Organized by doctoral students at HEAD – Geneva, this doctoral seminar offers a space for discussion and exchange around experimental methods in art and design research. Conceived as an open laboratory, it encourages transdisciplinary, critical and speculative approaches, exploring forms and practices that shift traditional academic frameworks.

Small worlds, bubbles and incommunicabilities.
ractices of de-ecologization
Morning Session (9h - 12h30)
with Ombre Tarragnat & Loucia Carlier
Hosted by Eloïse Vo

If environmentality—understood as both a material and semiotic infrastructure—refers to the way environments condition our perceptions, narratives, and systems of knowledge, the aim here will be to question the potential of a negative environmentality: an ecology of dissonance that welcomes otherness, discontinuities, and incommunicabilities. Drawing from the practice of miniaturization and the concept of neurodiversity developed respectively by artist Loucia Carlier and philosopher Ombre Tarragnat, this discussion will propose rethinking the spaces and politics of encounter and multiplying the ways of inhabiting our planetary condition.
 

Observer dans l'action
Afternoon Session (14h - 17h30)
with Marion Nielsen & Guillemette Legrand
Hosted by Benoit Renaudin

In a context of climate crises and declining habitability of the world, design is redefining some of its priorities by adopting a critical and situated stance. This talk proposes to take a counter-approach to science by détourning its tools in order to observe living beings, landscapes, and territories differently, while introducing the notion of fieldwork into design research practices. Marion Nielsen (ENSAD Lab – Paris) is a researcher and architect in charge of the Design and Territory research group. Her work questions the formats through which landscape observations are presented and develops alternative cartographies for new experiences of territory. Guillemette Legrand is an artist and PhD candidate (SACRe Laboratory, ENSAD, Critical Media Lab – Basel Academy of Art and Design). Her research on climatic cosmograms examines the cosmological dimension of climate images. She develops ways of documenting, challenging, enriching, and diversifying climate visuality and imaginaries.

Free entrance, registration required: Terrains vagues : gestes, écarts et pratiques de la recherche en art et design. Session #1 – Fill in the form