As part of the Design Days taking place this year in Geneva, HEAD presents five emblematic projects in various fields of design at the [Pavillon Sicli](https://www.pavillonsicli.ch/).
Exhibition November 25th until November 28 2021
Opening & USM Design Grant Ceremony
Thrusday November 25, from 6pm to 9pm
Opening hours:
Friday 11am to 7pm
Saturday 11am to 6pm
Sunday 11am to 5pm
In parallel to the HEAD 2021 Fashion Show, HEAD is partnering with MODE SUISSE and presenting a pop-up showroom featuring young Swiss fashion designers, many of whom are HEAD graduates. Among the talent present, Mikael Vilchez, Sarah Bounab, Vanessa Schindler, and Visual Society.
Every two years, the USM Foundation awards a scholarship to an innovative interior design project. Under the direction of Swiss designer Simon Husslein, 16 students from the Interior Architecture Department have designed unconventional work spaces that offer comfort, protection and joy. Abigaël Mackenzie’s Second Skin project is the winner of the USM Design Grant 2021, while Mélina Laville has received an honourable mention.
Exhibition of the projects of the recipients of the 2019 and 2020 grants from the Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain for designers who have graduated from HEAD. The winning designers are exhibited every two years as part of the Design Days. This year will feature the projects of Helena Bosch Vidal, Sami Bouard-Cart, Fanny Casano, Collectif Club Poisson, Léa Debernardi, and Sofie Deckers.
Students of the MA in Media Design have imagined the city of tomorrow through the creation of virtual reality games, exploring new social interactions, forms of relationship with nature and alternative modes of transport at neighbourhood level. Use your eyes to activate these playful experiences and interact with new neighbourhoods. The projects are the result of a workshop led by Marion Bareil and Pierre Rossel. Featuring Urudagal by Paul Bellon-Serre, Coral’s Choral by Tiki Bordin, Dessine-moi un jardin by Lison Christe and Lightwell by Chloé Michel.
Johan Pardo and Gabriel Abergel, 2021 graduates of the MA in Media Design, present two original experiences that showcase new forms of interaction linked to digital design. Ikaro is an instrument that transforms light into sound frequencies. Domestic Object Lab is a research-creation laboratory that questions how artificial intelligence, through the object, reveals or alters the personality of its owner.
And in Building D, Bd. James-Fazy 15
LISTENING SCULPTURE*
Listening Sculpture* is a public space installation commissioned by the United Nations. It represents the international institution as a body that listens to human beings. It consists of a parabolic mirror that amplifies the oral messages that people around the world address to the UN. The Interior Architecture Department designed and created this sculpture, which will soon be installed in the galleries of the UN Secretariat building in New York. It consists of 193 pieces, corresponding to the number of UN member states. The wooden planks that are used are leftovers from the school’s wood workshop. The work will premiere in front of the Sicli Pavilion during the Design Days from 25 to 28 November before leaving for New York.
HEAD is launching its HEAD STORE as part of the Design Days 2021 during a Soft Opening evening on Tuesday 23 November, from 5 to 7 pm.
In the school’s historic building, located at 15 Bd James-Fazy, the HEAD shop will offer for sale works of art, textiles, ceramics, jewellery and tableware made by its students and young graduates. An online shop will complement the HEAD shop at the beginning of 2022.