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Gateway – Bremen’s role as a portal to outer space

The United Nations launched World Space Week in 1999. Since then, annual events have been held around the world to show­case space sciences and tech­nol­ogies and their social ben­efits for people. 

As one of the world’s leading space lo­ca­tions, Bremen hosted World Space Week in the his­tor­ic lower town hall in 2012 as part of its chair­man­ship of the European net­work of lo­ca­tions in­volved in the con­struc­tion of Ariane. We inter­preted Bremen’s role as a portal to outer space in the inter­active media instal­lation “Gateway”.

Light gates made of electro­lumi­nes­cent wire showed visi­tors the way through the ven­er­able Gothic town hall. Visi­tors were able to pick up post­cards along the way with “100 ques­tions about space travel” from the fol­low­ing sub­ject areas: Tele­com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Bremen as a space loca­tion, manned space flight, on-orbit ser­vices, ex­plo­ra­tion, space trans­por­ta­tion, navi­ga­tion and earth ob­ser­va­tion. Placed on an inter­active table, the answers were de­livered in multi­media form via an over­head ceil­ing pro­jec­tion.

More than 10,000 people visited the exhi­bi­tion over the course of a week.

Services

Concept, Design, Project Management, Realisation

In collaboration with

Tilman Richter

Client

Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen

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Image:

Tim Klausing, Jens Lehmkühler

Video:

Effrosyni Kontogeorgou, Julian Hölscher

Does a cloud fit in a suit­case? What noises does a kitchen make? What is a scent organ? Where do you sleep during a polar ex­pedi­tion? What is it that glows in the under­ground of Frank­furt? Where is the division be­tween gaps and holes? And what hap­pens when 20 pigeons move into a gal­lery?

SCK – Studio for… de­votes itself with great cu­ri­os­ity to vari­ous ques­tions and de­vel­ops elabo­rate con­cepts for com­mu­ni­ca­ting science, designs unique exhi­bits and creates un­con­ven­tional furni­ture and ob­jects be­yond any in­dus­trial norm. The studio works in close co-op­era­tion with a wide range of proj­ect part­ners and clients. It designs and man­ages a wide range of tasks in vari­ous con­stel­la­tions. From ex­hi­bi­tion design to furni­ture and ob­ject design to inter­active in­stal­la­tions.

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  • Art Production
  • Cultural Spaces
  • Exhibit Design
  • Exhibition and Trade Fair Design
  • Furniture and Object Design
  • Imparting Knowledge
  • Interactive Installations
  • Interior Design
  • Science Communication
  • Temporary Architecture

Clients (Selection)

Güterbahnhof Bremen, Tor 13
Beim Handelsmuseum 9
D–28195 Bremen

+49 176 231 674 64
info@sck-studio.de

Responsible for contents acc. to Sec. 55, para. 2 German Federal Broadcasting Agreement (RstV):

Benjamin Suck
Güterbahnhof Bremen, Tor 13
Beim Handelsmuseum 9
D–28195 Bremen

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