This opinion piece criticizes calls for the total rejection of generative AI, deemed essentialist and counterproductive, because they ignore the diversity of infrastructures, uses and possible alternatives.

This text offers a critical analysis of the interfaces of "AI Girlfriends" services. Emerging with the rise of consumer AI in the early 2020s, these platforms claim to alleviate loneliness and the limitations of romantic relationships. Our study shows…

This article pays tribute to Nicolas Nova (1977-2024), a professor at HEAD – Genève (HES-SO), who died during a trek in the Sultanate of Oman. A precursor in studies that combined design, social sciences, and technology, this unclassifiable researcher…

To mark the publication of A Show of Hands. Crafting Concepts in Contemporary Art (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2025), Anthony Masure sits down with Ileana Parvu, the book's editor, and Nadia Radwan, author of a chapter of the book. Parvu…

Anthony Masure and Guillaume Helleu present their research project that focuses on using video game platforms and cultures to explore the humanities and social sciences.

User-centred design has imposed itself solely on the development of computer interfaces and protocols. Far from being neutral, on the contrary, this approach to design is biased, because it is based on certain clearly identified users – workers,…

The HEAD and the HEG have joined forces to develop a carbon calculator to measure the impact on the climate of the activities of the Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts (HES) in French-speaking Switzerland. Led by Anthony Masure, Yves Corminboeuf…

The HEAD – Genève’s policy is to defend access to the knowledge it produces. To this end, the HEAD launched a new multi-media editorial unit called HEAD – Publishing, whose first collection, Manifestes, brings together short, incisive theoretical texts…

As a member of one of the signatory umbrella organizations of the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research – the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) – the HEAD – Genève is indirectly linked…

Each year, the Master’s theses produced at the HEAD – Genève bear witness to great thematic, methodological and formal wealth. As mentioned by Lysianne Léchot Hirt and Anthony Masure (respectively head of education coordination and head of research at…

Head to head is a series of filmed portraits of teachers, researchers, artists and designers active at the HEAD – Genève. The portraits allow them to speak about their often brilliant careers outside the school. For this new edition, head of research…

Has the dominant tendency of neural networks (deep learning) drained all artificial intelligence cultures? In the field of creation, and more specifically design, how can we anticipate, if not derail, the uses of AI and their social repercussions?…