Exercises for / in Exchange
Exercises for / in Exchange
Vielen Dank an Julia Arens, Mattia Friso, Stefanie Messner, Ilka Schaumberg
Einsteinufer 43-53, 10587 Berlin
“Exercises for / in Exchange” is an experiment in communication and exchange between students of the Berlin University of the Arts and the weißensee academy of art and design: Since, due to the pandemic, studies hardly take place in the rooms of the universities in the summer semester of 2021, the aim is to expand the possibilities of the digital to create common, cross-university spaces.
The first part of the workshop encouraged a digital exchange about perspectives – whether the ones out of the window or on studying, and various forms of introductions were explored. We shared – a coffee, an idea or as well frustration and doubt. Groups then developed typographic ideas from the collectively generated material and prepared them for the spatial installation. The final part of the course was devoted to production on site, not on screens, but on the glass panes of the designtransfer exhibition showcase.
This created a space that stimulates reflection on forms of connection; that poetically interrogates and typographically visualizes shared experiences of online teaching and learning; that collectively locates individual perspectives and stimulates interactions in multiple ways.