Current
IXDM Lab Week

3–5 December 2025

How can we build liveable futures through the mundane labor of infrastructural resistance? What does it mean to go back, each day, and perform resistant handicraft?

Critical Media Lab & HyperWerk invite to a three-day public programme on how we can take action together in the face of social, political and ecological crises.

Stylized photo of the the steel letters spelling "Wonder Cabinet" on top of the building of the space.
Each stainless steel letter of wonder cabinet spins above the main facade as weather vanes.

Wednesday, 3 December 2025
15:00–17:00

With Elias & Yousef Anastas, co-founders of Wonder Cabinet, Radio alHara & Local Industries.

A large round signet with the title of the symposium around a floral motif on an abstract background visual of coloful ribbons.
Widerständige Handarbeit – Resistant Handicraft

Thursday, 4 December 2025
10:00–17:00

At the one-day symposium, HyperWerk invites activist designers to engage in a dialogue about resistant praxis and strategy. In diverse practices of caring, diligent work, we seek solidarity-based, life-affirming responses to the political and ecological threats of our time.

The contributions by Carmin Karasic, Tobéchukwu Onwukeme, Border Forensics with Elio Panese and Stanislas Michel, Timon Nils Essoungou Bony Malong, Yamina Sam, and Cherry-Ann Morgan hack authoritarian institutions, document police violence, make soil-related practices audible, conduct research with local communities against ecocide, and embody ancestral knowledge in handicrafts.

Collage of document and newspaper clippings on themes of "sabotage".
The past walks beside us, whispering its unfinished tales

Friday, 5 December 2025
11:00–13:00

With Resistant Energies (Miriyam Aouragh, Karl Moubarak, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Sofia Boschat-Thorez, Femke Snelting).

Cover image of the publication "I Will Always Be Looking For You – A Queer Anthology on Arab Art"
I will always be looking for you!

Friday, 5 December 2025
15:00–17:00

Book launch of I Will Always Be Looking For You – A Queer Anthology on Arab Art with its project lead and co-editors Dayna Ash, Yasmine Rifaii & Nadim Choufi.

Glitchcrafting as Rehearsal with Shaka McGlotten

Tuesday, 18th November 2025
18.00–19.30 at CML (with Apéro from 17.00)

Library Making as Practice

Wednesday, 5 November 2025
5:00 – 8:00 pm at distro, Basel

In times of algorithmic extraction and cultural amnesia, the library becomes a site of resistance — a space for making publics, sharing survival tools, and reimagining what it means to read, to care, and to know together.

Careful vs Careless: Library Custodians and Artificial Readers

5–17 November @ distro, Basel

Exhibition by Nick Thurston, Dušan Barok, founder of Monoskop, and Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, co-founders of Memory of the World at distro.

Library, A Network of Relations

5–17 November @ distro, Basel

The exhibition Library, A Network of Relations presents two library projects co-initiated by Eva Weinmayr that develop different strategies to explore the relational and collective dimensions of knowledge practices.

«Practices towards inter­operable imaginaries» at DST2025

November 1st (online) & 7th (São Paulo)

How methods of decolonial listening, drop-in rehearsals, and cosmogram-making can interweave with other practices of imagining towards modes of sustaining, resilience and solidarities.

La Sangre del Rio – Das Blut des Flusses: Mining and Resistance in Espinar

Friday, 17 October 2025, 2–5 pm

Screening of La Sangre del Rio – Das Blut des Flusses (The Blood of the River, 2022) and conversation with filmmaker Vidal Merma.

Culture Machine Vol. 25: University as Infrastructure

Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers and information management systems. This special issue aims to take stock of the challenges and possibilities here for University as Infrastructure.

Deadline extended to 30 September.

Transversal Design Zine

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.

https://transversaldesign.ch

Statement of Solidarity

On the escalation of violence in the SWANA region

Statement in solidarity

with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence

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