Distortion Festival, As above So Below
© HEAD – Genève, Michel Giesbrecht
Distortion Festival, As above So Below
© HEAD – Genève, Michel Giesbrecht
Distortion Festival, As above So Below
© HEAD – Genève, Michel Giesbrecht
Distortion Festival, As above So Below
© HEAD – Genève, Michel Giesbrecht
Distortion Festival, As above So Below
© HEAD – Genève, Michel Giesbrecht
HEAD – Genève, series of online conferences
© HEAD – Genève, series of online conferences
HEAD – Genève, series of online conferences
© HEAD – Genève, series of online conferences

Distortion Festival, As above So Below

July 2021

In April 2021, the MA Media Design Master presented the new instalment of its Distortion Series, an hybrid festival format. First-year students exhibited their projects at HEAD – Genève and hosted a series of online talks with designers, critical thinkers and professors.

For the past year, MA in Media Design has been exploring the relationships between the design and use of digital technologies and our environment. More specifically, we are interested in the role of designers in the ecological crisis. How can they renew our knowledge about the world with thorough observations and representations? How can we engage citizens into understanding the state of our planet? What types of original formats can we invent to tell stories about our environment? At the intersection of field research, design fiction and immersive worldbuilding, this new instalment of Distortion Series showcased a series of projects, the results of two workshops done between January and March 2021. Both workshops focused their subjects on our local surroundings: the Arve and the Lake of Geneva. We would like to thank the Lake Geneva Museum and Michael Jakob for their support and our guests: Hundred Rabbits, Sofia Crespo, Disnovation, Sabrina Calvo et Nicolas Nova.

You can watch the series of online conferences here : DISTORTION FESTIVAL

Students
Tiki Bordin
Paul Bellon Serre
Lison Christe
Haomin Chang
Maylis D'Haultfoeuille
Simon Di Mauro
Chloé Michel
Thibeaud Goiffon
Beatrice Gorelli
Maxime Magnin
Alexandre Moura Ferreira
Alejandra Oros
Manon Waneukem

Assistants
Nicolas Baldran
Carla Marceau

Professors
Nicolas Nova
Alexia Mathieu
 

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