Workshop “Reading spaces – How stories are told in exhibitions”, tu-buehnenbild, 2019

What role exhibitions play in communicating knowledge? How do people learn in public places? The workshop will offer an intense playfield to examine the diverse methods of spatial storytelling and narrative design for museum exhibitions and installations. 

Throughout the process, we will experiment on the relationships of content and form, of experience and delight, technologies and poetics and of space and body and create a meaningful playful exhibit experience. Exhibition design offers us a space to examine the role of technology-based design as an additional tool to build multiple narrative spaces. We shall think of experiences as new ways to perceive and communicate knowledge. In this workshop Design thinking and multidisciplinary approaches will offer new ways to communicate complex ideas and knowledge with a wide variety of societies. 

We will underlay the importance of storytelling, by conceptualizing thematic ideas, by the use of space and interaction, new technologies, graphics, sound and light we can tell very complex stories for historical, scientific, research, temporary or critical exhibitions. Topics of discussion will include the ability of Designers to act as agents of critical and multi​layered thinkers, the roles of the museums of tomorrow, ​ how can we produce a wide range of​     influential learning through design and interactivity and new forms of conceiving knowledge. We will use creative speed design techniques, team discussions, experiments, readings, and mockups to finalize small group installations.   Themes to be examined in the workshop include: What will museum of tomorrow be? Organizing an idea, a story and a theme into a conceptual clear spatial design. Structuring a narrative, understanding the importance of storytelling and creating an experience. Display methodologies from physical to digital and technology based ideas. 

Site: The Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin

The workshop will work in an open-ended platform approach to design, suggesting collaborations and team working.  During an intense 2 week workshop students from the Stage design_ scenic space Continuing Master Program and architecture masters program at the TU Berlin teamed up to produce brilliant inspiring concepts: