“75 Jahre Verfassung in Hessen und Fulda” (75 years of Constitution in Hessen and Fulda) is a temporary exhibition that celebrates the very first democratic constitution that was voted in Germany after the Second World War, in the Land of Hessen in 1946. The exhibition, held in the Vonderau Museum, recollects memories and stories from the past, but also aims to put the debate around democracy again under the light, promoting workshop and discussions based on the present times. Teaming up with the studio beier+wellach, I was tasked to produce all the media stations.
The multimedia level here required was a simple system of touchscreens and projections that had the role of showing archive films, interviews and explanatory films. The sheer amount of information given by the exhibition was astounding, with a visitor path that unreeled the complex background and the projection into the future that a document like a constitution can have.
People originally involved with the constitution were interviewed, and each contribution sorted through the exhibition according to the particular theme being treated. The route went through the rooms of the Vonderau palace like a complex scaffolding system, apparently meant to build (or to sustain) something big: a metaphor of a constitution as a framework of values underlying our society.
Aside the exhibition route, the visitor (which of course could probably be school classes) can take part to workshop events and explore the contents through an app, that I also developed for the museum. With a light “gamification” the user skim through documents and archives, in order to find important quotes and revealing details of this still topical story.
CREDITS
Client: Vonderau Museum, Fulda
Design: beier+wellach
Production: id3d-berlin
Media Production: Michele Pedrazzi
