A research project that engages with how communities are imagining and practising their own infrastructural transformations.
26/02/2026
Current
Intimacy, Access, Care and the Refusal of Administrative Logic
Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 14:00–17:00
29 March—30 May 2026, Bagno Popolare, Baden (CH)
A speculative archaeology of lithium water. The exhibition links historical lithium spas with the industrial use of the element in batteries, reflecting the intersection of health, energy, and economics – from electrotherapy to the energy transition.
What role can publishing play in organizing critique today? This series in the open access journal Brand-New-Life looks at historical and contemporary practices that approach publishing as an infrastructure for political organization, collective knowledge production, and the formation of counter-publics.
«What Is Critical Publishing?» is edited by Lucie Kolb and Jonas von Lenthe as an outlet of the Make/Sense PhD Program at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.
11–13 March 2026
Annual gathering of members of the Make/Sense PhD programme.
Public events include the inaugural lecture Towards a Bibliography of Critical Publishing and the screening programme Program – 23.
Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Lucie Kolb
Thursday, 12 March 2026, 18:30, HGK Basel
Friday, 13 March 2026
Public screening programme by editorial collective Program – 23 at distro Basel.
Part of the Make/Sense Assembly 2026.
Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 14:00–16:30
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