Claire Reymond is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Digital Communication Environments, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. She conducts research in the field of image production as well as the visual reception of images.
In 2000, Claire Reymond completed her training as a graphic designer at the Basel School of Design and then worked as a designer for several years. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Iconic Research. At the Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, she obtained her doctorate in the field of Empirical Aesthetics. In 2019, Claire Reymond was a visiting researcher at metaLAB at Harvard University, USA.
Paloma Lòpez-Grüninger studied Fine Arts at the University of Granada, Spain, and Visual Communication at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Switzerland. Between 2005 and 2008 she was a member of the Graduate School “Image and Knowledge” from eikones – NCCR Iconic Criticism.
Her dissertation, with which she obtained her PhD from the University of Granada in 2011, looks into non-quantitative visualizations, particularly historic and current tree-diagrams in the domain of Biology, and the ways they construct and communicate their meaning.
Her research interests are focused on information design and instructional design, by applying the methodology of practice-led iconic research in order to gain insights into the power and meaning of images through systematic image generation.
Since 2012 she is a lecturer at the Master of Arts in Digital Communication Environments at the Basel Academy of Arts and Design FHNW, and coordinates the program since 2013.
Susanne Käser studied visual communication at the HGK Basel FHNW from 2002 to 2005. She worked for design offices in Basel and Zurich and since 2005 as an independent graphic designer. Since 2007 she has been in charge of the documentation assignment for the restructuring of the Novartis Campus at the Institute Digital Communication Environments, HGK Basel FHNW. From 2009 to 2011 she studied visual communication and iconic research at the HGK Basel FHNW. As part of her master's thesis "The Image and the Sense of Touch", Susanne Käser investigated possibilities for a holistic form of documentation. From 2012 to 2014 she was responsible for the research project "Campus+ new strategies for the documentation of urban change processes". Currently, she is working on and developing third-party funded projects in the areas of research and service and is mentoring the final phase of the BA Visual Communication and digital Spaces.
