A position of Delegate for Inclusivity and a position of Head of the Digital Pool and Pedagogical Innovation have been created. These new strategic functions underline the school’s commitment to contemporary societal issues and its dedication to innovation in the service of art and design.
Despite a new year marked by the difficulties linked to the pandemic, HEAD will be recruiting internationally recognised artists and designers to fill key positions in its teaching programme.

Damien Baïs 
Head of the Digital Pool and Pedagogical Innovation – new position

Damien Baïs is a graduate of ESADSE, the Saint-Etienne School of Art and Design. He is the author of several video games such as SuperLevelTypo, Hide & Seek, TradeWar, NORD-OUEST, and CaveFighter. Joint founder of .CORP, he develops projects mixing programming, design and art within the collective. He has also jointly founded Dune(s) corporation, a creative studio combining programming and interactive installations for clients from the world of industry and culture. He joined HEAD after having taught programming at the digital centre at ESADSE since 2010.

Pauline Boudry
Lecturer in the BA in Fine Arts, InterAction and Infofiction options

Pauline Boudry creates performances and film installations. She has been working in collaboration with Renate Lorenz since 2007 and describes their research as “queer archaeology”, a way of identifying and reanimating, in history, figures and bodies that have given themselves the right to define themselves. Their performers are dancers and musicians, with whom they engage in an exchange about the conditions of performance and the violent history of visibility, as well as friendship, glamour and resistance. Their work has been presented at the Seoul Biennale, Frac de Rennes, the NBK in Berlin, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston and the Kunsthalle in Zurich and Vienna. They represented Switzerland at the 2019 Venice Biennale under the curatorship of Charlotte Laubard.

Aurélie Elisa Gfeller
Head of coordination of education

Aurélie Elisa Gfeller holds a PhD in international history from Stanford and Princeton universities. She is the author of numerous publications and has extensive experience as a teacher and researcher. Previously a team leader in the Research Office at EPFL, her academic background has been enhanced by several years of experience at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, where she was Head of sponsorship and partnerships.

Lutz Huelle
Head of the Fashion Design/Jewellery and Accessory Design Department 

Lutz Huelle founded his own independent fashion house in 2000 and works as an art director for many brands. He started at Martin Margiela before working as a consultant for Brioni, Max Mara and Rochas. He also has extensive teaching experience, including at Central Saint Martin’s, from where he graduated.

Emmanuelle Lainé
Joint Head of the MA in Fine Arts WORK.MASTER

Emmanuelle Lainé is a graduate of ENSBA Paris. Her work has been presented at the Luma Foundation in Arles, the Palais de Tokyo, Betonsalon (Paris), the Villa Arson (Nice), La Loge (Brussels), IFAL (Mexico), ICA (Singapore) and the Lyon Biennial. Her exhibitions are linked to the contexts that host them. The artist offers a dialogue between the public and the exhibition space. Her sculptural approach to photography consists of monumental installations that challenge the geometry of existing spaces and allow her to create complex cognitive spaces and augmented reality effects. Lainé is joint Head of the Work.master programme with Marlie Mul.

Nayansaku Mufwankolo
Delegate for Inclusivity – new position

Nayansaku Mufwankolo (they/zey) is a poet and contemporary art researcher with an MA degree in English from the University of Lausanne, specialising in New American Studies and art history. Through self-fiction, they pursue their research in the fields of decolonial, afro-futurist and afro-feminist studies, queer theory and linguistics. They interrogate the making of fiction in the establishment and maintenance of power relations.

Julien Tavelli
Head of the Printing and Publishing Pool

After graduating from ECAL in 2008, Julien Tavelli founded the Maximage graphic design studio with David Keshavjee. They moved to Berlin where they collaborated with artists and experimented with alternative printing and production techniques. They now work between Geneva, Zurich and Paris and collaborate with clients and cultural institutions in Switzerland and abroad. Alongside this work, Tavelli takes part in numerous workshops and lectures, including at the Gerrit Rietfeld Academy in Amsterdam, the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, the ZHDK in Zurich and the Staatliche Hochsule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. He has received the Swiss Design Awards (2009, 2011 and 2013) and the Swiss Book Prize for his work. In 2020 Maximage was honoured with the Jan Tschichold Prize.