July 1, 2011

DMY Berlin 2011

BERLINER NARUHESO WELTZEITUNG | BERLIN NARUHESO WORLDNEWSPAPER

The project was originally designed and realized as an International New Designers Workshop for Creative Design City Nagoya 2009 and was submitted to DMY 2011.

“BERLINER NARUHESO WELTZEITUNG [BERLIN NARUHESO WORLDNEWSPAPER]” is a newspaper workshop project, which is designed to make participants experience and understand the difficulties and meaning of urban redesign through the process of newspaper redesign.

The layout of a newspaper is often chaotic and similar to an urban layout. Cartoons might be next to an article about economical crisis and above an automobile ad, or a sausage advert might be next to an ad for the gym and a car dealership. With the No.0 issue of Berliner Naruheso Weltzeitung, we take a deep look into old Berlin newspapers and show a map of the old city of Berlin through the layout of the newspaper.

Participants will redesign the look of the newspaper to create a new look for the city. They have to deal with existing articles one by one in the same way one would have to deal with private houses, shops and buildings one by one, when you physically change the design of a city. They have to physically cut out articles, like one would have to tear down buildings to have empty lots for new buildings. They make the second issue including the empty lots before starting to write a new article for the third issue. Temporary space is usually not considered as an important element of a town; however, they are indispensable for a city to be reborn.
To write new articles, the participants will act and work as the newspaper reporters of our workshop company. They are going to interview a variety of people about memorable moments in their old homes, which no longer exist.
We can imagine and build the future of the city by applying the salvaged memories from the past.
Please refer to the report page for the detail.

The project was originally designed and realized as an International New Designers Workshop for CREATIVE DESIGN CITY NAGOYA 2009.The project for DMY is supported by Creative Design City Nagoya Organizing Committee.

DMY Berlin

DMY Berlin 2011