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• MA Transversal Design //// IXDM - HGK Basel

Azura Silberschmidt (she/her)

Azura Silberschmidt is a Swiss-based photographic artist, researcher and facilitator whose practice weaves together image-making and storytelling to explore shifting terrains of identity and representation, attending to how images can hold, question and reimagine the ways we see ourselves and one another.

• azurasilberschmidt.com

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Leonie Hochstrasser (She/her)

Leonie Hochstrasser is a Swiss designer based in Bern, creating research-based conceptual projects that experimentally explore materials, everyday objects, and food culture across multiple design media to question how we engage with things today and in the future.

• leoniehochstrasser.com

Leonard Krättli (He/him)

Maren Lickert (She/her)

A graphic designer from Freiburg specializing in branding. Always open to new, exciting projects in the fields of design, photography, and illustration.

• marenlickert.de

Mischa Nüesch (He/him)

Basel-based music producer, composer, and digital creative working across theatre, film, and games.

• mischanueesch.com

Carolin Lerner (She/her)

Carolin Lerner is a communication designer and researcher. She analyzes, experiments, conceptualizes, and creates around the matter and materialities of thoughts, memories, and the analog-digital self.

• IG: @carolinlerner

Camila A. Chebez (She/her)

Lithic dancer and visual storyteller traversing across the realms of "political ecologies of extraction", "decolonial botany" and "ecosomatic practices".

• amancay.cargo.site

Zhixian Zhang (She/her)

Grounded in Southeast Asia, a designer, curator, and researcher working at the intersection of psychogeography, everyday life studies, and cyber warfare.

• zhangzhixian.com

Lucca Jäger (He/him)

Ivan Weiss (He/him)

Ivan Weiss is a designer working at the intersection of technology, design, and social issues.

• ivanweiss.net

Juliana Rosas (She/her)

Visual storyteller whose interdisciplinary practice explores urban contexts, migration, and cultural representation through projects that combine field research, archival work, cartography, and graphic storytelling across the places she inhabits.

• julianarosas.com

Reto Riggs (He/they)

Reto Riggs is an interdisciplinary critical theorist on climate politics, environmental research and science philosophy, working with experimental and collaborative publishing practices to advance a politics of care and kinship.

• retoriggs.ch

Maria Maddalena Lenzi (She/her)

Practicing collective conspiring against authoritarian narratives and atomizing infrastructures, she works at the intersection of community-oriented projects and cultural organizations.

• [email protected]