D.I.Y. Home Advice Centre
Rose | 04.08.2018 | Workshop, Museum, School
At the Museum of Things, we hosted students of Jens-Nydahl Primary School in Berlin Kreuzberg for a jolly project week around the topic of living. How do you live now and how would you like to live in the future? Inspired by the temporary exhibition “gern modern?” about post-war living concepts in Berlin, twenty-one kids from age six to eleven set to work. They drew floor plans, furnished apartments, designed wallpaper and built dream homes. Here are some impressions of a busy week in the D.I.Y. Home Advice Centre:
On Monday the DESiGN KiDS drew floor plans of the rooms they sleep in.
They also started to build their own room in the museum with big building cubes.
Then they discovered the coloured tapes.
The DESiGN KiDS started taping furniture …
… and carpets and windows,
Photo: Isa Hönle © Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge
… and they would not stop!
On Tuesday, the DESiGN KiDS looked at the stuff we live with.
They drew furniture and other objects people have in their bathrooms, kitchen and living rooms,
… including the most important items in a home – the people that live there!
Then they let them wander around their rooms on our magnetic board.
On Wednesday the DESiGN KiDSproduced 20 metres of wallpaper!
They drew around objects that are typically found in a kitchen until they had filled the whole paper.
Then they coloured in the overlapping areas, creating abstract patterns.
On Thursday the DESiGN KiDS built their dream homes.
Would you not like to live here?
On Friday the DESiGN KiDS invited their families to show all their hard work.
Photo: Isa Hönle © Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge
And they all loved it. Thank you for coming everybody!