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Master Visual Knowledge 👁️MAVK👁️
A core of Design in Context & Image Theory, expanded through graphic design specialisations.
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Citizen of a New Planetary Imaginary
Results from a workshop led by @retinaa.ch

During this workshop, students explored new ways of imagining identity beyond political borders, adopting a planetary and more-than-human perspective.

Each student selected a territory and investigated it as a living biome, observing its species, cycles, seasons, rhythms, geological memory, and data.

These explorations were translated into visual languages and graphic systems, expressing a sense of belonging not to a nation, but to a living ecosystem.

The final outcomes were printed using Risograph, bringing these new visual identities to life through layers of colour, texture, and experimentation.

Victoria Brioschi, Anne-Charlotte Bullukian, Ho Chen, Josha Cotteron, Mel Dario, Danxian Feng, Oscar Götz, Vicky Kugner, Astrid Lambert, Rita Maria Mendes Cardoso, Eliott Mouissat, Iara Pais Paiva, Emilie Sadzot taken in HEAD - Genève, Haute école d'art et de design by @head_visualknowledge

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Citizen of a new Planetary Imaginary
Workshop with @retinaa.ch
In this workshop, students explore how identity could be reimagined beyond political borders and from a planetary, more-than-human perspective.
Each student selects a territory and studies it as a living biome, considering its species, cycles, seasons, rhythms, geological memory, and data.
These observations are translated into a visual language and graphic system that expresses a new form of belonging, not to a nation, but to a living ecosystem.

Victoria Brioschi, Anne-Charlotte Bullukian, Ho Chen, Josha Cotteron, Mel Dario, Danxian Feng, Oscar Götz, Vicky Kugner, Astrid Lambert, Rita Maria Mendes Cardoso, Eliott Mouissat, Iara Pais Paiva, Emilie Sadzot

Assisted by Flaurant Kadrija

@headgeneve taken in HEAD - Genève, Haute école d'art et de design by @head_visualknowledge

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Serious Game in Environmental Health, Commission with the Geneva School of Health Sciences (HEdS), Design in Context with Tamara Niklaus and Alice Franchetti

A serious game, developed for students training to become radiological technologists. Drawing on content related to environmental health, vulnerabilities, and workplace practices, students design the game experience, interactions, and visual identity, transforming specialized knowledge into an engaging learning experience.

@headgeneve taken in HEAD - Genève, Haute école d'art et de design by @head_visualknowledge

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Meet Clémence Imbert, graphic design historian and researcher. Her work explores the history of graphic design exhibitions and book covers (Les Couvertures de livres. Une histoire graphique, Actes Sud — Imprimerie Nationale, 2022, Prix d’Académie 2023). She currently leads WYSIWYG (wysiwyg.ch), a research project on the adoption of graphic design software by designers in the 1980s.

The Powers of Images

The course approaches the power of images through visual studies, examining the political, social, ethical, and aesthetic issues surrounding their creation and circulation today.

Through collective readings and discussions of key texts by Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, W. J. T. Mitchell, Johanna Drucker, and Edward Tufte, students develop a critical understanding of how images are read, received, and used to communicate and construct arguments. taken in HEAD - Genève, Haute école d'art et de design by @head_visualknowledge

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Result of a two week workshop with 1st year students led by @eurostandard. Students explored the possibilities and limits of image-making by documenting creative workflows from input and tools to curated outputs and collectively mapping their results to build a shared visual cookbook of image typologies.

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4 months ago

SAVE THE DATE!
Wed, June 17
1–2 PM
Building H-1.20

TALKS — Visual Knowledge × @eurostandard

We are excited to welcome Eurostandard, who will be leading a workshop with the first-year MAVK students. Eurostandard is a Lausanne and Paris based design studio working across visual identities, editorial design, exhibitions, and digital media. Their practice develops bespoke visual systems through the use of typography, image, colour, and computational tools. Working primarily within the cultural field, Eurostandard has collaborated with institutions, publishers, and festivals to create projects that challenge conventional graphic design approaches while remaining deeply rooted in communication and public engagement.

During this talk, they will share insights into their collaborative practice and the design methodologies that shape their work.

@headgeneve taken in HEAD - Genève, Haute école d'art et de design by @head_visualknowledge

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How can we tell the story of urban transformation differently?
In this workshop, developed in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Centre of HES-SO Geneva (CITÉ) and the Quartiers en chantier project, students explored territorial mediation through information design and knowledge translation.
Drawing on text corpora related to real urban transformation processes in Geneva, they experimented with graphic tools and visual narratives to make complex issues more accessible, foster dialogue between stakeholders, and communicate situated knowledge.
At the intersection of information design, visual storytelling, and mediation, this work reflects on how territories are represented, narrated, and transformed.

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5 months ago

What did we learn? With @claire_dubuy

Through Claire’s journey as a student, this project with @johanneroten became a space for experimentation and discovering new ways of thinking visually. From research to making, every step opened new perspectives on how knowledge can be shared, translated, and experienced.

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Meet @romankarrer, graphic designer, researcher, and occasional editor and publisher. His practice focuses on the development of visual systems and vocabularies, taking forms such as publications, visual identities, websites, maps, and visual research across cultural, architectural, artistic, and pedagogical contexts.

He understands graphic design and the closely related practices of publishing and structuring as an epistemic field, and explores how visual systems, infrastructures, tools, and forms of individual and collective agency shape the production and circulation of knowledge.

Cartographies in Practice – Mapping as Situated Discourse

Co-taught with geographer Pieroni Raphaël, the seminar examines the diversity of maps and their uses across historical and contemporary contexts. It fosters a critical understanding of mapping practices and their regimes of representation, with an emphasis on the analysis and construction of spatio-temporal narratives.

Through research-led collective making, students explore map production as an operative method that oscillates between analysis, translation, and critical knowledge production. Schematic, diagrammatic, and infographic approaches are used as tools for constructing situated arguments.

This semester, in collaboration with @Amnesty_Suisse and their ongoing global campaign #ProtectTheProtest, students work with datasets of different protests in Switzerland to develop critical visual research. The course is further informed by contributions from guests such as Michaela Mumenthaler (investigative journalist at RTS), Lukas Hamilcaro (architect–illustrator), and other practitioners from related fields.

1: Contre-Courant with and for ALICE Y1, 2020/21.
2: Leaflet for EPFL Architecture PDM 2024, w/ Sandi Gazic.
3: Just City for Urbane Praxis e.V., Berlin 2024.
4+6: The (Real) Book, with and for ALICE Y1, 2019/20.
5: Editorial design for Prix Meret Oppenheim 2025.
7: Monthly program for Floating University Berlin, 2023.

@headgeneve taken in HEAD - Genève, Haute école d'art et de design by @head_visualknowledge

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Corpus
Collecting, ordering, re-presenting.

A week dedicated to making, not researching.
During the workshop led by @maximewoeffray @forma.editions students worked with archives as raw material, books, catalogues, and fragments from the @room_and_book collection.

Working in pairs, they chose a simple theme and pushed it as far as possible through selection, editing, and composition. Making decisions, letting things go.
Shaping a corpus without words only through images, rhythm, and layout.

The outcome: a black & white risograph publication, each pair developing three spreads.
A collective process with daily feedback, guided by one key constraint: make ideas visible.

@headgeneve taken in HEAD - Genève, Haute école d'art et de design by @head_visualknowledge

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Corpus
Collecting, ordering, re-presenting.

A week dedicated to making, not researching.
During the workshop led by @maximewoeffray @forma.editions students worked with archives as raw material, books, catalogues, and fragments from the @room_and_book collection.

Working in pairs, they chose a simple theme and pushed it as far as possible through selection, editing, and composition. Making decisions, letting things go.
Shaping a corpus without words only through images, rhythm, and layout.

The outcome: a black & white risograph publication, each pair developing three spreads.
A collective process with daily feedback, guided by one key constraint: make ideas visible.

@headgeneve taken in HEAD - Genève, Haute école d'art et de design by @head_visualknowledge

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