Both schools impressed the Jury with exceptional presentations. The Peter Behrens School focuses on flour as basic ingredient not only of bread, but of our civilisation. (…). The students thus transform a very difficult room into a space of encounter, where people gather around the oven in an almost archaic way.

Adjacent to this reflection (…) students of HEAD – Genève present a Bar, another space of generosity, of the feast, the banquet that is the very heart of any society. What we see here is a built after-image of the famous Loos Bar in Vienna, but compressed to the minimum, with an exquisite material trompe-l’oeil, creating an altered form of stage for new collective rituals, and a reflection on the relation of original and copy, image and reality, and the potential of radicalized form.

Very often, Design is not about a single genius working on his or her own – but about mutual inspiration, cooperation. The two Schools were invited to share a space. They did not see this as an annoyance, but a chance. They met. They communicated. (…) In both cases, Design is not reduced to the production of beautiful objects, but seen as a method to create spaces of hospitality and encounter, and a critical framework for very old, and amazingly new social rituals.

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