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july 2008
Wir sind dabei!
2009 will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This means 20 years
of openness, interaction and free spaces, enabling creativity to explode unlike at any
other location.
On the occasion of this upcoming event CREATE BERLIN is already now taking a closer
look at the future of the creative hub Berlin. With the exhibition CREATE BERLIN GOES
LONDON from September 18-21, 2008 at the Dray Walk Gallery on the premises of the
Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, East London, where the reigning Mayor of Berlin, Klaus
Wowereit, will personally be present at the opening event during London Design and
Fashion Week. - taken from www.create-berlin.de
We're excited to announce that make-do is among the 20 Berlin-based designers chos-
en to represent the current creative pulse of the city. See you in London!
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july 2008
make-do has been selected for the Base Elements research residency program at ACA
in Hexham, North-East England. The program is set-up to support site-specific, inter-
disciplinary projects combining art and science
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june 2008
make-do has been awarded a grant to pursue an interdisciplinary pilot project Art/Sci-
ence/Economy, funded by the Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen. The grant will
allow us to pursue our work with Phase Change Material in collaboration with a main
German manufacturer.
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june 2008
make-do is moving! We are re-locating our Berlin office across the bridge to Neukölln.
We also have a new second location in Aachen. As of July 1st, we can be found at:
Ossastr. 15, D-12045 Berlin and Schildstr. 25, D-52062 Aachen.
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may 2008
Our proposal for the Van Alen Institute 2008/9 New York Prize Fellowship received an
honourable mention.
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april 2008
Thankyou to Sabina and Madina Tasenov of Âme Sœur, Paris, for participating in the
workshop for our Hochbau design unit, Made in. The workshop exposed students to me-
thods used in fashion and asked them to use them to make small constructions/install-
ations for one to three people.
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april 2008
We're both very excited about the courses that we've organized this semester in the
Lehrstuhl für Gebäudelehre und Grundlagen des Entwerfens, RWTH University, Aachen
Germany. the Lehrstuhl teaching theme this semester is "Team up," which means that
we've sought out partners from industry for each project, with whom we'll work for
the duration of the semester. Teaming-up with industrial partners allows us to learn
about new materials, products and production processes and collaborate with the com-
panies on new design endeavours. each
course description can be read on the Lehr-
stuhl's website.
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march 2008
We would like to send a thankyou out to Commissions North for generously supporting
our recent research trip to North East England. Thanks also to Allenheads Contemp-
orary Arts for exposing us to an incredible breadth of sights and people during our
stay. We hope to see you again soon!
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