Nicolas Henchoz
Nicolas Henchoz is the founding director of the EPFL+ECAL Lab. He is the Art Papers Chair of SIGGRAPH 2023, the world leading conference in Computer graphics and interaction techniques. Engineer, researcher, art director, manager, he has developed a unique vision of innovation, blending cultural creativity, scientific practices and human observation to foster sustainable adoption.
His projects have led to many academic contributions and awards. He has also curated more than 30 exhibitions in institutions including the American Institute of Architecture (NYC), the Royal College of Art (London), the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris and Harvard University. He’s the co-founder of GAMI Global Alliance for Media Innovation and has been honoured as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by French minister for culture and communication.
Related projects
Scientific publications
Open Books: Supporting the Comprehension of Photobooks as Sequential Art.
Rémi Opalinski, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Andrea Schneider, Delphine Ribes, Gabriel Luthier, Cédric Duchêne, Béatrice Durandard, Mathieu Salzmann, Nicolas Henchoz, and Romain Collaud. 2026. Open Books: Supporting the Comprehension of Photobooks as Sequential Art. In: Rauterberg, M. (eds) Culture and Computing. HCII 2026. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16725. Springer, Cham.
Designing for food system transformation: Navigating cultural complexity in cross-regional platform design.
Margherita Motta, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Luis Rodriguez Aguayo, Laura Deschl, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Groves. 2026. Designing for food system transformation: Navigating cultural complexity in cross-regional platform design, in Simeone, L., Gray, C. M., Verhoeven, A., de Götzen, A., Bakırlıoğlu, Y., Zohar, H., Stead, M., and Buwert, P. (eds.), DRS2026: Edinburgh, 8–12 June, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
DRS Design Research Society