For the past year, MA in Media Design has been exploring the relationships between the design and use of digital technologies and our environment. More specifically, we are interested in the role of designers in the ecological crisis. How can they renew our knowledge about the world with thorough observations and representations? How can we engage citizens into understanding the state of our planet? What types of original formats can we invent to tell stories about our environment? At the intersection of field research, design fiction and immersive worldbuilding, this new instalment of Distortion Series showcased a series of projects, the results of two workshops done between January and March 2021. Both workshops focused their subjects on our local surroundings: the Arve and the Lake of Geneva. We would like to thank the Lake Geneva Museum and Michael Jakob for their support and our guests: Hundred Rabbits, Sofia Crespo, Disnovation, Sabrina Calvo et Nicolas Nova.

You can watch the series of online conferences here : DISTORTION FESTIVAL

Students

Tiki Bordin

Paul Bellon Serre

Lison Christe

Haomin Chang

Maylis D'Haultfoeuille

Simon Di Mauro

Chloé Michel

Thibeaud Goiffon

Beatrice Gorelli

Maxime Magnin

Alexandre Moura Ferreira

Alejandra Oros

Manon Waneukem

Assistants

Nicolas Baldran

Carla Marceau

Professors

Nicolas Nova

Alexia Mathieu