Author: Eingang Gewerk

The Whole Estate a Garden – House of the Princess

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House of the Princess, Wörlitz

Portrait of the princess by Angelika Kauffmann

Background

The House of the Princess, also known as the “Grey House,” is the planned exhibition center of the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation and is currently undergoing extensive modernization measures. Built in 1789/90 in neo-Gothic style, the building was once the retreat and private residence of Princess Louise Henriette Wilhelmine (1750-1811), the wife of Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau. The so-called Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, with its English-style landscaping, spacious parks and buildings, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000 and is now also a subject of the planned permanent exhibition, which invites visitors to discover and explore this unique landscape.

The focus of the exhibition, however, is on Princess Louise and her impressive art collection, which not only provides information about her accomplished understanding of art, but also bears witness to her humanistic education and connoisseurship of Enlightenment discourses of her time. Numerous exhibits, such as written correspondence with influential friends and artists as well as the collected works of art itself document her rich intellectual and social life. She was friends with artist Angelika Kauffmann, who even portrayed her. The exhibition also shows high-quality facsimiles of important architecture and works of art from the cosmos of Prince Franz and his cultural circle, which also included Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Intended for the entire year after the opening of the house and the winter months, which are not reserved for special exhibitions, the exhibition design conceived by gewerkdesign is based on the principles of the greatest possible flexibility and mobility while maintaining an adequate standard of exhibit presentation.
In addition to a simple guidance system, compact exhibition furniture, slide boxes and trolleys for exhibits were developed, which guarantee a smooth dismantling of the exhibition and at the same time function as depot architectures, which allow storage according to highest conservation requirements. The graphic, material and color concept pick up on the color schemes of the house from the construction period and reflect the feudal style of the princesses’ domicile in a contemporary staging. A web-based app, that also features an audio guide, explains the exhibition content optionally in a child-friendly format as well as for adults and provides further information in German and English. The app was developed by gewerkdesign in collaboration with the Berlin design agency Kulturbanause.

Portfolio / Range of Services:

Exhibition design and planning, exhibition graphics, media graphics, production of exhibition production, exhibition booklet, concept development for the display, implementation planning, app development, general contractor

Details

• Opening: July 7, 2023
• Where: House of the princess, Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
• Client: Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation
• Size: 1.000 m²

Similar Projects

• Georgium Palace, Dessau
• JMB on.tour, nationwide
• The Mobile Museum, all 53 district and independent cities of North-Rhine-Westphalia
• Eutin Castle, Eutin

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Costanza Rossi
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Birgit Schlegel

Production and Mounting
– Team Falko Riepe
– Team Rost (printing)
– Team Karo König (frame construction)
– Team Artavi (media)

App Development
• Team Kulturbanause Berlin

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Fit in the Forest – Health Trail in Berlin’s Grunewald Forest

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Forestry district Dachsberg, Grunewald Forest

FiF Logo

Background

In cooperation with the Berlin Forests (Berliner Forsten) and sports scientists of the Sports Health Park Berlin (Sport-Gesundheitspark Berlin e.V.), gewerkdesign has designed a 1.4 km long public health trail with 14 outdoor devices made of sustainable materials in the Dachsberg forest district in Berlin’s Grunewald.
At the time of the commission, the fitness trail, formerly known as “Trimm-dich-Pfad” (Trim Yourself Trail), was almost 20 years old and in urgent need of redesign. The former name also conveyed problematic body images and social claims. The newly designed trail “Fit im Forst” (Fit in the Forest) however, is primarily intended to prevent the most common diseases caused by lack of exercise, to encourage spending time in nature and to promote a generally health-conscious lifestyle.

By choice of materials and the location of production, the project pursues a sustainable approach, and a social mission of health education and participation. The health trail was built in an area of Berlin’s Grunewald forest that is a designated landscape conservation area as well as a flora-fauna-habitat (FFH) and bird sanctuary (SPA). The use of reversible ground anchors, instead of concrete foundations, as fixation for the sports equipment, ensures the protection of the landscape, as there is no permanent interference with the soils, and thus flora and fauna. Graphic figures, explain the exercises and in each case specific disease prevention. Their illustration style is gender-neutral and physically rather average-looking, the didactics low-threshold and through the accompanying mascot of the district, the badger, easy going in terms of mediation.
The natural oak wood comes from sustainable and regional forestry in Brandenburg. The unvarnished stainless steel is extremely durable and 100% recyclable. Synthetic and composite materials are dispensed with entirely. The extended relaxation phases between the stations invite the visitors to explore the nature reserve and recreation area and also contribute to mental relief.

Portfolio / Range of Services

Determination of basic principles, management of workshops, conception of sports equipment and exercises, equipment design, graphic design, implementation planning, guidance system

Details

• Opening: May 15, 2023
• Where: Forestry district Dachsberg, Paulsborn, Berlin
• Client: Berlin Foresters, Sports Health Park Berlin
• Length: 1.4 km

Similar Projects

• Wald.Berlin.Klima., Berlin

Design Process

Team

• Julia Junghänel
• Antoine Laurent
• Stefan Rothert
• Gabriel Tecklenburg

Production and Mounting
• Team Falko Riepe

Photography
• gewerkdesign

On Air! The History of Radio and Television

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TECHNOSEUM, <b>Mannheim</b>

Historic Microphone

Background

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of German broadcasting in the fall of 1923, the Technoseum Mannheim is presenting an extensive special exhibition on the history of radio and television. In addition to tracing the development of technology and programming and the political role of broadcasting over the past 100 years, the exhibition is devoted in particular to the cultural and socio-historical dimensions of broadcasting history.
The exhibition’s scenographic centerpiece is a frequency band that acts as a physical thread guiding visitors along a vividly illustrated chronological scale through hundred years of radio and television history, literally “broadcasting” it.
It thus functions as an aesthetic narrative and organizing principle at the same time. Along both sides of the frequency band, the history of technology and historic perspectives of the broadcasting audience are staged in a vivid and informative manner. These narratives are divided into five time periods and staged like cabinets according to the epochs.

Acoustically, they are accompanied by a sample of the respective contemporary historical broadcasting highlights. The exhibition design allows visitors to discover the various stages of media history and its social impact in an interactive and audio-visual manner.
Furthermore the design is aiming to be sustainable:
Many exhibition elements, such as showcases, and lighting elements were reused and rearranged, but still conform to a style guide conceived for the exhibition, to which all graphic, cinematic, and digital mediation formats are also subject.

Portfolio / Range of Services:

Exhibition design and planning, execution planning, project management and consulting, project development, exhibition graphics, general contractor, planning of object presentation, media and information graphics, sound collages

Details

• Opening: November 17, 2022
• Where: Technoseum, Mannheim
• Client: State Museum of Technology and Labour Mannheim, Technoseum
• Size: 850m²

Similar Projects

• Close-Up, Hamburg
• Visitor Centre of the Nuclear Power Plant Gösgen, Gösgen

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Antoine Laurent
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Birgit Schlegel
• Janine Iser
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Yunus Kleff

Production and Mounting
• Team Frankewerk
• Team Messegrafik & Messebau Schreiber

Media
• Peter Imig (sound collages)
• Jörgen Pisarz (media planning and production)

Photograpgy
• gewerkdesign

JMB on.tour

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JMB on.tour van, <b>Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff</b>

Cap "No Kippah? No Problem!"

Background

The mobile exhibition “JMB on.tour” is part of the Jewish Museum Berlin’s outreach program and will visit schools and youth centers nationwide with a revised concept. The aim of the project is to introduce children and teenagers, who do not have the opportunity to visit the actual museum, to Jewish culture, history and modern jewish life in a contemporary, playful manner. By placing greater emphasis on the history of relationships and diversity within Jewish history and culture – for example, with regard to religion, gender, sexuality and Jewish biographies – as well as experiences of discrimination, the exhibition content, jewish perspectives and experiences become more relatable, even to participants without any contact to jewish people or culture.
The design of the mobile exhibition aims to be as accessible as possible and to encourage participation. The multisensory exhibition modules offer playful, surprising and easy-to-understand access and still leave room for the experiences and comments of the workshop participants. Texts in simple language explain what each module is about. By means of magnets the exhibits are attached to metal graphic panels, which supplement them with explanatory texts. This allows participants to touch and interact with them, while ensuring that everything stays in place when the exhibition is transported. The exhibition elements are produced sustainably, easy to transport and designed to be long-lasting. They can be set up quickly and adapted to the respective local conditions. Thus, with little effort, they generate a mobile pedagogical-museum space.

Portfolio / Range of Services:

Basic evaluation, exhibition concept, exhibition design and planning, execution planning, participation in awarding contracts and production management, construction management, hands-on development, exhibition graphics

Details

• Opening: September 2022
• Where: Nationwide
• Client: Jewish Museum Berlin
• Size: 40 m², Packing volume: 2,5 m³

Similar projects

•  Mobile Museum, North Rhine-Westphalia
•  Our Courage, Frankfurt and Berlin

Design Process

Team

• Victor Reichert
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Jens Imig
• Sebastian Franke
• Sinem Özer
• Marie Teigler

Production and Mounting
• Team Falko Riepe

Photography
• gewerkdesign
• Jewish Museum Berlin, Yves Sucksdorff

75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia – The Mobile Museum

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Exhibition Opening, <b>Aachen</b>

Trimmy, Mascot of the German Sports Federation's "Trimm dich" movement

Background

Following the anniversary exhibition “OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia” at the House of History NRW, the Mobile Museum will tour the state as a mobile exhibition for at least four years. Visitors are invited to take part in writing the history of their state by contributing their own exhibits, sharing memories and entering into dialogue with each other. The interactive museum consists of three modules: the exhibition depot in a high-quality High Cube overseas container, equipment in the form of mobile showcases and hands-on stations, and pop-up elements for in-depth discourse. The centerpiece of the Museum Mobil, however, is the container. It is both an exhibition space and an object itself. With the key visual designed for the project in the national colors and a contemporary interpretation of the coat of arms symbols – horse, Rhine and rose – it also draws attention to itself during the journey from place to place and thus brings the museum into the public sphere. The Mobile Museum’s claim – transparency, openness, animation for participation and exchange – runs through the entire design. Inside the exhibition space, a display case system with varying depths constantly rearranges the collection of exhibits and thus also formally picks up on the dynamic character of the constantly growing archive as well as the diversity of the exhibits and their donors. With the help of specially developed Internet-based software, tablets ensure that the background information on the constantly added exhibits is digitally updated.

Portfolio / Range of Services:

Exhibition design and architecture, implementation planning, exhibition graphics, media, general contractor, site management, concept development for the display

Details

• Opening: October 2022
• Where: All 53 districts and independent cities of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Client: House of History NRW, State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Size: 13 m² + 100 m² outdoor area

Similar Projects

• OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia, Anniversary Exhibition
• Willy Brandt, Traveling Exhibition

Design process

Team

• Stefan Rothert
• Julia Junghänel
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Janine Iser
• Antoine Laurent
• Sinem Özer
• Adele Heymann
• Carsten Saalmann

Production and Mounting
• Team 235 MEDIA
• Team P.O.S. Werbeproduktion GmbH & Co KG
• Team hertzer GmbH
• Team Artdepartment Berlin GmbH
• Team Zehnpfennig, Weber u. Taylor GbR

Photography
• gewerkdesign
• House of History NRW
• Andreas Lange

gewerk in the garden

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gewerk in the garden <b>#1 immersion</b>

Speaker Katharina Erben

Background

The event series gewerk in the garden serves as a platform for culture enthusiasts, designers and cultural workers and takes place in the garden of our studio in Berlin.
In the summer of 2022, a total of three events are planned, each with a different thematic focus.
We will invite various speakers from different cultural fields, who offer impulsive lectures, readings or workshops as a theoretical or application-related basis for an interactive discourse with our guests, and point out new perspectives or developments.

Why is this important to us?

Design in general and exhibition design and architecture in particular are, as we know, always an expression of social developments and can, on the other hand, influence our modes of action and the way we perceive things. Cultural, social and political processes affect every design discipline. This makes it crucial to ask certain questions in design continuously.
Questions such as: Who is being addressed? And maybe even more important: who is not?
How is design communicating? Are ecological and economic factors sufficiently taken into account? And how do current events, discourses and trends change the design disciplines, the cultural field and creative work?
As an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary design office, we must ask these questions and exchange ideas – as the word “trans” (Latin: “beyond”, “over”, “across”) already indicates. In other words: We have to transfer ideas and concepts to other perspectives and contexts and make them transparent.
Together with our guests, we do not only want to discuss current issues and tendencies, but also develop questions and topics together. gewerk in the garden intends to create a platform from which a progressive dialogue can emerge.

A summary of the subjects and perspectives discussed at the respective events will be published on our website afterwards.
For the latest news about gewerk in the garden visit our homepage or our Instagram page.

You would like to participate in the next event?
Mail us: inthegarden@gewerk.com

Details

• When: May 2022 – End of Summer
• Where: In the garden of our studio in Berlin

Establishment of Georgium Palace as the museum of the Anhalt Painting Gallery

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Georgium Palace, Anhalt Picture Gallery, <b>Dessau-Roßlau</b>

Dutch cabinet from the 17th Century

Background

Georgium Palace in Dessau has not always accommodated the Anhalt Painting Gallery. It only moved into the palace in 1959, after being housed in the Palais Reina in Dessau, which was destroyed in the war. The history of the palace and that of the painting collection could not be more different: here a palace, first built as a small summer palace for Prince Johann Georg von Anhalt-Dessau (who gave the Palace its name) and intended for private living, there a collection that grew together from several estates into a great treasure for Dessau as a public collection.

When it was decided to modernize Schloss Georgium and adapt it to the current standards of a painting gallery, gewerkdesign was brought in as a consulting partner for the gallery’s refurbishment in 2014. The result is a museum concept that divides the three levels of the building into different usage concepts: On the first floor, functional rooms such as the checkroom, toilets, a lecture hall and reception await the visitors supplemented by a “historical tour” through the history of the house, the Georgen-garden and the history of the collection. The main part of the painting collection will be exhibited on the 1st floor, while graphic works will hang mainly in the mezzanine. In order to keep the hanging of the paintings in the landmark castle flexible, colored wear walls have been hung on the existing walls, which slow down the climate change from the exterior to the interior and protect the paintings by providing a stable temperature. The furniture of the house is part of a series designed by gewerkdesign. The substructure made of delicately processed metal as well as the colored upholstery of the seats takes up the historical furnishing of the house.

A minimalist sign system guides the way through the house. The thematic division of the rooms is also designed in a restrained manner; the paintings are to be the focus. Each room is given a lettering of the respective period in milled letters. Information on the artistic works can be obtained by the visitors from object signs, which are mounted underneath the wear walls. This ensures the greatest possible auratic effect of the paintings in interaction with the color scheme of the walls surrounding them. The thematic rooms on the ground floor have been equipped with media tables. Interactive stations and hands-on exhibits invite active participation. The corporate design with a strong signet and word brand in black on white or yellow leaves room for the great collection. In the future, further information about the castle and the collection will be available individually via a web-based app.

Portfolio / Range of Services:

Design and consulting of exhibition architecture and utilization concept, design and planning of thematic rooms, execution planning, exhibition production, project management, hands-on development (media) and production, exhibition graphics, guidance system in the castle, corporate design, design web and webAPP

Details

– Opening: expected in autumn 2022
– Location: Georgium Palace, Anhalt Painting Gallery, Dessau
– Client: Foundation, Office for Culture Dessau-Roßlau
– Size: 1.989 m²

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Birgit Schlegel
• Carsten Saalmann
• Thilo Albers
• Julia Junghähnel
• Jens H. Lohmann
• Michael Lorenz, Graphscape (cashier system, media, website)
• Claudia Wagner, vogelfrei-design (illustrations)

Exhibition production and mounting
• Gemelo GmbH (media)
• Tischlerei Carsten Gräubig
• Rost Werbetechnik (print)
• Joseph Hirsch (metal signs)
• Büchner Möbel (furniture)
• Team Falko Riepe (wear walls)
• Janusz Kruszewski (model)
• Paul Göschel (light)

Architecture
• cuboidoo architects BDA

Photography
• Christoph Musiol

The Gardener’s Museum Wolfenbüttel

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Historic Farmhouse (Streckhof) Gärtnermuseum, Wolfenbüttel

You have to water them regularly!

Background

The new conception of the Gardener’s Museum comprehensively deals with the history of vegetable cultivation in Wolfenbüttel. The exhibition design arose from the architecture of the historic farmhouse (Streckhof) that accommodates the museum and the property that surrounds it. In a minimalist scenography, that comments on the different rooms and elaborates on their functions, rather than furnishing them, visitors are guided through more than 500 years of history of vegetable cultivation in Wolfenbüttel: From the Duke’s cropland to his move to Brunswick, the takeover of the vegetable gardens by farmhands (the so called “Gartenknechte”), the establishment of horticulture as a profession, the purchase of additional land in the 19th century, the heyday of vegetable cultivation in Lower Saxony in the 1950s to current developments.
The exhibition also deals with the history of downright gardening dynasties that developed locally, some of which are still active today. Inspired by nature, the content is translated into form as “cuttings”, cleverly bypassing the walls of the landmark farmhouse. An exhibition system consisting of colorful wooden poles stuck in perforated concrete foundations is guiding the visitors through the various rooms of the museum. Audio narrations of illustrated protagonists supplement the tour in terms of content and design. Each room is assigned a main theme. The “kitchen”, for example, provides information about the working community of men and women, the “shed” deals with trade and marketing. Exhibits such as the “Kuhversicherungs-Sterbecasse” (an insurance fund in case a cow deceases), or a tin can from the Busch canning factory are supplemented medially by audio stations and hands-ONs.
Media stations in the “barn” explain the handling of traditional tools and machines. The outdoor area will be opened in spring and introduces visitors to forgotten types of vegetables, which are cultivated by members of the association Gärtnermuseum Wolfenbüttel e.V.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Organizing, presenting and hosting of 3 workshops, concept development in terms of content, text composing for the audio stations, exhibition design and planning, executive planning, general contractor, planning of object presentation, exhibition production, media development and production, exhibition graphics, corporate design of the museum, design and production of print media

Details

• Opening: April 2022
• Where: Gärtnermuseum, Wolfenbüttel
• Client: Gärtnermuseum Wolfenbüttel e.V.
• 250 m² museum, 1000 m² garden

Similar projects

• Maritime Museum, Unterweser
• World Heritage Visitor Centre, Wismar
• Signage System, Brodowin
• Wald, Berlin, Klima, Berlin

Design Process

Team

• Katharina Erben
• Sebastian Franke
• Henning Hummel
• Jens Imig
• Antoine Laurent
• Viktor Reichert
• Birgit Schlegel

Production and mounting
• Team Tischlerei Paelecke
• Team Artavi (media)
• Team speaklow

Print Production
• Roco Druck (print media)
• Rost Druck (exhibition media)

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Close-Up – Hamburg’s History of Film and Cinema

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Exterior view of the Altona Museum

Exhibit: film camera

Background

With the exhibition „Close-Up“, the Altona Museum presents 120 years of Hamburg’s film and cinema history. The exhibition design focuses on the cinema screen as a partition between the auditorium and the backstage area. It comprises five different cinema environments furnished with posters, photos, film clips, and props, opening spectacularly with the original film set of Fatih Akin’s “Der Goldene Handschuh”. The exhibition architecture elaborates on the transient qualities of film making: materials such as cinema velvet, wooden scaffolding, and printed black cardboard evoke the atmosphere of a film set. Film-up! 3D becomes 2D becomes 3D. On a separate stage, the so-called “Trickkiste”, the exhibition presents the world of animation and animated films from Hamburg.

Portfolio / Range of Services

Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, general contractor, exhibition production, project management, exhibition graphics, signage system

Details

• Opening: 08 December 2021
• Where: Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
• Client: Stiftung Historische Museen FHamburg, Altonaer Museum
• 1.050m²

Similiar projects

• New Bauhaus Chicago, Berlin

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Costanza Rossi
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Antoine Laurent
• Marie Teigler

Media and programming
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Construction and mounting
• Team Uwe Sinkemat
• Rudi Poetsch

Photography
• Giuliani / Von Giese Fotografie

Visitor Centre of the Nuclear Power Plant Gösgen

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  • © Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG

Exterior view of the nuclear power plant Gösgen, Switzerland

Yellow Cake

Background

The Gösgen nuclear power plant went into service in 1981 and is scheduled to be decommissioned in the next five years. After the decommissioning the plant will be dismantled over a period of twenty years. A visitor centre on site explains to visitors (school classes, residents, tourists) how a nuclear power plant works, how the atomic phase-out is planned to proceed and allows a glimpse into the future of energy management without nuclear power. Presenting interviews with plant employees, functional models of nuclear fission, models of fuel rods, a collection of minerals, and historical films, the exhibition show the visitors how a nuclear power plant works. At the end of the tour, the visitors have the opportunity to playfully test their knowledge about their own energy needs and to let cars and trains race against each other in a digital future landscape by pedaling on a bicycle ergometer.

Portfolio / Range of Services

Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management and consulting, development and production of the HandsOn displays, exhibition graphics

Details

• Opening: November 2021
• Where: Nuclear power plant Gösgen
• Client: Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-FDäniken AG
• 900 m²

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Janine Iser
• Sebastian Franke
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Antoine Laurent
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Construction and mounting
• Rudolf Nützi AG
• Atelier Lorraine GmbH
• Schaer Modellbau AG

Photography
Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG