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A Memorial made of Paper: Arolsen Archives, International Center on Nazi Persecution

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Arolsen Archives documentation centre

Digital index card

Background

The Arolsen Archives – a Memorial made of Paper – store more than 30 Mio files on holocaust survivors, concentration camp inmates, forced labourers, and survivors. The Archives of the ITS, the International Tracing Service, was founded in order to compile information on the history of the victims as well as to deposit letters of their relatives who had contacted the archives. It is an organic archive, continuously growing. The special exhibition about the founding and procedures of the archives is shown in Bad Arolsen until the UNESCO-Memory of the World documents will move to a new building. gewerkdesign won the public contest for design and production of exhibition and catalogue. As part of the corona measures that were taken in 2020, visitors are now also able to experience the exhibition interactively on a 3D tour: Arolsen Archives online.

Portfolio / Range of Services : Exhibition design, exhibition scenography, exhibition graphics, media design, film production, planning concept, production supervision, services 1-9

Details

• Opening: 18. June 2019
• Ort: Arolsen Archives – FInternational Center on Nazi FPersecution, Bad Arolsen
• Client: Arolsen Archives, Bad FArolsen
• 150m²

Related projects

• Bautzen Memorial, Bautzen
• The Germans, the Forced Labourers Fand the War; Berlin, Moscow, FWarsaw and others
• The dissenter is the Enemy; FHamburg

Design process

Team

• Sebastian Franke
• Ida Flik
• Jens Imig
• Julia Junghänel
• Jori Kehn
• Bianca Mohr
• Franziska Schuh
• Birgit Schlegel
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Production management
• Sebastian Franke

Media production
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Photography
• gewerkdesign

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

Remodelling of Eutin Castle’s Exhibition Concept

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View of Eutin Castle

new Logo

Background

Starting 2015, Eutin Castle’s museum has undertaken a gradual and extensive remodelling of its appearance – designed and consulted by gewerkdesign. The process was divided into several parts: in April 2017 the remodelling of the castle’s chapel was finished, the newly designed royal seating platform in the chapel, and the adjoining chamber presenting the antependium – a luxurious textile decoration in front of the altar. The redesign of the antependium chamber is focused on the exhibit itself. An intricate lighting concept guides the visitors’ eyes through the dimly lit room’s simple furnishings – with the antependium as the room’s centre and focus.
The next part of the remodelling – a modern signage system and the first part of the new permanent exhibition – was presented to the public in June 2018. The design drew inspiration from the reflections and crystalline shapes of the castle’s luxurious chandeliers. Taking this idea as a starting point, gewerkdesign designed a variety of graphic elements that would guide the visitors from the inner courtyard into the castle’s piano nobile. Cooperating with the lighting designer Ulrike Link, the rooms were furnished with pillars matching the room’s colours. These polygonal pillars are covered with fabric and carry information about the rooms’ history as well as lamps and spotlights. Crystalline shapes are an important element of the design and also characterise the castle’s remodelled logotype. Welcoming the »digital natives«, the artist Larissa Blau created an animated film repeating reflection as a design element and imitating the style of a kaleidoscope. The media guide was designed in cooperation with Graphscape and speak low, providing additional videos, audios, and texts with in-depth information throughout a round tour through the castle.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design and planning, planning of the statutory approvals, 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, media concept and media graphics, exhibition graphics, graphics booklet

Details

• Remodelling of the exhibition
Fconcept, divided into sub-steps,
Fsince 2015 (ongoing project)
• Opening of the last part:
FJune 2018
• Where: Eutin Castle
• Client: Stiftung Schloss
FEutin
• 1.660 m²

Related projects

• Cranach the Younger,
FWittenberg
• Prussia & Saxony,
FDoberlug-Kirchhain

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Janine Iser
• Julia Junghänel
• Franziska Schuh
• Sebastian Franke
• Volker Böhm

Lighting design
• Ulrike Link

Media
• Graphscape
• speak low
• Larissa Blau

Photography
• Jacintha Nolte