HEAD – Genève : Call for applications
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Damian Fopp, 2015, ca. 18 x 18 x 30cm, porcelaine émaillée |
Apply now : REALisation – Ceramic & Polymers Diploma of Advanced Studies
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REALisation – Ceramic & Polymers Diploma of Advanced Studies Application deadline: April 24th, 2015
Contact
magdalena.gerber@hesge.ch
Magdalena Gerber
+41 22 388 51 42
Address
http://www.head-geneve.ch
HEAD – Genève, Geneva School of Art and Design
Boulevard James-Fazy 15
1201 Genève
Switzerland
The CERCCO is the Experimentation and Research Centre for Contemporary Ceramics of the Geneva University of Art and Design. It offers a Diploma of Advanced Studies REALisation–Ceramic & Polymers aimed at designers and artists wishing to complete their training and to acquire technical and aesthetic skills in the fields of ceramics and polymers. The conversion from the project to the physical reality lies at the core of the DAS REAL programme.
The approach to ceramics is not only that of a traditional material, an ancestral support, but also, and more particularly, from the point of view of the most innovative developments in this field.
Participants in the REAL postgraduate course are invited to undertake an individual project in ceramics and/or polymers. During the REAL postgraduate programme, the participants create design objects and/or works of art in a way that enables them to remain as close as possible to their personal artistic philosophy whilst continuing to exploit the most innovative aspects of these materials.
The problem of turning a project into a material reality is the central concern of the REAL postgraduate course. The aim of the training is to provide participants with all of the conditions necessary for the rapid realisation of their project to make it possible to verify their physical reality at every stage.The conversion from the project to the physical reality lies at the core of the DAS REAL program.
The workshop dynamics are based on the alternation of critique and practice. The experimental dimension and research into materials and their applications, more specifically in the fields of ceramics and polymers, represent the main components of this programme.
A wide range of technical, artistic, methodological and communication skills is employed, facilitating the acquisition of the necessary expertise for the realisation of specific and pertinent projects. A wide range of technical, artistic and communication skills is therefore proposed, favouring the realization of specific and pertinent projects.
The CERCCO provides access to exceptional technological equipment including workshops for ceramics and casting, as well as a rapid prototyping workshop, a printer equipped with the Ceramic-Laser- Copy-System, a 3D prototyping printer and a laser-cutting machine.
