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.
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 14:00–16:30
Book launch at point de vue in Basel
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 5 pm
Basel’s festival for digital culture, art and society is back for its third edition. Co-organised by MA Transversal Design team member Ozan Güngör, HackThePromise will take place from 3–5 October at the Paddlehalle Basel.
Under the theme Hacking Systems, Hacking Futures, the festival explores hacking as a socio-technical practice — breaking open, rewiring systems, and rehearsing alternative futures. The program spans talks, workshops, an exhibition, performances, DJ sets, film screenings and a hacking market.
● The first session of the Hacking Module of the MA Transversal Design will take place during the festival on Saturday afternoon.
● On Saturday evening, Helen Pritchard, Kit Braybrooke, and Qingyi Ren & moderated by Jisoo Lim will be in conversation on hacking as a practice of disruption, re-imagination, and collective possibility.
STS-CH Conference 2025, 10–12 September 2025, Zurich
The panel inquires into the increasing reliance of environmentality on Big Tech infrastructure and the technical hybridisation of environmental computation with AI in Earth monitoring, modelling and policing.
The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, in collaboration with the University of Arts Linz, invites applications to their three-year practice-based PhD programme for artists, designers, researchers, curators, and cultural organisers engaged in critical, experimental, and transdisciplinary research.
Pre-proposal deadline: 3 October 2025
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.
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
with student encampments and peoples subjected to genocidal violence