Art & pedagogy / teaching / education

Avenues for engaged pedagogies, collective learning, and artistic ecologies that can engender new institutionalities.

Global Tools 1973–1975 documents and narrates the story of the eponymous experience of Radical Design and its multidisciplinary school program "without students or teachers."

How to teach art / can we become an artist?

A hybrid publication that gathers 18 architecture projects from the student collectives of Roberto Gargiani's Superstudio at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, 2020–2021, and a series of 13 theoretical, practical and historical reflections on (antagonist) rationalism in architecture.

A collection of essays and honest conversations with practitioners around collaborative practices, at the intersection of art, education, and activism.

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.

This book examines the modes of execution in contemporary art from the viewpoint of production, by means of a series of eighteen interviews. It presents a plural and polyphonic thinking, bringing together the words of different participants concerned with the realisation of artworks and several generations of artists.

The book contextualizes the Creativity Exercises—an amateur art course led by neo-avant-garde artists Miklós Erdély and Dóra Maurer in Budapest from 1975 to 1977—within the postwar intellectual networks that connected artists, architects, educators, sociologists and other socially engaged professionals.

Thinking design with philosophy (a teaching manual).

Tarek Lakhrissi's first artist's book.

A landscape of Japanese playgrounds, at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, design, pedagogy and contemporary art.

This book is part of a research project conducted at ECAL that takes a critical look at standards in the field of offset printing. One will find here a collection of texts and images related to colour printing which recount histories, at times unknown, others forgotten, or else, for some, never told.

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

A collective survey on the multiple dimensions of Artist-Run Spaces all around the world.

A bible for graphic designers: first publication dedicated to “Color Library,” the database of color profiles for artists, designers and printers created at ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne. It features documentation on the various tools offered by the platform, a visual essay by Shirana Shahbazi, and texts by specialists.

Through numerous previously unpublished pictures and essays, this publication explores the history of the playground as it was shaped by education, architecture, art, and politics, and pays tribute to the most important figures, many of them forgotten today (second revised and expanded edition).

This publication examines the new paradigms of creation, dissemination and teaching of photography in the digital age. Resulting from a research project by the Master Photography at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, the publication includes a series of essays and interviews, productions done by the Master's students, together with a selection of representative works.

A portrait of the artist as an inspiring teacher: this publication focuses on Baldessari's practice at the intersection between pedagogy and art. Visually organized in alphabetical order, Learning To Read features essays, artworks, a chronology, and personal insights on Baldessari's teaching and influence by a group of the artist's former students and CalArts collaborators such as Ashley Bickerton, Liz Craft, Meg Cranston, Matt Mullican, and Tony Oursler.

Catalogue celebrating the first European retrospective of the artist and pedagogue Beatriz González: the publication explores 50 years of plural and polymorphic work, inspired by the historical and cultural realities of Colombia. It features a rich selection of images and a critical apparatus which explores the artist's career while revealing the contemporaneity of her work.

In this publication, various authors reflect on the history of dematerialization and deskilling, the manifold meanings of materials in art and design, and the challenges for education when the innovative power of the artistic process is celebrated.

The 10th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Italian pedagogist Maria Montessori.

Students and teachers of the Fashion Matters masters program at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, discuss innovative ways of designing, producing, promoting, financing, selling, and eventually consuming in today's fashion industry.

An international history of video art and experimental cinema networks in the early 1970s: the volume casts a new eye on various exhibitions, broadcasts and production and distribution structures, including a case study on Jonas Mekas' Anthology Film Archives.

This publication documents Eliasson's Green light project —an artistic workshop for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and NGOs, whose goal is to fabricate lamps for fundraising education. It provides testimonies, stories, and memories by Green light participants, founders, and organizers, as well as essays by art historians and theorists.

Choreographer Catherine Contour is a pioneer in the use of hypnosis within the creation process. This monograph features photographic documentation, short essays by specialists, an a small illustrated manual for artists to experiment with the hypnotic tool.

This exhibition catalogue offers a thorough examination of the artist's book as both an artistic and editorial medium. Focusing on the collection by Jean-Paul Guy, the publication presents 68 artists' books by the likes of Ed Ruscha, Dieter Roth, Michael Snow, and Robert Barry.

ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne is recognized as a world reference in terms of graphic design. This success is largely based on a strategy of workshops that allow students to learn from the best Swiss and international designers on the school premises. This book retraces projects conducted in the Bachelor's Graphic Design and Master's programs between 2010 to 2015.

Discourses, reflections and documents on performative and choreographic arts today.

The aim of the volume Exhibited Cinema is to reconstruct the history of cinema in exhibition contexts and to trace its archeology, through original essays by researchers, curators, artists and filmmakers.

A manifesto to reestablish a social and aesthetic dialogue between visual art, pedagogy, and psychology, philosophy, critical journalism, etc.

Performing the Sentence brings into dialogue the ways that “performative thinking” has developed in different national and institutional contexts, within different disciplines in the arts, and the conditions under which it has developed in experimental art schools.

Luis Camnitzer plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

Theoretical reflections and insights into alternative artistic working models.

Art as the result of a thinking process (a vast survey of recent debates around art schools and their methods).

Learning to Breathe Protest / Alexandre Costanzo / Karl Holmqvist / Camille Pageard / Robert McKenzie / Gallien Déjean / Kim West / Elisabeth Lebovici / Clément Rodzielski...

Artist's book (limited edition).

Applied Research and Development in Typography.

The first book bringing together Mike Kelley's autobiographic works since 1995, and offering an overview of the development of Kelley's practice.

An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.

New perspectives on typography.

An inventory of the best products developed within one of the leading European art schools, the Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne.

John Armleder's 404 Team yellow pages.

A source book of graphic design by one of the leading European art schools.

An album of the “best images” gathered from the Visual Communication Department of ECAL, the dynamic art institute of Lausanne.

Special issue, dedicated to the Swiss art school ECAL.

Artist's edition: three books batch ("philosophy", "history", "economy").