Design Connects offers a versatile program of Workshops, joined Events and Leisure activities. Workshop topics range widely in the creative fields from Architecture, Product to Graphic Design and beyond. It’s a place for young designers from all around the world to interact & connect to emerge with new ideas & create something unique trough design.
What to expect?
The idea of the workshop is mainly directing you into viewing the built space as an ongoing potential. They can be built for a certain purpose but then be re-appropriated to serve a different function.
Occupying a space doesn’t have to be for the sole purpose it was designed for. Accordingly, you will be visiting a number of re-used building/ spaces in Berlin where the function it holds now was not the function the space was built for.
An example of these spaces is the Berlin Bunker that is now a famous exhibition space. You will understand how new uses and users appropriated and adapted to these spaces. With this in mind, the workshop will be focused on designing a building on campus that used to be a factory but now it is used as a space for architecture students as a kind of workshop, workplace and common area for them.
Sequential occupation of functions will be an interesting topic to know the different layers that existed in a place and have them as a scenario in mind when tackling the history of uses in the place. Not just uses, but also materials, atmospheres, lights, and reaction of the users to the space.
The idea is then to transform part of the space into another function with its different atmospheres, lighting, furniture, ideas, etc.. yet putting in mind that the design of this space should be coherent with the existing function if not completing it.
It should still allow the existing use as working spaces to occur. The process of understanding and reflecting will be supported by excursions to sites in Berlin that holds the same idea of spaces being re-used after a certain function ended allowing the imagination of how a space could be design and built for a certain function yet being appropriated with another function.
Judging the adaptation and how sustainable it is to use existing spaces rather than always thinking of going into the idea of building new ones. The workshop will end by choosing a design that fits the most to the circumstances and the space to be implemented. Students can manipulate and think of the spaces, the lighting, the furniture, the walls, etc. Functions are based on their choice and complementing the existing function in the space important. Examples of these functions are exhibition space, coworking space, lounge area, storage area, reading area, presentation space, leisure area, etc.
The Workshop is open to all students who are interested and would like to experiment with designing.
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July 19, 2023 08:00 AMUntil
July 27, 2023 06:30 PMVenue
Berlin, GermanyAddress