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Love Thy Neighbour takes you on a journey through time across two centuries of sometimes painful, sometimes wonderful, but always intense relations between neighbours in the region where the borders of Germany, Switzerland and France meet.
The redesign of the permanent archaeological exhibition in the Museum of History and Ethnology provides an effective platform for the Canton of St. Gallen’s archaeology department. The extensive collection of finds is presented thematically in the historic rooms, while workstations offer visitors an insight into the working methods of modern-day archaeologists.
The Designers’ Saturday event in Langenthal has become the most important design show in Switzerland. Four of the six exhibitions are active production locations. This extraordinary backdrop of manufacturing sites strives the Designers’ Saturday to offer industry professionals new experiences and visions.
The water fittings manufacturer arwa, which first joined Designers’ Saturday in 2004, commissioned us to design its three displays
Are you afraid of missing something? The latest tweet, the ultimate news item? Are you contactable at all times? Are you at home in the limitless world of communication?
The “clinic for communication” will advise you and, once your check-up is complete, put together a personalised wellness package.
The Jewish Museum Berlin is seizing on its 10th anniversary as an opportunity to take stock. The special exhibition “How German is it?” shows works from 30 artists addressing key aspects of their perception in and of Germany. The design of the exhibition reflects the ambivalent cultural relationships dealt with by the artworks.
German military history is part of German cultural history. This notion forms the basis for the redevelopment of the German Army’s Military History Museum in Dresden. The concept and design of the exhibition are intended to create a dialogue between conventional and unconventional views and to make this complex topic accessible to the whole of society in a completely new way.
Roughly half of all high-rise buildings were built after the start of the 21st century. This construction boom has made the high-rise an influential part of what is today’s most important collective world – the city. The scenography plays on the desire of modern high-rise cities to create an unmistakable skyline.
Panoramas were the mass media of the 19th century. Forerunners to cinema, they surround viewers and place them right at the centre of the depicted scene.
The Bourbaki Panorama in Lucerne is housed in a purpose-built circular building opened in 1889 and accompanied by a permanent exhibition detailing its history and importance.
The First Beijing International Design Triennial takes place from September 28 to October 17 2011.
Five international teams of curators have been invited to present the finest of contemporary international and Chinese design at the recently renovated National Museum of China situated on Beijing’s bustling Tiananmen Square.
As you stroll through the woods, your senses are on high alert: you gaze at the forest floor, raise your eyes to the heavens, peer around the next tree or seek out the ground beneath a root. We made such a principle of playful discovery part of the exhibition space, and filled the white surfaces of an entire screen with content as abundant, dense and multifaceted as the forest itself.
“Realstadt. Wishes Knocking on Reality’s Doors” presents urban development as a project involving many actors with widely differing desires. Realstadt is not, as its name implies, a real city, but it describes the reality of cities – for they are built from wishes, animated by wishes and pulsing with wishes.
The Messel Pit, since 1995 a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a hugely important source of fossils. The new Visitor Information Centre at the former oil shale pit showcases this unique location. It offers a glimpse at a long bygone era and uses sophisticated multimedia installations to plunge visitors into the heart of some of the Earth’s treasures.
The rumour mill always works overtime; and the exhibition Rumour is devoted to this fascinating and fleeting phenomenon. We created a colourful and atmospheric setting for the show.
“Scenography and architecture tell stories about spaces. As we move through spaces we constantly perceive their architecture from new points of view. Architecture is never constant: it is in continuous movement.”
Barbara Holzer and Tristan Kobler
Visitors exiting Zurich train station to the north suddenly find themselves standing in front of a picturesque castle. This structure was completed in 1897 as the National Museum. The historic building cites a range of styles from the Swiss architectural tradition. When it was restored by Christ & Gantenbein, the opportunity was taken to revamp the permanent exhibitions as well.
The exhibition “focusTerra” presents the mineralogical and geological collection of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. The content and design link the collection to contemporary research and mediate between the university and the general public.
The exhibition is housed in the brightly lit courtyard of a recently restored historic building.
The city of Zurich has set itself an ambitious goal: to cut the current annual energy consumption of 6300 watts per person in half by 2050, and then to reduce it even further to 2000 watts by 2150. The exhibition Building for the 2000-Watt-Society shows the current state of debate on sustainable construction, as building structures currently account for over 40 percent of our energy consumption.
All you need is love...that’s not all. ALL WE NEED explores the world as a global market through the human efforts to dream, imagine and live a happy life. The old „Halle des Soufflantes“ of the Belval Steelworks, an abandonend cathedral of the industrial age, sets the scenery. Within an area of 5000 square meters the exhibition deals with the questions of human needs, the resources of the planet and a fair globalization.
In 1999, unlicensed treasure hunters unearthed a remarkable archaeological relic: a 3,600-year-old sky disc made of bronze inlaid with gold. It depicts complex constellations and the symbol of the solar barge representing the sun’s nightly passage from west to east. An architectural competition was launched to design a public archaeological centre and an observation tower that would showcase the disc and come to symbolize the region.
Why and how does the Swiss Ministry of Culture promote Swiss design with its Design Grant competition? What are the different prizes, and what will participants do with them if they win? In other words, how does the Swiss view itself in terms of design?
“Our ornamental work has always been based on the fir tree (in French: sapin). If you look at the tree as a whole or in detail in its different phases of development, you find an inexhaustible source of ornamental inspiration. The silver thistle, the gentian as well as the entire fauna of the Jura Mountains provide boundless additional material.” From the report of the Commission de L’École d’Art, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1911
The Wall of Galtür is a symbol. It is possible to live in the mountains, humans and nature share a future here. That is the message that the Alpinarium communicates in its exhibitions and events. The Alpinarium itself is an element of the wall, which was erected in 1999 to protect the village from avalanches.
“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d. Give me my armor.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Weapons threaten, weapons kill, weapons protect, weapons fascinate. The exhibition examines strategy, attack and protection.
What is home? It is the lush fields, the forests, the hills. It is the creaky staircase. Home is where I live. It is the language that we speak together. We all define home differently. It is not something that objectively exists – we invent it anew every day.
National exhibitions serve to define a location: What has been achieved, where are we headed, what do we wish for the future? In a country that is often perceived as content, what do the inhabitants actually wish for? What are their hearts’ desires? Leading up to Expo.02 the wishes of inhabitants from all over the country were recorded in some 1000 interviews. sWISH* is an exhibition that explores the Swiss landscape of wishes.
