Underground: a place to risk, out of the main the new, not part of the ordinary, pioneering.
Berlin has a rich history of using UNDERGROUND as a vehicle of change, a laboratory for discovering the outcast, the exception, the accident that defies traditional constructs.
How do we use the past to create a new paradigm for art and design in Berlin: To questions without limits?
How can we look at our world through the lens of the underground to reinterpret how we live, work, play & communicate: Where is the new edge?
15 students from different art and design disciplines will investigate the multi-dimensions of Berlin's underground zeitgeist as 5 multi-disciplinary teams, devising new opportunities for hospitality + food, entertainment, visual art and trans-media communication.
Teams will explore Berlin's creative underground inspired by one of these lenses:
- The Underground infrastructure: the 'functional guts' of the metropolis - The sound of Underground: Berlin's extreme music scene - Underground art: Berlin's urban sensibility above and below ground - Hot and cold wars: the Underground archaeology of a formerly divided city - Fashion: Berlin beyond the establishment - The protagonists of Berlin Underground: Demitri Hegemann & Co.
Requisites
Must be a 5th term student or above