Media Design Masters programme at LIFT with CERN

Wednesday 28 January 2015

Centre international de conférence (CICG)
17 Rue du Varambé, Genève
From February 2nd until February 4th 2015

For the fifth edition of a fruitful partnership with the Lift conference, the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) exhibits the outcome of a project devised by HEAD’s Masters in Media Design and CERN’s IdeaSquare. Within this collaborative workshop, the students have been able to explore how designers could work with scientists to expose and communicate the science emerging from CERN and the potential futures they could offer. The outcomes of the project are on display during Lift15 next to works from Masters students, including graduation projects and recent prototypes.

A project lead by Dominic Robson, 
with James Auger, Daniel Pinkas 
and the IdeaSquare team at CERN
Masters students in Media Design: Sarah Bourquin, Marianna Czwojdrak, Patrick Arthur Donaldson, Alexandra Gavrilova, Chammas Hind, 
Eun-Sun Lee, Vanesa Lorenzo Toquero, 
Etienne Ndiaye, Mélissa Pisler, Camille Rattoni, 
Léa Thévenot, Saskia Vellas

The CERN laboratory at Meyrin is only a few miles from here. As a human global endeavour it is epic, the scale of scientific discovery and innovation is spectacular with the confirmation of the Higgs Boson particle (2012) and the advent of the World Wide Web (1990) as highpoints. Yet CERN, its activity and the science around it remains as mysterious for most people, as it is inspirational.
 
This collaborative workshop devised by HEAD – Genève Masters Media Design and CERN’s IdeaSquare set out to explore how designers could work with scientists to expose and communicate the science emerging from CERN and the potential futures they could offer. Can design students use creative interpretation in its many varieties, the speculative, the poetic, the playful to bring insight into contemporary science and new ways of looking at what CERN's fascinating research programme means for us.
 
From a series of presentations and discussions with scientists and technologists from the CERN community, the Media Design Masters students launched themselves into the landscape of modern physics, to wrestle with the complexities and create a diverse set of projects, that range from card play into the highly speculative.at Lift15 –
The CERN Workshop

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