Geneva is the most important training institution in art and design in Western Switzerland. It was created in 2006 from the amalgamation of the Fine School and the Applied School, both over two hundred years old. Head – Geneva offers a wide range of high level courses in two equally important domains: Fine Arts and Design.
Atelier projects, courses and seminars, commissioned work in close collaboration with the professional worlds of art and design, workshops led by invited international artists and designers, contribute to the dynamics of a teaching environment devised as a space for freedom and personal and social responsibility. Diverse aesthetic practices and the employment of significant technical, traditional or innovative techniques, are combined with theoretical teaching whose aim is as much the acquisition of knowledge as the practice of plural intellectual thinking.
Master of Arts HES-SO in Design Fashion and Accessory Design HEAD – Genève will launch a new masters program in Fashion and Accessory Design in fall 2012, the first of its kind in Switzerland (authorization by [...]
April 16, 2012
Didier Faustino presents Dead Zone in response to the invitation from the Design Project Room. A premonition inspired by Stephen King’s novel and David Cronenberg’s film of the same name, the exhibition presents r[...]
April 2, 2012
Fieldwork: Marfa is proud to announce its first symposium held in Marfa, TX and the launch of its second call for application. Fieldwork: Marfa is the joint project of three leading European schools, ESBA Nantes M[...]
March 6, 2012
HEAD – Genève offers two complementary specialisations in the Master of Arts HES-SO in Design: Spaces and communication Media Design Together, they offer a prime field for experimentation with the redefinition of[...]
February 16, 2012
Fine Art Department HEAD – Genève's restructured Fine Arts Department's philosophy lies at the confluence of the very ideas of pedagogy as experience, artistic research and interdisciplinary cooperation. Five mai[...]
February 9, 2012
Fieldwork: Marfa is the joint project of three leading European schools, ESBA Nantes Métropole, HEAD – Genève and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. This international researcher-in-residence program is dedicated[...]
June 1, 2011
REALisation – Ceramic & PolymersDiploma of Advanced Studies The CERCCO is the Experimentation and Research Centre for Contemporary Ceramics of the Geneva University of Art and Design. It offers a Diploma of Ad[...]
March 25, 2011
SPACES AND COMMUNICATION Exhibition design - Space and graphic design - Urban design - Commercial design - Event design This programme renews the links between spatial design, interior architecture, graphic art and[...]
March 10, 2011
A transdisciplinary and bilingual (French / English) Research-Based Programme built around a core of directed study with a strong intellectual and conceptual foundation and a wide range of research skills for the concept[...]
February 25, 2011
Addressed to students/designers for whom space or visual communication constitute the principal fields of activity, the programme combines the capacities of graphic design and signage with those of space design and inter[...]
June 17, 2010
