SCÈNES DE NUIT - HEAD Gèneve

SCÈNES DE NUIT. NIGHT & ARCHITECTURE
Nocturnal Exhibition at f’ar Lausanne. HEAD — Genève

SCÈNES DE NUIT explores the role of night in the construction of contemporary cities and societies, illustrating how architectural theory and critique are still associated with sunlight and diurnal paradigms. The exhibition seeks to examine and reflect upon the spaces, activities and media deployed in night culture, using evening events and ephemeral scenography as its main display platform.

The five venues SHOP, FILM, CITY, CLUB and FOOD recreate spaces generating practices and night-time rituals on the topics of consumption, film, street, party and food culture, becoming experimental laboratories to focus on and question the relationship between architecture and night. Scènes de Nuit attempts to understand nocturnal spatial phenomena through performative lectures, discussions, walks, meals and screenings. 

Scènes de Nuit is a project by the Interior Architecture Department. HEAD — Genève
 

Javier Fernández Contreras (1982) is an architect, associate professor and the dean of the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD — Genève. His work explores the relationship between architecture, representation and media, with a specific focus on the role of interiors in the construction of contemporaneity.

Youri Kravtchenko (1984) is an architect, a teacher and the co-coordinator of the MA programme in the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève. Inspired by the narrativity and theatricality that spaces can communicate, he blends together in his two complementary practices, narration and construction, to build projects that are as much scenographic as architectural.

Manon Portera (1992) is an assistant in the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD — Genève and the co-founder of the interior architecture office apropМ, which focuses on light and materials using a sustainable approach.