HELGA 2025 – Cross-border narrat­ives

Swiss Professional Meeting for Scenography and Spatial Communication 

Friday 14 November
1pm-9:30pm		 mudac – Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, Plateforme 10
Place de la Gare 17, Lausanne, Switzerland Google Maps

Registration opens in July

Theme 2025: Cross-border narrat­ives

HELGA 2025 invites us to exam­ine the “border” as a narrat­ive device in sceno­graphy. Inspired by the concept of “cultural border-cross­ing”, parti­cipants will consider borders as complex, inter­de­pend­ent cultural and social constructs. Cross­ing these bound­ar­ies becomes a creat­ive act at the heart of culture that is under­stood as dynamic, rela­tional and perform­at­ive. 

We welcome diverse forms of trans­gres­sion or blur­ring of bound­ar­ies: between real­ity and fiction; among artistic discip­lines; between audi­ence and space; between object and audi­ence. Equally intriguing are the some­times subtle divid­ing lines between differ­ent insti­tu­tional rationales or the profes­sional self-percep­tion of prac­ti­tion­ers. 

Through keynote talks by guest speak­ers, a collect­ive exer­cise, shar­ing of your sceno­graphic project exper­i­ences and ment­or­ship pair­ings between profes­sion­als and students, HELGA 2025 aims to be a space for open­ness, exper­i­ment­a­tion and exchange of ideas. To make this day a success, we need your involve­ment – hence this call for papers. 

Call for papers: Case Stud­ies

To make this day a success, we are launch­ing a call for papers and are look­ing forward to your parti­cip­a­tion.

Have you recently pushed beyond your profes­sional limits and gained valu­able new exper­i­ences worth shar­ing? Perhaps an unusual collab­or­a­tion or a content-chal­len­ging encounter? Some­thing that posit­ively shif­ted your profes­sional outlook and led you to redefine your own prac­tice? Do you have a project that ques­tions, pushes, dissolves or redefines exist­ing bound­ar­ies, fitting perfectly with HELGA 2025’s theme? 

If your approach pushes estab­lished bound­ar­ies, ques­tions tradi­tional frame­works or opens up new profes­sional perspect­ives, we’d be delighted if you presen­ted it briefly at HELGA. This call is also open to students at Swiss univer­sit­ies.

About HELGA

Created in 2012 as an exchange plat­form for the Swiss sceno­graphy community, HELGA has since become a key forum and meet­ing point for profes­sion­als in sceno­graphy and spatial commu­nic­a­tion. 

After events in Lucerne (2012–2014), Zurich (2015–2017), Basel (2018–2021) and again Lucerne (2022–2024), HELGA will for the first time take place in the French-speak­ing part of Switzer­land. The host for 2025–2027 will be mudac in Lausanne, emphas­ising sceno­graphy’s import­ance for its own exhib­i­tion activ­it­ies and foster­ing exchanges among profes­sion­als across linguistic borders. 

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