Author: Henning

Museum Wolfenbüttel – Change of structure

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Background

In order to combine the Museum of Wolfenbüttel Castle and the newly planned Civil Museum into one brand, gewerkdesign created a superordinate institution: The Wolfenbüttel Museum.

The Wolfenbüttel Museum represents both museums in the cultural landscape while providing them with one director. While the Museum of Wolfenbüttel Castle covers four centuries of monarchic history, the Civil Museum will focus on the city of Wolfenbüttel’s history after 1754. Thus both museums keep their unique features.

Portfolio / Range of Services: analysis and preparation, structural workshops, strategic and conceptual consultation, concept and design, detailed planning, preparation of the data for production, production supervision

Details

• Published: 01. July 2016
• Client: Museum Wolfenbüttel,
FWolfenbüttel

Related projects

• bcc – Berlin
FCongress Center
• Berlin Wall

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Henning Humml

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Sugars and Beyond! Food – Matter – Energy

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German Museum of Technology, Berlin

sugar beet

Background

In 2015 the display collection of the former research and training centre of the sugar industry – Berlin Wedding’s Sugar Museum – was incorporated into the German Museum of Technology’s permanent exhibition. When designing the new exhibition site, gewerkdesign chose to include a few memories and references to the former sugar museum; for example, the specimens of beetles harmful to the sugar beet that have been preserved in fluid or the former sugar institute’s research material on sugar cane.

The second part of the new exhibition is dedicated to sugar compounds used for purposes other than sweetening food; for instance, as building matter, for energy storage or for coding and transmitting information. The room is surrounded by a large wall containing texts, lighting and life-sized illustrations of people who have a very special relationship with sugar.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design, scenography, graphic design, media design, planning concept, supervision of the production, services 1 – 9 HOAI

Details

• Opening: 25. November 2015
• Client: Foundation of the
FGerman Museum of Technology
FBerlin
• 800 m²

Related projects

• Didaktik trifft Gestalt –
FWald. Berlin. Klima.
• Zwei Räder – Freiherr von Drais
Fund die Geschichte des Fahrrads
• Karibu Afrika

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Nanna Funke
• Julia Junghänel
• Steffen Sendelbach

Supervision of the production
• Rainer Kaufmann

Illustrations
• Regina Kehn

Media
• Marten Suhr

Photography
•  gewerkdesign

Education meets Design – Wald. Berlin. Klima.

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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

Details

• Workshop: 10. November 2015
• Client: Senate Department
Ffor Urban Development and
Fthe Environment
• Participants: Berliner Forsten,
FhochC – Landschafts-
Farchitektur, gewerkdesign

Related projects

• Garden region Hannover

Gestaltungsprozess

Projektteam

• Stefan Rothert
• Henning Humml

Landschaftsarchitektur hochC
• Gasper Habjanic
• Claus Hermann
• Frank Riebesell

Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt

Fotografie
• gewerkdesign

Aris Fioretos – »Mary«

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Norstedts, Stockholm

The pomegranate symbolizes Mary’s rich and abundant personality beneath her life of hardship.

Background

In »Mary« Swedish novelist Aris Fioretos tells the story of a woman arrested in Greece in November 1973, the time of Greece’s military dictatorship, and her experiences with hunger, cold and torture in the secret police’s prisons.

The motive of the pomegranate on the cover and fly leaf of the book symbolizes Mary’s rich and abundant personality beneath her life of hardship.

Portfolio / Range of Services: design cover and fly leaf, typesetting concept

Details

• Published: Swedish 2015,
FGerman 2016
• Novel by Aris Fioretos
• Norstedts Verlag Stockholm,
FHanser Verlag Berlin
• 312 pages

Related projects

• Solange ich lebe, kriegt mich
Fder Tod nicht.
• Vom Locken der Federn –
FEin Leben als Modistin,
FMuse, Stilikone
• Flucht und Verwandlung.
FNelly Sachs, Schriftstellerin

Team

• Birgit Schlegel

Cover Photography
• Thomas Florschütz

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Wolfenbüttel Prison – Remodelling of the former execution site

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Wolfenbüttel Prison, Wolfenbüttel

Suggested was, that a »wall of names« would be engraved with the names and dates of birth and death of the prisoners.

Background

Wolfenbüttel Prison was designed in 1990 as a memorial for the National Socialist judiciary and its villainous mechanisms. gewerkdesign’s competition entry for its remodelling was a light installation in the building where executions once took place.

Though seemingly empty at first, upon entering the room visitors discover a tiled wall with the engraved names and dates of birth and death of all the people executed there: a »wall of names«. Lit from behind by LED, the names would then light up one at a time in random order, creating the dark silhouette of a guillotine at the centre of the wall.

Details

• Competition for a memorial,
Fby invitation
• Initiated and hosted by:
FLower Saxony Memorials
FFoundation
• Duration: July –
FSeptember 2015
• Ranking: longlist

Related projects

• Jüdisches Museum Berlin

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Anne-Kathrin Müller
• Denise Murray-Schlegel
• Sarah Wietrzychowski

Illustrations
• Stephan Bosse

Cranach the Younger – Discovery of a Master

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Augusteum, Wittenberg

Cranach’s signature 1514

Background

On the 500th anniversary of his birth in 2017, this special exhibition dedicated to Lucas Cranach the Younger offers an exclusive impression of his highly productive workshop and art enterprise.

Distributed across two floors the exhibition presents »The Cranach Family, »Father and Sons«, »Brück and Melanchton«, »The Workshop«, »Employed by the House of Ernestine«, »Image-Campagne«, »Success (Adam and Eve)«, »Offices and Business«, »The Drawing«, »Networking In and Around Wittenberg«, »Images of Faith vs. Society Portraits« and »Paintings from Reims«.

Introducing a system of mobile exhibition walls and separate climate-controlled display cases, the exhibition also provides the basic equipment for furnishing future exhibitions in the Augusteum in Wittenberg.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design, scenography, lighting concept, graphic design, planning concept, supervision of the production, services 1- 9 HOAI

Details

• Opening: 26. June 2015
• Augusteum, Wittenberg
• Client: Luther Memorial
FFoundation of Saxony-Anhalt
• 900 m²

Related projects

• The enterprise of opera –
Fverdi. boito. ricordi.
• Friederisiko. Frederick
Fthe great
• Prussia & Saxony – Scenes
Ffrom a relationship between
Fneighbours

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Thilo Albers
• Christian Hoffmann
• Christine Ringer
• Carsten Saalmann

Multimedia
• Daniel Finke and Andreas Dihm

Photography
• Werner Huthmacher

Two Wheels – Freiherr of Drais and the Cultural Evolution of the Bicycle

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Technoseum Mannheim, Mannheim

The handcar invented by Freiherr of Drais

Background

In this competition entry for the Technoseum Mannheim visitors are invited to follow a path leading them along large black-and-white display platforms. Each of the colourfully lit platforms carries an installation illustrating an event or a stage in the cultural evolution of the bicycle.

Black rubber guide boards at the front of the platforms provide space for the exhibition text and object labels. The exhibition’s chronological narration is supported by repeatedly focusing on certain aspects as well as recurring media, scouting and experimental stations.

Details

• Competition for a special exhibition
• Initiated and hosted by:
FTechnoseum Mannheim
• Duration: May 2015
• Ranking: shortlisted

Related projects

• velotaxi – CityCruiser I und II
FDelivery Cruiser

Team

• Stefan Rothert
• Henning Humml

Focke#Bremen

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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

Details

• Publication of the Masterplan
Fstudy: April 2015
• Client: Foundation of the
FFocke-Museum, Bremen State
FMuseum for Art and Cultural
FHistory
• Participants Workshop:
FEmployees of the Focke-
FMuseum, Bremen State Museum
Ffor Art and Cultural History,
Fgewerkdesign, Ulrich Ruwe
FArchitects, Exponatus
• Masterplan study: 86 pages

Related projects

• Museum Wolfenbüttel

Projektteam

• Jens Imig
• Nanna Funke
• Steffen Sendelbach

Exhibition Management
• Thomas Köstlin, Exponatus

Architecture
• Architekturbüro Ulrich Ruwe BDA

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Focke Museum – Masterplan

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Focke Museum 1960, Bremen

Background

The Bremen State Museum for Art and Cultural History has been one of gewerkdesign’s clients since 1995 and has issued several special exhibitions, permanent exhibitions and general measurements like signage, a media guide and a reception desk.

Among these projects was the design of the permanent exhibition of the »Archeological Laboratory at the Eichenhof« in 2011. For this project, data about the archeological finds were transferred to a database. Visitors were able to access this data when standing in front of the exhibits.

In 2013, gewerkdesign created a media guide which compiles all data from the Bremen State Museum for Art and Cultural History in an audio-visual presentation.

In 2015, gewerkdesign and the museum’s employees wrote the »Masterplan Focke #Bremen«, a study that describes, prepares and interprets the next five years of development for the Focke Museum. It focusses on the enlargement and remodelling of the permanent exhibition as well as the museum’s new profile. A shortened version of the study was presented to Lower Saxony’s government officials.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design and implementation, approval planning, implementation planning, preparation and participation in the commissioning process, planning of the exhibits’ presentation, production, signage, project management and consulting project development, graphic design of the exhibition and the accompanying booklet, media design and planning

Details

• First Opening: 1987
• Focke Museum Bremen
• Client: Foundation of the
FFocke-Museum, Bremen
FState Museum for Art and
FCultural History
• 900 m²

Related projects

• Karibu Afrika
• Didaktik trifft Gestalt –
FWald. Berlin. Klima.
• Museum Wolfenbüttel –
FStrukturwandel

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Tania und Sebastian Büsching
• Klaus Fermor
• Nanna Funke
• Christian Hoffmann
• Christine Kitta
• Rita Rentzsch
• Steffen Sendelbach
• Haleh Najafi-Shoushtari

Cooperation
• Thomas Köstlin, Exponatus
• Architekturbüro Ulrich Ruwe

Photography
• gewerkdesign
• Christoph Musiol
• Focke-Museum

Maritime Museum Unterweser – Elsfleth House and Telegraph

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Villa Steeken / Haus Elsfleth, Elsfleth

Telegraph <b>Brake</b>

Background

The Maritime Museum Unterweser is one of the oldest museums in Lower Saxony. Between 2010 and 2014 together with regional architects gewerkdesign remodelled two of the three museum’s sites preparing Elsfleth House and Brake’s former telegraph station for exhibitions.

In Brake’s former telegraph station life aboard a 19th century whaler is depicted, presenting art objects made by the sailors themselves as well as exotic souvenirs from all over the world.

Elsfleeth House focusses on the history of shipbuilding and the shipping business, portraying Germany’s biggest naval college, nautical navigation and female seafaring.

gewerkdesign’s designs abstractly recreate places from the stories told in the exhibition, for instance a shipbuilder’s workshop, the bridge of a ship or the office of a shipping company.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design and implementation, approval planning, implementation planning, preparation and participation in the commissioning process, planning of the exhibits’ presentation, production, signage, project management and consulting project development, graphic design of the exhibition and the accompanying booklet, media design and planning

Details

• Opening Elsfleth House:
FMarch 2010
• Villa Steeken in Elsfleth
• Client: Maritime Museum
FOldenburgische Unterweser e.V.
• 1,100 m2

• Opening Telegraph Brake:
F12 September 2014
• Brake Telegraph
• Client: Maritime Museum
FOldenburgische Unterweser e.V.
• 350 m2

Related projects

• TabakCollegium – Oranienbaum
• World heritage –
FVisitor centre Wismar

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Tania Büsching
• Klaus Fermor
• Christian Hoffmann
• Haleh Najafi-Shoushtari
• Rita Rentzsch
• Steffen Sendelbach
• Tania Sívertsen
• Marten Suhr
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Ann-Christin Warntjen

Metallarbeiten
• Paul Klier

Siebdruck
• Ulrich Novak

Fotografie
• Christoph Musiol
• gewerkdesign