https://mlml.io/e/basel/ Recent basel on metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel en-US Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://mlml.io/e/postscriptumobservatory/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://mlml.io/e/postscriptumobservatory/ workshop The Postscript Observatory is a temporary sound installation, publishing experiment, and listening protocol developed by continent. as a parallel intervention within Echoes of Authority (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, March 24–27, 2026). Situated in the Collegium’s small historic observatory tower—a circular domed space originally designed for astronomical attention—the project reimagines the observatory as an acoustic instrument. Rather than looking outward toward celestial bodies, The Postscriptum Observatory listens inward and sideways: to the margins, hesitations, and after-effects of speech. https://mlml.io/e/designassignments/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0100 https://mlml.io/e/designassignments/ event We invite you – educators, practitioners, scholars, researchers, and peers from a variety of fields in design (such as Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Transformation Design, Social Design, Game Design, Fashion Design, Scenographic Design, Product and Industrial Design, Architecture, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture) to share a design assignment you consider poetic, playful, thought-provoking, joyful, boundary-pushing, or else, that prompts, probes, prototypes, invites, immerses, imagines collaborative future worlds. We are interested in applied and engaged approaches to teaching design. https://mlml.io/e/humanities-futures/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:30:00 -0400 https://mlml.io/e/humanities-futures/ talk A conversation about the future of the Humanities between the directors of metaLAB Harvard, Berlin, and Basel – in dialogue with Humanities Dean Sean Kelly, Harvard Professor Peter Bol, Columbia Professor Dennis Tenen. Schedule 4:30-6 pm ET: Houghton Library (Newman & Edison Room) Roundtable Discussion 6:30-8 pm ET: Reception at metaLAB (42 Kirkland St) Speakers Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Sean Kelly, Harvard Peter Bol & Kwok-Leong Tang, Harvard Dennis Tenen, Columbia Dario Rodighiero, University of Groningen Annette Jael Lehmann, Freie Universität Berlin Aylin Tschoepe, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW Opening remarks by Tom Hyry (Director of Houghton Library) RSVP here https://mlml.io/e/metabolic-commons/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0200 https://mlml.io/e/metabolic-commons/ talk A Metabolic Commons: Many Hands Make Light Work is a collaborative media work by WorkOverTime (Louise Carver & Jamie Allen), presented at the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2 October – 8 December 2025) within the Lighter exhibition curated by Territorial Agency at MAC/CCB. The single-channel video combines layered soundscapes, poetic narration, and situated field recordings to explore how bodies, infrastructures, labour, and love shape our shared metabolisms. Filmed and researched across copper mines in Chile, sugar ports in the UK, fishing villages in Malta, and speculative blockchain forests of the future, the project creates an ethnographic fiction reflecting on reciprocity, ecological limits, and planetary commons. https://mlml.io/e/sunkcosts/ Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0200 https://mlml.io/e/sunkcosts/ opening From July 5–9, 2025, the interactive sound installation Sunk Costs: The Saga of the Felicity Ace will be presented at the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference in Funchal, Madeira. The project explores the 2022 shipwreck of a luxury car carrier as a speculative site of logistical failure, ecological transformation, and financial abstraction. Using spatialised audio, sculptural debris, and responsive headphones, the piece immerses visitors in a fragmented evidence room of submerged value, capitalist excess, and material afterlives. https://mlml.io/e/event-2/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:30:00 +0200 https://mlml.io/e/event-2/ workshop If it is true that the world population is ageing and living longer, it is equally true that there is no single “typical” aging person. People’s experiences, needs, and the social and physical environments in which they live and grow are diverse. As a consequence, designing for the aging population becomes challenging if the experience is not collectively defined and understood. Rewiring the Post-Reproductive Sensorium is a practice based research intervention on aging through collective sense-making run by OBOT (Our Bodies Our Tech) collective, a distributed network and a nomadic wet-lab working on ways to lower the barriers to research, production and scientific knowledge through new forms to access tools, protocols and data by promoting co-research practices. https://mlml.io/e/digitalhealthcare/ Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:00:00 +0200 https://mlml.io/e/digitalhealthcare/ talk Bringing together experts in the field of design research working at the intersection of participatory practices, data ethics, and healthcare, the discussion invites all interested participants to join the dialogue, ask questions, and actively engage with the presenters. The following experts will contribute by presenting their work, before opening the dialogue: Arthi Manohar, Senior Lecturer and Director for the BSC Product Design in Brunel Design School; Aylin Tschoepe, Professor of Design Anthropology, Head of Research ICDP Basel Academy of Art and Design, Head of metaLAB (at) at Basel; Laura Ferrarello, Lecturer at the EPFL in Lausanne; Teresa Almeida, Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon and Researcher at ITI/LARSyS; Paulina Yurman, Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins. https://mlml.io/e/wayzgoose/ Thu, 29 May 2025 12:00:00 +0200 https://mlml.io/e/wayzgoose/ workshop On May 29–30, 2025, editors, publishers, artists, and researchers will gather in Berlin for a Wayzgoose—a historical tradition of printers and bookmakers, reimagined for experimental and collective publishing. Hosted by Temporal Communities, continent. and partners, this event explores editorial work as a transformative, care-driven practice. Too often, publishing is shaped by extractive economies, invisible labour, and competitive frameworks. This Wayzgoose asks: What if editing focused on expansion, support, and the unexpected rather than refinement and correction? https://mlml.io/e/echoessanctuarysound/ Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0200 https://mlml.io/e/echoessanctuarysound/ workshop Opening in April 2025 at Ocean Space in Venice, Echoes of the Sanctuary is a research-led exhibition exploring the role of sound and listening in ocean conservation efforts. With a focus on Jamaica’s East Portland Fish Sanctuary, the project brings together artistic research, sound practice, and ecological science to examine the ways in which sound shapes our relationships with marine environments. The exhibition will include a multi-channel sound installation, workshops, and public programming throughout Spring and Summer 2025, inviting local communities, researchers, and students to engage with critical questions around environmental stewardship, sound ethnography, and conservation policy. https://mlml.io/e/event/ Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:30:00 +0100 https://mlml.io/e/event/ talk A City of Longevity is an innovative urban framework that uses technology, data analytics, and citizen engagement to promote healthier, longer lives through preventive measures, while optimizing city resources and addressing the challenges of aging populations in urban environments.