The Swiss Design Awards 2021 exhibition organised by the Federal Office of Culture presents the 48 works nominated from among 247 entries. Our Designer, Kaj Lehmann, is presenting his typeface Synt, a research on late 19th-century modern typefaces — hot metal typefaces made for reading typography — and reimagining the genre in the context of today’s culture and technology. More information here, 20.09.2021.

Toni Hildebrandt's article Post-Apocalyptic Amazement: Aesthetics and Historical Consciousness in the Natural Contract has been nominated among 6 exceptional works for the Bernese Award for Environmental Research.

Qiao Hu has been awarded a scholarship by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to pursue her PhD research at the University of Bern. Her research project Mapping the Smellscape of Altermodern: Olfactory Art and Multidimensional Art History will explore how olfactory art brings into play the concept of relational aesthetics in order to reflect on the smellscape in altermodern, in which viewers' positions are replaced by participants and relations. Her dissertation project is part of the subproject Formations of the Ethical Imperative: From Postmodernity to Relational Aesthetics and the Contemporary Period, 1960–2019, under the lead of Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann, 23.07.2021.

Swiss Mobiliar's Anniversary Foundation generously supports the development and design of an interactive platform for the public outrearch of the SNSF Sinergia Mediating the Ecological Imperative in collaboration with designer Kaj Lehmann

A series of Artist Encounters (2021-24) is generously sponsored by the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, 19.05.2021.

Julia Pelta Feldman on Michaela Schäuble's project Tarantism Revisited, 10.05.2021

Uniaktuell – Das Online Magazin der Universität Bern, 10.12.2020

Interview (German) with cPI Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann, 26.06.2020

UniPress 179/2020

Interview (German) with PI Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl (Vontobel Wealth Management Magazin «Inspiration» 2020)