Ségolène Davister began her academic career in interior architecture at Saint-Luc Brussels in 2018, which she then enriched with a student exchange at HEAD – Geneva for her third Bachelor’s year. During this period, she took part in various projects, including CIRCA DIEM in collaboration with EPLF for the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. This experience clearly influenced her orientations for her Master’s project.
After graduating, in her quest for professionalization, Ségolène completed her first internship at TJCA in Geneva, followed by a second at 0 studio in Mexico. She worked on a number of projects on different scales. After this gap year, she joined the MAIA HEAD – Geneva program in 2022. Working initially on the project A Diorama of the Future for Milan Design Week, she developed a keen interest in scenography and set design in general. During her Master’s, she went on to work for Studio Angela Weber in Zurich, where attention to detail took on even greater importance.
She spent six months as an exchange student at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan, where her interest in nocturnal representation and its implications was strengthened. Ségolène explores different forms of representation, such as photography, while showing a strong interest in publishing and graphic design. Her practice and projects highlight the economic, social, and political limits through the prism of architecture.
Diploma Project
Forgotten Objects, Forgotten Places
Walking in a city where night has taken on the power to conceal its distinctive features is a singular experience. Contours are outlined in the light, buildings rise up, but the square itself is lost in the darkness of night. The bright lights of the modern metropolis have often succeeded in dispelling the fear of darkness and the unknown. The project proposes a reflection on urban lighting, with the capacity to reinvent the city at night and make it as safe as it is reassuring, through three obscure forgotten places in Geneva and as many lost and recovered construction objects and materials found in the meanders of construction sites.
