Nightcrawl offers an exploration of the Grand-Saconnex municipality and its thresholds as day turns into night. The project focuses on how the falling night impacts this part of the city in various ways, encompassing illumination, sound, and the utilization of spaces—residential, industrial, infrastructural, and liminal.
Movie Set is a workshop led by set designer Florian Sanson, renowned for his work on the sets of Alice Winocour’s Proxima and Leos Carax’s Annette. It constructs a film set for capturing fragments of nocturnal domesticity, artificially recreated from dusk to dawn within the Cube space at HEAD – Genève.
Des Corps Dans la Nuit interrogates the night’s western imaginaries as a space of fear, insecurity, and abnormality, perpetuating a gendered polarization of bodies and urban spaces. Workshop organized by the Interior Architecture Department of HEAD – Genève in partnership with the Architecture Department of EPFL.
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.
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?
This virtual issue of El Croquis magazine combines archive documentation with night photography of contemporary buildings in Geneva, under the direction of Richard Levene, co-founder of the magazine, in collaboration with students from HEAD – Genève.