Category: Workshops

Hintergründe

The exhibition »Wald. Berlin. Klima.« will examine the forests’ adaptation to climate change and explain the work of the foresters. Approaching an important threshold in the development of the project, gewerkdesign organized a workshop for distributing the exhibits and examining the exhibition financially – »Education meets Design«.

In this workshop, the participants were invited to consider content, design and budget for each of the different chapters of the exhibition and bring these aspects together on large pieces of cardboard representing the exhibition’s stations.

Portfolio / Range of Services: concept, strategy and structure of the seminar, preparation and documentation, preparing and providing workshop materials

Background

In order to determine how a presentation of the developments after 1945 should be integrated into Bremen’s Focke-Museum for Art and Cultural History, gewerkdesign and Exponatus conducted a feasibility study and a first-cost estimate.

Their recommendations were to enlarge the exhibition space, to gently remodel and restructure the permanent exhibition, to install a learning centre at the Eichenhof and to use the auditorium for events and gastronomy.

The next step in the development of this project was the study »Masterplan Focke #Bremen«, resulting from many workshops and meetings. The Friends of the Focke-Museum Association and the Nikolaus H. Schilling Foundation generously funded both projects.

Portfolio / Range of Services: facilitation of the workshop, project management and counselling project development, graphic design of the accompanying booklet

Background

Preparing their move into a new, generously remodeled historic building in Moscow, the new GULAG Museum’s director Roman Romanow booked a two day seminar with gewerkdesign for himself and his young team.

The GULAG Museum was about to be remodeled completely and vastly extended. The seminar’s object was thus to examine the new exhibition concept, to formulate the requirements of the building and to roughly define the determining parameters of such implementation.

After discussing the concept, gewerkdesign presented an estimation whose phases and parameters were to be expected during the implementation of an exhibition project of that size based on their experience from previous exhibitions, and together with the GULAG museum’s team defined the factors particular to just this project.

Portfolio / Range of Services: concept, strategy and structure of the seminar in English, preparation and documentation, preparing and providing workshop materials

Background

The international travelling exhibition »science + fiction« contemplates the cultural relations between the fine arts and science.

In this post-exhibition workshop the two curators, two of gewerkdesign’s designers and students from different creative backgrounds took a closer look at models used for communicating scientific theses.

The students developed their own models in a wire frame of 50 x 50 x 50 cm for communicating a theory of their choice. The models were then presented in the lobby of the Nobel Museum.

Portfolio / Range of Services: workshop, planning and presentation

Background

The exhibition »gedenken gestalten« in the glass courtyard of the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts presents the results of several previous meetings and workshops.

It reflects the complex challenges of contemporary memorial design, intricately merging impacts and functions of a memorial site. gewerkdesign presented previous of their memorial design projects in an exhibition space separated by packaging tape: Bautzen II Memorial; Münchner Platz Memorial in Dresden; Documentation Centre of the Berlin Wall; Hohenschönhausen Memorial; Pirna Sonnenstein Memorial. The texts surrounding the projects elaborated on the demands and challenges for contemporary memorial design.

Portfolio / Range of Servicese: workshop design, concept and content for the exhibition, exhibition design and planning, installation of the objects, production, graphic design