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Feral Hacking as Polycrisis Alchemy 🏄🏼‍♀️

Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Kit Braybrooke

Tuesday, 14 April 2026, 18:30, HGK Basel

Contextualizing Cyberfeminism

Thursday, 23 April 2026, 18:00–20:00
Critical Media Lab & online

With Revisiting Cyberfeminism group, Mindy Seu and Winnie Soon.

CML in conversation with Pelin Tan × Yıldız Tahtacı × Ethel Baraona

Thursday, 23 March 2026, 17:00–19:00
FoodCultureLab, HGK Basel

Andrea Francke on Unmanageable Relations

Intimacy, Access, Care and the Refusal of Administrative Logic

Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 14:00–17:00

Lithium Baths and Electric Bulbs

28 March—31 May 2026
Opening on 28 March, 17:00
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 Is Critical Publishing?

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.

Make/Sense Assembly

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.

Towards a Bibliography of Critical Publishing

Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Lucie Kolb

Thursday, 12 March 2026, 18:30, HGK Basel

Program – 23

Friday, 13 March 2026

Public screening programme by editorial collective Program – 23 at distro Basel.

Part of the Make/Sense Assembly 2026.

Sophie Lewis on «Femmephilia: Femininity Against Cisness»

Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 14:00–16:30

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

Imagination as a Site of Struggle

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.

Statement in solidarity

with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence

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