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Humanitarian, by Design? Le design au cœur de l’humanitaire explores the objects commonly used in humanitarian action – such as first-aid kits, tents, prostheses, maps and makeshift shelters – and asks what they reveal about the lives of those who rely on them. The exhibition examines how design – whether improvised, institutional or repurposed – shapes life in situations of crisis, displacement or extreme precarity. From hacked plastics to architectures of waiting, and from personal stories to crisis imagery, it sheds light on fragile and often invisible practices designed for purposes of endurance, resistance, and hope.

The exhibition was developed through a collaboration between the Geneva Graduate Institute, HEAD – Genève, the University of Copenhagen, the EPFL EssentialTech Centre, and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum. It invites us to rethink humanitarian design from the perspective of those who live it – and to reflect on how humanitarian action concerns us all, here and now.

Lecture for Studio GRILLOVASIU

session "Territories of Violence: Memory, Infrastructure, and Spatial Justice"

HEAD – Geneva

Symposium exploring performative approaches to archaeology.

Symposium of the VLIR-TEAM project "From Handmade Gravel to Handmade Urbanism"

Enchère caritative d'œuvres d'artistes et d'architectes

Reprint d'un arbre issu du scan de Gresso

Fonds pour l'aide humanitaire à Gaza

7th Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar

Deep City Symposium, EPFL

In this second #ASAnumerica video from the University of Lausanne, architects Damien Greder and Yony Santos from TypicalOffice look back at the VR experiences created around the Nyon amphitheatre and presented to the public in October 2020. What was their brief? How did they approach the archaeological data? Who are these VR experiences aimed at? And what are the benefits of 3D models?

A cynical debate about data and architecture. With (uda_) & students from ASAR