Project SHIFT

The performative installation SHIFT creates temporary and transformative moments and therefore changes the perception of the previously overlooked space in front of the church »Petruskirche« in Kiel. The installation was realized during the Baltic UrbCultural Planning Conference in Kiel, Germany in cooperation with the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.

By stretching pink fabric panels across the square, different spatial pictures and patterns are formed which focus the viewers attention on alternative approaches to designing public spaces. The topic of the conference »Urban transformation through art and culture« and the aspect of »place making« are being focused and visualized through the playful arrangement of five distinct patterns (void, marking the place, screening the place, dividing the place, framing the place, scaling the place, etc.). [Any number of patterns can be created which interact with given urban conditions to create moments of irritation that question the perception of a place.] The awareness of the square and its surroundings changes which each pattern and leads to different interactions between the passer-by and the place. SHIFT was an experimental and exciting form (or attempt) of interacting with the visitors and making the theoretical content of the conference visible and tangible.

Additionally, more pink panel highlights were installed throughout the city as a connecting visual guidance system between the different conference venues.

Category:
Urban
Scenography
performative installation

Team:
Jana Beckmann, A. Cambría Oellermann, Janna Nikoleit

Associated services:
Conception
Design
Realization
Activation

Year:
2019

realisation period:
4.6 – 6.6.2019

Location:
Anscharpark, Kiel, Deutschland

Clients / cooperation:
Heinrich Böll Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein

during the Baltic UrbCultural Planning conference, 4.6. – 6.6.2019
www.cultural-planning-kiel.de