Master Projekt "About Food and Spaces: Exhibit Design (Film)"
Team
Dr Andjelka Badnjar, Stefan Pielmeier, Nicole Humiński, Nikolai Huber
Credits
15 ECTS
Days
Wednesdays 9:45-11:15 am & 12:00-17:45 pm, Seminarraum 0340B
Kick-Off
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, Seminarraum 0340B
Applications
badnjar(at)architekturmuseum.de
SHORT DESCRIPTION
“About Food and Spaces: Exhibit Design” is a continuation of the master project “Closing the Circle. About Food and Space(s)” in which we undertook predominantly a reserch perspective and asked how Munich relates to food locally and globally through particular case studies such as local (and global) strawberry production and its effect on the Alpine landscape surrounding Munich, the urban transformation of the slaughterhouse district, local carp and global shrimp breedings, poultry production and soy import from the Amazonas as a source for regional animal feed. We focused on how local places of food procurement adapt to the rise of tourism and change in food cultures through cases of Viktualienmarkt, and on the development of bio-grocery shops following the legacy of the Lebensreform movement. We mapped processes which follow food waste within the city and discussed how Germany relates to global food challenges such as the dissolution of the breadbasket region of Ukraine. Finally, we discussed the Green Revolution's historical consequences and addressed food aid typologies in the city from Suppenküche to Münchner Tafel. In all of these iterations, we asked how food chains relate to spaces, architectural typologies, and changes in urban districts and what those parallels tell us about the environment and politics.
With the project being part of the Architekturmuseum curatorial program and the preparatory phase for the exhibition in 2026, from there on, we continue in a more operative and design-based manner by producing an intro exhibit on the topic of how food enters the city. This is aimed to introduce visitors to the main theme of food production, which the exhibition addresses through a chain of cases. To better understand economies, politics and spaces behind food production, we aim to look at contact zones showing where from, by which operations and through what spaces food gets delivered to the city. We focus on the typology of Großmarkthalle as architectonically, historically and contemporarily relevant through several examples starting from Munich to Leipzig, Hamburg, Cologne and Frankfurt.
We aim to depict its atmospheres, hectic, actors, halls and links to the city, and its eventual decrease of functions overtaken by logistics and storage spaces of major food retailers. This narrative we will develop by means of representing architecture through film and by working together as a group with the following division of tasks:
Scenario and research
Joint work on a scenario through research and procurement of material related to Großmarkthalle typology from contemporary documentation to archival images, texts, films, and drawings.
Design of an exhibit
How film is staged and through which media; graphic design.
Organisation
The organisation of steps for production, such as getting in touch with relevant institutions, places, and persons.
Production
Field trips for recording to selected locations are jointly organised.
Final presentation
as part of the exhibition symposium workshop, with external guests
July 17, 2025, in Pavillon 333.
The process will be followed by the engagement of filmmakers
Nikole Humiński and Nikolai Huber, https://nikolaihuber.com/
Recent references by Architekturmuseum der TUM
The Gift, introduction film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETAGTSbIQ6w
Visual Investigations, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvTEUDqksWY
Additional references
Architecton, Viktor Kossakovsky, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHOxLf-cQoo
Moving Milk and Timber, Juan Benavides and Berlage Institute, https://juanbenavides.mx/Moving-Milk-Timber
Pressed & Polished, Juan Benavides and Berlage Institute, https://vimeo.com/931996309
27 Storeys, Bianca Gleissinger, https://www.vai.be/en/agenda-expos-en-programma/film-27-storeys