Located in Saint-Aubin near the lake of Neufchatel, the former Novartis 'Centre de Recherches Animale' is a hidden gem of a Swiss version of Metabolism architecture or even an early attempt at 'design for deconstruction'. Designed by Jakob Zweifel & Heinrich Strickler, who designed the main building of the EPLF campus as well, the whole installation has recently been bought by the Canton of Fribourg seemingly just for the price of the land. Does this mean that the construction and equipment have no value? Through this workshop, we will explore this site in close collaboration with EPFL students, and face the challenge of developing a spectacular and charming communications campaign that can demonstrate the value of the site, beyond the land.

Brief:
Renaud Haerlingen

Student Team:

Photography:

As part of this workshop, the students were invited to contemplate “the perfect crime” and …

Brief:
Cristina Ricupero

M1 Student Team:
Aydin-Gursel Bakir, Capucine Bily, Jean-Marc Cnockaert, Clement Diaz, Rita Hajj, Nina Hemmerijckx, Melina Johnsen, Naoyuki Kiyota, Blanche Lafarge, Laure Mahnes, Alicja Milesi, Mihailo Mošesku, Aline Nava, Marianne Noren, Eleonora Pizzini, Shiwa Tseng, Maia Vaillant.

This week-long workshop with Belgian graphic designers, Jan en Randoald, explored the neologism, “alternative facts” a term coined by Kellyanne Conway in the wake of Donald J. Trump’s inauguration in January of 2017.

Brief:
Jan Hespeel and Randoald Sabbe of Jan en Randoald

Assistants:
Mathias Zieba and Oliver Graney 

M1 Student Team:
Aydin-Gursel Bakir, Capucine Bily, Jean-Marc Cnockaert, Clement Diaz, Rita Hajj, Nina Hemmerijckx, Melina Johnsen, Naoyuki Kiyota, Blanche Lafarge, Laure Mahnes, Alicja Milesi, Mihailo Mošesku, Aline Nava, Marianne Noren, Eleonora Pizzini, Shiwa Tseng, Maia Vaillant.

From the British slang, Razzle means to go out, celebrating with friends. But Razzle can also refer to the “razzle dazzle” or “dazzle painting”, a camouflage made by a complex pattern of geometric shapes in contrasting colours. Landing on Razzle is an event machine, a space inspired by natural habitat converted into simplified geometry, a structure able to contain and become an event by itself.

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M1 Student Team:
Aydin-Gursel Bakir, Capucine Bily, Jean-Marc Cnockaert, Clement Diaz, Rita Hajj, Nina Hemmerijckx, Melina Johnsen, Naoyuki Kiyota, Blanche Lafarge, Laure Mahnes, Alicja Milesi, Mihailo Mošesku, Aline Nava, Marianne Noren, Eleonora Pizzini, Shiwa Tseng, Maia Vaillant.

Brief:
Tristan Kobler (Holzer Kobler Architekten)

Tutor Team:
Arno Mathies

Assistants:
Mathias Zieba and Oliver Graney.

Le workshop « Rituel » a été dirigée par matali crasset entourée du céramiste David Louveau et du département CERCCO de la HEAD - Genève.

Durant 3 semaines les étudiants en Master 1 ont imaginé un rituel et conçu ses outils pour le mettre en pratique. Le workshop s’est finalisé à la Loge Boursault ou les étudiants ont construit un espace commun pour y pratiquer leurs rituels.

Brief:
Matali Crasset

M1 Student Team:
Aydin-Gursel Bakir, Capucine Bily, Jean-Marc Cnockaert, Clement Diaz, Rita Hajj, Nina Hemmerijckx, Melina Johnsen, Naoyuki Kiyota, Blanche Lafarge, Laure Mahnes, Alicja Milesi, Aline Nava, Marianne Noren, Eleonora Pizzini, Shiwa Tseng, Maia Vaillant.

Eisenstein argued that there were two kinds of approach to montage: Linkage, the idea of continuity of action / narration; and Conflict, the juxtaposition of shots with the aim of generating a different or new idea. "Physical Edition" offers the opportunity to seek alternative interpretations of film to those suggested by the images themselves. Montage is ultimately a device that allows us to compress time and space in order to tell a story.

If we break the space and experience of cinema we find ourselves in a new relationship with montage. 'Montage' becomes a way we experience the film. Montage becomes physical / material and controlled by the viewer who no longer experiences the film in a passive way but has to interact with the materiality of both film and space. "Physical Edition" is therefore an open-ended pursuit, one which should engage and promote conflict as an ongoing agenda rather than as a linear stream of images whose sequentiality cannot be guaranteed.

Montage is Conflict_Sergei Eisenstein_1929 and the film Alphaville_Jean Luc Godard_1965"

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Brief:
El Ultimo Grito (Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo)

Assistant: 

M1 Student Team:
Aydin-Gursel Bakir, Capucine Bily, Jean-Marc Cnockaert, Clement Diaz, Rita Hajj, Nina Hemmerijckx, Melina Johnsen, Naoyuki Kiyota, Blanche Lafarge, Laure Mahnes, Alicja Milesi, Mihailo Mošesku, Aline Nava, Marianne Noren, Eleonora Pizzini, Shiwa Tseng, Maia Vaillant.

The Hermès creative laboratory known as “Petit h” entrusted the students of MA Space and Communication with the task of imagining and realising their own ephemeral Petit h sale at their Geneva boutique. Each item in the Petit h line of products is unique and the unique product of collaborations with different artists and designers. These individual objects are crafted from recycled materials left over from the production line of the luxury goods brand. From the invitation cards to the showcases, from the films to the scenography, the students of the MA Spaces & Communication designed a total project to present the new Petit h objects under the spell of cinema, recreating its magic through the exploration of the technical codes of film production studios: the technicolor showcases adopt the 16: 9 format, the tubular structures echo the boxes of the silent inter-titles, the ubiquitous blue evokes the color of the special effects studios, an immersive corridor invites us to blend into the downy and abstract expanses of film — taking each visitor behind the scenes of a film production studio where objects become actors, stuntmen, explorers, as the ultimate heroes of a film of adventures.

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Brief:
Alexandra Midal

Tutor Team:
Arno Mathies, Felipe Ribon

Student Team:
Shu-Hua Chang, Emma Pflieger, Sergio Jaramillo Buitrago, Anne Dousset, Julien Baiamonte, Pierre Barada, Damien Duparc, Elodie Wismer, Laure Manhes.

Photography: Michel Giesbrecht