Critical Media
- indispensable, crucial, decisive, life-affirming
- of, relating to, or being a threshold, a turning point, an important juncture, having an agenda
- what’s needed, what’s at stake.
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Our practices depart from feminisms, queer theory, computation, intersectionality, anti-coloniality, disability studies, historical materialism and artistic practice to generate currently inexistent vocabularies, imaginaries and methodologies. “Critical” in this sense refers not to critique, but to articulating, imagining, altering, and configuring media and infrastructures for collectivity, solidarity, and abolition. We aspire to do critical work to strengthen the struggle against extraction, oppression, and exploitation, pursuing an agenda of justice and material equality.
Curricular & Extracurricular
The Critical Media Lab hosts research projects and provides students of the BA Process Design and MA Transversal Design with a space to practice and think. We organise workshops, guest visits, lectures, performances, publications, cultural and public events that complement the collaborative work of research and collective study.
A central public event, to which all are welcomed, is the CML Colloquium. The colloquium sessions typically happen on the first Wednesday of the month and provide opportunities to exchange and engage with students & colleagues across different fields and practices.
Where to Find Us
The Critical Media Lab is part of the Campus of the Arts, located at the Dreispitz area in the south of Basel, Switzerland. You’ll find us in the main building of the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, on the 3rd floor.
