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.
Wednesday, 3 December 2025
15:00–17:00
With Elias & Yousef Anastas, co-founders of Wonder Cabinet, Radio alHara & Local Industries.
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.
Tuesday, 18th November 2025
18.00–19.30 at CML (with Apéro from 17.00)
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.
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.
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.
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