Art & pedagogy / teaching / education

Collective and individual artistic practices from a gender perspective.

Two pieces based on Milan Knízak's canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, containing ten short lectures outlining the university's character—On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university.

A critical examination of the Studio Experimentelles Design's politically and socially committed approach, questioning the social implications of design as well as the working conditions of designers today.

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of MuMo (Musée Mobile), this fourth volume traces the journey of a new museum truck, designed in 2017 by designer Matali Crasset to circulate the works of the Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain (Frac) and the Cnap – Centre national des arts plastiques.

The report of the third edition of The Experimental Education Protocol, an alternative educational model imagined by the artist Angelo Plessas, organized in the form of a sailboat cruise in the Aegean Sea.

Mediterranea 19 – School of Waters imagines a Biennale as a temporary school inspired by radical and experimental pedagogies and the way they challenge artistic, curatorial, and research formats.

Issue celebrating the 30th anniversary of the design research journal, offering a selection of essential articles and free iconographic navigation in the Azimuts corpus.

The ten years of activity of the international program of research, experimentation, and artistic and pedagogical residencies devoted to questions of artistic community, art in public space, landscape and the political issues of borders, territories and migrations, in Marfa, Texas, a mythical place that has become a veritable artistic laboratory.

The ten years of activity of the international program of research, experimentation, and artistic and pedagogical residencies devoted to questions of artistic community, art in public space, landscape and the political issues of borders, territories and migrations, in Marfa, Texas, a mythical place that has become a veritable artistic laboratory.

A program of performances, sound installations, projections, and conversations, to explore the relationship between sound, movement, and the social and geographic specifics of Marfa, Texas, at the intersection of music, minimalism, and the political.

This biography of a fictitious artist constitutes a critical analysis of the professionalization of arts education as well as a support for reflection in favor of the socio-economic responsibilities of artistic practices.

The first comprehensive and thorough scientific study of typographic typefaces created in Germany, Italy and France between 1459 and 1482, which are neither fully gothic nor roman.

A collective publication implementing the itinerant project of the School of non-work developed by the Geneva-based Argentinian artist Patricio Gil Flood, developed in always different forms, depending on the context where it settles and acts.

A reflection on the stakes of the analysis of dance works and the education of the gaze.

Azimuts #52 invites researchers to talk about their work and thinking, within and outside of their usual frameworks and fields of investigation, documenting a sensitive and critical perception of a reality on hold due to the pandemic.

The ninth issue of the journal of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne proposes to update the debate on the autonomy of architecture.

Formed in 2016 as the collaborative platform of composer Justin Hicks and artist Steffani Jemison, Mikrokosmos mines the history of Black music. This ongoing project has manifested in many forms: workshop, study session, concert, listening session, book, prompt, score. “Another time, this time, one time,” the first Mikrokosmos LP, uses Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's “We Almost Lost Detroit” (1977) as the raw material for R&B songwriting.

A conversation around books and reading, education and teaching methods, food and culinary practices, and agriculture and ecology.

This collection of texts—with many unpublished—spans over half a century of the conceptual artist's radical engagement with art education and its institutions.

Between 2017 and 2020, researchers in the fields of art, design, computer science, psychology, sociology, digital humanities and mathematics explored the historical publication of the artist Paul Klee, which appeared in 1925 at the Bauhaus. The research work led to the project being part of a logic of patrimonialisation and transmission of knowledge based on digital technologies.

Thinking design with philosophy (a teaching manual).

Artist's book stemming from a performance by the Swiss feminist artist, featuring newspaper cut-outs evoking the female sex (limited edition).

Edited collectively by the students of the 2019 graduating and incoming classes of the Design Research Cycle at ESAD Saint-Étienne, issue 51 of the magazine Azimuts looks at pedagogy in higher education in design through testimonies and feedback from past and present experiences that challenge the traditional modalities and frameworks of school and university.

An archeology of Swiss experimental film.

A book of interviews with the curator and pedagogue Laurence Rassel, who develops in thought and action ways to remedy what ruins relationships and hinders emancipation.

The eighth issue of the journal of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne focuses on the relationship between heritage, ecology and creation.

A manifesto for artistic research and in defense of its autonomy.

Stemming from the Master Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts, this publication promotes the art school as a place for pedagogical, civic and political implications.

The thirteenth issue of Initiales is dedicated to Joséphine Baker, an eminently romantic character who crossed the twentieth century and the continents and who allows us today to reconsider the notions of identity and representativeness that occupy our contemporary world.

A collection of texts, interviews and testimonials about new teaching practices of design.

This hybrid publication's starting point relies in ten years of activities of LiveInYourHead, Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD)'s exhibition space. Between a catalogue, an archive and a collective publication, this book explores the relationships between art education and curatorial knowledge.

An overview of study programs teaching socially engaged art.

A collective reflection on cooperative and co-creation artistic practices engaged in the social field.

In conjunction with the exhibition "La table des négociations" [The negotiation table] proposed by the ESAD Saint-Étienne Design Research Cycle as part of the 11th International Design Biennial, Azimuts #50 devotes its thematic dossier to the negotiation of futures.

Revised and expanded edition of the“Color notebooks” published by the National School of Decorative Arts, a synthesis of a series of in-depth studies initiated by Jacques Fillacier on the characteristics of color perception. A reference pictorial manual, for pedagogical as well as professional purposes, for all practitioners of color—painters, architects, designers, stylists, etc.

Since the 1990s, artist Rainer Ganahl has been inspired by Karl Marx's writings. In over 700 pages, this publication brings together essays, photographs and other documentation from dozens of Ganahl's projects adapted from Marx's theories.

This publication gathers the outcomes of a research project bringing together sociologists, art historians and artists to investigate the frontier as both a subject and an epistemic framework.

A perspective on contemporary video and multimedia creation through the various works produced by students (promotions Michelangelo Antonioni & Chantal Akerman) and invited artists-professors for the 21th edition of the “Panorama” program at Le Fresnoy.

For its twelfth issue, Initiales pays tribute to Sylvère Lotringer who, in the 1970s, imported the French Theory in the United States.

20 proposals for the intersection of artistic practice and research in academic milieu.

A pastiche, playful and educational aesthetic manual.