Serge Rompza
The Berlin Atlas
NODE Berlin Oslo
August 14 — 18, 2024
Workshop 3
TypeJuly 2025
April 30 with a 20% discount
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Venue
The workshops will take place at Patrick Thomas Studio in Neukölln, Berlin
Duration
20 hours, 5 days
4 hours per day, 2 — 6 pm
Language
English.
Serge is fluent in English and German.
Discount
20% discount signing up before April 30
Special offer
Participants who wish to register for the MDV, MDE or MADD master programmes will have a discount equivalent to the workshop price.
A subjective guide to the city’s design scene and all other exciting discoveries
Subject
Get to know many exciting, local designers and their working methods during studio visits and experience the city intensively. Generate and design a subjective, collective „atlas” featuring your Berlin encounters and the places you find most intriguing. This will serve as a future resource — or be passed on to your friends.
Objectives
We will organize short studio meetings in small groups. We will contact many studios in advance to set up meetings: Dinamo Typefaces, Yukiko, Pandan, Stahl R, Grilli Type, Bus Group, Stan Hema, etc. Discussing the working methods and environments of designers in a different cultural context will broaden your horizon and might be leading to a new perspective on your work prospects.
The way you will document and edit these meetings and the places you experience should be understood by you as an experiment. We will create a collective “atlas” of your encounters and findings.
Structure and contents
To start, we will discuss our approach. Get to know new people and places, formulate questions, discuss relevant topics and document the meetings and activities during this week. The result of this week can take the form of a jointly designed publication or a map—or can be interpreted by you in a completely unique way.
Serge Rompza
NODE Berlin Oslo
After graduating from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Serge Rompza founded the Berlin and Oslo-based design studio NODE together with Anders Hofgaard in 2003.
Since its inception, the studio has worked primarily in the cultural and academic fields. Key projects include collaborations with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and Program for Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) at MIT, Cambridge.
Serge has taught at various art and design academies such as Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, University of the Arts Bremen, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Estonian Academy of the Arts Tallinn (EKA), The Art, Culture and Technology program at MIT, Elisava Barcelona.
Keywords
Encounters / Urban Exploration / Documentation / Mapping / Subjective Guide
Practical information
Fee
Although Elisava x Berlin is conceived as a three-act play, you can choose how to participate.
1 workshop — 700 €
2 workshops — 1200 €
3 workshops — 1500 €
Participants
Participants choosing all three workshops will have priority.
Elisava x Berlin is limited to a maximum of 12 participants.
Who can apply?
Graphic design students and graphic designers
People with design skills who can work independently with design software.
Materials needed
Laptop with image/type editing software (eg: Adobe CS)
Smart phone / camera
Drawing materials, etc.
