SCENES

28.02.2022

- 17.06.2022

HEAD – Genève

Insomnia investigates how nocturnal awakening functions as a space for unexpected narratives, displacements, and architectural emancipation. The studio employs cinematic long takes and scale models as its primary research tools.

11.03.2022

Grand-Saconnex, Geneva

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.

21.02.2022

- 25.02.2022

HEAD – Genève

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.

21.02.2022

- 25.02.2022

EPFL, 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.

20.09.2021

- 07.10.2021

Hiflow, Geneva

Nocturnal Still Life explores the nightly condition of the seabed and its liquid darkness, employing artificial organisms and watery light as props for nocturnal compositions. Plunged into darkness, the three-dimensional models serve as a canvas for photography or film within the framework of a large exploratory dinner organized at the creative lab Hiflow.

01.10.2021

- 10.12.2021

HEAD – Genève

Cruising Pavilion is a course dedicated to exploring the history of diverse LGBTQI+ spaces for sexual encounters, inspired by the eponymous exhibition project presented in Venice, New York, and Stockholm.

20.09.2021

- 24.09.2021

HEAD – Genève

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?

17.02.2020

- 28.02.2020

HEAD – Genève

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.