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Published: June 24th 2008
Ladies and gents, boys and girls, dogs, cats, birds, snakes…
I didn’t do a damn thing but shop in Munich. I have no pictures for you. I have no cultural insights, unless you want to count the observations about today’s über-consumer society (of which I was right there playing a part). I hope I didn’t let you down too much. Know this: it was rainy and gross most of the 30 hours we were actually out of Coburg. It went like this: Tine, a girl from our Resopal competition project, was going that way anyhow in a rented station wagon, which was more than big enough for the 4 of us. Tine ‘had’ to stop at Ikea on the way, and I didn’t realize (though I should have) that Ikea has a small Swedish specialty food store right past the check out lines. Got some *really * good ginger cookies. To Munich, where we stayed at
Wombat’s City Hostel. Man, that place was crawlin’ with loonies the night we were there - an entire throng of Irishmen had come to town for a stag (bachelor) party. As in, they all climbed on a plane, flew to Munich and had a party. 30 of
numba 2...
i'll just put the rest of these in the order of our tour...‘em. A not-so-restful night later, we hit the aptly named Kaufingerstrasse for the day. And when we got tired, we took the train back to Coburg. Pretty cut and dry.
What was pretty cool, though, and I have plenty of pictures to go with, was the tour of the guts of Hofbräuhaus I got today. Along with Kate and Melissa, guided by Herr Döll, we explored the underground rooms to the brewery. See, my school really did used to be the brewery in town. It was built in 1850, but about 10 years ago the building burnt down. I believe that the brewery had by then long closed, but when they rebuilt it the school decided to lease 3 of the 5 floors for the interior architecture and product design departments (which are two different things here). The underground complex, however was pretty much untouched… as fire tends to travel up… and the storage and processing rooms are still there. They are extremely run down, but they’re solid - enormous concrete vaulted spaces - and it’s a truly huge underground complex. The water source, a fresh underground spring, is still in fully working order, and so the place doesn’t flood
they still have to pump it into the canal that runs through town. We toured the fermenting rooms, the storage and bottling rooms, some old rooms with some *really* funky mold growing. The reason we got such a awesome tour was so that we could see some of the spaces that will be used in Designtage before they get all set up and ready for an audience.
Which brings me to
Designtage. Much, much more to come about Designtage, which will be open for visits May 24-29. But for right now, oy vey! Everyone’s running around crazy trying to get final pieces to fall into place, making failed plans into half-successes (so no one else knows that everything didn’t turn out *just* so)… it’s crazy. But I think everyone knows that deep down, it’s good for their attitudes toward work. Anyhow, I’ve also included some pictures of students hard at work and the half-assembled projects. Enjoy!
Teaser: next time you get an account of one of eastern Europe’s finest countries.
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