Existenzoptimum — Hamburg

This second stage of the project Existenzoptimum is a spatial elaboration of the concept developed at the seminar with the students of Innsbruck Architekturtheorie department.

The work utilizies 5 architectural units to create spaces for life and work a small imagined community within the exhibition venue of the Harburger Kunstverein. Existenzoptimum also couples with the Library for Social Design (opens in a new tab) that in this constelation serves as a space for collective education and dicussion.

Within the context of the exhibition Some Shapes of Things to Come (opens in a new tab), Existenzoptimum also figures as exhibition design, organizing the space of the exhibition and housing the video works presented. Interiors of the units are deveoted to further elaboration of the historical presedents and conceptual lineages of the Existenzoptimum presented in the form of posters/info panels.

Details

technical info: exhibition design, speculative architecture / dimensions: 300x300x250cm (per model), posters 150x110cm, (per poster)
exhibition views: Some Shapes of Things to Come (opens in a new tab), Harburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, 2018
photos: Michael Pfisterer / Harburger Kunstverein