Interdisciplinary project

2022

“The Hybrid Neighborhood Museum - Portal to the World” 

2022

Spatial Design and virtual aesthetic curatorship of Jacobs University project.

“Portal to the world” is a site-specific learning platform developed for the  members of Jacobs University and citizens of  Bremen, in the context of the “Community Impact Project”. Jacobs University is located on a site with history. Almost a hundred years ago, the Nazi army built barracks there. After the Second World War, the buildings were first taken over by US forces and later by the German armed forces. In 2001, the site was finally converted into the campus of an international university. As part of the project, students created info points in the form of digital stumbling blocks embedded in the digital learning platform, where information about individual buildings, parts of buildings or events can be accessed via smartphone.

The project was initiated and led by Dr. Jakob Fruchtmann, and realized with expert contributions from historian Prof. Rüdiger Ritter, graphic designers Clemens Gensch and Leonard Rokita, actor Boris Radivoj (who developed workshops that enabled students to create videos of enacted history). The visual artist Luisa Eugeni developed the spatial design concept and aesthetic coherence of the digital learning platform that cuts smoothly across different realities such as virtual reality, augmented reality and material realities like historical artifacts, drawings and maps.