Nightcrawl offers an exploration of the Grand Saconnex neighbourhood and its thresholds as day turns into night. The project focuses on the way the falling night impacts this part of the city in different ways, from illumination and sound to the use and occupation of spaces – residential, industrial, infrastructural, and liminal.
Movie Set is a workshop led by the set designer Florian Sanson, who designed the sets for Alice Winocour’s Proxima and Leos Carax’s Annette, and proposes to build a real film set for the shooting of domestic moments of the night, from dusk to dawn, recreated artificially in the space of Le Cube 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 polarisation of bodies and urban spaces. Workshop organised 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.