Transversal Design is a study programme for practice-based research that grows community infrastructures for worlds in transition. We investigate the social, political, ecological and technological dynamics of the systems we live by to design for grounded transformation – from alternative media, speculative models, and practices of care, to tools for solidarity and radical proposals for innovation.
Find more details about the programme and the admission process here:
https://www.fhnw.ch/en/art-design/degree-programmes/offerings/programmes/transversal-design-ma

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Debugging Realities

9–13 September 2026

Works by members of Make/Sense PhD and MA Transversal Design at Ars Electronica Festival 2026.

Feral Hacking as Polycrisis Alchemy 🏄🏼‍♀️

Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Kit Braybrooke

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

HackThePromise Festival

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.

https://hackthepromise.org

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

Holding Spaces, Making Conditions

22–24 May 2025, University of Cologne

Bringing together students, and cultural producers, this symposium questions the infrastructures shaping artistic research and asks how they can be build differently — part of the MA Transversal Design.