Background
The special exhibition explores the current question of how the future of work is changing as humans increasingly compete with artificial intelligence. Will new forms of collaboration emerge that enable us to work more freely, or are we as workers increasingly making ourselves redundant? The exhibition project by the Museum der Arbeit and the Bucerius Lab of the ZEIT Foundation uses 11 stations to explore the fundamental changes that AI and robots are already bringing about in the world of work and the developments that may still lie ahead. The show discusses both opportunities and risks and encourages us to consider our role in the future world of work. The scenography of the exhibition picks up on the connection between humans and machines, with a dramaturgy that spans the past, present, and future. The entrance area, decorated with paintings of a romanticized image of work, is bathed in warm, subdued light. In contrast, visitors find themselves afterwards in the large factory hall within a »neural network« reminiscent of the human brain with its nerve strands and synapses as well as of an artificial intelligence – clear, cool, technical, fast. The strands running through the entire space lead to the individual stations and create thematic references. Everything is connected to everything else in a deliberately reduced, concentrated, and non-static design. An interactive, participatory forum at the end of the exhibition provides a place for discourse.
Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, preparation/participation in the commissioning process, design, concept development for the display, exhibition production, visual signage system, project management and consulting project development, exhibition graphics
Details
• Duration: 6 November 2018
Fto 18 May 2019
• Location: Museum der Arbeit,
FHamburg
• Client: Stiftung Historische
FMuseen Hamburg in cooperation
Fwith Zeitstiftung Ebelin and
FGerd Bucerius
• 650 m²
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Light and Mounting
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Photography
• Pablo Hassmann































