ARCHIPELAGO: ARCHITECTURES - Key Persons
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Architect
- HEAD
- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Director Garage Museum, Moscow
- Director of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
Anton Belov has been the Director of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art since 2010. Anton founded the Gallery White non-profit project, which focuses on working with young artists and helps to create new projects. In 2009, he started publishing the ARTGUIDE bilingual magazine and online resource on contemporary art in Moscow. Today, ARTGUIDE is the leading title in its niche. Anton was a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation from 2012-2013. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (NITU MISiS), specialising in the physical chemistry of processes and materials.
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- Chief
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Chief Curator, V & a East, London
Catherine Ince is Chief Curator of V&A East, a major new institution planned as part of a new cultural and education district for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. She studied art and design history before completing a Masters in curatorial studies. Before joining the V&A Catherine was a Curator at the Barbican Art Gallery, where she organized major survey exhibitions and publications including The World of Charles and Ray Eames (2015), Bauhaus: Art as Life (2012) and Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (2011), and oversaw presentations of the international touring exhibitions The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier (2014) and Pop Art Design (2013). In 2012 she commissioned Japanese architect Junya Ishigami to create the installation Architecture as Air, the first major installation by an architect for the Curve Art commissions programme in the Barbican's Curve Gallery. Before joining the Barbican, Catherine was Curator and subsequently Co-Director of the British Council's Architecture, Design and Fashion Department, where she organized touring exhibitions, installations, events and collaborative projects about contemporary architecture and design around the world. During this time she was responsible for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture and worked with guest curators Sir Peter Cook, Jeremy Till and Ellis Woodman between 2004 and 2008 to represent British practice on an international stage.
Catherine is currently an international juror for the Swiss Design Awards and is a member of the advisory board for the Stanley Picker Gallery and Dorich House Museum at Kingston University. She regularly contributes to books, journals and online media about twentieth century and contemporary visual and material culture, and has lectured widely in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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- Member of Steering Commitee
- Scientific Assistant, HEPIA
Charlotte Chowney obtained her Master's degree in Geography and Territorial Sciences at the University of Geneva in 2012. With an orientation in Territorial Development and Geographic Information, this programme specialised her in the cultural and political fields of territorial and environmental representations and policies. Her Master's thesis focused on the topic of representations of nature in the city, covering the conflicts between nature and the city that arise from their classification and the historical construction of their representations. She completed her training with a Master of advanced studies (MAS) in Sustainable Urban Planning while working at the Urban Planning Office of the Canton of Geneva. She currently works in the Landscape Architecture department of HEPIA as a research scientist. Her research within the Paysage Projet Vivant group focuses on landscape awareness tools and the landscape approach in local and regional planning and development projects.
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- Director, HEPIA
- Member of Steering Commitee
Claire Baribaud holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). From 1992 to 1999 she was a researcher at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and the University of Florida. She has also taught at the University of Applied Sciences in Lausanne and at ETHZ, as well as at the University of Applied Sciences in Geneva from 2000 to 2011. Claire Baribaud was appointed director of HEG in September 2011, and from March 2021 onwards, of the Geneva School of Engineering, Architecture and Landscape (HEPIA), an institution that has more than 1100 students and 9 training courses.
Claire Baribaud's career path has enabled her to accumulate extensive experience in management, teaching and research. Her taste for innovation and entrepreneurship has induced her to participate in the creation of projects such as the Pulse incubator, while her interest in education has led her to become a board member of the Ifage Foundation. The anchoring of a university of applied sciences like HEPIA, with a tight network of partnerships in the socio-economic and cultural fabric of Geneva, is an important priority for her.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- RESEARCH, EDITORIAL, SOCIAL MEDIA, OPEN CALL
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Architect HES - MPQ - REG a - SIA ( HEPIA )
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- COMMUNICATIONS ARCHIPELAGO
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Architect EPFL SIA ( HEAD )
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- Architect
- Associate Professor
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Head Interior Architecture Department, HEAD
- Member of Steering Commitee
Natacha Guillaumont
Associate Professor, Head Landscape Architecture Department, HEPIA and Co-Head of the Masters in territorial development MDT unige HES-SO
Javier Fernández Contreras (1982) is an architect, associate professor and dean of the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD - Genève, Switzerland. The Department explores the agency of interior spaces in the construction of contemporary cities and societies, offering BA and MA programmes that promote speculation and direct action on contemporary design and spatial agendas.
Contreras studied Architecture at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), where he graduated -M.Arch, 2006; PhD, 2013. In 2015 he was a finalist in the 10tharquia/tesis competition with his PhD thesis The Miralles Projection: Thinking and Representation in the Architecture of Enric Miralles. He has taught Architectural Design at different institutions, including ETSAM in Spain, XJTLU in China and ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Contreras is author of the books Fragmentos de Planta y Espacio(Ediciones Asimétricas, 2019) and The Drawings of Enric Miralles(Oro Editions, 2020). His critical essays have been published in different books and specialised media, including Massilia Annuaire des Études Corbuséennes, Marie-José Van Hee architecten, Perspectives in Metropolitan Research, Princeton 306090, CIRCO, Drawing Matter, Bitácora, RA Revista de Arquitectura.
At HEAD - Genève, recent recognitions include a nomination for the Design Prize Switzerland for the #Looslab project, and the selection of the associated False Spaceproject for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. In 2019, Contreras curated with Youri Kravtchenko the Scènes de Nuitexhibition at f'ar Lausanne (with the contribution of Manon Portera and BA students in Interior Architecture).
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- Director
- HEAD
- Director of HEAD
- Member of Steering Commitee
Art and design historian, teacher and curator, Jean-Pierre Greff was born in 1957 in Lorraine (France). He is author of numerous prefaces and essays on photography, art and literature (illustrated books and artists' books), art and communication, colour and art in France during the Occupation and after the War.
After managing the Haute école des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg from 1993 to 2004, Greff became director of HEAD - Genève in 2007, an institution born from the merger between the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (where he took over in 2004) and the Haute Ecole d'Arts Appliqués, both schools that were more than two hundred years old.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Curator Public, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montréal
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Head of MA Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven
- Head of the Master
Marina Otero is head of the Master in Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, and director of research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI) - the Dutch institute for architecture, design, and digital culture. At HNI, Otero leads initiatives such as Automated Landscapes about the emerging architectures of automated labor, and Burn Out on exhaustion on a planetary scale, instigating new forms of coexistence and care for multispecies, collective bodies.
Alongside the conception and curation of several exhibitions at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Otero will be a curator at the Shanghai Art Biennial 2021. At the 16th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2018, Otero curated Work, Body, Leisure for the Dutch national pavilion. As part of the After Belonging Agency, she was Chief Curator of the 2016 Oslo Architecture. Between 2013-15, while based in New York, Otero was director of Global Network Programming at Studio-X, a global network of research laboratories exploring the future of the built environment, launched by the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in 2008, under the deanship of Mark Wigley.
Otero has taught architecture studios and seminars at, among others, the Royal College of Art in London, ETSAM, Barnard College, Columbia GSAPP, HEAD Geneva. She has co-edited More- than-Human (HNI, Serpentine Galleries, Manifesta, 2020), I See That I See What You Don't See (HNI, 2020), Unmanned: Architecture and Security Series (Dpr- Barcelona, 2016-20), Architecture of Appropriation (HNI, 2019), Work, Body, Leisure (Hatje Cantz, HNI, 2018), After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit (Lars Müller Publishers, 2016), and Promiscuous Encounters (GSAPP Books, 2014).
In 2016, Otero received her PhD at ETSA Madrid with the thesis Evanescent Institutions, examining the emergence of new paradigms for cultural institutions, and in particular the political implications of temporal and itinerant structures. She has studied architecture at TU Delft and ETSA Madrid, and graduated in 2013 as a Fulbright Scholar from the MS in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture at Columbia University GSAPP.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Architect, Writer, Editor, Researcher
Matevž Čelik is an architect, writer, editor, researcher and developer of new cultural models in architecture and design. He is programme director of Future Architecture platform, a pan-European platform for exchange and networking between architectural institutions and emerging talents. He considers the understanding of new, hybrid roles of public cultural institutions as crucial for their management in the future. Until 2020 he was director of MAO, Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, which under his leadership grew into a flagship national institution with international reach. Matevz Celik stands behind the repositioning of BIO Ljubljana, the oldest design biennial in Europe, which has been transformed from a standard design exhibition into a live experiment to explore the potentials of design to instigate positive change. In 2016, 2018 and 2021 Matevž Čelik was the Commissioner of the Slovenian Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Architect from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure
- Head Landscape Architecture Department, HEPIA and Co - Head of the Masters in Territorial Development MDT Unige HES - so
- Member of Steering Commitee
Natacha Guillaumont graduated as a landscape architect from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles, under the direction of Gilles Clément in 1996 after a first cycle at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris. She is in charge of the Landscape Architecture training in the French-speaking part of Switzerland at the HES-SO HEPIA Geneva and of the research group Paysage Projet Vivant.
For fifteen years she managed her landscape office in Marseille "La compagnie du vent", specializing in the social dimension of the role of the garden and public space, around the notion of natural heritage and classified site and for the creation of gardens and estates. In parallel, she has taught landscape projects in Art and Landscape schools and now plant design at HEPIA and plant urban planning in the Master of Territorial Development at the University of Geneva.
Her applied research since 2012 has focused on the plant and our relationship to living things in landscape projects. For several years, Guillaumont's reflections have focused on the design and evolution of plant forms and structures on an urban scale, and in this sense works on territorial plant strategies and adaptations to global warming.
On the other hand, Guillaumont continues to work on the part of the sensitive in qualitative landscape studies and develops methodological approaches, operational guides or awareness and analysis of sensitive perceptions of space accompanying collective approaches and participation, citizen issues, and landscape didactics.
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- Architect
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Head Architecture Department, HEPIA
- Member of Steering Commitee
Nicolas Pham is an architect and urban planner. After studying at the EPFL and working in Amsterdam with Herman Hertzberger and Jo Coenen, as well as in London with Alan Colquhoun and John Miller, he taught at the EPFL where he was assistant to Prof. Luigi Snozzi from 1992 to 1997 and then lecturer at the EPFL's Institute of Theory and History of Architecture.
He has mainly worked on the urban and territorial scale, as head of the Public Spaces Commission of the Canton of Vaud and in the Netherlands, notably on a master plan for an extension of the city of Utrecht as well as on a national strategic study, the Deltametropole.
He taught from 2000 to 2010 at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Delft (NL).
From 2010 to 2015 he taught at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture (ENSA) in Paris-Belleville and since 2016 at ENSA in Versailles.
Since 2005, he has been directing the Master's program in architecture at the Haute École du Paysage, d'Ingénierie et d'Architecture (HEPIA) in Geneva and since 2009 has been in charge of the architecture department.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Landscape Architect HES ( HEPIA )
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- COMMUNICATIONS HEAD / HEPIA
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- Director
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Artistic Director Iniva ( Institute of International Visual Arts ), London
- Director of the Institute for International Visual Arts
Sepake Angiama is the artistic director of the Institute for International Visual Arts (Iniva) in London which is home to the Stuart Hall Library, a rich resource for a globalised discourse on the curatorial and artistic practice of artists and curators from Latin America, Africa, Asian, Caribbean and the Diaspora. Sepake most recently served as co-curator of Chicago Architecture Biennial and is the initiator of Under the Mango Tree, a self-organised gathering of decolonising and unlearning practices. She has also held positions at Hayward Gallery, Turner Contemporary, the International Foundation Manifesta, and documenta 14.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Sébastien Aeschlimann, Matheo Begeja, Victoire Brem, Anaëlle Centeno, Nathalie Cespedes Callado, Yasmina Cornaz, Kevin Costa Dantas, Dimitri De Gavre, Paolo Fatichenti, Florent Haliti, Emilie Idoux Aymard, Jerome Laine, Delphine Leuba, Alexandre Marangon, Clementine Marchetti, Valentin Marmet, Liam Martin, Ricardo Martins Teixeira, Sarah Marullaz, Adrien Mathes, Matthieu Mathys, Mehdi Mdidech, Yazid Meskini, Thomas Montoya, Oscar Morand, Richard Mori, Jaïro Mugnai, Julien Orozco, Robin Ossent, Camille Peron, Valentin Perroud, Anh Tuan Pham, Alice Philippe, Quentin Poncet, Yann Proennecke, Etienne Pugin, Fabrizio Puopolo, Sébastien Ramel, Chloé Rennard, Coline Ricard, Thomas Riera, Julien Schira, Benjamin Senften, Carlos Francisco Silva Santos, Loïc Steiner, Loïc Tosco, Nadejda Valoueva
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- Curator and General Coordinator
- Design Critic
- Member of Steering Commitee
Vera Sacchetti (Lisbon, 1983) is a design critic and curator. She serves in a variety of curatorial, research and editorial roles, most recently as one half of the curatorial initiative Foreign Legion and associate curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial - A School of Schools. She is co-curator of TEOK Basel and co-founder of editorial consultancy Superscript. Her writing has appeared in Disegno, Metropolis and The Avery Review, among others. She is based in Basel, Switzerland.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Architect EPFL ( HEAD )
- Lecturer, Interior Architecture Department, HEAD
- Member of Steering Commitee
Yuri Kravchenko is a graduate from the École Polytechnique de Lausanne, where he received several distinctions. Since 2012, he has designed construction projects, transformations, decoration, stage design, conceptualization and manufacture of new furniture and objects in Switzerland and abroad. Youri, nostalgic but also pragmatic, influenced by the narrative and theatricality that spaces can communicate, combines (or outlines) contemporary minimalism with more sophisticated atmospheric environments. In this sense, he constantly seeks coherence in the irrational, and functionality in a good story.
Yuri Kravchenko is a graduate from the École Polytechnique de Lausanne, where he received several distinctions. Since 2012, he has designed construction projects, transformations, decoration, stage design, conceptualization and manufacture of new furniture and objects in Switzerland and abroad. Youri, nostalgic but also pragmatic, influenced by the narrative and theatricality that spaces can communicate, combines (or outlines) contemporary minimalism with more sophisticated atmospheric environments. In this sense, he constantly seeks coherence in the irrational, and functionality in a good story.
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- Environmental Engineer
- Member of Steering Commitee
Yves Leuzinger is an environmental engineer who, during his professional life, had the following vision: if people are not the focus of our concerns, technology is useless. As Director of the Geneva School of Engineering, Architecture and Landscape (HEPIA), from 2009 to 2021, Yves Leuzinger's approach was therefore above all organisational and managerial. He thus gave meaning to the whole training process so that future engineers may be pillars of a "sustainable development generation".