Author: Eingang Gewerk

World of Media – Radio Bremen 75 years

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Focke Museum, Bremen

Historical microphone from the early days of the broadcasting agency

Background

The year 2020 will be a celebration for the Hanseatic City of Bremen: Radio Bremen turns 75! The Focke Museum contributes to the festivities with a special exhibition: „Medienwelten – The World of Media“ shows the development of the regional public broadcasting agency Radio Bremen – its past, present, and future – and gives an analysis which can be applied to all the media development in Germany. The exhibition also contemplates what media means to us: on average, we spend seven hours a day with radio, television, and internet. The way we use these media varies widely. Statistics of current media usage can be accessed on interactive HandsOn exhibits, encouraging the visitors to reflect on their own media consumption and habits. With its 800 sqm, the participatory and inclusive exhibition is divided into three chapters. An elaborate walk-in media centre made of sound, film, light, and original documents takes the visitors on a journey through 75 years of Radio Bremen’s programs. Another chapter is the so-called “Schnittstelle” – an open intersection with numerous HandsOn exhibits inviting the visitors to dig deeper into the material. The third chapter, the Studio, offers audio and media exhibits, a green screen, an assembly of facts on a large wall, and the “Talking Heads”: four life-size monitors. On all levels, the visitors are encouraged to become media experts themselves and blend into the interactive exhibition.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, exhibition graphics, planning concept, commissioning to subcontractors as a general contractor, design and planning of media, exhibits’, and HandsOn exhibits’ display, project and production management, graphics

Details

• Opening: 25. September 2020
• Where: Focke-Museum, Bremen
• Client: Focke Museum, Bremer FState Museum for Art and Cultural FHistory
• 800 m²

Related projects

• 100! Jahre Uni HH, Hamburg
• Open Up!, Berlin
• Out Of Office, Hamburg

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Julia Junghänel
• Victor Reichert
• Sinem Özer
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Cooperation
• Uwe Sinkemat
• Jean Fürst
• Raudies

Photography
• gewerkdesign: Alexandra Zackiewicz

Atlas – Art project by Aris Fioretos, sound artist Peter Imig & gewerkdesign

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Moderna Museet Stockholm

Atlas carrying a cloud

Background

»Atlas« is a three-dimensional cosmos, an imaginary world of literature. »Atlas« is an extensive work of art in the form of a book. The project is a cooperation between the Swedish writer Aris Fioretos and the design company gewerkdesign. Additionally, 24 selected chapters of Fioretos’ book were translated into sound collages by the musician Peter Imig. The project examines how events from history can be converted into stories, how fiction can become a fact. Evidence and prose, insight and argument are being intertwined into something resembling a pair of rolled-up socks, of which Walter Benjamin once said, that their form and content couldn’t be separated from one another. The elaborate book as well as the illustrations of the numerous protagonists were designed by gewerkdesign.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, general contractor, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management, exhibition graphics, sound production and sound installation, logistics and transport

Details

• Opening: 25. October 2019
• Where: Moderna Museet, FStockholm
• Material: wood pulp, finnboard and Fpaper, beechwood, wood glue, Felectronic elements
• 75 m²

Related projects

• Aris Fioretos: Mary, book design
• As long as I’m alive death won’t get Fme, book design
• Flight and Metamorphosis, Nelly FSachs, catalogue and print design

Design process

Team

• Katharina Erben
• Jens Imig
• Peter Imig
• Takaya Kobayashi
• Birgit Schlegel
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Production and mounting
• Jörgen Pisarz
• Riccardo Falletta
• Aufbauteam Moderna Museet

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Willy Brandt: Freedom Fighter, Chancellor for Peace, Bridge Builder

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Paul-Löbe-Haus, Berlin

In 1933, Brandt flew from the Nazis in a fishing boat

Background

50 years after his election into office as German chancellor, the travelling exhibition »Willy Brandt – Freedom Fighter, Chancellor for Peace, Bridge Builder« sheds a new light onto Willy Brandt as a politician and as a private person. The exhibition consists of a plethora of exhibits from Brandt’s past, interactive exhibits, films and audio recordings, and an access to his online biography, thus making the political and private life of Willy Brandt accessible to a broader audience. Apart from his biography, it is essentially his values and political goals on which the exhibition focusses, since they are still relevant today. Starting in late November 2019, the Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung sends the exhibition on a tour through Germany. Its first stops will be at Cologne, Bonn, Erfurt, Kassel, and Heidelberg.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, planning of the statutory approvals, implementation planning, preparation/participation in the commissioning process, design, concept development for the display, project management, exhibition graphics, graphics, public relations

Details

• Opening: 22. October 2019
• Where: German Federal Parliament, FPaul-Löbe-Haus
• Client: The Federal Chancellor Willy FBrandt Foundation
• 150m²

Related projects

• 100!, Hamburg
• STASI, Berlin

Design process

Team

• Stefan Rothert
• Jens Imig
• Sebastian Franke
• Janine Iser
• Takaya Kobayashi
• Alexandra Zackiewicz
• Carsten Saalmann

Production Management
• Sebastian Franke

Exhibition production
• Bernhard Wedow, Hertzer Gmbh
• Isabel Magritz, Hertzer Gmbh

Media
• Milo Lorenz, Graphscape GmbH
• Christian Kremer, Graphscape GmbH
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Printing
• Jana Arnold, Rost: Werbetechnik GmbH
• Berit Albrecht, Rost: Werbetechnik GmbH

Photos
• gewerkdesign

100! – Universität Hamburg Past and Present

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  • Foto: Karin Plessing u. Reinhard Scheiblich, Hamburg

Main hall at the Universität Hamburg

Holy scripture of the Sikh religion from the department of culture and history of India

Background

The University of Hamburg is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2019. Honouring this anniversary, a 300 square metre permanent exhibition about the scientific institution’s eventful past was put on display at the university museum’s main building. The exhibition approaches the past and present of the university in two different ways: on the one hand through a timeline with many previously unpublished photographs of everyday university life. In addition to this, numerous thematic displays present the topic from a different angle. Exhibits from the university’s different departments bear witness to the many different aspects of university life. An interactive column in front of the main hall welcomes the visitors with a sound collage assembled from 100 years of the university’s history. The exhibition itself also is interactive: the visitors can influence exhibits, people, and sounds from the university presented to them via sensors. A media guide supplements the exhibits and exhibition texts, offering a digital tour and a plethora of background material. gewerkdesign won the design competition for design and the mounting of the exhibition as well as the design of the exhibition catalogue.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, planning of the statutory approvals, implementation planning, preparation/participation in the commissioning process, design, concept development for the display, exhibition production, exhibition graphics, graphics exhibition catalogue

Details

• Opening: 24. September 2019
• Where: University Museum FHamburg
• Client: Universität Hamburg
• 350m²

Related projects

• ZBW – “Open Up!”, Kiel
• Out Of Office, Hamburg
• Sugars and Beyond!, Berlin

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Riccardo Falletta
• Bianca Mohr
• Costanza Rossi
• Birgit Schlegel
• Franziska Schuh
• Claudia Wagner
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Media and programming
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Photography
• gewerkdesign

A Memorial made of Paper: Arolsen Archives, International Center on Nazi Persecution

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Arolsen Archives documentation centre

Digital index card

Background

The Arolsen Archives – a Memorial made of Paper – store more than 30 Mio files on holocaust survivors, concentration camp inmates, forced labourers, and survivors. The Archives of the ITS, the International Tracing Service, was founded in order to compile information on the history of the victims as well as to deposit letters of their relatives who had contacted the archives. It is an organic archive, continuously growing. The special exhibition about the founding and procedures of the archives is shown in Bad Arolsen until the UNESCO-Memory of the World documents will move to a new building. gewerkdesign won the public contest for design and production of exhibition and catalogue. As part of the corona measures that were taken in 2020, visitors are now also able to experience the exhibition interactively on a 3D tour: Arolsen Archives online.

Portfolio / Range of Services : Exhibition design, exhibition scenography, exhibition graphics, media design, film production, planning concept, production supervision, services 1-9

Details

• Opening: 18. June 2019
• Ort: Arolsen Archives – FInternational Center on Nazi FPersecution, Bad Arolsen
• Client: Arolsen Archives, Bad FArolsen
• 150m²

Related projects

• Bautzen Memorial, Bautzen
• The Germans, the Forced Labourers Fand the War; Berlin, Moscow, FWarsaw and others
• The dissenter is the Enemy; FHamburg

Design process

Team

• Sebastian Franke
• Ida Flik
• Jens Imig
• Julia Junghänel
• Jori Kehn
• Bianca Mohr
• Franziska Schuh
• Birgit Schlegel
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Production management
• Sebastian Franke

Media production
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Hiking trails around Brodowin

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A signage system for Brodowin eco-village

Brodowin's boulders, rocks, and stones

Background

The signage system around Brodowin village aims to blend into nature and the landscape, creating awareness for what is there. It doesn’t merely guide the groups of visitors but wants to provide help to better understand Brodowin, the scenery surrounding the village, Brodowin’s organic farming, its history, and its inhabitants. It serves to enrich the experience of those who would like to explore the nature reserve attentively and respectfully. The boulder stone symbolising both the scenery and the village that was founded here, stone is a material deeply rooted in the scenery surrounding Brodowin. The boulders contain information and provide seating space and climbing adventures for children of all ages. Large, round, paint coated metal signs leaning against the rocks show maps and provide information on the three hiking trails and two nature trails that wait to be explored. Smaller metal signs embedded into the boulders provide additional information, such as the code of behaviour for the nature reserve, orientation, or brief information about animals, plants, or the work of the Brodowin eco-village society.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Compiling and developing the exhibition’s content in workshops, graphic design of the signage system, design of the different types of signs and their mounting structure, planning concept, supervision of the production, services 1-9

Details

• Opening: 28.04.2019
• Client: Ökodorf Brodowin e.V.
• 17 km hiking trail

Related projects

•  Wald. Berlin. Klima, Berlin

Design process

Team

• Birgit Schlegel
• Henning Humml
• Stefan Rothert
• Sebastian Franke

Production and Mounting
• Falko Riepe

Illustration
• Henning Humml

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Open Up! – How Digitalisation changes Science

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The second site of „Open Up!“ at the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Berlin

Data(book) - Tower

Background

The exhibition presents the ZBW’s leading role and exemplary solutions for the »Library of the Future«, raising awareness for the changes to come. For presenting these future demands in an authentic fashion the modularly built travelling exhibition features interconnected »Towers of Information« (data stacks) as a key image – accessing a source of information enables the accessing of further sources. This key image elaborates on the existing concept image for the development of the ZBW: following the spirit of »Open Science« and evolving from a »dusty« library into a digital, interconnected, and open access science library of the 21st century. The travelling exhibition presents these developments as a three dimensional space and as architecture. It creates a physical, tangible image of the ZBW’s evolution into a »Library of the Future« by visualising the tasks that ensue these changes. It illustrates the challenges attached to these tasks and the changing process, gives project examples, and allows a vision of the future by presenting current achievements and their future potential. The exhibition’s content and architecture is centred on the ZBW and its leading role in tackling one of society’s key questions: what does the library of the future look like?

Portfolio / Range of Services: Workshop for compiling and developing the exhibition’s content, exhibition design and planning, general contractor, exhibition production, exhibition graphics, pictograph design

Details

• Opening: 11. March 2019
• Where: Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm- FZentrum, Berlin
• Client: ZBW – Leibniz Information FCentre for Economics, Kiel
• 300m²

Related projects

• Sugar and Beyond!, Berlin
• Out of Office, Hamburg

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Henning Humml
• Victor Reichert
• Sebastian Franke

Production and Mounting
• Falko Riepe

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Out of Office – When robots and AI do our work for us …

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Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg

What differences are there (still) between humans and machines?

Background

The special exhibition discusses the future changes in our working habits, brought about by the increasing competition humans encounter from artificial intelligence. Will we find new modes of cooperation, enabling us to work more freely, or will human employees be made more and more redundant? The joint exhibition project by the Bucerius Lab of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin and the Museum der Arbeit discusses in eleven chapters the fundamental changes AI and robots have already brought about in our working environment and which developments might be in store for us. The exhibition weighs chances and risks of these developments and encourages reflection about our position in the future working world. The exhibition’s scenography elaborates on the connection between humans and machines, drawing a line from the past to the present, and spying into the future. The exhibition commences in the lobby – furnished with paintings showing a romanticised idea of work, and doused in a warm and dim light. In the exhibition hall, a former industrial site, a sharp contrast follows: here the visitors find themselves entangled in a »neural network«, resembling the human brain and its organic connections, nerve cords, and synapses, but resembling also the core of an artificial intelligence – straight, cool, technical, and fast. Cords span the whole room, lead to the different narrative chapters, and create connections. Everything is connected to everything in this simplistic, concentrated, and dynamic design. The last exhibition chapter is an interactive and participatory »Forum« – a place for entering the discussion about one’s experiences and one’s own point of view.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, preparation/participation in the commissioning process, design, concept development for the display, exhibition production, visiual signage system, project management and consulting project development, exhibition graphics

Details

• Opening: 6. November 2018
• Where: Museum der Arbeit,
FHamburg
• Client: Stiftung Historische
FMuseen Hamburg in cooperation
Fwith Zeitstiftung Ebelin and
FGerd Bucerius
• 650 m²

Related projects

• Sugars and Beyond!, Berlin
• Science + Fiction,
FTraveling Exhibition

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Franziska Müller
• Victor Reichert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Ida Flik
• Anna Priese

Light and Mounting
• Team Museum für Arbeit
• Uwe Sinkemat

Photography
• Pablo Hassmann

The future quality of living in Altona – Urban development in the 20th and 21st century

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Hamburg Historic Museums Foundation Altona Museum

Hands-on station: building your own city

Background

The special exhibition of the Altona Museum thoroughly examines house-building and urban development in an innovative way. Taking the Hamburg district Altona itself as a starting point, the exhibition’s appealing scenography, its striking graphics, and vivid colours (as a reference to the art of Piet Mondrian) guide the visitors through more than 100 years of house-building in Altona. The topics described in the exhibition range from the housing shortage of the 1890s, the National Socialist housing policy, the idea of car-friendly cities from the 1950s and 60s, the urban development spurred by the citizens of the 1970s, and current developments. A signage system in the shape of a black and white „roadmap“ along the walls and floors guides the visitors through the different chronological chapters. Thematic displays through the tour complement the chronological narrative and accentuate the design. Their vivid, monochrome scenography resembles the rooms of an apartment and creates a strong visual focus. These room-in-a-room installations invite the visitors to come inside, reflect, and take action. These thematic displays correspond to the topics emphasized by the tour. Tenancy laws, for example, are discussed in the “bedroom”, the topic of mobility in the “garage”. Exhibits like doll houses from different periods and architectural models are supplemented by portrait features of the architects or interviews with the tenants. Interactive stations and hands-on exhibits invite the visitors to get involved and start designing themselves. After all, the exhibition pursues the difficult question of how to create new living spaces for a growing city without diminishing the quality of living or the community interaction.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, general contractor, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management and consulting project development, concept and production of the hands-on exhibits, exhibition graphics, signage system through the exhibition

Details

• Opening: 28. September 2018
• Where: Altona Museum, Hamburg
• Client: Hamburg Historic Museums
FFoundation, Altona Museum
• 1.235 m²

Related projects

• Riots + New Beginnings,
FBremen
• Civil Museum,
FWolfenbüttel

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Janine Iser
• Franziska Müller
• Ida Flik
• Takaya Kobayashi

Production and Mounting
• Team Uwe Sinkemat
• Team Falko Riepe

Photography
• Pablo Hassmann

Bautzen Memorial

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Entrance to the former prison, Bautzen Memorial

Photograph of a prison cell

Background

On September 19th, the third and last part of Bautzen Memorial’s permanent exhibition »Haft unterm Hakenkreuz Bautzen I und Bautzen II 1933-1945« about the National Socialist penal system was inaugurated. gewerkdesign has been involved in the different stages of Bautzen Memorial’s remodelling since 1997, having created the design for the exhibition parts about Bautzen as a Stasi prison and as a special detention camp during the Soviet occupation. The parts are chronologically arranged on the three stories of the building. While the architecture of the building was mostly left in its original state, a few of the rooms were rearranged: Their contemplative exhibition design provides an opportunity for the visitors to concentrate on the exhibitions and on the information given. Creative highlight: the rooms are furnished with a free transformable, modular system of wooden shelves – elegantly honouring the complex history of the memorial site. The shelf compartments’ proportions are similar to the former prison cells, thus referring to the site itself and its architecture. In order to physically and semantically guide the visitors through the multi-layered area, gewerkdesign created a signage system and, together with Lotsenhaus Media, a media guide.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management and consulting project development, exhibition and media graphics, media guide, facsimile production

Please note that the copyrights for the project-photo being used on our landing page are with: © Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH

Details

• Opening of the last part:
F19. September 2018
• Where: Bautzen Memorial
• Client: Stiftung Sächsische
FGedenkstätten
• total area: 400 m²

Related projects

• STASI., BStU, Berlin
• The Dissenter is the Enemy,
FHamburg etc.

Design Process

Team

• Costanza Rossi
• Jens H. Lohmann
• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel

Media guide
• Lotsenhaus

Photography
• Francisco Pablo Hassmann