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gewerkdesign Workshops

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gewerkdesign Studio

Workshop Romanesque Café

Background

To think of design holistically means to understand design as a dynamic process rather than as a product or service. Since the founding of gewerkdesign, our working method has been committed to an interdisciplinary approach that sees design not only as the craft of trained designers and architects, but also as the successful transformation of the visions of all those involved in a project. This way, ideas become realities by the means of design. Reflecting and developing this process through workshops is therefore a crucial part of our design practice. Workshops precede the implementation of concepts, but are also offered by us independently of commissioned projects. Through almost three decades of intensive collaboration with clients and project partners from a wide variety of fields, we have many years of experience in the moderation of different interests and successful development of the individual parameters of specific projects as well as the conditions for their realization.

Methodology and implementation competence come together in this format and can transform content, ideas and motives into a productive structure through our didactic expertise. The results of a workshop can be used in many ways: they can provide the foundation for the implementation of concrete design concepts, e.g. an exhibition, digital information and participation offerings, a CI/CD or the new conception of a museum. They can also serve as a basis for the preparation of a feasibility study, a funding application or a call for tenders. Together, a precise analysis of the tasks and challenges of a project can be carried out, processes can be optimized and an implementation can be prepared.

Although an individual workshop is developed for each situation and client, some components and effects are common to all formats: by exchanging and adopting different positions and perspectives, motives and goals can be determined, the specific situation can be evaluated, personnel and hierarchical structures can be broken down, areas of responsibility can be distributed, and techniques of creative work can be trained. A workshop by gewerkdesign can also serve as further training or as a tool for team building. Each workshop is therefore a bundling of skills and perspectives, which benefits all participants.

Portfolio / Range of Services:

Basic evaluation, concept and design, strategy and structure of the workshop, planning and execution, moderation, preparation and follow-up, creation of workshop media

Possible tasks and goals of a workshop:

• Development of new museum concepts
• Structuring of information in space
• Development of control system concepts for complex building projects
• Generation, inclusion and use of the creative potential of all project participants
• Specification of project ideas
• Consulting for projects in public space

Similar projects

• Wald. Berlin. Klima. – An Exhibition in the Forest, Berlin
• Hiking trails around Brodowin, signage system in Brodowin

Munich Displaced

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Jewish Museum Munich, München

Munich City Museum

Background

The exhibition project “Munich Displaced” is dedicated to the research of a blank space in German Remembrance Culture: the history of the so-called Displaced Persons (DPs). This term refers to all those foreign civilians who, after 1945, found themselves outside their homeland as a result of the Second World War and were unable to return to it without further ado. The group of DPs is complex and diverse, including political prisoners, concentration camp inmates, civilian Eastern European workers, former forced laborers, and collaborators. The documentation of their history was compiled in a broad research for the city of Munich and edited for two different exhibitions in the city.

With the exhibition “Munich Displaced. After 1945 and without a Homeland”, the Munich City Museum sheds light on the history of this group from a local perspective and shows how these migrants lived and worked in Munich after 1945 with the will to shape their own destiny. With the exhibition “MUNICH DISPLACED. The Surviving Remnant”, the Jewish Museum Munich is focusing on the history of the Jewish DPs in Munich.

A special challenge for gewerkdesign was to conceive and realize two exhibitions at two locations, both graphically and spatially. The exhibitions, which run in parallel, place the history of the DP communities in an interrelated context, which also comes to bear in terms of design, through an overarching graphic and design concept. The two museums on opposite sides of Munich’s Sankt-Jakobs-Platz were connected and put into a dialogue by including the outdoor space in the design. In the Jewish Museum, the exhibition architecture traces the local infrastructure of the Jewish DP communities along Möhlstraße. Exhibition design and graphics of both exhibitions evoke the image of fleetingness and sketchiness. Temporary buildings, staggered or fading dots and letters, abstracted maps, and interrupted lines characterize the aesthetics of both exhibitions and also refer to the work-in-progress nature of the unfinished research project.

Furthermore, the exhibition is designed to be sustainable. The individual exhibition elements were produced cost-effectively, with low overall material consumption. The graphics have been printed predominantly on paper or cotton textiles to keep the use of plastics and composites as low as possible.

Portfolio/ Range of Services:

Exhibition design and architecture, exhibition and media graphics, communication design, production management

Details

• Opening: July 5, 2023
• Where: Munich City Museum, Jewish Museum Munich, Munich
• Client: Munich City Museum, Jewish Museum Munich
• ca. 400 m² und ca. 600 m² m²

Similar Projects

• A Memorial made of Paper: Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen
• Our Courage. Jews in Europe 1945-1948, Frankfurt
• Riots + New Beginnings. Bremen after 1968, Bremen

Process

Team

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

Photography:
• gewerkdesign

Media Design:
Claudius Schulz

Graphics, Layout and Typesetting (Jewish Museum):
vogelfrei design, Lissabon: Claudia Wagner

Exhibition Production (Jewish Museum):
• Thomas Sensburg
• Peter Friedel
• Hasan Güneri
• Sabine Menges
• Lorant Brendea
• wulff & fischer dekorationsbau GmbH, Eschenlohe

Exhibition Production, Technical Team (Munich City Museum):
• Marcus Gora (management)
• Peter Armbrüster
• Ronny Hausmann
• Stephan Juttner
• Bernd Mollenhauer
• Raymond Wetzelaar
• Christian Ziegler

Lighting and Media (Munich City Museum):
• Martin Ries

110 Years of Behrensbau. Architecture and History

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Behrensbau, Düsseldorf

Model of the building by Peter Behrens

Background

Düsseldorf looks back on more than 100 years of German history at a historic building: the exhibition “110 Years of Behrensbau” sheds light on the eventful chronicle of the Behrens Building on the banks of the Rhine, its alternating uses and its famous architect Peter Behrens, which is closely linked to the Mannesmann Group. German economic policy, art and architectural history intersect at this historic site, the latter of which has been significantly influenced by the builder, who is also regarded as an exemplary pioneer of modern industrial and graphic design. However, the exhibition not only focuses on the Behrensbau as a milestone in German architectural history, but also on the future of this unique building. As a contemporary history museum for the House of History of North Rhine-Westphalia, it addresses the democratic, cultural and educational potential of the Behrens Building.
A fundamental motive for gewerkdesign’s work on this project was the concern to design and realize an exhibition as efficiently as possible in terms of environmental compatibility.The construction principles of the preserved exhibition elements of the anniversary exhibition “OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia”, which was designed by gewerkdesign and realized in the Behrensbau in 2021, enabled a resource-saving conversion and reuse for this exhibition. Modular substructures, demountable panel cladding, flexible showcase bases and large-scale dioramas could be adapted, reassembled, clad and furnished for this purpose.
Great emphasis was placed on energy conservation and the use of environmentally friendly materials. For example, the existing panels were used as graphic panels and covered with printed textile, while the physical didactics of the exhibition were designed to allow visitors to experience Behrend’s spatial concept by allowing daylight to illuminate the exhibition spaces, thus saving artificial lighting and energy. Applying principles such as multiple use, low material consumption in production, reusability of individual exhibition elements through minimal redesign, and a design approach that works with, rather than against, the existing architecture of Peter Behrens, the result is an exhibition that is highly sustainable, while creating an impressive exhibition experience visually and spatially.

Portfolio / Range of Services:

Basic evaluation, exhibition design, exhibition graphics, information graphics, dismantling and reconstruction planning, implementation planning, production management, participation in awarding contracts, construction management

Details

• Opening: May 24, 2023
• Where: Behrensbau, Düsseldorf
• Client: Foundation House of History of North Rhine-Westphalia
• approx. 530 m²

Similar Projects

• OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf

Process

Team

• Adele Heymann
• Janine Iser
• Julia Junghänel
• Victor Reichert
• Stefan Rothert

Production
• i.xpo GmbH & Co. KG (exhibition construction)
• Zehnpfennig, Weber & Taylor GbR, Berlin (procurement of exhibits)
• vogelfrei design, Lissabon & Kommunikationskontor, Düsseldorf (graphics, layout and typesetting)
• Tinetronics, Köln & M-Create GmbH, Düsseldorf (exhibition media)
• Radebeuler Machwerk e.K., Radebeul (print production)

Photography
• gewerkdesign

The Whole Estate a Garden – House of the Princess

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House of the Princess, Wörlitz

Bust of Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi

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: August 14, 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

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

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: Summer 2022 / 2023
• Where: In the garden of our studio in Berlin

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

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

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