12:00
Registration opens

14:00
Welcome — AGI President

14:10
Welcome — Claudia Perren, Director HGK Basel FHNW
Welcome — Swiss Organization Team 

14:30
Transfer to the auditorium on the first floor

14:40
Introduction to the Programme / Switzerland / Basel — Michael Renner

14:55
Introduction by the moderator — Arno Schubbach

15:10
Plural Perspectives in a Shared World. On the Connection Between the Public and Design, Sociality and the Need to Act (or not) — Judith Siegmund

15:30
Music — Carmen Oswald and Choir

15:40
If the Saw Saws the Saw… — Marc Angélil

16:00
Music — Carmen Oswald and Choir

16:05
Care and Repair — Teresa Dillon

16:25
Music — Carmen Oswald and Choir 

16:30 
Conversation — Judith Siegmund / Marc Angélil / Teresa Dillon

16:50
Outro — Carmen Oswald and Choir

17:00
Transfer to the Merian Gardens

17:20
Introduction to the Merian Gardens, Perspectives of Care in the Botanical Garden — Merian Gardens 

17:35
Exploring Merian Gardens — Merian Gardens

18:00
Back at Iris — Welcome Note from Arnold Schwarzmann

18:10
New Member Welcome — Götz Gramlich

18:30
Welcome Apéro — Music by Fidel and Fozzy

09:00
New Member Zapping I — André Baldinger / Götz Gramlich

11:00
Break

11:15
Welcome — Swiss Organization Team — Moderation Marianna Meyer

11:20
Artificial Intelligence yesterday, today and tomorrow — Michael Vorburger

11:40
Creative Application of Robotics — Alain Bellet

12:00
Revealing Social Media – The Visual Grammar of OSINT— Bérénice Serra

12:20
Lunch

12:20 — AGI National Presidents Meeting at Campus of the Arts

13:15
Welcome — Swiss Organization Team, NN

13:20
Reclaiming the Image — Johannes Nilo

13:40
Teaching Uncertainty, Inviting the Unknown — Sarah Owens

14:00
It's not enough to make a difference; it's time to make a shift — Marianne Lechner

14:20
Break

14:40
Perspectives of AGI — AGI President

15:40
Transfer to the locations of Campus Tour I

16:00
Visiting the locations Tour I — Coordination NN

17:00
Transfer to the location of Tour II

17:15
Visiting the locations Tour II — Coordination NN

18:30
Opening Exhibition: Rid the Grid — Woman in Swiss Graphic Design 1900—1980 — Sandra Bischler and Team

18:30
Apéro on the Freilagerplatz with Craft Beer from Artesanal — Annik Troxler

19:00
Opening Exhibition: AGI Special Project — Perspectives of Generative AI — Demian Conrad

09:00
New Member Zapping II — André Baldinger / Götz Gramlich

11:00
Break

11:20
From national propaganda to global branding: the troubled history of Swiss cultural diplomacy — Mathieu Gillabert

11:40
Conflicting perspectives on a banknote — Manuella Pfrunder

12:00
Swiss Passport — Carl Guilhon: RETINAA

12:20
Lunch

13:20
Intro Moderation 

13:15
Archive Poster Design—Influencing narratives yesterday and today — Bettina Richter

13:40
Swiss Label I: On Shoes — Matt Tucker

14:00
Swiss Label II: Linck Keramik — Annet Berger

14:20 
Perspectives of Swissness — Conversation with Bettina Richter, Matt Tucker, Annet Berger

14:40 
Break

16:00 — 18:00 
AGI General Assembly Basel 2024

18:00
The Alphabets of Rosmarie Tissi: Font and Book Launch Presented by lineto & about books

20:00
AGI Conference Dinner

10:00 — 17:00
City Tours, organised by Jiri Oplatek and his students

12:00
Lunch on your own

— — —

Group 1
Vitra / Fondation Beyeler — meets at 8:50 am

Group 2
Fondation Beyeler / Vitra — meets at 9:30 am

Group 3
Schule für Gestaltung Basel / Basel Paper Mill — meets at 9:15 am

Group 4
Basel Paper Mill / Schule für Gestaltung Basel — meets at 9:15 am

Group 5
Goethenum / Basel Art Museum — meets at 9:00 am

Group 6
Basel Architecture I — meets at 9:15 am

Group 7
Basel Architecture II — meets at 9:15 am

Group 8
Studio Tour — meets at 9:15 am

— — —

17:00
Meet Up at Tinguely Museum — Roland Wetzel / Annette Schindler / Michael Renner / ChezJeannot
— Welcome of Director of the Tinguely Museum
— Tour Tinguely 
— Opening the Exposition “unleashed”
— Apéro

The AGI Open is an international design conference that brings together Members from the Alliance Graphique Internationale with graphic design students and professionals.

The programs day one and two can be found here

The AGI Open is an international design conference that brings together Members from the Alliance Graphique Internationale with graphic design students and professionals.

The programs day one and two can be found here

We’re excited to invite you on a unique journey to Zurich, where you’ll visit the University of the Arts, explore its Schaudepot featuring the exhibitions Helmut Schmid Typography and Japanese Graphic Design Today, and enjoy an exclusive Apéro at Lars Müller Publishers. This is your chance to experience Zurich’s creative landscape firsthand:

13:00 — 14:00
Visit of the University of the Arts; Department of Design, Visual Communication, with Jonas Voegeli

14:15 — 15:15 
Guided tours of the exhibitions «Helmut Schmid Typography» with curator Barbara Junod and Lars Müller and following «Japanese Graphic Design Today» with curator Damian Fopp at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich’s Schaudepot

15:30 — 16:30 
Individual visit to the exhibitions, with an optional tour of the Collection Archive led by Barbara Junod

From 16:45 
Aperitif offered by Lars Müller at the nearby facilities of Lars Müller Publishers

For those with extra energy, an exciting night program awaits!

Outward and return journey at own expense and management.

Weltformat Graphic Design Festival — Opening Day

We are starting early with some introductions in selected exhibitions, followed by our Symposium (for all those who have not yet heard enough lectures ;-) ) with the theme «How to Start». You can join us at any time at the locations and times specified below.

10:00 
Introduction to the exhibition
GraphicDesign.zip, The stamp: Graphics in the smallest space
Location: Heilig Geist Kapelle, Hirschengraben 17a (in the courtyard)

11:00
Introduction to the exhibition
Showtime! Fantoche Family by Bivgrafik
Location: Kunsthalle Luzern, Bourbaki, Löwenplatz 11

12:00
Introduction to the exhibition
100 best posters 23 – Germany Austria Switzerland
Location: Kornschütte, Kornmarkt 3

14:00 — 18:00 
Weltformat Symposium
feat. Roli Deluxe (Zurich), zweikommasieben (Lucerne/Zurich), Liebermann Kiepe Reddemann (Hamburg), Liza Enebeis (Studio Dumbar, Rotterdam), Raissa Pardini (London), Bye Bye Binary (Every­where)
Location: Moderne Bar & Karussell, Pilatusstrasse 21

19:00 
Official Opening Ceremony
incl. opening dinner, followed by the opening party ’til late
Location: Moderne Bar & Karussell, Pilatusstrasse 21

Costs:
Exhibitions: CHF 15
Exhibitions & Symposium: CHF 40
Opening & Party: Free
Dinner: CHF 15

Outward and return journey at own expense and management.

08.00 
Getting on the Bus at Barfüsser Square

09.00
Arrival in Ottmarsheim, France, visiting the octagonal, romanesque church

10.00
Continuation of the Bustour to the medieval City of Colmar.

11:00
Visit of the Musée Unterlinden, a museum in a monastery which was extended by Herzog & de Meuron. Seeing the Isenheimer altar piece by Grünewald – one of the most iconic images of the northern Renaissance (Audio Guide).

12.15
Continuation to Eguisheim, on the Vine Route

12.45
Arrival in Eguisheim, Lunch at Restaurant Au vieux Porche

14.15
Continuation to Ronchamp

15.45
Arrival in Ronchamp, Colline Notre Dame du Haut – le Corbusier Chappel (Tour)

17.15
Return to Basel

19.00
Arrival at Barfüsserplatz in Basel

Price of the Alsace tour:
150 CHF (including Bus, Entry Fees, Lunch, Audio Guide and Tour)