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As part of the “More Than Human” project, the concept of the “Art and Wunderkammer” is being reactivated in order to re-contextualize objects from the collections of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts with contemporary design and art projects, prototypes and other artifacts.
Image gallery
Parallel Worlds
Materialwelten
E-Waste Fossils
More-than-human Sketching im Kunstgewerbemuseum
More-than-human Sketching im Kunstgewerbemuseum
3D-Sketch
The “Wunderkammer” intervention serves as an experimental space: By focusing on current topics such as biodiversity, ecology and the post-Anthropocene, the aim is to stimulate the critical attention of visitors to reflect on and re-explore the complex, interwoven relationships between humans, non-human actors and the environment.
Two projects will be shown in the second edition of the Wunderkammer.
“Tales of Nature – Material Cultures”
Students in the Spatial Design and Exhibition Design (Raumklasse) class at the Berlin University of the Arts in the Visual Communication course have been dealing with the question of how interrelated networks and relationships between humans, animals, plants and the material environment can arise.
Based on an expanded understanding and investigation of matter, e.g. rocks and minerals, students made hidden stories and phenomena visible, which were translated into fictional and narrative spatial scenarios in interaction with hybrid materials. Visualizations, animations, experimental collages, 3D scans and plastic material experiments open up digital spaces and unknown imaginary worlds that tell of undiscovered bodies and places.
With projects by: Florentin Aisslinger, Fiona Belousz, Maria Capello, Vincent Carter, Mattia Friso, Ernst August Graefe, Lukas Graf, Hannah Greifenstein, Valentin Jauch, Shinae Kim, Livia Kirchner, Jason Kittner, Maria Kobylenko, Stefanie Messner, Boohri Park, Jil Schuberth, Klara Troost, Pauline Luca Wunderlich
More-Than-Human Sketching
The exhibition area “More-Than-Human Sketching” shows the results of a participatory design anthropology research process that focuses on the reuse of a new digital design tool, 3D drawing.
This tool was used to explore the collections of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in collective acts of spatial sketching. Building on the ongoing experiments in digital anatomical training currently being developed in the Speculative Realities Lab, a project space of the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” and the Department of Neurosurgery, Charité, researchers and workshop participants co-designed interactive augmented performances. Together they created new scores to delve into the more-than-human manufacturing processes of the collection objects.
Sketching has long been considered an expression of design knowledge. At the heart of the modern design process is a mysterious act that partially eludes the creator's intentions: when hand, paper and idea meet, an intuitive digestion of spatial knowledge takes place through quasi-conscious gestures. Like the flexible fingers of mycelium networks growing through their environment, these lines enclose the forms and give meaning to their relationships.
What if design and humanities joined forces to develop new visual and performative concepts that counteract anthropocentric ideas about material cultures and biomedical image knowledge?
In the four showcases of the Wunderkammer, colorful, graphic ethnographic field notes show how groups of visitors sketched these performative scores in 3D, developing a new perspective on the activity of materials. The objects 3D printed with different materials (resin, clay) reflect how the museum objects sketched by the participants were digitally “digested”.
Project team: Maxime Le Calvé, Elaine Bonavia, Greta Stefanovic, Nayeli Vega, Kotryna Slapsinskaite
A special exhibition of the Kunstgewerbemuseum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
