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
symbiosis is an artistic research space exploring contemporary forms of co–existence, from queer, feminist, and speculative perspectives. At its core lies symbiosis as an interplay of connection, autonomy, and exchange.
The project seeks to shift perspectives beyond the human sphere, which dominates Western–European worldviews, and proposes a more holistic understanding of the world and of life itself. Central to this are forms of collaborative interactions: multispecies collaboration, symbiotic alliances, shared resources beyond monetary logic, decentralized structures, bottom–up practices, and mutual dependencies.
Ongoing planetary crises challenge us to rethink and reweave our relationships with the more–than–human world. Symbiosis thus becomes more than a metaphor. It becomes a practical model of thinking and acting. A space where new ways of being, working, and sharing can be sensed and imagined.
Zoe, Manu, Micha, Josefa, Catherine, Paola, Ilia
mit Stéph Binet, Mira Mercan, Nina Šikić, Fabienne Schoch, Lara Odermatt