Study Days 
12th and 13th of November, 2019
09:30–12:00, 13:30–15:30  

Campus HEAD, Bâtiment H
Av de Châtelaine 7
1203 Genève

Graphic Design and Cultural Diplomacy
An exhibition at the Musée Dynamique in Dakar under review :
La Suisse présente la Suisse(26.11-1971 – 29.02.1972) 

Presence Switzerland in Senegal: on the role of graphic design in the making of an exhibition at the Dynamic Museum in Dakar(HES-SO 2019-2020)aims to identify possible interpretations for the history of graphic design by analysing the design and production of the exhibition La Suisse présente la Suisse(26.11.1971 - 29.02.1972). Part of this project,two study days intend to provide a state of the ongoing investigations into archives available at the Swiss Federal Archives in Bern and the Museum of Ethnography in Neuchâtel, and to share intermediary reports including research done by the Swiss Graphic Design and Typography Revisited(FNS 2016–2019). On the one hand, the study days will provide a more accurate understanding of the transnational and postcolonial contexts of this exhibition and, on the other hand, lead to discuss the methodological approach of this research.
 

These study days are being undertaken at the HEAD – Geneva by the Institute of Research into Art and Design (IRAD), in partnership with the Neuchâtel Ethnographical Museum (MEN) and the Théodore Monod Museum (IFAN, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar), with the support of the F. and W. Grünbaum Foundation.

Organizers: Constance Delamadeleine, Bernard Knodel, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, Daniel Sciboz 
Information and workshop subscription : constance.delamadeleine@hesge.ch