The Technology Center is the place to be for deep learning (AI), augmented reality, virtual or mixed reality, the use of medical sensors, motion tracking, photogrammetry, access to the platforms of the leading providers of applications for smartphones and touchscreen tablets, home automation, robotics, projection mapping software and more.
BA Graphic Design
BA Media & Interaction Design
BA Photography
The aim of the Technology Center is to become the central location for a set of infrastructures linked to the teaching and practice of technology.
Today's digital age has radically changed the way we work, and the ECAL, in its constant quest for excellence, must always be at the cutting edge.
Over the last few years, we've noticed that all the training courses we offer in our institution make increasing use of a variety of technologies. These sometimes take the form of creative tools, but are also indispensable as support for the projects themselves.
The pedagogical results obtained today are already very promising, but a number of parameters can still considerably enhance the quality of the use of these technologies. We need to gather, promote and perpetuate this know-how.
Today, we also have the opportunity to create more links with innovative industries in our region, and would like to bring together key players from outside the school to conduct applied design research with our students.
Vincent Jacquier , Head of Visual Communication
Confidentiality An enclosed space, the ECAL Technology Center allows a high level of confidentiality as well as a productive work environment.
Visibility Logo and name recognition of your organisation as a partner on all ECAL communication materials and channels related to the collaboration.
Accessibility Invitations to various private and public events at ECAL and a private guided tours of ECAL facilities for your organisation.
If you wish to have more information, please get in touch.
We are looking for partner institutions who would like to:
Make their unique technologies/products available to our students, teaching assistants and professors for experimentation and/or use in concrete projects. Explore innovative applications for their proprietary technologies/products through workshop (week-long project) or a semester’s project (2-4 months).
If you wish to be part of this adventure, please get in touch.
with Julien Gurtner, Vincent Jacquier, Matthieu Minguet, Anthony Guex
As part of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the canton of Vaud has commissioned ECAL to create an original work of art, on view from July 24 to September 8 in the Maison suisse set up for the occasion in the courtyard of the Swiss Embassy in Paris.
EXHIBITIONS
Artist Christian Marclay, invited to delve into the Photo Elysée collections in 2021, has explored the thousands of faces recorded by the museum’s Photomaton. With him, ECAL’s photography students have pored over, scanned and transformed the conserved prints.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
PHOTOGRAPHY
with Charlotte Krieger, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Florian Pittet (Sigmasix), Vincent Jacquier, Julien Gurtner, Matthieu Minguet, Cédric Duchêne, EPFL+ECAL Lab, Giacomo Bastianelli
For a week, the first-year visual communications students worked on an installation consisting of 15 screens, accompanied by a 360° sound system developed by EPFL+ECAL Lab. This chandelier, five metres in diameter and suspended from a height of three metres, served as a support for their experiments. Using music specially composed and spatialised for the occasion, the students explored the dynamics of sound both visually and in movement.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
PHOTOGRAPHY
with Vincent Jacquier, Angelo Benedetto, Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Clément Rouzaud
In collaboration with the HYPEROUEST music festival, ECAL students were given the opportunity to design a visual installation in the room adjacent to the festival's ephemeral club, located on the Veillon wasteland in Crissier. For this project, 1st-year students worked in groups, mixing Bachelors in Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design and Photography. Their main objective was to create powerful and creative visual sequences around the central theme of "HYPER". At the same time, second-year students in the Graphic Design option enriched this project by developing the exhibition's visual identity. These interdisciplinary collaborations stimulated exchanges and encouraged visual cohesion, connecting the different ideas and reinforcing the "laboratory" and experimental aspect of the project.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
PHOTOGRAPHY
with Sami Benhadj, Vincent Jacquier
An immersive and magnetic visual environment, created by ECAL students, illuminates the facades of the mudac and Photo Elysée building. As part of an interdisciplinary project within the Visual Communication department of ECAL, students in the Photography, Graphic Design and Media & Interaction Design Bachelors programs developed immersive video projects designed to adorn the facades of Photo Elysée.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with La Poste, Vincent Jacquier, Angelo Benedetto
For the Swiss Post Office, students from ECAL's Bachelor Graphic Design and Bachelor Media & Interaction Design are creating a postage stamp based on artificial intelligence. Thanks to augmented reality, Metascape transports Swiss Post users into an imaginary and poetic universe on the way to a destination that remains elusive.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet, Andrea Anner, Thibault Brevet, Martin Hertig
Robotic arms have long been a common sight in many industries. They are currently making a rapid entry into art and design studios and practices. Yet, at the same time, difficulties remain in accessing the workflows and work methods demanded by these machines given a clear lack of reference resources suited for this community. The same applies to Art and Design schools, which are increasingly investing in this type of equipment, often without having the resources to run it. This research project uses applied case studies to explore and define a set of exemplary work methods, capable of both informing and inspiring future users.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet, Mario Von Rickenbach
Using a mixed reality headset, the students used their surroundings as playground. Through creative gestures, each experiment proposes a way of interacting with the environment.
Virtual Reality Room
Room BA Media & 
ELECTRONICS WORKSHOP EPFL+ECAL LAB