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The NEXUS (1) Collective was founded in 2024 out of a shared passion for design and the drive to rethink societal structures. We explore how collective creative processes can help challenge existing norms and create and communicate new, alternative realities, as we perceive the dominant concept of reality as oppressive and exploitative.

Through interdisciplinary collaboration among people who work together both on a project basis and in the long term, a variety of projects are expected to emerge. As a collective, we continuously learn and grow through our exchange with one another.

The goal of the NEXUS Collective is to serve as a platform for young, creative individuals to connect and learn from one another. We promote the exchange and collaboration of people from different disciplines to develop joint projects.

This website is organically evolving into a living archive and a space for exchanging ideas and creative impulses. With a transdisciplinary and holistic approach, it aims to provide diverse insights into central cultural, social, and ecological issues of our time and to stimulate unexpected connections between themes, ideas, and practices.

(1) Nexus comes from Latin and means: connection, link, intertwining, to bind together, network.


Basel/Zurich 2024
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Why do we use German and English as our main languages?

We decided to use German and English as our primary languages for translations and captions on Instagram for the following reasons:

1. German and English are the languages we use to communicate with each other within the NEXUS Collective.

2. Due to limited financial resources, translations into other languages would currently need to be handled by volunteers from our personal network.

We recognize that language often serves as a means of maintaining power structures. If necessary, we will make an effort to translate into additional languages as well.

For this document, we used the statement of Acess HGK as a template and further developed it to suit our collective concept.
Thank you for the work, @Acess HGK!


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Warum verwenden wir Deutsch und Englisch als unsere Hauptsprachen?

Wir haben uns aus folgenden Gründen entschieden, Deutsch und Englisch als unsere Hauptsprachen für Übersetzungen und Bildunterschriften auf Instagram zu nutzen:

1. Deutsch und Englisch sind die Sprachen, welche wir im NEXUS Collective verwenden, um mitenander zu kommunizieren.

2. Aufgrund begrenzter finanzieller Mittel würden Übersetzungen in andere Sprachen derzeit von Freiwilligen aus unserem persönlichen Netzwerk übernommen.

Wir wissen, dass Sprache oft als Mittel dient, um Machtverhältnisse aufrechtzuerhalten. Falls nötig, werden wir uns bemühen, auch zwischen weiteren Sprachen zu übersetzen.

Für dieses Dokument nutzen wir das Statement von Acess HGK als Vorlage und haben es für unser Kollektivkonzept weiterentwickelt. Danke für die Arbeit, @Acess HGK!