The research project engages with creative responses to the green and digital transition and how communities are imagining and practising their own infrastructural transformations.
26/02/2026
Current
Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 14:00–16:30
Critical Media Lab
March & April 2026
The lecture series explores design as a collaborative, situated practice for change — bringing together collective design processes, storytelling and worldbuilding, institutional transformation, ecological responsibility, and critical approaches to digital infrastructures.
Part of the Continuing Education and the CoCreate program at HGK Basel, hosted by Ann Mbuti.
Winnie Soon and CML’s Helen V. Pritchard contributed the piece Queer Motto API Manual: To Know Exactly How Many Times to Cry to the reader “Curating Superintelligences”, the latest in the “DATA browser” book series.
Edited by Joasia Krysa and Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver, the volume examines how computational technologies, rapid developments in AI, and the reassertion of subaltern knowledges are reshaping the contemporary curatorial field. It poses questions about the implications of these “super-intelligences” for contemporary art and culture, and the new possibilities for curatorial practice and its future forms.
CML research project Scaling Material Urban Commons (SMUC) is winner of the Media Architecture Biennale 2025 Awards in the category Future Trends and Prototypes.
Invited by the Make/Sense PhD programme at CML, researcher and publisher Sezgin Boynik will be a guest in the Atelier Mondial residency program in January.
The MA Transversal Design launched a new online zine that will continue to evolve into a living web journal to document and reflect on the activities and practices of the study programme.
On the escalation of violence in the SWANA region
Special issue of Brand-New-Life magazine in collaboration with the Make/Sense PhD program on academic writing as a site of struggle against attempts at formalizing imagination.
with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence