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© HEAD – Genève, Sylvain LeurentTechnical & Educational Pools
Studying at HEAD means having access to expertise, tools and machines that enable you to carry out your most ambitious projects.
© HEAD – Genève, Michel GiesbrechtHEAD – Genève is organised around several transversal technical “pools”, Photography, Digital, Audio-visual, Materials & Prototyping, Printing & Publishing and the CERCCO. The pools bring together the skills and techniques specific to these fields and offer cross-disciplinary teaching within the departments and also within the programme of each student (specialised courses, electives, creative weeks, documentation courses, tutorials, etc.). They are also key in the realisation of commissions.
Materials and prototyping pool
© HEAD – GenèveThese workshops are spread over nearly 1500m2 entirely dedicated to producing objects (from jewellery to architecture), experimenting with techniques and learning about wood, metal, polymers and associated materials. Students have access to loan shops with standard hand tools and complete electro-portable equipment. In addition, the workshops open to all students offer high-quality professional stationary equipment.
Infrastructure and equipment:
Wood workshop: automatic panel saw, CNC milling machine, table circular saw, band saw, surface planer, axial sander, column drilling machine, cutting bench with 2 radial saws, wood lathe, etc.
Metal workshop: digitally controlled plasma cutting table, oxy-acetylene torch, welding stations, column drilling machine, digitally controlled press brake, digitally controlled metal lathe, milling machines, etc.
Prototyping workshop: laser cutting tables, 3D object printers, cutting plotter, thermoforming machine...
CERCCO
© HEAD – Genève, Sylvain LeurentCERCCO is the centre for contemporary ceramics experimentation and production. Its objective is to provide HEAD – Genève’s students with the technical and methodological means to carry out any project in the fields of ceramics, polymers, wax, plaster, moulding, ceramic printing. Each semester CERCCO offers a residency, WORKSPACE at CERCCO, to an artist or designer wishing to pursue a personal project in the fields of ceramics and polymers.
Infrastructure and equipment:
Ceramics (15 different clays, more than 40 enamels and raw materials, oxides, gold, liquid silver, etc.), polymers (silicones, epoxy resins, polyurethane, biothan, A-Crystal, Ludur X, fibreglass fabrics), plaster, waxes, ceramic laser printer, pottery lathes, laser cutting machine, diamond saw, sandblasting machine, plaster lathe, electric and gas ovens, etc.
Publishing & Printing pool
© HEAD – GenèveThe Publishing & Printing pool offers specialised fundamental courses and specialised free courses in the fields of typography, micro-publishing, layout, engraving and screen printing. Students receive professional advice in the realisation of publishing projects, from the digitisation of documents to the binding and the various stages in the graphic process.
Infrastructure and equipment:
Traditional typography workshop, bookbinding workshop, micro-publishing workshop, digital printing workshop, finishing workshop, engraving and screen printing workshop
PHOTOGRAPHY POOL
© Michel GiesbrechtThe teaching staff offers technical and conceptual teaching of photography, as well as support for students of all departments who practice photography. Whether it is a question of moving from screen to paper or remaining in a digital environment, the Photography Pool will support you throughout the photographic process and share its know-how with the Printing & Publishing Pool.
Infrastructure and equipment:
Two fully equipped shooting studios, a black and white laboratory, a work room with calibrated screens and self-service computers.
Digital POOL
© HEAD – Genève, Sylvain LeurentThis pool coordinates cross-disciplinary teachings at BA and MA levels on the aesthetic, technical, economic and social challenges of digital technologies and aims to support students in their digital artefact production projects: event-driven websites, interactive devices, Deep Learning, programming, VR & AR, online exhibitions, etc.
Image-Sound Pool
© Morgan CarlierThe Image-Sound Pool is a place for the creation of audio and video projects for students from all of HEAD - Genève’s programmes. It provides technical and conceptual support and offers access to video workstations and sound engineering studios. It provides technical equipment and can take charge of certain shots. The Pool offers a programme of courses, including introductory and advanced technical courses, and responds to the requests of the courses by organising workshops.
Infrastructure and equipment:
A room equipped with the Adobe suite: Premiere-After Effect, Photoshop, In Design, etc., various Mao software and specific plugins: Ableton live, ProTools, Adobe audition, grmtool. A room equipped with an Ambisonic sound system with 16 speakers, a video station with mini DV acquisition equipment and a control monitor. A broadcasting room, a 20m2 studio dedicated to sound mixing in stereo and quadraphonic. Various Mao software and specific plugins are available (Ableton live, ProTools, Adobe audition, waves plugins, gr-mtool, arturia suite). A modular system and various midi interfaces for sound research.
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