The field trip kicks off the Museum Course, where Knowledge Integration students practise interdisciplinary collaboration and design by creating original, working museum exhibits. They’ve started by studying museums in Berlin, and they'll finish with an exhibition of their own work in March 2020.
Here are some photos from their trip!
On layover en route to Berlin, some of the KI Field Trip cohort take a break on a giant shag carpet cat at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
Where do you dine on your first night in a cosmopolitan city like Berlin? Why, at a Mexican restaurant just up the street from your hostel!
Encountering a new friend at the May 1st Labour Day Street Fair at Brandenburg Gate.
After a generous morning of sharing -- "What have you seen?" "What did you think?" "I thought so too!" -- the KI Berlin cohort send postcards to welcome newly admitted Knowledge Integration students.
The cohort visited the Futurium Lab, a part of the soon-to-open Futurium. Our host, Stefanie Holzheu, gave us a virtual tour of what the Futurium will be, then led us in a possible-future-planning exercise.
While at the Futurium, we also had a chance to see Noosphere 2.0, a Philip Beesley responsive environmental sculpture, introduced and explained by KI chair, Rob Gorbet, one of the collaborators in its design.
Breakfast at the hostel is both nourishing and plentiful. Ready for a busy day of learning and exploring!
Brandenburger Tor at night, in profile, as seen from the Reichstag, taken following a tour of the Reichstag Dome.
Thirty years after the fall of the Wall, Berlin is a city of cranes. This site, next to our hostel, was mostly surface parking when we last visited. Now it's an active building site; in four years it will be a neighbourhood.
While searching for something else, we stumbled upon an East German Watchtower, still in its original location overlooking Leipziger Platz. Now maintained by a volunteer organization, we were told the story this particular tower played in the Cold War.
The Field Trip cohort gather in Monbijoupark for a Pop-up Potluck Picnic. Each room brings a selection of meat, cheese, bread, drinks, fruit, and dessert to share.
After a hearty meal, and before the threat of rain sends the Trivia competition indoors, the Field Trip cohort gathers for a classic group photo, with Museum Island (invisible) in the background.
