This course provides insight into ongoing research projects related to art history (all periods), contemporary art, architecture, and various fields of design. It includes 10 public sessions per semester, during which speakers from diverse backgrounds (including some from the HEAD–Genève teaching staff) present a research project of their own, followed by a discussion period. The sessions are accompanied by a mid-semester review and a concluding session.
Examples of topics covered in previous semesters include artificial intelligence, feminist art history, dating app design, video games and social sciences, history of creative software, humanitarian design, and architecture for reuse.