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Dossier #6
Talking Words: Creative Writing Practices at HEAD – Genève
When I took over the direction of the ESBA (editor’s note: formerly the Geneva School of Fine Arts) in 2004, Hervé Laurent’s writing workshop had already been a singular and lively space there since 1999. Laurent and I met on this commitment…
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Foreword – Pour mémoire
An interview with Jean-Pierre Greff
Jean-Pierre Greff has been particularly involved, within the Franco-Swiss area, in the pedagogical and political development of the Master’s thesis in Art and Design schools. In this interview, Greff comes back to this formalisation, which dates back…
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Water policy and poetics
A conversation with Aurélien Gamboni, Jean-Pierre Greff and Daniel de Roulet
Source of life or the « armed wing » of migration policies; object of contemplation for painters and object of fears for islanders; static or furious element, deceptive metaphor for commercial exchanges and the digital; water circulates between poiesis,…
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A Dialogue on Interior Design Education
Interior design is subject to the growth of architecture and design, which appropriate its own field of competence. Yet interior design’s particularities — flexibility and timeliness as well as its own considerations of atmosphere, the decorative and…
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Jean-Pierre Greff – Foreword
Jean-Pierre Greff, the HEAD – Geneva’s director, returns to the founding of the school’s interdisciplinary project, and of the AC/DC (contemporary art/contemporary design) symposium, a cornerstone event for the school in 2007. Ten years later,…