Spiel(t)räume

 

Client German Museum of Hygiene (Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden)
Location Dresden
Working time 2003-2004
Tasks Consulting services for the temporary exhibition

Today, the topic of play is not only present in the field of entertainment with its game-shows, competitions, gambling and computer games. Methods and theories now employed in economics, politics, technology and research are also based on the structures of play. In turn, complex theories of play are reflected in the latest computer games. Here, a game has long been more than a way of practising behavioural patterns; it conveys specific worlds in which to exist. Today, the child not only develops his approach to the real world while playing; we also use models and structures of play as methodical means of insight. The exhibition took up these findings and demonstrated the dimensions of a society at play. The consulting service involved the realisation of workshops with scientists and exhibition-makers and the development of prototype exhibition modules.