Programmes for Schools and Kindergartens

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1 Programmes for Schools and Kindergartens General Information We are happy to hold the workshops at a time of your choice (from 9 am onwards). The group size is limited as indicated, although some workshops can be carried out in two parallel groups. A minimum of 10 participants are required. In the case of smaller groups, the workshop fee would be the same as that for 10 persons. Participation in a workshop also includes entry to the Vitra Design Museum at no additional cost. Workshops are payable in cash or by credit card. Invoices can be issued for amounts over 250. Reservations for workshops must be made at least three weeks in advance. Contact / Reservations Vitra Design Museum, Education T , F info@design-museum.de, Vitra Campus Site Plan 1./2. Factory Buildings, Nicholas Grimshaw, 1981/ Balancing Tools, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, Vitra Design Museum, Frank Gehry, Gate, Frank Gehry, Factory Building, Frank Gehry, Conference Pavilion, Tadao Ando, Fire Station, Zaha Hadid, Factory Building, Álvaro Siza, Dome, after Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1975/ Petrol Station, Jean Prouvé, 1953/ Vitra Design Museum Gallery, Frank Gehry, Bus Stop, Jasper Morrison, VitraHaus, Herzog & de Meuron, Airstream Kiosk, 1968/ Factory Building, SANAA, Diogene, Renzo Piano, Álvaro-Siza-Promenade, Vitra Slide Tower, Carsten Höller,

2 Architecture Workshops Since the 1980s, Vitra has been employing renowned architects for the designs of its factory buildings. On the Vitra Campus there are buildings by architects such as Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA and many more to be discovered. Participants are invited to explore how these buildings contrast and relate with each other and with their surrounding environment. Programmes for Schools (Middle and Secondary Level) The Architecture of Tadao Ando The Conference Pavilion on the Vitra Campus is Pritzker Prize winner Tadao Ando s first building outside Japan. In a dialogue-based tour of the Conference Pavilion and another building selected for comparison, the two architectural works will be evaluated. As the second building, there is a choice between the Fire Station by Zaha Hadid or the Vitra Design Museum by Frank Gehry. In the practical part of the workshop, students will work in groups to sketch the floor plans of the Conference Pavilion and carry out a comparative assessment. They will learn about the interplay between two-dimensional depiction and three-dimensional reality and improve their ability to read and understand floor plans. Duration: 4 hours for dialogue tour with practical activities Cost: per student Maximum group size: 20 students, 15 and older Duration: 2 hours for dialogue tour without practical activities Maximum group size: 20 students, 15 and older Free Drawing Zaha Hadid s Fire Station The Vitra Fire Station was the first ever full-scale work that Zaha Hadid realized. It is regarded today as a key work of so-called Deconstructivism and of late twentieth-century architecture in general. After a brief introduction to the architecture of the Fire Station as well as Hadid s drawings, the students will create their own graphic drawings of the building, thus exploring its dynamic and force. Depending on levels of performance, students will then be free to either sketch different views of the building or to design their own deconstructivist architectures. Duration: 4 hours for dialogue tour with practical activities Cost: per student

3 Free Drawing The Vitra Design Museum The Vitra Design Museum is the first European building realised by Californian Pritzker Prize winner Frank Gehry. It continues to occupy a central place in his oeuvre. After exploring the building inside and out and inspired by Gehry s free drawings the students will create their own one-line-drawings. Afterwards the students will be asked to combine elements of buildings to develop unique architectures, for which the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron can serve as a source of inspiration. Through this process, students will practice how to capture architectural shapes and gain an understanding of buildings as a combination of multiple elements. As the workshop takes place outdoors, we recommend booking between April and October. Duration: 4 hours for dialogue tour with practical activities Cost: per student Programmes for Schools (Primary Level) Free Drawing Zaha Hadid s Fire Station On a playful tour of the building, we discover how the lines of the Fire Station run and engage with the building s dynamic, which can be traced back to the contrasting elements of fire and water. We focus on the fact that the building was conceived as a functioning fire station. In their drawings, students bring the building back to life by populating it with cars, equipment, helmets, hoses and firefighters. for dialogue tour with practical activities Maximum group size: 20 students, 6 12 years Free Drawing The Vitra Design Museum The Vitra Design Museum is the first European building by Pritzker Prize winner Frank Gehry. After a playful tour of the building and its surprising interior spaces, students will create one-line-drawings of different views of the building. Afterwards the VitraHaus, as a pile of traditional houses, will be scrutinized as an ideal home. In the last part of the workshop, students will design and draw their version of a dream home. As part of the workshop takes place outdoors, we recommend booking between April and October. for dialogue tour with practical activities Maximum group size: 20 students, 6 12 years

4 Design Workshops Programmes for Schools (Middle and Secondary Level) The Red-Blue Chair in Miniature The Dutchman Gerrit Rietveld produced a number of designs that laypersons could build for themselves. To this end, he published instructions for the construction of furniture and prefabricated houses. Based on simple wooden elements, he developed systems of interlocking pieces and applied this principle to create his simple and elegant furnishings. Following an introduction, these principles can be tried out on Rietveld s most famous design, the Red- Blue Chair. Each participant will construct a wooden model on a 1:6 scale with the colour scheme of their choice. Maximum group size: 24 students, 12 and older ReDesign Light and Lamps Light shapes our environment and has always fascinated creatives. Designers like the Brazilians Fernando and Humberto Campana create impressive light sculptures and lamps by creatively reusing everyday objects and recycling materials. After an examination of the phenomenon of light, participants will design and create their own light objects by using different recycling materials like PET bottles, leather and fabric remnants, electrical pieces, scraps of wood or packaging materials. PappDesign Furniture Out of Cardboard Many designers and architects use cardboard as an unusual but functional and sustainable material for the creation of furniture. In the 1970s and 1980s Frank Gehry designed a number of sculptural chairs that attest to the advantages of cardboard: it is inexpensive and lightweight, yet stable and easy to process. In addition, it offers compelling ecological benefits. During the workshop, participants will design and create seating, shelves or tables. Maximum group size: 15 students, 12 and older

5 ReDesign it! The use of recycled materials is not merely an ecological statement but also presents an opportunity to create individual products instead of mass-produced consumer goods. Many designers like Alassane Drabo from Burkina Faso or the Dutch designer Tejo Remy make use of the inspiration afforded by an objet trouvé. Subjecting it to a process of reinterpretation and creative transformation, the language and poetry of the source material point the way toward a new object. During the workshop, home accessories or jewellery are created from PET bottles, leather and fabric remnants, packaging materials, electrical parts and factory rejects. Label Me Logos are omnipresent. They represent companies, products and institutions, expressing their values and identity. How are logos created and what would the logo that represents yourself look like? In the workshop, participants will come up with their own unique logos and apply them to an article of clothing they have brought along to the workshop either embroidering, ironing, spraying or gluing it onto the fabric. Each participant will go home with a new, creative fashion item, representing his or her identity. Wenn man von Stühlen spricht (Chaises à Mots) In association with the Foreign Language Learning in Museums project by the Basel Department of Education, the Vitra Design Museum is pursuing two goals with this offer, which translates as When We Talk About Chairs (German) or Putting Chairs Into Words (French). On one hand, participants are to become more aware of chairs as a presence in our daily lives and on the other, in a low-key and playful manner, they will acquire the necessary vocabulary to talk about functionality, aesthetics and choice of materials. The students will thus expand their vocabulary in the foreign language of French or German with the aid of a native speaker. A vocabulary list can be provided in advance. Duration: 2 hours Maximum group size: 20 students (after 1 3 years of language instruction)

6 Programmes for Schools (Primary Level) and Kindergarten My Favourite Chair Chairs are part of everyday life, fulfilling both practical and aesthetic functions. In the current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum and in a Vitra showroom, a wide variety of seating furniture will be viewed and the forms, materials and colours compared. The group will discuss which chair they like, which they don t. Next the participants will go from being observers to hands-on makers, creating miniature chairs they can take home. Maximum group size: 20 children, 5 12 years of age Elephants On Parade Almost no other animal is as popular as the elephant. Admired for its majestic size and loved because of its gentle nature, the elephant is an everyday presence in our lives as a stuffed toy, storybook figure or heraldic animal. Charles and Ray Eames also succumbed to the pachyderm's charm and developed a toy elephant made of plywood in 1945, which went into production over 60 years later in version made of plastic. During the workshop, the two-part design will be employed to create an elephant out of cardboard. The parts will be cut out, stuck together and artfully decorated with paint, material, leather, felt and other materials. Anyone who s able to use scissors can take part! Duration: 2 hours Maximum group size: 20 children, 5 8 years of age Guided Tours of the Current Exhibition for Children Making Africa A Journey of Discovery 14 March 13 September 2015 Immerse yourself in the rich and varied world of African design! We will explore furniture, music videos, video games and works of art in the exhibition»making Africa«. Illuminating the continent from a different angle, African design provides wholly new and surprising insights and perspectives. Following a tour of the exhibition, each child will make a pair of glasses to take home as a souvenir of this novel vantage point on Africa. Maximum group size: 15 children, 5 12 years of age

7 Bauhaus : Design 26 September February 2016 From 1919 to 1933 many important designers, artists and architects of their time attended or were teaching at the»bauhaus«school. Through their ideas, the teachers and students at the Bauhaus changed not only art but also the way in which furniture and buildings were designed and built. On a playful tour through the exhibition we get to know the Bauhaus and ask ourselves which of its aspects still strike us as important today. The tour is followed by a short practical workshop. Maximum group size: 15 children, 5 12 years of age Status 17 February 2015, subject to change without notice