Freilager Platz, a creative hub (and homebase to our campus) nestled in the fringes of Basel, is still a delightful mystery even to its habitual denizen. HGK has myriad studios, workshops, and departments— and most of us are wondering “What is everyone else up to”? The inaugural Freilager Speed Date aims at making the campus smaller by expanding our connection. Utilising variations of the speed dating formats, popular with think tanks and other entities seeking to enhance “smartness” within their ranks, we’ll be introducing ourselves, getting to know each other, and discovering the general lay of the land. The hope is to spark social alchemy, trigger connections that spawn collaborations, enhance knowledge bases, maybe even a “distributed cognition” scenario of sorts: the low-key dream of an emergent superintelligence.


CIVIC, Martin Wöllenstein, Sara Løve Daðadóttir, Onome Ekeh