Designtage

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Our school’s student-organized design fair is better described in pictures than in words. Website

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Photos

Hofbrauhaus
All dolled up: the final product

Let's start at the beginning...
Hofbrauhaus 2 weeks before designtage: trying out ideas

2 weeks before Designtage
The workshop's an utter mess of sawdust and red paint.

1 week before Designtage
installation is finally progressing in front of Hofbrauhaus and at the Gewölbekeller (red facade back there).

1 week before Designtage
Brainstorming, part of an installation in the background

1 week before Designtage
There's almost no room to walk in the elevator lobby, something that would *never* fly with american fire codes...

1 week before Designtage
Installation inside the Gewölbekeller

1 week before Designtage
Believe it or not, that construction on the far right will be the Biergarten and the small wooded area beyond will be the 'Sensory Park.'

3 days before Designtage
Sensory Park being constructed. That's a treehouse (!) goin up on the left

3 days before Designtage
Gewölbekeller's exterior installation: yet more progress

3 days before Designtage
Point of no return for the workshop

3 days before Designtage
The cafe under construction - nearly completed

3 days before Designtage
More fire-code infringement in the 1st floor hallway

3 days before Designtage
Red paint in action. Notice enormous spring-core of a mattress on the grass.

3 days before Designtage
The capacity in which I helped the most was translating the information banners, which were later hung in the hallways at Hofbrau. The banner team did most of its final days' work up at the Mechanical Engineering printing lab, printing out the 220x80 cm (7x2-1/2 ft) banners on vellum and mounting them on metal strips.

3 days before Designtage
Tine hard at work on a banner.

Tine, Markus and me
trying to get the banners ready to go was an enormous pain because of these metal strips we had to munt them on - it seemed like a simple enough idea, but it ended up taking a lot of muscle to get the job done.

2 days before Designtage
here's that spring core that you saw earlier. We put a million & one little plastic cones into the springs with twist ties... it was a royal pain, and we thought for a while it wouldn't get done on time! I'm that person at the bottom of the picture, in the green sweatshirt, meticulously putting twist ties with each cone-thingy.

2 days before Designtage
The Villa, which is the small house next to Hofbrauhaus, was lived in up until this school year. The Designtage team though it'd be pretty cool to fill it up with displays, too. Here's the front entrance, I didn't get any good 'before' pictures of the outside, but nothing much about the outside changed either.

2 days before Designtage
Inside the Villa, Susann making new curtains out of sheets of thin foam.

2 days before Designtage
The Villa: Karin setting up lights