Art & pedagogy / teaching / education

Soft Photography examines the role of human emotions in the creation and reception of images produced using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) or computer-generated imagery (CGI).

In this 16th issue, the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design) turns its attention to art direction.

A new, collaborative, and educational translation of Plato's Symposium, designed to both encourage a fresh approach to the text and to explore new issues through it.

Chalk, a notebook, a notebook cover, a four-color BIC pen, a STABILO highlighter: what do these objects—so familiar that we no longer even notice them—say about us? Sylvain Wagnon, an education historian, joins forces with photographer Raphaël Wagnon to explore some forty everyday school objects.

The second volume of the journal investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education, edited by the international sound art and popular education collective Ultra-red, is dedicated to the "Learning Circles for Palestine."

The fifteen contributors to this issue of Azimuts, most of whom are artists, thus explore what the fake does to seeing, rather than solely to knowing.

Departing from a series of concrete projects and international exhibitions, this book considers the conditions of artistic research and related discourse via twenty significant concepts.

A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create an other pedagogical turning point.

A card game designed by Matthieu Raffard and Mathilde Roussel to play, think, and create together, designed to help artists and researchers break through barriers in their research and creative work!

A collective research surrounding the concept of relational freedom.

Ctrl. is a book that explores new uses of photography. It examines how photography has become an autonomous medium and now helps to construct identities, control the imagination, and shape the economy and multiple realities.

e-flux Index first special thematic issue, concentrating on the relationship between art and theory today, brings together essays by some 100 international contributors considering the relationship of theory to artistic practice, architectural practice, contemporary politics, and arts education.

A historical and thematic book that aims to tell the adventure of the Casablanca Art School, through a polyphony of stories, experiences and actors.

A historical and thematic book that aims to tell the adventure of the Casablanca Art School, through a polyphony of stories, experiences and actors.

A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.

Why continue to produce objects today? In a world saturated with artifacts and facing ecological urgency, the very legitimacy of production seems to waver. Starting from this question, issue 61 of Azimuts brings together designers, researchers, artists, and students around contemporary object practices.

Why continue to produce objects today? In a world saturated with artifacts and facing ecological urgency, the very legitimacy of production seems to waver. Starting from this question, issue 61 of Azimuts brings together designers, researchers, artists, and students around contemporary object practices.

The relationship between art, agriculture, and biodiversity.

Between science fiction, popular science, art history and visual theory, Le Verdissement des Alpes (Greening of the Alps) examines current and future changes in Alpine environments in relation to global warming and the biodiversity crisis.

Alexis Nouss's manual on cultural resistance in seven lessons.

A comprehensive illustrated compilation of typographic works produced by bachelor and master students at ECAL over the past ten years.

An essay by Alexandra Midal on visual learning experiences through images, based on two revolutionary projects by major 20th-century designers: Charles & Ray Eames, Georges Nelson and Alexander Girard, and Ken Isaacs.

The 15th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), featuring: interviews with Shirin Yousefi & Lucas Erin, Charlie Engman, and Rebecca Zlotowski; portfolios: "THEY," Elizaveta Porodina, Ronan Bouroullec, Assises Vidy, and Freitag; Books feature: Nicole Udry, Friederike Daumiller, Pierre Charpin, Sonya Dyakova, Thierry de Peretti, Yoo-Mi Steffen.

A photographic inventory of the distinctive features of the Grandclément neighborhood in Villeurbanne, created by students at the École Supérieure d'Art et Design de Saint-Étienne.

A performative research-creation project by Emmanuelle Becquemin.

Colonial images, educational images. A major study in art history in which Sophie Leclercq, drawing on and analyzing multiple sources, texts, and visual documents, sheds light on a blind spot in French colonialism: how, between 1870 and 1960, children were taught about colonial conquest through edifying imagery, and how their view of colonized populations was shaped?

The 12th issue of the journal of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne, featuring a dossier on the theme of desire in architecture.

A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.

Index #8 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from March–May 2025. It includes contributions from 142 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

The prospects opened up for architectural education by the pioneering initiative of the Um Slaim school in Riyadh.

Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos examines the interplay of education, identity, and liberation in Brazil's travesti community.

Three years of exploring avenues opened up by eco-design: from physical environments to imaginary ones, from a focus on resilient uses to new collective narratives (box set containing the three volumes S'attacher, 2023, Produire, 2024, and Prendre soin, 2025).

The "doing" in art and design research.

Focusing on contributions that explore composites as forms of art and design, as research methodologies and practices, and/or as theoretical concepts, issue 60 of the journal Azimuts proposes look at composites as a way of presenting or representing realities.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

The design research journal devotes its 59th issue to contemporary forms of graphic design transmission.

Focusing on contributions that explore composites as forms of art and design, as research methodologies and practices, and/or as theoretical concepts, issue 60 of the journal Azimuts proposes look at composites as a way of presenting or representing realities.

Index #7 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from December–February 2024–25. It includes contributions from 105 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

An exploration of the opportunities opened up by eco-design: from physical environments to imaginary ones, from a focus on resilient uses to new collective narratives.

A reader documenting the exhibition and symposium on eight schools, educational organisations and independent, self-organised educational programmes which see themselves as alternatives to traditional art academies and currently occupy central positions in the field of contemporary art.

This tribute book brings together one hundred and one voices from very diverse backgrounds (historians, artists, writers, philosophers, curators, professors, students, close friends and fellow travelers) to draw , through an inventory of friendship, a multidimensional portrait of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and bear witness to the community of intellectual friendship that she was able to create.

Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.

The Um Slaim School forms part of a propositional pedagogy for contemporary urbanism in Riyadh, expanding on the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the Biennale Architettura 2025, and the work of Riyadh-based practice Syn Architects (Sara Alissa and Nojoud Alsudairi).

Superior and Inferior presents a facsimile reprint of Italian abstract artist and feminist Carla Accardi's provocatory publication Superiore e Inferiore and the first ever English translation of the full text.

The final issue of the annual graphic design journal Composite.

A Nomadic Book celebrates the first five editions of the Nomadic School. Launched in 2020 by Office for a Human Theatre [OHT], the school takes place each summer at around 2000 meters in the Alps, offering a different pedagogical approach—one that's more open to the mountain's ecosystems and rhythms.

Index# 6 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from October–November 2024. It includes contributions from 82 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic digressions that index the arts.

An invitation to think collectively about the ideas and forms of repurposing materials and objects from our everyday lives, confronted with formal and cultural ambitions that are more firmly rooted in the history, present and future of architecture.

A card game designed by Chloé Déchery and Marion Boudier, in collaboration with illustrator Éric Valette, to contribute to the development of a “culture of return” in artistic creation, distribution and teaching.