2019
M2 Thesis
Director :
Alexandra Midal
Tutors Team:
Damien Delille, Sébastien Quequet, and Sonia Savoye de Pineuf
Jury president
Etienne Tornier
M2 PRACTICE PROJECT
Directors:
Rosario Hurtado and Arno Mathies
M2 Practice Project Team:
Enrique Corrales, Conny Freyer, Maarten Gielen, Malak Mebkhout, Dominic Robson, David Roux-Fouillet and Noam Toran
External Jury:
Rosario Telavi, August Scott de Martinville
Jury President:
Nina Due
Photography Credits:
Michel Giesbrecht, Raphaelle Mueller, Baptiste Coulon
Team:
Rosario Hurtado, Arno Mathies, Alexandra Midal, Ruedi Baur, Dominic Robson, Emma Pflieger, Oliver Graney
Collaborators:
James Auger, Simon Aylin, Alexandre Burdin, Pascal Berger, Jeremie Cerman, Thierry Chancogne, Matali Crasset, Enrique Corrales, Damien Delille, François Dumas, Nina Due, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Conny Freyer, El Ultimo Grito, Maarten Gielen, Salomé Guillemin-Poeuf, Alexandre Humbert, Tristan Kobler, Ulrich Lehmann, Oscar Lhermitte, Malak Mebkhout, Metahaven, Alice Motard, Eleonora Pizzini, Joseph Popper, Laura Potter, Sébastien Quequet,Sitraka Rakotoniaina, Thierry Riverdin, David Roux Fouillet, Vera Sacchetti, Yosuke Sakai, Sonia Savoye de Pineuf, Mathias Schweizer, Fabio Stefanoni, Rosario Talevi, Noam Toran, Etienne Tornier Yarza Twins, Pierre Vonnet, Jasia Warren, William Waren, Erich Weiss, Nick Williamson, Daniel Zamarbide, Mathias Zieba, Julien Zorzin
M2 Student Team:
Aydin Gursel Bakir, Lucile Burnier, Maeva Dubrez, Arnaud Chappuis, Sofie Deckers, Béatriz Granado, Chun Hua Chien, Léa Debernardi Burnand, Jessica-Maria Nassif, Jeanne Pasquet, Helena Bosch Vidal, Lilia Petrov, Narges Bagheri, Netillo Rojas
M1 Student Team:
Cecilia Aubouy, Samy Bouard-Cart, Sulliane Bressoud, Valentine Clot, Fatou Dravé, Elena Galleani d’Agliano, Margaux Janin, Philomène Le Baron, Amandine Lecuyer, Jozef Masarik, Ségolène Nicolazic, Maximilien Pellegrini, Johan Rosset, Pau Saiz, Claire Terraillon
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS HERE
Workshop with Jasia and William Warren
Brief:
Jasia and William Warren
Tutor Team:
Arno Mathies
Assistants:
Emma Pflieger, Oliver Graney
M1 Student Team:
Cecilia Aubouy, Samy Bouard-Cart, Sulliane Bressoud, Valentine Clot, Fatou Dravé, Elena Galleani d’Agliano, Margaux Janin, Philomène Le Baron, Amandine Lecuyer, Jozef Masarik, Ségolène Nicolazic, Maximilien Pellegrini, Johan Rosset, Pau Saiz, Claire Terraillon
M2 Student Team:
Aydin Gursel Bakir, Lucile Burnier, Maeva Dubrez, Arnaud Chappuis, Sofie Deckers, Béatriz Granado, Chun Hua Chien, Léa Debernardi Burnand, Jessica-Maria Nassif, Jeanne Pasquet, Helena Bosch Vidal, Lilia Petrov, Narges Bagheri, Netillo Rojas
Photography: Jasia Warren and Students
21st century design moves and operates beyond image and objects to encompass any sensory medium that affect experience and emotion.
This project suggests ‘research' as a device that can help develop a project outside each individual designer’s ability. It will be about active/productive research as much as about exploring the means by which to produce a live event in a public space, thus generating a memory that will become part of the very history that you would have been researching.
The title 'Everything that happens here’ sets a boundary within which all information, people, objects and ideas, past and present, are fair game.
DINNER DIALOGUE
with El Último Grito
Brief:
El Ultimo Grito
Assistants:
Emma Pflieger
M1 Student Team:
Cecilia Aubouy, Samy Bouard-Cart, Sulliane Bressoud, Valentine Clot, Fatou Dravé, Elena Galleani d’Agliano, Margaux Janin, Philomène Le Baron, Amandine Lecuyer, Jozef Masarik, Ségolène Nicolazic, Maximilien Pellegrini, Johan Rosset, Pau Saiz, Claire Terraillon
Photography / Video:
Students
DESIGN TO TRANSLATE TRADITIONAL CULTURE
Workshop with Arno Mathies and Yosuke Sakai
The objective of this trip is to create new design opportunities between unique and rare craftsmen of the region of Kyoto with BA (Kyoto) and freshly graduated MA (Head-Geneva) design students. This project is initiated by Yosuke Sakai, professor at the KUAD (Kyoto university of Art & Design) who wishes to endorse these collaborations with guest universities such as HEAD–Geneva and the Royal College of Art. The project presents a particular interest in regenerating our already established exchange with BA students of the KUAD.
The project will not end with the creation of objects but lead to an exhibition with the opportunities to endorse the creations/objects of the students with these different craftsmen. This is still in negotiation and a strategy to create a type of business plan/strategy is being discussed.
Brief:
Arno Mathies, Yosuke Sakai
Tutor Team:
Arno Mathies
Student Team:
Netillo Rojas, Jeanne Pasquet, Helena Bosch Vidal
WORKSHOP AT HEAD WITH YOSUKE SAKAI
Workshop with Yosuke Sakai
The students of the MA Space and Communication participated in a workshop with the Japanese designer, Yosuke Sakai
PRISON INSIDERS
Workshop with Ruedi Baur
Brief:
Ruedi Baur, Caroline Bernard, Heder Neves, Damien Guichard
Team:
Arno Mathies
Assistants:
Emma Pflieger, Oliver Graney
M1 Students:
Cecilia Aubouy, Samy Bouard-Cart, Sulliane Bressoud, Valentine Clot, Fatou Dravé, Elena Galleani d’Agliano, Margaux Janin, Philomène Le Baron, Amandine Lecuyer, Jozef Masarik, Ségolène Nicolazic, Maximilien Pellegrini, Johan Rosset, Pau Saiz, Claire Terraillon
Photography / Video:
Students
Brief
(DIGITAL) TIME, (DIGITAL) PLACE
with Metahaven
Brief
Brief:
Metahaven
Tutor Team:
Arno Mathies
Assistants:
Emma Pflieger
M1 Student Team:
Cecilia Aubouy, Samy Bouard-Cart, Sulliane Bressoud, Valentine Clot, Fatou Dravé, Elena Galleani d’Agliano, Margaux Janin, Philomène Le Baron, Amandine Lecuyer, Jozef Masarik, Ségolène Nicolazic, Maximilien Pellegrini, Johan Rosset, Pau Saiz, Claire Terraillon
Film:
Students
(Digital) Time, (Digital) Place is an assignment to create a five minute moving iamge piece from a very specific, and limited, starting point. A moment, and/or a place which become the begging of a trajectory. In an age where everyone can produce video, and CGI makes everything possible visually, limitations somehow become crucial again. We are inviting students to “sense” what kind of subject matter they are investigating instead of pre-reasoning about their concept and thus what their video should be. At the same time, no place or time exist in isolation as point of both are linked spatially and temporarlly to other places and time, which can be expended upon in a visual piece. So, we are not talking about a genius loci, but simply about the possibility of encountering, sensing, a place or a time and it’s external links.
FILM BY DESIGNER
with Alexandra Midal et Alexandre Himbert
Brief:
Alexandra Midal
Tutor Team:
Alexandre Himbert, Arno Mathies, Pierre Vonet, Mathias Zieba
Assistants:
Emma Pflieger
M1 Student Team:
Cecilia Aubouy, Samy Bouard-Cart, Sulliane Bressoud, Valentine Clot, Fatou Dravé, Elena Galleani d’Agliano, Margaux Janin, Philomène Le Baron, Amandine Lecuyer, Jozef Masarik, Ségolène Nicolazic, Maximilien Pellegrini, Johan Rosset, Pau Saiz, Claire Terraillon
Film:
Students
Palm Springs est l’incarnation par excellence du design moderniste qu’elle accueille chaque année pour le célébrer. Melant l’« Architecture du désert » au cinéma. Sur un tout petit périmètre, elle comprend des dizaines de maisons signées Wright Jr ; Cody, Lautner, etc. et des réalisations exceptionnelles de l’architecte suisse Albert Frey influencé par le Bauhaus et De Stijl. A deux heures des studios d’Hollywood, Palm Springs fut un lieu de villégiature pour acteurs de l’âge d’or des studios leur permettant de revenir dans les studios faire des ajustements de dernière minute.
Le film de designer en pleine expansion jouit d’une existence parallèle avec le design industriel, proposant un design des marges hors des lois du marché. Grâce au médium film, le design n’est plus corseté à la seule production d’objets et de services, à un débat entre artisanat, savoir-faire et industrialisation entre unicité et standardisation, entre luxe et commodities, il a opéré un glissement de la fonction et de la norme industrielle, vers la fiction.
Essentiellement dirigés par des femmes jusqu’en 1929, jusqu’à la transformation du « cinéma du diable » en industrie, les films sont réalisés dès l’origine en Californie où le temps est clément et la lumière abondante. Le paysage américain, et l’horizon, constituent les premiers studios en plein air du « cinéma premier », et le western, un genre typiquement américain utilise les vastes étendues des déserts et parcs naturels made in USA.
Ce projet s’inscrit à la suite du workshop théorique « Film et Design : Beyond Objects » du semestre 1, dans le cadre du Festival du film invisible du MA Space & Com, et dans un futur projet commun de recherche du MA avec Parsons School of Design, Kingston University et Sci-Arc.
MAKING FICTIONS
Workshop with Joseph Popper and Sitraka Rakatonoia
Brief:
Joseph Popper
Tutor Team:
Sitraka Rakatonoia
Assistant:
Oliver Graney
Student Team:
Andrea Abderhalden, David Amaral, Tiki Bordin, Sulliane Bressoud, Mathilde Dumait, Bruno Figueiredo, Amandine Lecuyer, Jozef Eduard Masarik, Mikhail Rojkov, Caroline Savary, Lucas Secco.
Outer space offers a different scale and perspective for exploring Earth-related issues and shaping understandings of the “real world”. However, only 12 men have stood on the Moon and only around 540 people have ever been to space. For the rest of us, experiencing this outer space perspective depends on imagery and fiction, poetic leaps and artistic choices. And yet, concerning outer space exploration and industry today, there remains a singular, dominating, Apollo-era imagination of what space and humanity are. How can this be disrupted, and how can human futures in outer space and on Earth be reimagined in new ways?
Through making, imagery and storytelling, your task is to produce a short film describing your personal vision of a human future in outer space. These two weeks are based on collaboration, experimentation and hands-on production. By developing ideas together and materialising scenarios in different media, we will explore what outer space can mean as humans reach further into the cosmos. Be inventive in imagining and making outer space on Earth, manipulating materials to shift our perspectives “off-planet”.
Working at 1:1 scale, you will iterate hi-res props and environments which embody and simulate aspects of your space visions. These artefacts will then be animated and documented on film – where different actors bring your science fictions to life. This workshop is a chance to practice methods of world building, developing narratives, 1:1 scale prototyping and filmmaking in a playful, hands-on atmosphere. We focus on different ways to develop your visions and communicate complex ideas in engaging ways. It is also an opportunity to engage with outer space as a place for speculating on different ideas of human futures and Earth-Space relations.
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ZIGZAG AT CENTQUATRE
Workshop with matali Crasset
Brief:
matali Crasset
Team:
Arno Mathies
Assistant:
Emma Pflieger
M1 Student Team:
Cecilia Aubuoy, Philomene le Baron, Sulliane Bressoud, Samy Bouard-Cart, Valentine Clot, Fatou Drave, Elena Galleani D’Agliano, Amandine Lecuyer, Jozef Masarik, Segolene Nicolazic, Maximillien Pellegrini, Johan Rosset, Pau Saiz, Claire Terraillon, Seda Turk.
Le projet propose une intervention dans le 104 à Paris et plus particulièrement pour la maison des petits de ce lieu. Dans la continuité de son espace intérieur, Nicole Roux et son équipe souhaite installer une BASSE COUR ARTY URBAINE.
A l’image des parties pris pour accueillir les enfants et les parents à l’intérieur, cet espace extérieur sera une oeuvre d’art qui permet d’orir aux enfants citadins l’opportunité de faire la rencontre directe, simple et merveilleuse avec le vivant dans un lieu portant un projet artistique et culturel pour tous au sein d’une architecture remarquable.
Le projet de la basse-cour a pour principale vocation de renforcer le lien entre la nature et l’homme au coeur de la cité.
Le concept d’une basse-cour arty et urbaine appelle à être pensé pour un public jeune an de lui permettre, dans la réalité, d’éprouver son rapport à la nature, au vivant. Le dispositif léger d’une basse-cour dans la ville favorise la découverte de la nature et, de manière concomitante, la découverte de soi.











TENSION AND PRESSURE
with Tristan Kobler and Arno Mathies
Working with Tristan Kobler and Arno Mathies you will go through the experience of how TO DEVISE A BRIEF with two constraints: Pressure and Tension.
Students will be divided into two groups. Each group will work with one constraint.
Brief:
Tristan Kobler & Arno Mathies
Assistant
Emma Pflieger
M1 Student Team:
Cecilia Aubuoy, Philomene le Baron, Sulliane Bressoud, Samy Bouard-Cart, Valentine Clot, Fatou Drave, Elena Galleani D’Agliano, Amandine Lecuyer, Jozef Masarik, Segolene Nicolazic, Maximillien Pellegrini, Johan Rosset, Pau Saiz, Claire Terraillon, Seda Turk
Photography:
Students
Pressure
Pressure
CONGRESS OF SPOONS
Workshop and exhibition for Milan Design Week
Objects: love them or hate them, they fascinate us. Congress of spoons explores the narrative power of objects and our relationship with them through a series of cabinets, performances and storylines.
Expanding on the graduation project of Eleonora Pizzini and directed by Rosario Hurtado (El Ultimo Grito), Arno Mathies, Malak Mebkhout and Nick Williamson, the students of HEAD-Genève, MA Space & Communication, investigate the obsessive, uncomfortable and shifting role of objects in our society.
Brief:
Tutor Team:
Rosario Hurtado, Arno Mathies, Dominic Robson, Nick Williamson
Assistants:
Emma Pflieger and Oliver Graney
Student Team:
Helena Bosch Vidal, Beatriz Granado, Lucile Burnier, Maeva Dubrez, Salome Guillemin, Sofie Lutgart-Deckers, Jeanne Pasquet, Netillo Rojas, Malak Mebkhout, Nao Kiyota, Eleonora Pizzini, Julian Baiamonte, Emma Pflieger, Oceane Izard, Maia Vaillant
CAMALEÓN
INESTABLES: UN MEUBLE QUI CONSTRUIT UN ESPACE
Summer School in Chile, with Simon Husslein, Valentin Dubois, Nicolás Hernandez, Yerko Tank
Brief:
Javier F. Contreras
Tutor Team:
Simon Husslein, Valentine Dubois
Student Team:
Valentine Clot, Pau Saiz, Samy Bouard-Cart, Jozef Eduard Masarik, Fatou Drave
CAMALEÓN is a meditation on how Mirailles’ Mesa Ines Table can adapt to various spaces. The project was inspired by the designer’s own words: “It [the table] responds to a concept of repetition and constant transformation.” We played with the different combinations and compositions the table could provide the viewers through a series of visuals. It can morph into a bird, a piano, a plane… depending on its surroundings, also highlighting the Ines Table’s quality of mobility. Our process was guided by intuition following specific locations we discovered around the Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD) campus in Santiago de Chile.
A collaborative project between HEAD x UDD students: Valentine Clot, Fatou Dravé, Consuelo Vildosola and Daniela Castillo Casanova