) and Milo Keller (head of the Photography Department at ECAL), the 2nd year Bachelor students analysed and diverged modes of communication and diffusion for one semester. Both physical and digital strategies have been developed for the field work in Arles: from wild posting, to live webcam, from propaganda to social networks. During the opening week of the festival, the students transformed a 55 m² room of the Cosmos Arles Books into an editorial office, exhibition and work space. This project between installation and caricature, aims to augment our relationship to our society of spectacle, where the speed of dissemination of information sometimes makes the true and false indistinguishable. A newspaper of 250 copies will be printed daily as a physical witness of this experience at multiple media levels. On July 2nd 2018 Ecal s second year Bachelor photography students presented their "guerrilla communication" project at the opening of Rencontres d Arles. Under the direction of Olivier Cablat (artist, teacher and artistic director of Cosmos Arles Books) and Milo Keller (head of the Photography Department at ECAL), the 2nd year Bachelor students analysed and diverged modes of communication and diffusion for one semester. Both physical and digital strategies have been developed for the field work in Arles: from wild posting, to live webcam, from propaganda to social networks. During the opening week of the festival, the students transformed a 55 m² room of the Cosmos Arles Books into an editorial office, exhibition and work space. This project between installation and caricature, aims to augment our relationship to our society of spectacle, where the speed of dissemination of information sometimes makes the true and false indistinguishable. A newspaper of 250 copies will be printed daily as a physical witness of this experience at multiple media levels.
ECAL at the Rencontres d Arles,02–08.07.2018,Arles On July 2nd 2018, ECAL s second year Bachelor photography students presented their "guerrilla communication" project at the opening of Rencontres d Arles. Under the direction of Olivier Cablat (artist, teacher and artistic director of Cosmos Arles Books) and Milo Keller (head of the Photography Department at ECAL), the 2nd year Bachelor students analysed and diverged modes of communication and diffusion for one semester. Both physical and digital strategies have been developed for the field work in Arles: from wild posting, to live webcam, from propaganda to social networks. During the opening week of the festival, the students transformed a 55 m² room of the Cosmos Arles Books into an editorial office, exhibition and work space. This project between installation and caricature, aims to augment our relationship to our society of spectacle, where the speed of dissemination of information sometimes makes the true and false indistinguishable. A newspaper of 250 copies will be printed daily as a physical witness of this experience at multiple media levels. Inauguration: Monday 2 July 2018 at 18h00 Opening hours: free admission from Tuesday 3rd to Saturday 8th from 12h00 to 20h00 https://www.rencontres-arles.com
Fuori catalogo / Out of production The Fuori catalogo research project calls into question the way we think about the life cycles of contemporary design objects by shifting focus from a product s birth and lifespan to its “end moment”. The research team led by Anniina Koivu (Head of Master Theory, ECAL) and Rosanna Pavoni (scientific director of Fondazione Studio Museo Vico Magistretti), explored the important yet under-researched topic of why and how products cease to be available on the market by examining the vast body of work left behind by Italian architect and product designer Vico Magistretti (1920–2006). One of the seminal figures in postwar Italian design, he based his work on a close collaboration with manufacturers, creating 334 products and furniture objects. Yet only 65 of these design classics are still in production as of January 2020. Researchers drew on the extensive archives of the Fondazione Vico Magistretti, analysed specialist journals and conducted interviews with manufacturers and many of the original decision-makers investigating the manifold factors underpinning the decision to cease production of twelve Magistretti s iconic creations, here employed as case studies. They are also the focus of a portfolio of new images created by ECAL alumni from the Photography courses. The outputs of the research project are disseminated through the book Vico Magistretti: Stories of Objects, published by Triest verlag with graphic design by NORM, available in Italian an English editions.Main applicantsECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Rosanna Pavoni (Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti)Research teamLecturers and researchers Maddalena Dalla Mura Francesco Zanot Research assistant Photographers PartnerFondazione studio museo Vico MagistrettiPeriodmay 2017 – august 2018Supported byECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Strategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO RCDAV)DisseminationPublication Anniina Koivu, Vico Magistretti. Stories of Objects / Vico Magistretti. Storie di oggetti, Zurich: Triest verlag, 2020 (with contributions by Maddalena Dalla Mura, Davide Fornari, Carolien Niebling, Rosanna Pavoni, Francesco Zanot)
Ondřej Báchor – Kolektiv. Diploma Project by Ondřej Báchor Kolektiv is a high contrasted transitional serif typeface that comes in 8 cuts including Italics. Intended as a book typeface, it is suitable in small sizes where its smooth ductus creates an organic text structure, as well as for headline sizes where it excels in its elegant style of drawing. It s a digital interpretation of a design by the same name drawn in 1952 by a collective of Czech authors. As a Czech designer, Kolektiv is my personal statement of what I consider Czech character in typography to be. The process of designing helped me to shape my own style and apply it to the typeface. Kolektiv is a high contrasted transitional serif typeface that comes in 8 cuts including Italics. Intended as a book typeface, it is suitable in small sizes where its smooth ductus creates an organic text structure, as well as for headline sizes where it excels in its elegant style of drawing. It s a digital interpretation of a design by the same name drawn in 1952 by a collective of Czech authors. As a Czech designer, Kolektiv is my personal statement of what I consider Czech character in typography to be. The process of designing helped me to shape my own style and apply it to the typeface.
Luisa Kahlfeldt – SeaCell Diaper SeaCell is a fully biodegradable, absorbent and inherently antibacterial fibre made from eucalyptus wood and algae extract. Currently only available in fabric form blended with other fibres, its applications are limited to sportswear. In collaboration with a renowned fibre research institute, I developed the first functional 100% SeaCell fabric and created a range of reusable cloth diapers for babies. An end-use application that greatly benefits from more sustainable alternatives, the mono-materiality diaper fully utilises the material s inherent skin protection and hygiene properties. SUMO diaper James Dyson Award 2019 website
Shin Young Park – Power, Technology & Lies «Power, Technology & Lies» consists of hundreds of images and video clips coming from the internet media. The collection of the contents is based on the author s westernized South Korean perspective. All collected visual sources reconstruct its own context into multiple screen channels simultaneously. Multiscreen installation is intentio-nally designed to disperse viewer s focus that reflects the chaotic dystopian complexity of the world through images. «Power, Technology & Lies» consists of hundreds of images and video clips coming from the internet media. The collection of the contents is based on the author s westernized South Korean perspective. All collected visual sources reconstruct its own context into multiple screen channels simultaneously. Multiscreen installation is intentio-nally designed to disperse viewer s focus that reflects the chaotic dystopian complexity of the world through images.
ECAL x QWSTION in Lausanne,21–30.06.2018,QWSTION Store, Lausanne A joint project between Swiss bag brand QWSTION and ECAL students of the Master Product Design programme, exploring ways of carrying and using the new sustainable and lightweight material CottonShell®. Ten prototypes have been selected for display at QWSTION Lausanne from 22 to 30 June. Cocktail will be held on 21 June from 5pm. Images HD In the project led by Christian Paul Kaegi, Swiss Designer and Creative Director at QWSTION, the sustainably produced CottonShell® was the starting point for an extensive research. CottonShell® has so far been used for clothing only and its unique construction makes it wa-ter-resistant without the use of any coating. Questioning the norm, using straightforward materials and integrating functionality in effortless ways are the core brand values of QWSTION which completed the brief. «A good answer is the result of the right question. I think it s a really important part of studying to keep questioning the status quo, of society, technology and their relation.» mentions Christian Paul Kaegi. The student s engagement with both the QWSTION brand as well as the new material resulted in interesting new ideas and concepts going beyond the ordinary: a scarf with hidden pockets aims to challenge airline staff, a new method of protecting contents inspired by bubblewrap makes for minimal carry, and a backpack with integrated rain coat tackles unpleasant weather surprises. After previously being presented at Vienna Design Week the projects developed by the students will be exhibited in the hometown of ECAL, in Lausanne. From the 22nd to the 30th of June the ten prototypes can be experienced at Rue du Tunnel 7, in the future QWSTION Store which will officially open mid August. Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 10 – 7 pm Saturday 10 – 5 pm QWSTION Lausanne Rue du Tunnel 7 1005 Lausanne www.qwstion.com
ECAL Conference: Jonas Lindstroem,06.06.2018,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: Jonas Lindstroem – Photographer and Director, London and Berlin ECAL Lectures (June 2018) Jonas Lindstroem, Photographer & Director, London & Berlin Wednesday 6 June at 6pm, IKEA Auditorium, ECAL Jonas Lindstroem is a photographer and director of German and Swedish descent, hailing from a small town in Germany. His love for skateboarding as an adolescent inspired his first steps as a photographer, in which he documented his peers and their aesthetics. After finishing high school, Lindstroem moved to Berlin at the age of 19 to study Visual Communication at the University of the Arts. During his studies, he was selected to study at the London College of Communications for a year abroad. Lindstroem started his professional career within the broad context of fashion photography and has developed his directorial and filmmaking work increasingly over the years, balancing editorial, commercial, and personal artistic projects like his 15-minute short film Truth or Dare which documents the narratives sourced from the imaginary minds of a global generation. Lindstroem s vision has been proposed through his work for clients like 032c Magazine, Kenzo, Nike, YSL, Fendi and Louis Vuitton, as well as through his global campaigns for Uniqlo U and Hermès. As a director, Lindstroem has worked to create music videos for international stars such as the video for Kendrick Lamar s song ELEMENT. www.jlindstroem.com ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33 Mail : ecal@ecal.ch
ECAL x Mugler,20.04.2018,Geneva, place des Bergues 3 ECAL Bachelor Photography students present on the Vogue website a series of pictures made during a workshop led by the photographer Philippe Jarrigeon with the stylist Victoire Simonney and the makeup artist Kathy Le Sant around Mugler archives. The final images were selected by Casey Cadwallader, new creative director of Mugler. Article on Vogue.fr
ECAL Conference: Peter Saville,19.03.2018,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: Peter Saville – Artist and designer, London Conférences ECAL (mars 2018) Peter Saville, Artiste et designer, Londres Lundi 19 mars à 18h, auditoire IKEA, ECAL Né en 1955, Peter Saville est un artiste et designer dont la contribution à la culture a été unique. En tant que fondateur et directeur artistique du légendaire label indépendant britannique Factory Records, il a touché le grand public grâce aux séries de pochettes de disques qu il a créées pour Joy Division et New Order entre 1979 et 1993. Son style radical a cassé toutes les règles, en omettant sciemment les informations sur les artistes ou les titres, tout en questionnant les modes de consommation et de communication. Ses projets récents mêlent design, art et culture. Ces dernières années, il a ainsi occupé le poste de Creative Director auprès de Manchester, sa ville d origine. Ses réalisations ont également été célébrées entre autres au Design Museum à Londres, au Migros Museum à Zurich et partout dans le monde, où il continue toujours d exposer. Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens
Point & Shoot This project is the result of a collaboration between students in Bachelor Industrial Design and in Bachelor Media & Interaction Design following a workshop led by Map Project Office. “Double action” is part of the exhibition “Ligne de Mire” presented at mudac in Lausanne, from 14 March to 26 August 2018. In the society that Orwell describes in Nineteen Eighty-Four, every citizen is under constant monitoring by the authorities. The people are constantly reminded of this by the slogan “Big Brother is watching you”. Nowadays in the Digital Age, biometric recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) surveillance systems thrive quietly in our back pocket. Not far from what Orwell prophesied, in Two Thousand Eighteen, with all those powerful technologies at our fingertips, “Point-and-shoot” proposes two playful devices arising from “open source” AI technologies such as dense captioning (DenseCap), with “Talking Camera” — a camera that instantly audio translates the scene you just shot—and facial recognition AI algorithms, with “Move n Pick” — a people-triggered camera that captures pictures when subjects are striking the pre-selected pose. “Talking Camera” is a device that instantly translates the scene it captures. ECAL/Amélie Demay, Pierry Jacquillard and Hanieh Rachid “Move n Pick” is a people-triggered camera that captures pictures when subjects are striking the preselected pose. ECAL/Pierre Allain-Longval, Manfred Gordon Baud and Iskander Guetta Exhibition “Ligne de Mire” From Tuesday to Sunday, 11H- 18H In July and August, from Monday to Sunday mudac Place de la Cathédrale 6 1005 Lausanne mudac.ch
ECAL x QWSTION in Zurich,08.03–07.04.2018,QWSTION Store Zurich A joint project between Swiss bag brand QWSTION and ECAL students of the Master Product Design programme, exploring ways of carrying and using the new sustainable and lightweight material CottonShell®. Ten prototypes have been selected for display at QWSTION Zurich from 8 March to 7 April 2018. Images HD In the project led by Christian Paul Kaegi, Swiss Designer and Creative Director at QWSTION, the sustainably produced CottonShell® was the starting point for an extensive research. CottonShell® has so far been used for clothing only and its unique construction makes it water-resistant without the use of any coating. Questioning the norm, using straightforward materials and integrating functionality in effortless ways are the core brand values of QWSTION which completed the brief. The students engagement with both the QWSTION brand as well as the new material resulted in interesting new ideas and concepts going beyond the ordinary: a scarf with hidden pockets aims to challenge airline staff, a new method of protecting contents inspired by bubblewrap makes for minimal carry and a backpack with integrated rain coat tackles unpleasant weather surprises. From 8 March to 7 April Monday-Friday 11-7pm Saturday 11-5pm QWSTION Store Zurich Badenerstrasse 156 8004 Zürich – Switzerland www.qwstion.com
Theater, Garden, Bestiary A Materialist History of Exhibitions The history of exhibitions is currently undergoing renewed interest. While today the "medium" of exhibition is a producer of specific discourses, and while it offers new practices a stage on which to emerge, it has also become the nexus of numerous institutional neo-positivisms relating to the ontological designation ‘art . The exhibition, in the search for its reflexive forms (as in the quest for its own modernism) seems to become a genre in its own right. By distancing itself from today s flurry of studies related to curating, this research project will draft a history of exhibitions sourced from a wide corpus reaching beyond the framework of artistic institutions. The research project Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions stems from the wish to consider the exhibition as a genre, and to question its place in an expanded geography of borders and conceptual divides that have historically structured the space of art, and which continue to underlie its situation today. Its aim is to consider anew the genre of exhibition, by grounding it both in the history of modernism and in modernity as a whole, that is, in what one may call the anthropological matrix of modernity: its ontological separations, its epistemic divisions, its political economy, its sense of the negative.Main applicantsECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Tristan Garcia Intervenant-e-sElie During, Anselm Franke, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Pierre Huyghe, Jeremy Lecomte, Stéphane Lojkine, Celeste Olalquiaga, Peter Osborne, Filipa Ramos, Juliane Rebentisch, Joao Ribas, Ludger Schwarte, Anna-Sophie Springer, Olivier Surel, Etienne Turpin, Charles T. Wolfe, Yuk HuiPeriodseptember 2015 – march 2018Supported byECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Strategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO RCDAV)DisseminationPublication Tristan Garcia and Vincent Normand (eds.), Theater, Garden, Bestiary – A Materialist History of Exhibitions, Lausanne: ECAL and Amsterdam: Sternberg Press, 2019 (with contributions from Etienne Chambaud, Elitza Dulguerova, Anselm Franke, Tristan Garcia, Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Yuk Hui, Pierre Huyghe, Sami Khatib, Jeremy Lecomte, Stéphane Lojkine, Rafael Mandressi, Vincent Normand, Peter Osborne, Filipa Ramos, Juliane Rebentisch, João Ribas, Pamela Rosenkranz, Anna-Sophie Springer, Lucy Steeds, Olivier Surel, Etienne Turpin, Kim West, and Charles Wolfe) Website theatergardenbestiary.com Interview Interview with Tristan Garcia and Vincent Normand by Filipa Ramos, Mousse Magazine, October 2016. PDF
IMD and ECAL launch partnership,29.01.2018,IMD & ECAL Two of the Vaud region s leading academic institutions join forces to deliver programs on business and design IMD and ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne, have established a partnership agreement and are currently working together on a series of joint initiatives. The two leading academic institutions recently jointly delivered a three-day program on Foundations of Business at IMD for students undertaking ECAL s MAS in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship. The program focused on the major facets of branding and the creation of products and companies. Several other joint initiatives with IMD and ECAL are planned for the current and upcoming semesters. The current line-up of joint programs includes: Foundations of Business This three-day program is led by IMD Professors and is destined for students in ECAL s MAS in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship. Through practical exercises it focuses on familiarizing students with the creation of products and companies as well as the many facets of branding. Coaching IMD Professors provide personalized coaching, advising ECAL students on business projects the students undertake as part of their diploma and with a view to kick-start their careers. MBA Innovation Lab From 23 to 28 April, ECAL students and participants in the IMD MBA program work together on the Debiopharm Inartis Challenge, a competition organized to harness innovation and tackle a societal challenge: to improve the lives of healthcare patients. During the week, the IMD and ECAL students will explore the processes of creating new ideas, insight-gathering, prototyping and pitching. Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) On the occasion of IMD s signature program, Orchestrating Winning Performance from 25 to 29 June 2018, several graduates from ECAL will participate in discussions in the design thinking stream led by Cyril Bouquet and will focus on what business can learn from the art world. Professor Cyril Bouquet leads IMD s participation in the partnership and focuses on teaching innovation and design thinking notably in the MBA innovation Lab. Professor Stéphane J.G. Girod delivers teaching on the luxury industry and Prof. Professor Peter Vogel shares his expertise in entrepreneurship and start-ups. Other focuses include business model strategy, marketing and sustainability. Nicolas Le Moigne is in charge of the MAS in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship at ECAL. According to IMD President Jean-François Manzoni: “IMD is delighted to partner with ECAL. We look forward to sharing our expertise in areas such as innovation and entrepreneurship and to contributing to developing up-and-coming leaders in the art and design sector. We also warmly welcome ECAL s contribution and participation in several of our programs, including the MBA and our signature program OWP. Our region is rich in outstanding academic institutions and our growing interaction with several of them is extremely promising.” Alexis Georgacopoulos, ECAL s Director said: “I am glad to collaborate with such a prestigious institution as IMD, thus connecting two worlds, business and design, that are not always taught together at the academic level. “ IMD IMD is a top-ranked business school, expert in developing leaders, transforming organizations and creating positive, sustainable impact – immediate and long-term. We strive to ensure this impact is felt by the individual, the team and the entire organization. IMD is based in Lausanne, Switzerland and Singapore. www.imd.org ECAL Enjoying international renown and featuring regularly among the world s top ten universities of art and design, ECAL is directed by Alexis Georgacopoulos. The school currently offers six Bachelor programmes (Fine Arts, Cinema, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Media & Interaction Design, Photography), five Master programmes (Fine Arts, Film, Photography, Product Design, Type Design) and two Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship and in Design Research for Digital Innovation (with EPFL+ECAL Lab). ECAL also offers a one-year Foundation Course to prepare students for entrance to the different Bachelor s programmes. www.ecal.ch
ECAL – Ten Years in Renens,06.12.2017–16.02.2018,Gallery l elac To celebrate the 10th year anniversary of its arrival in its new building in Renens, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents an exhibition of the best projects created during this period by students from all fields of studies. Under the impulse of Pierre Keller (director from 1995 to 2011), ECAL took up residence in Renens in 2007 in the former premises of the IRIL factory, a building renovated by the Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi and the Fehlmann office in Morges. Ten years later, ECAL presents an exhibition of the best projects created during this period, emblematic of the various disciplines taught between its walls (Art Direction, Fine Arts, Cinema, Industrial and Product Design, Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship, Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design, Photography, Type Design). Alexis Georgacopoulos, Director of ECAL, and Heads of all Departments have selected nearly 300 projects from the harvest of a rich decade (1456 diplomas, 310 exhibitions, 655 awards, 100 collaborations), staged in a structure shaped as an X, imagined by Adrien Rovero and Béatrice Durandard, both graduates of the Bachelor Industrial Design. This is the perfect opportunity to see works that have contributed to the reputation of ECAL and perpetuated its international renown (5th Dezeen Hot List published late 2016, ranking the best schools of art and architecture in the world). The exhibition offers the opportunity to (re)discover among others: "Delirious Home", featuring a series of objects in a playful interpretation of the "smart home" concept (Award for the best show at the Milan Furniture Fair 2014). A wide selection of films including, award-winning films of the Locarno Film Festival. Many photos, posters and editions that went around the world as part of the exhibitions "ECAL Photography" and "ECAL Graphic Design". Paintings, videos, installations, drawings, attesting of the broad spectrum embraced by fine arts. Collaborations in design (industrial, product & luxury), which have marked the history of ECAL such as Alessi, Baccarat, Bernardaud, Christofle, Felco, Hermès, Hublot, Nespresso, Punkt., Scott or Vacheron Constantin. Various videos of Media & Interaction Design projects, proof of an expanding field of studies. Not to mention a hundred books and publications published by the school. ECAL – Ten Years in Renens From 7 December 2017 to 16 February 2018 (closed from 23 December 2017 to 9 January 2018). Wednesday to Friday, 1pm to 5pm ECAL & Gallery l elac 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens
ECAL Conference: Christian Patterson,15.11.2017,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: Christian Patterson – Photographer, New York Conférences ECAL (novembre 2017) A l occasion d une semaine de workshop avec les étudiants en Bachelor Photographie. Christian Patterson, photographe, New York Mercredi 15 novembre à 18 h, Auditoire IKEA, ECAL Bio (in english) Christian Patterson (b. 1972, Fond du Lac, WI) moved from Brooklyn, New York to Memphis, Tennessee in 2002 to work for photographer William Eggleston. In 2005, Patterson completed his first project, Sound Affects, a collection of color photographs that explore Memphis utilizing light and color as visual analogues to sound and music. In 2008, a Sound Affects monograph was published by Edition Kaune, Sudendorf (Cologne). His second monograph Redheaded Peckerwood was published by MACK in 2011 and was named one of the best books of the year by numerous noted international photography critics, nominated for the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards and won the prestigious 2012 Recontres d Arles Author Book Award. The book appeared in The Photobook: A History, Volume 3, co-edited by Gerry Badger and Martin Parr. In 2013, Patterson was awarded a 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, or Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2015, he won the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2015/2016. Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33 Mail : ecal@ecal.ch
ECAL at Dubai,13–18.11.2017,Dubai On the occasion of the Dubai Design Week from 13 to 18 November, ECAL participates in several events. GLOBAL GRAD SHOW With 7 projects, ECAL is proud to participate in the "Global Grad Show" of the Dubai Design Week, a world-first exhibition of the most innovative projects from world s leading design schools. Curated by Brendan McGetrick, "Global Grad Show" offers an overview of the issues and technologies that will shape the future. The "Global Grad Show" will take place in Building 6, Dubai Design District, 14 - 18 November 2017. Open to public from 10am - 10pm (7pm on Saturday). www.globalgradshow.com ---- DRAK 17 ECAL x REUGE As part of MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship, ECAL presents two collaborations with Reuge, the Swiss manufacturer of luxury music boxes. The Gallery - Design Ras Al Khor No. 7, Street 22a, Community 612, Ras Al Khor Industrial 1, Dubai - United Arab Emirates http://designrasalkhor.com/ ECAL x CHRISTOFLE As part of the MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship, ECAL presents a collaboration with Christofle, the French luxury goldsmith manufacture. Light House (restaurant) – Building No.6, Dubai Design District – Dubai - United Arab Emirates http://thelighthouse.ae/contact/ Conference Nicolas Le Moigne, head of MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship, will also give a lecture on 14 November at 6pm at The Light House. ---- DUBAI WATCH WEEK Alexis Georgacopoulos, Director of ECAL, will participate in two panel discussions on Friday 17 November at 2pm and 4pm on the following topics: MILLENNIAL WATCHMAKERS – CURRENT CONTRIBUTIONS IMPACTING WATCHMAKING INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY – INFLUENCING TRADITIONAL METHODOLOGIES https://www.dubaiwatchweek.com/event_type/horology-forum
ECAL at Mexico Design Week 2017,11–15.10.2017,Mexico City As part of the Mexico Design Week from 11 to 15 October 2017 and its special programme "Swiss Design Mexico 2017" organised by Francisco Torres (ECAL Bachelor Industrial Design graduate), ECAL and its alumni will benefit from numerous exhibitions and events. In addition to ECAL Graphic Design at the Centro de Cultura Digital (from 11 October to 8 December, cocktail on 12 October at 7.30pm), which presents works by Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Art Direction students, and a lecture by Alexis Georgacopoulos, ECAL Director, various ECAL alumni and professors will be featured. Therefore, Giacomo Bastianelli, Thilo Alex Brunner, Michel Charlot, Christophe Guberan, Bertille Laguet, Nicolas Le Moigne, Julie Richoz, Francisco Torres will participate in this event. In collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Mexico and Pro Helvetia. Download the programme! www.designweekmexico.com
Symposium Research in Art and Design at ECAL 10+10 Research in Art & Design at ECAL A symposium celebrating 10 years of Research in Art and Design Tuesday 10 October 2017, 8.00–18.30 IKEA Auditorium, ECAL, Renens www.researchday.ch Abstract On the occasion of the 10 years since the moving of ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne to its current premises in Renens and marking the 10th anniversary of the foundation of EPFL+ECAL Lab, ECAL hosted a symposium on Research in Art and Design, featuring artists, designers and scholars in these fields from all over the world, in conversation with ECAL faculty members. Program Welcome , Alexis Georgacopoulos, director, ECAL Introductory notes on Research in Art and Design in Switzerland , Davide Fornari, professor, ECAL Moderation, Vera Sacchetti, design critic, Basel Design Research: from Academia to the Real World Alba Cappellieri, professor, Politecnico di Milano, Milan in conversation with Nicolas Henchoz, director, EPFL+ECAL Lab Sophie Pène, vice president, Conseil National du Numérique, Paris in conversation with Davide Fornari, professor, ECAL Research Through Art and Design: Materials and Forms Xavier Veilhan, artist, Paris in conversation with Stéphanie Moisdon, professor, ECAL Fabio Gramazio, co-founder, Gramazio + Kohler Architects, Zurich in conversation with Patrick Keller, professor, ECAL Research Practices in Curating Art and Design Astrid Welter, head of programs, Fondazione Prada, Milan/Venice in conversation with Federico Nicolao, professor, ECAL The Future of Art and Design Research Roel Wouters, co-founder, Moniker, Amsterdam in conversation with Vincent Jacquier, professor, ECAL Skylar Tibbits, co-founder, MIT Self-Assembly Lab, Cambridge (MA) in conversation with Christophe Guberan, professor, ECAL Exhibition openings at Cinema Studio, Gallery l elac and EPFL+ECAL Lab • Caustics , curated by Mark Pauly, EPFL RAYFORM • Projects for Victorinox , curated by Thilo Alex Brunner • The Sausage of the Future , curated by Carolien Niebling • Augmented Photography , curated by Milo Keller • EPFL+ECAL Lab Research Land , curated by Nicolas Henchoz • Rapid Liquid Printing, curated by Christophe Guberan , MIT Self-Assembly Lab, Steelcase ECAL launched the book Making Sense: 10 Years of Research in Art and Design at ECAL on the occasion of the symposium . 10+10 Research in Art and Design at ECAL In collaboration with EPFL+ECAL Lab With the support of HES-SO Media partner: Disegno 10+10 Research in Art & Design at ECALA symposium celebrating 10 years of Research in Art and DesignTuesday 10 October 2017, 8.00–18.30IKEA Auditorium, ECAL, Renenswww.researchday.chAbstractOn the occasion of the 10 years since the moving of ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne to its current premises in Renens and marking the 10th anniversary of the foundation of EPFL+ECAL Lab, ECAL hosted a symposium on Research in Art and Design, featuring artists, designers and scholars in these fields from all over the world, in conversation with ECAL faculty members. ProgramWelcome, Alexis Georgacopoulos, director, ECALIntroductory notes on Research in Art and Design in Switzerland, Davide Fornari, professor, ECALModeration, Vera Sacchetti, design critic, BaselDesign Research: from Academia to the Real WorldAlba Cappellieri, professor, Politecnico di Milano, Milanin conversation with Nicolas Henchoz, director, EPFL+ECAL LabSophie Pène, vice president, Conseil National du Numérique, Parisin conversation with Davide Fornari, professor, ECALResearch Through Art and Design: Materials and FormsXavier Veilhan, artist, Parisin conversation with Stéphanie Moisdon, professor, ECALFabio Gramazio, co-founder, Gramazio + Kohler Architects, Zurichin conversation with Patrick Keller, professor, ECALResearch Practices in Curating Art and DesignAstrid Welter, head of programs, Fondazione Prada, Milan/Venicein conversation with Federico Nicolao, professor, ECALThe Future of Art and Design ResearchRoel Wouters, co-founder, Moniker, Amsterdamin conversation with Vincent Jacquier, professor, ECALSkylar Tibbits, co-founder, MIT Self-Assembly Lab, Cambridge (MA)in conversation with Christophe Guberan, professor, ECALExhibition openings at Cinema Studio, Gallery l elac and EPFL+ECAL Lab• Caustics, curated by Mark Pauly, EPFL RAYFORM• Projects for Victorinox, curated by Thilo Alex Brunner• The Sausage of the Future, curated by Carolien Niebling• Augmented Photography, curated by Milo Keller• EPFL+ECAL Lab Research Land, curated by Nicolas Henchoz• Rapid Liquid Printing, curated by Christophe Guberan, MIT Self-Assembly Lab, SteelcaseECAL launched the book Making Sense: 10 Years of Research in Art and Design at ECAL on the occasion of the symposium.10+10 Research in Art and Design at ECALIn collaboration with EPFL+ECAL LabWith the support of HES-SOMedia partner: Disegno
Symposium Research in Art and Design at ECAL,10.10.2017,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL 10+10 Research in Art & Design at ECAL – A symposium celebrating 10 years of Research in Art and Design 10+10 Research in Art & Design at ECAL Un symposium célébrant 10 ans de recherche à l ECAL Mardi 10 octobre 2017, 8.00–18.30 IKEA Auditorium, ECAL, Renens www.researchday.ch A l occasion des 10 ans du déménagement de l ECAL dans ses locaux actuels à Renens et marquant le 10e anniversaire de l EPFL+ECAL Lab, l ECAL organise un symposium sur la Recherche en Art et Design, mettant en vedette des artistes, des designers et des chercheurs dans ces domaines, en conversation avec les membres du corps professoral de l ECAL. Inscription gratuite via le formulaire RSVP www.researchday.ch En raison du nombre de places, le nombre d inscriptions est limité à 350. Programme (en anglais) 8.00–8.30 Registration 8.30–9.00 Welcome Alexis Georgacopoulos director, ECAL Introductory notes on Research in Art and Design in Switzerland Davide Fornari professor, ECAL Moderation Vera Sacchetti design critic, Basel Design Research: from Academia to the Real World 9.00–9.45 Alba Cappellieri professor, Politecnico di Milano, Milan in conversation with Nicolas Henchoz director, EPFL+ECAL Lab 9.45–10.30 Sophie Pène vice president, Conseil National du Numérique, Paris in conversation with Davide Fornari professor, ECAL 10.30–11.00 Coffee break Research Through Art and Design: Materials and Forms 11.00–11.45 Xavier Veilhan artist, Paris in conversation with Stéphanie Moisdon professor, ECAL 11.45–12.30 Fabio Gramazio co-founder, Gramazio + Kohler Architects, Zurich in conversation with Patrick Keller professor, ECAL 12.30–13.30 Lunch Research Practices in Curating Art and Design 13.30–14.15 Catherine Ince senior curator, Victoria and Albert Museum, London in conversation with Anniina Koivu professor, ECAL 14.15–15.00 Astrid Welter head of programs, Fondazione Prada, Milan/Venice in conversation with Federico Nicolao professor, ECAL 15.00–15.15 Coffee break The Future of Art and Design Research 15.15–16.00 Roel Wouters co-founder, Moniker, Amsterdam in conversation with Vincent Jacquier professor, ECAL 16.00–16.45 Skylar Tibbits co-founder, MIT Self-Assembly Lab, Cambridge (MA) in conversation with Christophe Guberan professor, ECAL 16.45 Closing remarks, panel discussion Alexis Georgacopoulos Vera Sacchetti Davide Fornari 17.30 Exhibition openings at Cinema Studio, Gallery l elac and EPFL+ECAL Lab Caustics, curated by Mark Pauly, EPFL RAYFORM Projects for Victorinox, curated by Thilo Alex Brunner The Sausage of the Future, curated by Carolien Niebling (preview) Augmented Photography, curated by Milo Keller (preview) EPFL+ECAL Lab Research Land, curated by Nicolas Henchoz Rapid Liquid Printing, curated by Christophe Guberan, MIT Self-Assembly Lab, Steelcase ECAL will launch the book Making Sense: 10 Years of Research in Art and Design at ECAL on the occasion of the symposium. 18.30 Cocktail 10+10 Research in Art and Design at ECAL In collaboration with EPFL+ECAL Lab With the support of HES-SO Media partner Disegno Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne 5, Avenue du Temple, Renens
ECAL x QWSTION at the Vienna Design Week,29.09–08.10.2017,QWSTION Store, Vienna A joint project between Swiss bag brand QWSTION and ECAL students of the Master Product Design programme, exploring ways of carrying and using the new sustainable and lightweight material CottonShell®. Ten prototypes have been selected for display at Vienna Design Week from 29 September to 8 October. Cocktail will be held on 4 October, 6-9pm. Images HD In the project led by Christian Paul Kaegi, Swiss Designer and Creative Director at QWSTION, the sustainably produced CottonShell® was the starting point for an extensive research. CottonShell® has so far been used for clothing only and its unique construction makes it water-resistant without the use of any coating. Questioning the norm, using straightforward materials and integrating functionality in effortless ways are the core brand values of QWSTION which completed the brief. The students engagement with both the QWSTION brand as well as the new material resulted in interesting new ideas and concepts going beyond the ordinary: a scarf with hidden pockets aims to challenge airline staff, a new method of protecting contents inspired by bubblewrap makes for minimal carry and a backpack with integrated rain coat tackles unpleasant weather surprises. From 29 September to 8 October Monday-Friday 11-7pm Saturday 11-6pm QWSTION Store Vienna Zieglergasse 38 1070 Vienna +43 1 522 20 64 www.qwstion.com www.viennadesignweek.at
IKEA Democratic Design Day 2017 at ECAL,22.09.2017,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL IKEA is working together with ECAL and the Ikea Foundation Switzerland to organise the Democratic Design Day 2017. IKEA is working together with ECAL and the Ikea Foundation Switzerland to organise the Democratic Design Day 2017 on 22 September 2017 from 9.30am to 5.30pm. Entitled The Future of Living at Home , the event will feature internationally renowned experts in design, architecture and sociology explaining how they are working on the future of private living spaces and the solutions they have developed to tackle the challenges that come with digitalisation and trying to follow a more sustainable way of life. The conference is being held in the IKEA Auditorium at ECAL. You can sign up at www.ikeaddd.ch . There are a limited number of seats available and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. You can find more information about the programme and the keynotespeakers at the previous address. Mario Bellini, Designer and architect, Milan Simonetta Carbonaro, Sociologist, Karlsruhe Kim Colin, Designer – Industrial Facility, London Matali Crasset, Designer, Paris Marcus Engman, Head Designer IKEA of Sweden Oliver Herwig, Journalist and author, Karlsruhe Antonio Scarponi, Architect and designer, Zurich Workshops Two workshops will run simultaneously on Thursday 21 September in the run-up to the Democratic Design Day. In cooperation with Design Prize Switzerland, they will examine and explore the issue of the ageing society – how designers can respond to this development and what concepts and methods they can use to create integrated, accessible products and services that span the generations. The second workshop deals with living off-grid. A team from the design department of IKEA of Sweden (IoS) invites you along to develop ideas for life that goes on outside of the networks. How do people live when they opt out for a while and seek both spatial and technological freedom? Where do these needs come from and what does it mean for their living space? You can sign up here for one of the two workshops. There are a limited number of places available: www.ikeaddd.ch ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens www.ecal.ch
The Sausage of the Future Can we count on the sausage to provide a solution, in order to reduce the consumption of meat? And can the use of new ingredients increase the diversity of our diets? Can the sausage make a considerable contribution to a sustainable food culture? To answer these questions, a chef of molecular gastronomy, a master butcher and a designer have teamed up to look into sausage production techniques and potential new ingredients – such as insects, nuts, and legumes – to reinvent the sausage of the future. The final publication Sausage of the Future takes the reader on a journey through all the building blocks of a sausage. It stops along the way to explore issues like moistness, flavoring, glue, and preservation. The publication catalogues different types of sausages and presents lesser-known ingredients, carefully selected for their potential regarding the future. In our days, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), we are facing a serious shortage of protein-rich-food. The reason is the overconsumption of animal products. Meat, in particular, will be scarce: thus, we need alternatives. The sausage is one of mankind s first-ever designed food items. A paragon of efficient butchery, it was originally designed to make the most of animal protein in times of scarcity. With its wide variety of sizes and its endless choice of possible fillings, the sausage offers itself again to take a pioneering role. This time, not only to make the most of animal protein, but to be a shell for all kinds of nutrition.Main applicantsECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (project leader)Research teamSupervision Mock-ups Gabriel Serero Herman ter Weele Graphic design and illustrations Helge Hjorth Bentsen Olli Hirvonen Photography Emile Barret Noortje Knulst Jonas MarguetPeriodmarch 2014 – november 2017Supported byECAL/University of Art and Design LausanneDisseminationPublication Carolien Niebling, The Sausage of the Future, Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2017. Exhibitions Design Parade, Hyères, Villa Noailles, June 30 – Sept 24, 2017. Hublot Design Miami, Miami, December 7, 2017. The Sausage of the Future, Milan, SaloneSatellite, April 4–9, 2017. WantedDesign, Brooklyn, May 17–21, 2018. Design Parade, Hyères, Villa Noailles, June 29 – September 23, 2018. Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Strijp, October 20 – 28, 2018. Food Revolution 5.0, Winterthur, Gewerbemuseum, December 2, 2018 – April 28, 2019 FOOD: Bigger than the plate, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, May 18 – October 10, 2019. Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, Milano, Triennale, March 01–November 09, 2019. Serial Eater, Hornu, CID Grand-Hornu, May 27 – November 29, 2020. Design Preis Schweiz, Langenthal, November 02 – 10, 2019. Awards Winner of Design Prize Switzerland (Research) – 2019 Winner of Norway s most beautiful books competition (Nonfiction) – 2018 Silver Hare (second prize) in Hochparterre s Die Besten (design and research category) – 2017 Winner of Hublot Design Prize – 2017 Winner of Design Parade Hyères Grand Prix at Villa Noailles – 2017 Press Penelope Vaglini, The Future Sausage, lofficielitalia.com, 11 mai 2017 Phillip Löwe, Wurst case scenario, Spiegel.de, 10 avril 2017 Emma Rawson, In search of the missing link: Tasting the future of sausage with Carolien Niebling, thisNZlife.co.nz, 12 Septembre 2019 Daphne Milner, Designer Carolien Niebling wants you to meet the meat we eat, itsnicethat.com, 25 Avril 2018 Spencer Bailey, How the Sausage Is Made, Literally, surfacemag.com, 30 décembre 2017 Alexander Kühn, Die Wurst der Zukunft, tagesanzeiger.ch, 7 décembre 2017 Dutch food designer Carolien Niebling on why the future of food might not be fake meat or veganism, but sausages, idealog.co.nz, 22 août 2019 Katharine Schwab, The Sausage Gets A Radical Redesign, Fastcompany.com, 4 juillet 2017 Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou, the future sausage by carolien niebling wins the design prize switzerland 2019, designboom.com, 2 novembre 2019 Ali Morris, Alternatives for meat consumption to be explored by ECAL during Milan design week, dezeen.com, 29 mars 2017 Conferences And the day after? lecture, TEDxGeneva, Geneva, March 22, 2018 Semi-Permanent, lecture, Semi-Permanent, Auckland, August 15, 2019 Design Indaba conference, lecture, Design Indaba, Cape Town, February 27, 2019 Future of Production, Panel talk, Global Design Forum at V&A, London, September 14, 2019 Sustainability by Design: Innovation for a Circular Economy, Panel talk, Swissnex, San Francisco, January 14, 2020
Erika Marthins – Déguster l augmenté What if we could augment our food? Would it be possible to experience a new dimension of a meal? This project is a desire to explore the potential of integrating data and storytelling in food. A proposition of expanding three desserts in a poetic way. A wedding of sound and chocolate, poetry and lollipop and animation and dessert. In collaboration with Chef Fabien Pairon Ecole hôtelière de lausanne, RayForm (Rayform light shaping technology), Jun Shintake Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (EPFL). Special thanks to: Michel Ferla (EHL), Dario Floreano Director of Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (EPFL).
Salomón Pérez – Broken story A director persists in continuing the filming he had begun while floods gradually destroy the Peruvian city. Fiction / 21 min Synopsis A director returns to his home town to shoot a fictional film about delinquency. During the revision of the sets the day before the shooting, he perceives a disturbance in the distance, in the mountains which surround the city. That night a heavy rain began to fall. In the days that follow, the torrent from the mountains causes rivers to overflow, destroying the city as well as the dream of his film.
Carlos Tapia – Satán Tiago goes everyday outside the house to feed the crocodile that killed his brother. Fiction / 17 min Synopsis Tiago feeds the crocodile that killed his brother. Spellbound by this crocodile called Satan, Tiago will go see him every day in his enclosure. As in a dream, the ghost of his brother Santi appears, Tiago will spend time with him before he disappears definitively. A symbolic tale about a boy who frees himself from a fatal curse, a weight borne by several family generations. Comment There is a little lord in his castle, like in Italo Calvino s stories. There is a threatening beast, defying men, like Buzzati s "K". There is a blond boy, with a rebellious look, too quiet to be innocent as in Pasolini. The vibrating air, the magnolias floating in the water, the procession of women who feed Satàn in his tropical lair, all of this takes us back to Mexico, that of Carlos Tapias. A mythical land where the dead speak to the living, where time is cold-blooded. Like that of a reptile. Lionel Baier / Director
Imanol Pittaluga – Enbata A young man, Iago, wakes up in a hospital waiting room and finds out that he now has to look after his 3yr old brother who he s never met. Fiction / 30 min Synopsis A young man, Iago, wakes up in a hospital waiting room and finds out that he now has to look after his 3yr old brother who he s never met. For a few hours, he s responsible for a life that s just beginning. In the middle of natural scenery, yet confronted by the real world, buffeted by gusts of wind and surrounded by abandoned ships and skeleton-like cranes, Iago realizes that life can come to an end. Comment The great success of the film is that it never loses sight of its narrative stakes, a young adult and a child who learn to discover each other, while slipping quietly into a more experimental region, which Imanol Pittaluga populates with dreamlike visions that are always inspired. This shift, through the play of time and the use of scenery, produces a troubling connection between these two characters even though they are long separated. This game of persistence of figures, as well as these two fascinating actors to watch simply walking, waiting for each other, turning around or getting lost, make all the strength of Embata. Thomas Salvador / Director
Patrick Muroni – Foulek Niels, a twenty-year-old young man, rediscovers a friend became professional rap artist. Fiction / 18 min Synopsis Overwhelmed by loneliness and the inertia of his country life, Niels, a twenty-year-old young man, does not endeavour to embellish his everyday life anymore. One day, a childhood friend is back in the village. She has become a professional rap artist. Niels both rediscovers his friend and her texts. Commentaire Foulek or the introspection of a young man in need of reference, whose "only homeland is rap." Patrick thus continues to question his relationship to the world through hard-hitting rhymes that mix violence, solitude and obstinacy, against a backdrop of romance. A bluffing direction of actor, a fragile thread that the director unrolls and holds from beginning to end, a film with a tense flow, like an intimate flow that reveals the fragility of this world of youth, where everything should still be possible.
Lora Mure-Ravaud – Blackjack Leila is a dealer at the casino and sleeps at the hotel. A room neighbor arrives and disturbs her daily routine. Fiction / 22 min Synopsis Leila, singularly androgynous, works at a casino, a predominantly male environment. Croupier at night, she returns to her hotel room early in the morning. Camil has just arrived at the hotel, and spends his days alone, disappearing in the morning and returning at nightfall. They are neighbours. Gradually, a mutual and silent attraction develops. Comment Blackjack takes up the challenge of a filmmaker s fascination for her main actress, the audacity of a story where incarnation is the key word. The confident gestures, the telling glances are accomplished in a montage of great elegance. This film, sincere and coherent, goes to the end of itself, to the end of its choices and its own grammar. Long after having seen it, the memory of Leila s look does not leave us and still opens the window to a thousand landscapes. Delphine Gleize / Scriptwriter and director
Grand Prix Design Parade to Carolien Niebling Congratulations to Carolien Niebling, Master Product Design graduate, won the Grand Prix (1st Prize) Design Parade (Hyères) at the Villa Noailles with a research project conducted at ECAL about the "Sausage of the Future". The jury was presided by Inga Sempé This project explores the design and taste of the future sausage, while critically discussing alternatives to meat consumption worldwide. The Grand Prix Design Parade consists of: a research scholarship of one year at Sèvres – Cité de la céramique a research scholarship of one year at CIRVA (International Glass and Arts Research Centre in Marseille, to create a vase. This vase will be produced in triplicate and will then become a part of the collections of the villa Noailles and of the CIRVA, one vase for the designer a grant of 5 000 euros given by Galerie kreo for a personal design project that could be represented by Galerie kreo a personal exhibition at the villa Noailles during Design Parade 13, in July 2018 a series of exhibitions in Europe in 2019 a personal exhibition at espace d art Le Moulin in La Valette-du-Var in July 2019. Exhibition until 24 Septembre at the Villa Noailles, Hyères www.villanoailles-hyeres.com http://carolienniebling.com/THE-FUTURE-SAUSAGE
«ECAL Graphic Design» at swissnex San Francisco,16.06–25.08.2017,swissnex San Francisco In collaboration with swissnex San Francisco, ECAL presents an exhibition of projects created by students of the Bachelor Graphic Design and the Master Art Direction. Images HD ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne has long been recognised as a world reference in terms of – amongst others – graphic design. Be it in designing books, catalogues, magazines or posters, typography or digital projects, ECAL students are able to embrace all fields of this discipline and to masterfully perform a wide variety of assignments. This success is largely based on a policy of workshops allowing them to learn from the best Swiss or international graphic designers directly on the school premises. With this in mind, ECAL has had the good fortune of welcoming in recent years leading figures such as Ludovic Balland, Bibliothèque, Mirko Borsche, Thomas Buxo, Veronica Ditting, Europa, Johann Kauth, Jürg Lehni, Ari Marcopoulos, Maximage, Young Na Kim, NORM, OK-RM, Brian Roettinger, Hansje van Halem, Cornel Windlin and Job Wouters aka Letman. The exhibition and book “ECAL Graphic Design” largely retraces projects conducted in the Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Art Direction courses over the past five years in the framework of these visits, but also of other courses which have contributed to the School s reputation. Edited by the Gavillet & Rust studio, the book revolves around a long succession of tracking shots in which projects are not classified in categories, but organised by colour. The exhibition design orchestrated by Adrien Rovero is based on the same concept, allowing a total flexibility of the exhibition. «ECAL Graphic Design» exhibition Exhibition from 16 June 2017 to 25 August 2017. swissnex San Francisco Pier 17, Suite 800, San Francisco California 94111 www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org Book "ECAL Graphic Design" Distributed by JRP|Ringier Collection Anthologies & Art Theory www.jrp-ringier.com Edited by: Angelo Benedetto, Lionel, Bovier, Vincent Devaud (Graphic design), Gilles Gavillet (Graphic design), Alexis Georgacopoulos Authors: Angelo Benedetto, Alexis Georgacopoulos, François Rappo Photography: Philippe Fragnière Technical specifications: Hardcover, 225 x 295 mm, 160 pages, 64 color images, English/French, March 2016 ISBN: 978-3-03764-455-3 Price: CHF 48 / EUR 40 / £ 30 / US 49.95
ECAL x QWSTION A joint project between Swiss bag brand QWSTION and ECAL students of the Master Product Design programme, exploring ways of carrying and using the new sustainable and lightweight material CottonShell®. In the project led by Christian Paul Kaegi, Swiss Designer and Creative Director at QWSTION, the sustainably produced CottonShell® was the starting point for an extensive research. CottonShell® has so far been used for clothing only and its unique construction makes it wa-ter-resistant without the use of any coating. Questioning the norm, using straightforward materials and integrating functionality in effortless ways are the core brand values of QWSTION which completed the brief. «A good answer is the result of the right question. I think it s a really important part of studying to keep questioning the status quo, of society, technology and their relation.» mentions Christian Paul Kaegi. The student s engagement with both the QWSTION brand as well as the new material resulted in interesting new ideas and concepts going beyond the ordinary: a scarf with hidden pockets aims to challenge airline staff, a new method of protecting contents inspired by bubblewrap makes for minimal carry, and a backpack with integrated rain coat tackles unpleasant weather surprises. A joint project between Swiss bag brand QWSTION and ECAL students of the Master Product Design programme, exploring ways of carrying and using the new sustainable and lightweight material CottonShell®.In the project led by Christian Paul Kaegi, Swiss Designer and Creative Director at QWSTION, the sustainably produced CottonShell® was the starting point for an extensive research. CottonShell® has so far been used for clothing only and its unique construction makes it wa-ter-resistant without the use of any coating. Questioning the norm, using straightforward materials and integrating functionality in effortless ways are the core brand values of QWSTION which completed the brief.«A good answer is the result of the right question. I think it s a really important part of studying to keep questioning the status quo, of society, technology and their relation.» mentions Christian Paul Kaegi.The student s engagement with both the QWSTION brand as well as the new material resulted in interesting new ideas and concepts going beyond the ordinary: a scarf with hidden pockets aims to challenge airline staff, a new method of protecting contents inspired by bubblewrap makes for minimal carry, and a backpack with integrated rain coat tackles unpleasant weather surprises.
Designing Writing symposium at ECAL,01–03.06.2017,ECAL, Renens Designing Writing – An editosensorial event at the crossroads of graphic design & literature and publishing & poetry Designing Writing June 1, 2, 3 – ECAL Schedule and more information: www.designingwriting.com is an editosensorial event at the crossroads of graphic design & literature and publishing & poetry is three days of conversations & propositions and production & distribution bringing together anthropologists, artists, authors, curators, graphic designers, historians, theorists, type designers, poets and publishers — voices speaking from the past or the present, both dead and alive is part of the eponymous ECAL research programme, investigating forms and modalities of writing to come is Reading at the ECAL Library with Fabrice Mabime is Assembling at the ECAL Printshop with Alexis Hominal, Simon Mager, Roman Seban is Liberating with Izet Sheshivari is Meditating at secret locations, secret schedule with Åbäke, Félicia Atkinson, Olivier Lebrun, Alice Vodoz & Eilean Friis-Lund is Talking at the IKEA Auditorium Sara De Bondt, Julia Born, Thierry Chancogne, Marcelline Delbecq, Pierre Déléage, Sophie Demay, Craig Dworkin, Christophe Jacquet, Christian Joschke, Robert Lzicar, Louis Lüthi, Philippe Millot, John Morgan, Camille Pageard, Muriel Pic, Manuel Raeder, François Rappo, Joanna Schaffer & Vincent Sahli is Meeting at the Gallery l elac future , Boabooks, Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, Cent Pages, Dent-De-Leone, Eastside Projects, Four Corners Books, Héros-Limite, Information as Material, Éditions Macula, Éditions Mix., Occasional Papers, OEI, Onomatopee, Paraguay Press, Presses du Réel, Primary Information, Rollo Press, Roma Publications, Section 7 Books, Shelter Press, Spector Books, Triest Verlag, Tombolo Presses, Ugly Duckling Presse is a project proposed by Alexandru Balgiu @designingwriting Schedule and more information: www.designingwriting.com ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne 5, avenue du Temple 1020 Renens, Switzerland www.ecal.ch
«Corps-concept» exhibition in collaboration with ECAL,21.05–19.11.2017,Maison d Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains “Corps-concept” is an exhibition that reflects on contemporary conceptions of the body that underpin numerous ideological movements, including transhumanism. Issues regarding the body-object, the body-draft, body-commodity and the anthropological consequences of these different “conceptional reductions” will be examined. The aim of the exhibition is to offer an unprecedented insight into our current utopias and on the technoscientific driving force that irrigates these. From 21 My to 19 November at the Maison d Ailleurs in Yverdon-les-Bains. Opening reception 21 May from 5pm. At the invitation of Marc Atallah, director and curator of the Maison d Ailleurs, first-year Bachelor degree Photography students at the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne tackled the very contemporary issue of transhumanism. For two semesters, they confronted this school of thought which advocates the advent of a new human being and contends that the progress of science and technology makes it possible to transcend human nature. The project was led by Natacha Lesueur, a French artist-photographer and teacher at the ECAL. This exhibition presents a selection of photographic and filmic works, reflecting the transdisciplinary training programme offered by the ECAL. By contrasting different visions on ways of shaping the humanity of tomorrow, these projects express the numerous controversies and debates regarding transhumanism, as well as its accompanying ideologies. Exhibition opens from 21 May to 19 November 2017 Tu-Sun 11am-6pm Maison d Ailleurs Place Pestalozzi 14 Case postale 945 1400 Yverdon-les-Bains T. : + 41 24 425 64 38 www.ailleurs.ch
"Corps-concept" Exhibition “Corps-concept” is an exhibition that reflects on contemporary conceptions of the body that underpin numerous ideological movements, including transhumanism. Issues regarding the body-object, the body-draft, body-commodity and the anthropological consequences of these different “conceptional reductions” will be examined. The aim of the exhibition is to offer an unprecedented insight into our current utopias and on the technoscientific driving force that irrigates these. From 21 My to 19 November at the Maison d Ailleurs in Yverdon-les-Bains. Opening reception 21 May from 5pm. At the invitation of Marc Atallah, director and curator of the Maison d Ailleurs, first-year Bachelor degree Photography students at the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne tackled the very contemporary issue of transhumanism. For two semesters, they confronted this school of thought which advocates the advent of a new human being and contends that the progress of science and technology makes it possible to transcend human nature. The project was led by Natacha Lesueur, a French artist-photographer and teacher at the ECAL. This exhibition presents a selection of photographic and filmic works, reflecting the transdisciplinary training programme offered by the ECAL. By contrasting different visions on ways of shaping the humanity of tomorrow, these projects express the numerous controversies and debates regarding transhumanism, as well as its accompanying ideologies. Exhibition opens from 21 May to 19 November 2017 Tu-Sun 11am-6pm 50% discount for ECAL students upon presentation of their legitimation card. Maison d Ailleurs Place Pestalozzi 14 Case postale 945 1400 Yverdon-les-Bains T. : + 41 24 425 64 38 www.ailleurs.ch “Corps-concept” is an exhibition that reflects on contemporary conceptions of the body that underpin numerous ideological movements, including transhumanism. Issues regarding the body-object, the body-draft, body-commodity and the anthropological consequences of these different “conceptional reductions” will be examined. The aim of the exhibition is to offer an unprecedented insight into our current utopias and on the technoscientific driving force that irrigates these. From 21 My to 19 November at the Maison d Ailleurs in Yverdon-les-Bains. Opening reception 21 May from 5pm. At the invitation of Marc Atallah, director and curator of the Maison d Ailleurs, first-year Bachelor degree Photography students at the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne tackled the very contemporary issue of transhumanism. For two semesters, they confronted this school of thought which advocates the advent of a new human being and contends that the progress of science and technology makes it possible to transcend human nature. The project was led by Natacha Lesueur, a French artist-photographer and teacher at the ECAL. This exhibition presents a selection of photographic and filmic works, reflecting the transdisciplinary training programme offered by the ECAL. By contrasting different visions on ways of shaping the humanity of tomorrow, these projects express the numerous controversies and debates regarding transhumanism, as well as its accompanying ideologies.Exhibition opensfrom 21 May to 19 November 2017Tu-Sun 11am-6pm50% discount for ECAL students upon presentation of their legitimation card.Maison d Ailleurs Place Pestalozzi 14 Case postale 9451400 Yverdon-les-Bains T. : + 41 24 425 64 38www.ailleurs.ch
ECAL Conference: David Reinfurt,15.05.2017,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference : David Reinfurt – Designer, author and publisher New York Conférences ECAL (mai 2017) Dans le cadre du projet de recherche Designing Writing à l ECAL, David Reinfurt présentera le travail qu il mène actuellement autour de machines et objets programmés inventés par Bruno Munari au milieu des années soixante, notamment lors de collaborations avec Danese et Olivetti. David Reinfurt, Designer, auteur et éditeur, New York – www.o-r-g.com Lundi 15 mai à 18 h, Auditoire IKEA, ECAL Par le biais de son studio O-R-G, David Reinfurt propose des solutions éditoriales digitales qui interrogent la technologie, le langage et le temps. Contributeur régulier à la passionnante revue Dot Dot Dot, il a co-fondé l atelier Dexter Sinister — librairie et structure éditoriale — avec le designer Stuart Bailey. Ces deux designers ont initié, en 2012, la structure The Serving Library, à la fois publication périodique écran et papier, mais également espace d exposition d édition et de rencontres basé à Liverpool. Il enseigne régulièrement à Princeton University et est également intervenu (entre autres) à Yale, Columbia et RISD. En 2016, il a reçu le prix Mark Hampton Rome, devenant ainsi membre de l American Academy à Rome pour 2017. Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33 Mail : ecal@ecal.ch
ECAL Conference: Peter Knapp,26.04.2017,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: Peter Knapp – Art director, photographer, artist, graphic designer, filmmaker, Paris Conférences ECAL (avril 2017) A l occasion d une semaine de workshop avec les étudiants en Bachelor Photographie. Peter Knapp, Directeur artistique, photographe, artiste, designer graphique, cinéaste, Paris Mercredi 26 avril à 18 h, Auditoire IKEA, ECAL Né en 1931 à Bäretswil (Suisse), Peter Knapp commence par suivre les cours de l Ecole des arts et métiers de Zurich. En 1952, il décide de s installer à Paris où il peint, encouragé notamment par Robert Rauschenberg et Barnett Newmann. Egalement photographe de mode, il exerce en tant que directeur artistique de Elle jusqu en 1978. Il continue ensuite à travailler pour des publications telles que le Sunday Times, Vogue ou Stern. Touche-à-tout de génie, il a aussi redessiné le logo des Galeries Lafayettes et réalisé de nombreux documentaires et émissions télévisuelles, dont le célèbre Dim, Dam, Dom. Multi-récompensé, son talent a été salué par près d une vingtaine de médailles du Art Directors Club International. Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33 Mail : ecal@ecal.ch