Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), Basel Academy of Art and Design

The Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) is organized around two spaces and communities – HyperWerk and Critical Media Lab – and houses the Bachelor programme Process Design, the Master programme Transversal Design, and the PhD programme Make/Sense.

HyperWerk is a space of possibility for new and unexpected forms of design, and a matrix for transdisciplinary project work by and with students, staff, and the public. It provides a connective structure for the BA program Process Design and acts as a seismograph for the sometimes still weak signals of social change. HyperWerk is a learning laboratory that reacts to current developments with flexible experimental arrangements and seeks to experimentally unsettle its own methods.

The Critical Media Lab is a community, a space and a platform for research and practice at the intersections of design, media, art, and technology. We combine perspectives and methods from humanities scholarship and scientific research with art and design and focus on practice-based research. The lab provides discursive, community and physical support for scholarly exchange, critical publishing, and experimental pedagogies.