08.12.2021

- 08.12.2021

HEAD – Genève

Night Governance is a lecture by Alessia Cibin for the ‘Nocturnal Perspectives’ lecture series. How is night-time governed in global cities? What are the impacts of nightlife on entertainment precincts? Who are the groups interested in and impacted by nightlife? How do they influence night-time policies? What are the conflicts that arise between and within groups and policies? The lecture focuses on the cases of Zurich and Sydney, between global and local.

06.12.2021

- 07.12.2021

HEAD – Genève

The international symposium, Nocturnal History of Architecture, traces a path from ancient to early modern times and from modernity to the present, analyzing nocturnal spaces that reveal neglected areas of scholarship and provide a laboratory for the development of alternative forms of architectural historiography.

03.11.2021

HEAD – Genève

Designing Club Culture is a lecture by Dr Catharine Rossi for the ‘Nocturnal Perspectives’ lecture series. In this lecture Rossi reflects on her experiences of curating exhibitions on the design of club culture.

20.09.2021

- 07.10.2021

Hiflow, Geneva

Nocturnal Still Life explores the nightly condition of the seabed and its liquid darkness by using artificial organisms and watery light as props for nocturnal compositions. Plunged into darkness, the three-dimensional paintings become a support for photography or film in the framework of a large exploratory dinner organised at Hiflow, Geneva.

01.10.2021

- 10.12.2021

HEAD – Genève

Cruising Pavilion is a course dedicated to the history of various LGBTQI+ places of sexual encounter, following the eponymous exhibition project presented in Venice, New York, and Stockholm.

20.09.2021

- 24.09.2021

Geneva

Taking Geneva as a case study, the workshop After Sunset, Before Sunrise investigates the city’s transformation at the very ephemeral moment of sunset. How do changes in the city’s intangible elements influence the tangible ones as well as our perception of them?

04.09.2021

- 12.09.2021

Milan Design Week

The Korova Milk Bar is a fictional night bar from Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange. Even though the original venue only existed as fiction, its transgressive environment has given the bar cult status, to the point of providing inspiration for several real nocturnal places around the world.

01.12.2020

Plan Libre N. 179

“Taking pictures by night is very difficult, because you only have 20 minutes, the sun’s going down, there’s a moment when it’s perfect, then it’s less perfect, and then you can’t do it, it’s too dark. Because you need to see the outline of the building.” Richard Levene, founder of El Croquis. Geneva, 2019

25.06.2021

- 31.10.2021

Design Parade Toulon

In 1965, interior architect Robert Haussmann created the Kronenhalle Bar in Zurich. In 2021 HEAD – Genève revisited the nocturnal side of Kronenhalle for Design Parade Toulon, exploring the role of the original lamps and artificial lighting in the construction of contemporary interiors.

01.10.2021

- 10.12.2021

HEAD – Genève

A leading figure of architectural photography, Bas Princen discusses how unlit spaces define contemporary urban landscape and architecture through the use of photography. In conversation with Javier F. Contreras and Leonid Slonimskiy for the ‘Talking Heads’ lecture series.