Grid*Congress
Thesis
The grid is not a cage. It is the only honest way to hold twelve ideas on one page. Three days on structure as conviction — no decoration, no apology.
01 / Index
Speakers
Alphabet is a system too — sorted A→Z
01
Anni Baumgartner
Studio Baumgartner · Zürich
Keynote — The Ruler Is a Moral Instrument
Fri 09:30
02
Tomás Ferreiro
Ferreiro Type · Porto
Cutting a Grotesk for Screens That Lie
Fri 11:00
03
Yuki Hasegawa
Dept. of Order · Tokyo
Tatami Logic: Modular Thinking Before Modernism
Fri 14:00
04
Ingrid Kjellberg
Statens Formkontor · Oslo
Designing Forms People Must Fill In
Fri 15:30
05
Marcel Lutz
Basel School Archive
What Ruder Threw Away: The Rejected Proofs
Sat 09:30
06
Adaeze Nwosu
Lagos Transit Authority
Wayfinding for Twenty Million Commuters
Sat 11:00
07
Petra Ostermann
Neue Tabelle · Berlin
The Timetable as National Literature
Sat 14:00
08
Rafael Quintana
Metro CDMX Signage Unit
One Icon, Nine Million Interpretations
Sat 15:30
09
Claire Sévigny
Imprimerie Sévigny · Lyon
Letterpress Tolerances in a Vector World
Sun 09:30
10
Dieter Vogel
Emeritus · Ulm
Closing — Against the Tyranny of the Center
Sun 16:00
02 / Timetable
Schedule
All times CET — doors 08:30 daily
03 / Location
Venue
Basel — where the grid was argued into law
Messe Basel Hall 4 — 4,200 m² of ruled concrete
AddressMesseplatz 10
4058 Basel, Switzerland
4058 Basel, Switzerland
TransitTram 1 / 2 to Messeplatz — six minutes from Basel SBB. Airport bus 50, then tram. Do not drive; the grid did not plan for your car.
StayDelegate rates at Hotel Rheinblick and Pension Modul — code GRID26 until 31 July.
47.5637° N7.6008° EElevation 255 mBaseline grid 8 ptColumn width 74 px
Register*
Full Congress
CHF 420
Three days, all talks, workshop access, print fair, riverside apéro. The complete system.
Take a seat
Patron Row A
CHF 900
Front row, dinner with the speakers, numbered congress poster. Forty seats. All taken.
Sold out