Azura is working with making photography on the topic of repair with her sister Tia, who is based in Sydney, Australia. Ariella Azoulay proposes to watch rather than to look at images (Azoulay, 2008), Tina Campt to listen rather than to watch (Campt, 2017), influenced by the work of Edith Amituanai shown in "Photographing Moments to be Seen" (Stanhope, 2020), the two ask if it's possible to feel images and how that might look and sound like.

I just wanted to make some easy-fluffy cushions in order to place them in front of my fireplace and now I'm stuck in a sheep-wool-rabbit-hole condemned to acquire, clean, process, ideate and doing other sheep wool related activities such as talking to other people, visiting production sites and dealing with a dead lamb I don't know where its coming from.

A video game made in Unreal Engine, that aims to recreate childhood experiences of playfully exploring otherworldly systems by letting you experiment with generative music in a virtual space.

A temporary radio station to broadcast and perform a series of aqualiteracies. Aqualiteracies emerge from the capacity to feel, learn and imagine with the waters, and to receive, re-code and interpret the information they contain. The radio would be open and available to document our collective rehearsal.

This thesis is an auto-ethnographic design research, a deep engagement with the self/ selves in a digital communication environment of a post-digital world. Nowadays a person becomes datafied the moment they enter the digital realm, which means this world has become datafied and algorithmically interpreted. Endless amounts of individual-related data are being captured, processed, and preserved. Through that procedure a data persona is created – some speculated version (but never quite me). I develop a critical approach to those clashes of selves to glance at my relations and connections within those events. With a dataset of screenshots, I approach that matter by encountering my data and selves. The dataset captures moments of my life on the phone – my point of view.

[16:45] Michael Stucki (s) A real-time (?) video installation examining laggy infrastructure, inviting viewers to hop along the path of a data package.

Reading, writing, confusion, mess, spidernets, love, reminders.

The Toolkit for Other Worldings proposes a speculative space inspired in the Temazcal (sweat lodge) ceremony.
Envisioned as rehearsal of a possible future, where health services embrace the needs of the physical body as much as the needs of the psychic body and soul. A holistic approach to health in which our inner worlds are welcome as much as it is a practice of communing and collective health.

Multimodal narratives based on local Latino commercial establishments in Basel City. Through a series of interviews and advertisement archival materials, I research the graphic design and communicative appearance of these establishments and how their best-selling products reflect nostalgia and stereotypes of their hometowns. The Nowhere Latino shop is the first stage of an artistic research project that explores the lack of sense belonging expressed by owners. Additionally, it examines how these places, which showcase their culture, serve as means and focal spaces to engage with the ambivalence of integrating into the Swiss context.

I wrote in my orientations about a philosophy that believes in trees smelling each other. Now I want to follow this tangent and work with the plant volatiles that are the messangers of this plant-plant communication.
With the project I engage in a process of gathering / searching / foraging material aiming towards a video work that digests the possibility of forests smelling each other. The work should walk the line between scientific methods, pop-cultural audiovisual media, other forms of language and volatility itself.

Resilience strategy for political defeat.

My design work focuses on the reuse of building materials and their reuse in furniture design. Over the last two years, the relocation of my studio and the resulting urgency to furnish the new space on a small budget has led to some ideas for reusing materials. I would like to exhibit a collection of furniture design ideas in the Transbona.halle, creating a haptic encounter with the materials used.

In troubling times, marked by climate crisis, inequality, genocide and exploitation of people and nature, we look to cosmograms as maps that guide civilizations to a better future. What are cosmograms and how do our modern ones look like? What practices and infrastructures are necessary to produce maps that civilizations find meaning in and will trust as guides moving forward? And, critically, what if those practices and infrastructures are tainted and corrupt after centuries in service imperial or exploitative imperatives? An Exercise in Critical Cosmogrammetry is a publication of research notes, annotations and quotes from a variety of sources, researchers and disciplines, that engages with these questions in search of new maps of meaning.

My speculative project began with acknowledging the glitch—an infrastructural error that manifested in me as an inner alarm in the form of an electromagnetic wave.
By exploring an intimate relationship with the algorithm, I found myself questioning the concepts of self, online performance, real and simulation, politics of recognition, ethics and morals, authenticity, girlhood and algorithmic existence.
Along the way, I encountered new visions of hyperlinks and cosmic bodies, discovering that I enjoy contradicting myself. Embracing the glitch and an unconfortable shift in perspective, a new storytelling unfolds: What if AI were my own parents? As this intimate relationship develops, I wonder. What kind of bedtime stories would I hear?

Their Garden is a mobile game telling about the story of Wintertree (겨울나무), who is a Christian and mom of a queer child. The story is based on the interview conducted during my field research in Seoul in April. As a puppy in Wintertree's garden, players can explore, discover and listen to fragmented stories. What would you listen to, and how would you listen to it?

The project investigates the extensive and complex infrastructure that underpins our ubiquitous online experiences. This infrastructure encompasses a complex network of physical components – antennae, cables, and switches – as well as vast data centers. However, the system extends beyond the technological; it is also reliant on human labor, often operating in spheres largely invisible to the everyday user.

Selling, 2024
Video, loop, 16"16', found footage, youtube, uploaded 2023–2024

Producing, 2024
Video, loop, 16"16', pitched video, youtube, "LAN CABLE Production Procedure, Guangzhou", uploaded 2016

Maintaining, 2024
Video, loop, 16"16', found footage, youtube and instagram, uploaded 2020–2024

Consuming, 2024
Video, loop, 0"54'

Material Girl works in the workshop. She uses hyperfeminine stereotypes and norms to question this hypermasculine space. Material Girl looooooooves material, of course! Especially metal (but also wood, ceramics, plastic and money, but shhhh). That's why she creates objects and products. Perhaps she sells things like great product designers, telling her allusive success story to the bourgeois clientele while they applaud her for being one of the geniuses of design.
But while she is working, she often gets sooo tired, with dirty hands and all! At times like this, she asks herself: "Why isn't the world of work inclusive for people with mental health problems while it is essential to social participation and generally a life structuring tool? :( And why do my family members despise the hard physical labor they have to do every day to survive, while the workshop at design school is obviously a super fun, giggly and romantic place??? ://
But hopefully soon the silly thoughts will be gone, and she can continue her work as an independent, strong, bossy (but not too bossy, just enough so that people like to look up to her), attractive, positive, energetic and forever young designer and climb the ladder of success :)

T:T:P:R, a research project exploring the connectedness of Tea, its Technology, Power, and Rituals. It questions our relationship to tea, its history, healing aspects, and the people behind it. The project explores these elements in a speculative setting through storytelling and possible objects from the future.

How is ecological grief and a carbonated energy drink connected? Passed from hand to hand, mouth to mouth, the ritual of Mate drinking was already portrayed as a symbol of friendship in the Guaraní cosmologies, shaping the identity of many countries in the southern cone. In the last century, the "activating" properties of this plant has captured the attention of the western market, fostered in particular by the wave of Swiss migrants in the province of Misiones, Argentina, during the early 1900s. These settlers became the pioneers of the industrialization process of Yerba Mate production. As Mate's popularity increases so does the erosion of the very soil that sustains it. Through an on-growing dendrochronological cartography this work invites the audience to collectively revisit and reclaim the Argentinian-Swiss common heritage of Mate consumption, its cultural influence and environmental impact.