OPEN CALL NEXA: NEXT GENERATION SUSTAINABILITY AWARD HGK Basel 2024

Apply for the first NEXA AWARD with your art and design projects and win a studio residency at the Sitterwerk Foundation!

The NEXA AWARD was initiated to make projects by HGK Basel students on the topic of sustainability more visible in a transdisciplinary way and to promote them. We look forward to your submissions! Thesis projects by alumni:ae can also be submitted.

Deadline: February 23, 2024.

Award
On 7 March, 16:30-18:00, during the FHNW Sustainability Week, three selected projects will be honoured by a jury at the CIVIC and each awarded a studio residency in cooperation with the Sitterwerk Foundation.
The studio residency will take place in August 2024 and includes use of the project studio, the materials archive and the art library of the Sitterwerk Foundation as well as a public event there. The exact planning of the studio residency will be discussed with the winners.

Jury
The jury is made up of two external experts, four HGK Basel students and one member of the HGK Basel staff:

Chrissie Muhr, architect, curator, researcher
Pedro Wirz, artist
Stefanie Rohrer, Head of Events HGK Basel
Ambre Bork, student BA process design
Rondi Park, student MA Fine Arts
Louis Scheurer, student MA Masterstudio Industrial Design
Désirée Sebele, student, MA Arts and Design Education
Siiri Tännler, student MA Digital Communication Environments

Information on the jury, evaluation criteria and the application template can be found on the HGK Basel intranet Inside (AAI login required): Inside.fhnw.ch/hgk/nachhaltigkeit

Questions?
Dr Mario Klinger, Sustainability Officer HGK Basel.