Choose your Player
Choose your Player
Gaming from Dice to Pixel
Why do we play, and what facets lie behind the fascinating world of gaming? In the new special exhibition “Choose your Player” at the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen, designed and curated by us, the curator team led by Director Claudia Emmert delves into gaming as a cultural and immersive practice, specifically focusing on games that involve the airship as a player. And there are surprisingly many such games! The phenomenon of play/gaming is explored through objects from the collection, diverse virtual games, as well as contemporary art and expansive art installations, critically discussing topics such as gender stereotypes or racist clichés.
The Zeppelin Museum is a pioneer in Germany in comprehensive sustainable exhibition design. We have embraced this policy as a challenge to plan immaterially and minimally while still creating a strong spatial structure for the exhibits, artworks, and games. Despite the minimalism, visitors find themselves in a brightly abstract, dense exhibition world, immediately feeling immersed in virtual gaming worlds. Experienced virtuality and performatively staged game and object fields determine our scenographic strategy.
Visitors are drawn into the special exhibition through a virtually immersive light tunnel; a holographic projection actively greets each visitor and prompts them to choose a character as a companion for the tour (Choose Your Player). The playful invitation to perform within the exhibition shapes the attitude of the scenography and communication in the Zeppelin Museum. A strong spatial graphic design with vertical light lines, geometric graphic elements, and accentuated color effects forms the terrain for a variety of game characters, represented and activated through silhouettes, shadows, and pixels in gaming fields and stations. Like in large gaming spectacles, visitors repeatedly encounter each other in the space. The open scenographic approach allows room for chance and interaction, creating social moments: visitors/players are constantly in a communal mode of experience — a “sustainable” way of reception socially as well.
With “Choose your Player”, we have successfully bridged two fields that may seem opposite at first: gaming experience and sustainability — cleverly, excitingly, and playfully. So, we not only have the ability to connect opposites but also the freedom to choose who we want to be: choose your player — sustainably!
…and of course, playing is encouraged!
Spielebox
Die kürzlich erschienene Spielebox vereint historische Brettspiele mit spannenden Games und modernen Spieleklassikern. In sechs historischen Würfelspielen begeben sich die Spieler auf eine Reise in die Ära der Zeppeline, wo sie mit den Pionieren große Abenteuer rund um den Globus erleben können. Der Sprung von der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft erfolgt im Spiel Angel Arcade, das vom Künstlerkollektiv Keiken entwickelt wurde, wo die Spieler die Rolle eines morphogenen Engels übernehmen. Das traditionelle ghanaische Spiel Oware fördert strategisches Denken, um die Mitspieler auszutricksen, während im Kunstmemo faszinierende Charaktere aus den kreativen Welten von LuYang, Keiken, Afrah Shafiq und Larry Achiampong spannende Einblicke in ihre einzigartigen Spieluniversen gewähren.
Auch die Spielanleitungen sind voller Überraschungen: Sie führen nicht nur sicher durch unbekannte Spielwelten, sondern enthalten zudem exklusives Bonusmaterial zur Ausstellung „Choose Your Player“.
chezweitz GmbH, museale und urbane Szenografie, Berlin
Dr. Sonja Beeck, Detlef Daiber-Weitz
Ludger Jansen, Katharina Buchhauser, Leander Deppe
Dr. Claudia Emmert
Dr. Claudia Emmert, Jürgen Bleibler, Mara-Johanna Kölmel, Felix Banzhaf, Stephanie Milling
Schreinerei Geng, Herdwangen
Zinser Siebdruck, Friedrichshafen (Exhibition)
Druckhaus Müller, Langenargen (Campaign)
Afrah Safiq
couture real, Mona Kuschel, Berlin