LECTURES | PROJECTS | WORKSHOPS | INTERNATIONAL SCENOGRAPHERS‘ FESTIVALS | STUDENTS‘ PROJECTS | INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

PINK FLOYD | BACHELORS‘ PROJECT
Institute for Interior Design and Scenography (IN3), HGK Basel, Switzerland

PHOTOS ©URB

Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd`s 50th Stage Anniversary)
The intention behind this semester project was to translate the extensive and fascinating compositions of PINK FLOYD into innovative spatial images. In order to add a new dimension to the experiences of music, and to break new ground in the field of spatial staging and spatial perception the students explored how to translate music into spatial choreography of sounds and images. At the Institute for Interior Design and Scenography in Basel, 25 students staged the music of PINK FLOYD as walk-in space, sound and light installations, creating unique spatial and sound experiences. © URB | HGK with Martina Ehleiter | Rolf Derrer | Ramon De Marco

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BINNINGEN ENLIGHTED | BACHELORS‘ PROJECT
Institute for Interior Design and Scenography (IN3), HGK Basel, Switzerland

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A Biannual Light Festival in Binningen, BL, CH
With the participation of more than 3.000 inhabitants various light-art installations where designed, built and conducted by a small group of students. The performances followed a rout over 3km with the finale at the central sports field of Binningen. ©ISS | Andreas Wenger | URB | Fritz Strempel

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ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS:
SKETCHDAY, SPACE DAY, DRAMATURGY DAY

The sketch is the shortest distance between the brain and the concept (paper). URB
As part of the creativ(e) structur(e) the workshop is based on the short novels of Italo Calvino´s Invisible Cities . After reading and analyzing the content the students are asked to transfer the narrative spontaneously into different formats: With the sketch-day, Students are invited to transform a paper-cladded room via painting into an immersive storytelling-tool. For the Space-Day, the students create a world out of cardboard that translates the narratives into three-dimensional experiences. The dramaturgy-day challenges the students to use the arc of tension to create physical „buildings of suspense“. ©URB | IN3 | HGK Basel | FH Dortmund | Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen

These exercises are meant to teach paying respect to the fellows` work and continue or enhance the (previous) painting according to one`s own interpretation of Calvino´s short story.

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Biennial INTERNATIONAL SCENOGRAPHERS´ FESTIVAL (ISF)

Initiative by Prof. Uwe R. Brückner and Prof. Andreas Wenger, Institute for Interior Design and Scenography, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel (HGK); ISF 2006 / 2008 / 2010 (HGK Basel); ISM 2012 Stuttgart (Prof. Uwe R. Brückner in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Baden Württemberg); ISB 2013 Ludwigsburg (Prof. Uwe R. Brückner in collaboration with the City of Ludwigsburg and Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH) ©URB | Andreas Wenger | IN3 HGK Basel

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CREATIVE STRUCTURE

Sketches © URB

Form follows content.
Scenography is a universal design discipline. It unites logic and magic. It is not the virtual in the real but the real in the virtual that interests the addressees. We let them become involved in another, narrative space that attracts their attention
and provokes diverse interpretation or associations. Due to the spatial narration, virtual extension of space is perceived as an enlargement of real space. Imagination takes the place of cognition.

This Web-Page is also meant to become an Academic Archive for Scenographic Works and Theory.

– more than 50 international students-projects during 30 years of teaching will be accessible in the upcoming Academic Library

– more than 200 international lectures will be accessible in the growing Scenographic Library

– more than 120 publications will be accessible and excerpted in the increasing Scenographic Library

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