Archimedes Exhibitions

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Archimedes Exhibitions
legal form GmbH
founding 1996 (as Archimedes GbR, in 2007 Archimedes Exhibitions GmbH emerged)
Seat Berlin
management Jörg Schmidtsiefen, Werner Rien, Stephan Spenling, Gunnar Behrens
Number of employees approx. 50 (as of 2019)
Branch Creative industries
Website www.archimedes-exhibitions.de

Archimedes Exhibitions GmbH is a creative agency based in Berlin with offices in Kassel and Santo André , Brazil. Archimedes develops, designs and produces exhibitions , exhibits and apps for museums, science centers, science organizations, public institutions and companies worldwide.

The enterprise

Archimedes Exhibitions was founded in 1996 by six shareholders after they had previously worked on a freelance basis on the conception and implementation of the permanent exhibition of the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum , which opened in 1996 . As a result, the agency u. a. the special exhibition Gene Worlds. Workshop human? of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden , parts of the permanent exhibition on hydraulic engineering and bridge construction in the German Museum in Munich and the permanent exhibition From Gandhi to Walesa - Nonviolent Fight for Human Rights of the Wall Museum in the house at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.

Old Königstadt industrial estate

The name Archimedes Exhibitions is an acronym for the terms architecture , media and design and is intended to symbolize the company's comprehensive approach. According to Archimedes' own statement, the company philosophy excludes orders in the context of nuclear power , weapons or hostility to democracy and internally promotes the compatibility of family and career as well as a high work-life balance .

The agency has been a member of the Gewerbehof Saarbrücker Straße eG cooperative since 2005 . The studios and workshops are located on the grounds of the Alte Königstadt in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg .

Exhibition design and construction

Archimedes Exhibitions follows the so-called storytelling approach , in which congruent narratives are formed from complex content and abstract messages. These are translated into emotionally appealing, spatial and multimedia experiences in the form of interactive exhibits, exhibitions and apps. For each exhibition project, an individual concept for the staging and user experience is created , which includes scenography , interaction, graphics, media and product design as well as programming. Archimedes offers an Exhibition Management System for controlling the hardware of an exhibition and the content of media stations. The agency implements all the steps in the creation process of an exhibition, an exhibit or an app from the concept to the production itself, as it has its own approx. 1,000 square meter workshop.

The agency's exhibition projects are often in the field of science communication and combine the aspects of education and entertainment to form what is known as edutainment . They aim to convey knowledge in an entertaining, multimedia and interactive way. The topics range from biodiversity and the human body to astronomy and physics to media history and artificial intelligence . Among other things, Archimedes realized the Expedition Future exhibition in the Science Express exhibition train and the Science Tunnel for the Max Planck Society and designed permanent and special exhibitions for museums and science centers, for example for the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn, the Museum for Communication Frankfurt , the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam or the Città della Scienza in Naples .

Archimedes also develops and produces brand worlds, brand spaces and themed exhibitions for international companies. Examples are the demography exhibition Ey Alter! for Daimler AG , the ENERGY IN MOTION exhibition in Tour Total Berlin for Total Germany or the SHIFT sustainability exhibition in the Volkswagen DRIVE Forum in Berlin. For the latter, Archimedes designed a modular and environmentally friendly exhibition system that was used sustainably after the show. Furniture for the Arche children's and youth welfare organization in Berlin-Hellersdorf was created from the exhibition modules in collaboration with BAU International Berlin - University of Applied Sciences .

Projects (extract)

Outdoor exhibition on the roof of NEMO in Amsterdam

Research activity and teaching assignments

Archimedes Exhibitions carries out research projects and is in exchange with universities through teaching assignments and collaborations. The focus is on e-learning as well as exhibition and product design. In 2009, together with the Charité Berlin, the agency launched the research project SimMed - Simulation of Medical Actions . Together they developed a learning program and a multi-touch media table at which medical students and doctors in advanced training can treat a virtual toddler patient with real clinical pictures. In the ELIXIER research project, Archimedes worked with the Bauhaus University Weimar , the Free University of Berlin , the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology and the companies LD Didactic and Walk Engineering as a joint coordinator on the digitization of the laboratory environment for vocational schools and universities. Employees of Archimedes accept teaching positions or act as experts in the field at the University of the Arts , the Academy of Sciences in Berlin , the Berlin International University of Applied Sciences and at the D.RE.AM FabLab at the Città della Scienza in Naples.

Cooperations and memberships

Archimedes Exhibitions is a member of the International Design Center Berlin , the Association of Exhibition Designers in Germany, the purchasing cooperative Zentraleinkauf Holz und Kunststoff eG as well as a gold sponsor of Ecsite, the European network of science centers and museums. Several employees are members of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Archimedes has been working as a creative partner with Berlin Science Week, a Falling Walls Foundation project, since 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Gewerbehof cooperatives turned the Königstadt brewery into a showpiece . In: Berliner Woche , September 3, 2015, accessed on June 26, 2019
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  4. ↑ Volkswagen opens the Shift sustainability exhibition in Berlin . Design messenger. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ Advertising & Selling: Porsche opens Mooncity Adventure Center | Special | Customer Experience | W&V. December 12, 2019, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  6. ^ Museum report »Archimedes Exhibitions creates exhibition for MS Wissenschaft. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ EY AGE. The magazine for the exhibition. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 328 exhibits, 410 graphic boards in 112 transport boxes loaded into 4 containers - focus on nature and species protection. In: iF | User centered design. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
  9. ^ Multimedia sustainability exhibition Shift in Berlin . Communication space. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  10. ↑ “MEDIA HISTORY | N retold!” . Design messenger. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  11. ↑ http://wissenspfad.de. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  12. ^ Museum report »Archimedes Exhibitions designs the“ Corporea ”exhibition. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ Invitation to the exhibition opening. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  14. ^ Museum report »Archimedes develops app for the special exhibition“ Comets - The Rosetta Mission ”. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ "Expedition Future" - Idea | Concept. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Fairytale special exhibition in the Grimmwelt. November 25, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  17. ↑ HNF - 20 years of Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  18. ↑ New exhibition powered by the elements to debut on rooftop of Amsterdam's NEMO next month. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  19. ^ Life in the Universe Exhibition by Archimedes . Dexigner. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  20. ↑ "Look, that's the Earth!" . Global _ Magazine for a sustainable future. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  21. ↑ The Journey Of Steel | PLOT. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Magazin Museum.de No. 16, p. 50. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Magazin Museum.de No. 22, p. 60. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Magazin Museum.de No. 16, p. 48. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Population Europe website . Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  26. ↑ competitionline: Project "EXPERYMENT Science Center Gdynia" ... competitionline. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  27. ^ Museum report »New exhibition in the German Cathedral. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
  28. ^ Max Planck Science Tunnel | PLOT. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  29. ↑ An open door to cutting-edge research. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  30. ^ Website of the eLearning competence area at the Charité . Retrieved June 26, 2019