future Archive | gewerkdesign

The second site of „Open Up!“ at the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Berlin

Data(book) - Tower

Background

The exhibition presents the ZBW’s leading role and exemplary solutions for the »Library of the Future«, raising awareness for the changes to come. For presenting these future demands in an authentic fashion the modularly built travelling exhibition features interconnected »Towers of Information« (data stacks) as a key image – accessing a source of information enables the accessing of further sources. This key image elaborates on the existing concept image for the development of the ZBW: following the spirit of »Open Science« and evolving from a »dusty« library into a digital, interconnected, and open access science library of the 21st century. The travelling exhibition presents these developments as a three dimensional space and as architecture. It creates a physical, tangible image of the ZBW’s evolution into a »Library of the Future« by visualising the tasks that ensue these changes. It illustrates the challenges attached to these tasks and the changing process, gives project examples, and allows a vision of the future by presenting current achievements and their future potential. The exhibition’s content and architecture is centred on the ZBW and its leading role in tackling one of society’s key questions: what does the library of the future look like?

Portfolio / Range of Services: Workshop for compiling and developing the exhibition’s content, exhibition design and planning, general contractor, exhibition production, exhibition graphics, pictograph design

Details

• Opening: 11. March 2019
• Where: Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm- FZentrum, Berlin
• Client: ZBW – Leibniz Information FCentre for Economics, Kiel
• 300m²

Related projects

• Sugar and Beyond!, Berlin
• Out of Office, Hamburg

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Henning Humml
• Victor Reichert
• Sebastian Franke

Production and Mounting
• Falko Riepe

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg

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What differences are there (still) between humans and machines?

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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