Studio Berlinord designed an exhibition showcasing 6 Berlin based design studios at the Istanbul Design Week in 2014. The project was commissioned by the Berlin Design Selection and took place at an open car park in Tepebaşi, Beyoğlu. All exhibitors were provided with raw standard shipping containers. The basic idea was to design the wooden transport boxes - that were needed anyway - to both transport the works to Istanbul but also to display the works during the event.

Special thanks to interior architect Mathilde Gaudin and Studio Hany & Summa in Berlin.

Since 2013, the state of Berlin has been representing its design scene in foreign markets under the newly established brand “Berlin Design Selection“. The brand was founded by the initiative Projekt Zukunft and the Berlin Senate Department for Economics and Technology. Dynamo Design Berlin e.V. organizes the representation abroad. The focus of these representations is to open up new markets for Berlin design businesses, connecting them with producers, distributors and trade companies.

The Berlin Design Selection tour stops at the most important international design fairs and festivals and shows a selection of objects, products and prototypes made in Berlin or designed by Berlin designers.

www.berlin-design-selection.com

The Istanbul Design Week presents new trends in product and fashion design from turkey and across the globe. In 2014 established brands and young designers from Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Great Britain, Poland, Japan and Korea exhibited at the fair. 

www.istanbuldesignweek.com

The Parkhomes was a proposal for the Frognair Festival which was planned to take place in Frognerparken in Oslo in 2005.

The pop-up seating shelters include images showing private interiors from the surrounding domiciles. Each unit presents one home.

The design_is project was an experiment addressing the notion and image of Icelandic design.

We invited around 20 different Icelandic designers to develop an item with a reference to the local mythology and sagas. Iceland’s mythical “hidden people” are said to have often rewarded the island’s human residents for their helpfulness by giving them precious gifts, objects reflecting their desires and values in earlier times.

The brief for the participating designers was to imagine comparable gifts that the “hidden people” might hand out today which could reflect the material values and desires of the modern world.

The project was exhibited at Fælleshuset in Berlin, at Design Labor in Bremerhaven, at the Lys Over Lolland festival in Sakskøbing (DK) and at the Icelandic Nationalmuseum in Reykjavik. 

Concept and curators: Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sólveig Sveinbjörnsdóttir

Exhibition design: Hrafnkell Birgisson, Sólveig Sveinbjörnsdottir and Sebastian Summa.

Visual identity and catalogue design: Börkur Arnarsson

Press & communication: Tollwerk

The Derag competition "The Hotelroom of the Future" in 1997 aimed at visionary designs for temporary living space. Almost 400 designers submitted a total of 265 designs. The Sleep & Go Camp won the first prize.

The vision: We are in the year 2020. The days of urban sprawl are past. Valuable real estate in the cities is left abandoned. Various new uses are defined. "Small & mobile", "quality, not quantity", "flexibility and independence" are the slogans of the day. The highly mobile target group will lay no claim to luxury but will above all want cheap, centrally located and safe overnight accommodation.

The concept: Each capsule contains two "residential units" with one bed and shower&toilet unit each. The capsules are closed during the day but activated in the evening until next morning. When a chipcard is inserted, the sleeping space unfolds and a door with steps flips downwards. Inside an airbed inflates. Each Sleep & Go camp is meant to consist of at least ten units which dock onto the existing / remaining water and power mains. They can be placed f.ex. in urban parks or in vacant lots.

"The highly mobile youngsters lay no claim to luxury, instead, they want centrally located lodgings without chintz, frumpery and the associated shower cap. There will always be a market for luxury hotels, but there is a growing demand from a new group for a new product. Those on the go, for whom international travel is more aligned with adventure than the grand tour, appreciate the convenience of short-haul sleep. International hotels, far from shying away from their principal role, should capitalise on the sleep-and-go concept. Birgisson´s blueprint offers a functional alternative to commercial hospitality."

The anytime, anyplace, anywhere pod-hotel. Laura Houseley, WALLPAPER MAGAZINE sep/oct 1998