Project

The former Tempelhof airport was transformed into a venue for city life. In a walk-through urban collage, visitors encountered a range of stories about the city and civic society. These stories asked questions concerning fundamental activities like loving, living, making, participating, learning, playing, moving, and dreaming in the city.
At the kiosk visitors could buy books (during the exhibition the structure was activated by bookspeopleplaces.com), gather information and add content. A large cloud of analog billboard and digital displays can be found on top of the kiosk. The cloud consisted of thoughts, questions, statements and referential images. Input was provided by ConstructLab members, the audience and contributors to the Living the City exhibition.

The Messy Kiosk that was build for Living the City was a first instalment of an idea that’s still being fine tuned . Between 2020 and 2022 the kiosk traveled through Berlin. First it functioned as a bar for Baupalast , next it was at the heart of the Urbane Praxis Lobby and later it found a home at the German Architecture Center DAZ. With every step the usage was altered and the design was tuned.



At the beginning of 2023 the Messy Kiosk moved to Basel where it it became part of a discourse and exhibition space called CIVIC. The Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel is currently using the structure to enrich its foyer with messy ideas, objects and adventures. (read about it here Messy Kiosk @FHNW and here Messy Kiosk @CIVIC ).



Image credits:
TheGreenEyl (Schnepp_Renou)
The German Architecture Center DAZ
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW
Constructlab (Peter Zuiderwijk)