To­gether with Prof. In­dra Kupfer­schmid, Sibylle Schlaich is teach­ing at the Hochschule der Bilden­den Kün­ste Saar this win­ter se­mes­ter. Signs, slips of pa­per, signs in­di­cate where we are or where we should go. Al­ready from one copy we have to think about how it looks, where it hangs, whom it should ad­dress, and where it points. How does guid­ing work? What are the types - and qual­i­ties - of paths? In this pro­ject, we will dis­cuss ori­en­ta­tion, signs and guid­ance sys­tems, lend a hand our­selves and de­sign an in­di­vid­ual wayfind­ing sys­tem.

The lec­ture by Sibylle Schlaich is about the de­sign of a gen­der-neu­tral pic­togram. A pic­togram must be un­am­bigu­ous. How­ever, the more ver­sa­tile the mes­sage to be com­mu­ni­cated, the more dif­fi­cult it is to de­sign. The nec­es­sary ab­strac­tion may ne­glect im­por­tant dis­tin­guish­ing fea­tures. In fact, some pic­tograms do not dis­till the es­sen­tials, but seek their unique­ness based on non-es­sen­tial ex­ter­nals. A gen­der-neu­tral pic­togram is a con­tra­dic­tion in terms. > Iso­type and be­yond

The pub­li­ca­tion “mul­ti­lay­ered - con­struc­tive di­ver­sity”, which Moni­teurs de­signed for the en­gi­neer­ing firm schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner, con­vinced the jury of the Iconic Award not only in form but also in con­tent. They pos­i­tively em­pha­sised that the pub­li­ca­tion also in­cludes the level of art and the pos­si­bil­ity of see­ing the pro­jects in a fur­ther di­men­sion, in aug­mented re­al­ity. > Iconic Award 2021

Early this years Fra­port Greece com­pleted the ren­o­va­tion of its 14 Greek air­ports. Pas­sen­gers with re­stricted mo­bil­ity (PRM) rep­re­sent a sig­nif­i­cant, fast-grow­ing de­mo­graphic for air­ports and air­lines. Moni­teurs was asked to de­velop a mod­ern and eas­ily iden­ti­fi­able pic­togram and sig­nage colour scheme for the Fra­port Greece Sig­nage Man­ual that iden­ti­fies PRM-ser­vices such as of­fices, booths, wait­ing ar­eas and spec­i­fied chairs at Fra­port Greece air­ports.

At the next vir­tual Meetup, Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich will pre­sent their new book “Air­port Wayfind­ing”. Par­tic­i­pa­tion is free, so feel free to reg­is­ter and watch. The In­ter­na­tional De­sign Cen­tre Berlin reg­u­larly or­gan­ises meet­ings on cur­rent top­ics in the de­sign and cre­ative scene. > Air­port Wayfind­ing

By the 125th an­niver­sary in 2028, the ren­o­va­tion will be com­pleted and the Deutsches Mu­seum will be one of the most mod­ern tech­nol­ogy mu­se­ums in the world. Moni­teurs was al­ready com­mis­sioned with the de­sign of the vis­i­tor wayfind­ing in 2016, in­clud­ing in­terim so­lu­tions. The first ma­jor part of the ren­o­va­tion with the new wayfind­ing sys­tem was com­pleted in 2018. Since then, the work has con­tin­ued in great strides, with Moni­teurs work­ing con­tin­u­ously on the sig­nage for the open­ing of the first con­struc­tion phase in De­cem­ber 2021.

The new med­ical cam­pus of the Uni­ver­sity of Augs­burg is be­ing built in the im­me­di­ate vicin­ity of the uni­ver­sity hos­pi­tal. BH­BVT Ar­chitek­ten, with whom we al­ready worked on the PIK pro­ject, have been com­mis­sioned with two large build­ings. A com­pre­hen­sive wayfind­ing sys­tem is to be de­vel­oped for the new site and the as­so­ci­ated build­ings. Moni­teurs won the in­vited com­pe­ti­tion and we are pleased to be able to de­sign a uni­ver­sity cam­pus. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: BH­BVT Ar­chitek­ten

This sum­mer se­mes­ter, Moni­teurs has been in­vited to cre­ate an in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary course at Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity of Ap­plied Sci­ences and Arts. In the mod­ule “Wayfind­ing 21”, Heike Nehl will deal with the ba­sics of wayfind­ing and de­velop con­cepts for ori­en­ta­tion in space with the stu­dents. In ad­di­tion to analy­sis, de­sign with brands, signs, pic­tograms and ty­pog­ra­phy, struc­tural el­e­ments or dig­i­tal prod­ucts can be cre­ated. This is a topic that takes stu­dents from all dis­ci­plines with them, from de­sign to in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy.

Built in 1969, the Hy­parschale on the banks of the Elbe in Magde­burg is one of around fifty shell build­ings by Ul­rich Müther still stand­ing. Af­ter 20 years of va­cancy, the Hy­parschale is to once again be­come a cen­ter of at­trac­tion for the peo­ple of Magde­burg. In 2021, the ren­o­va­tion will be­gin ac­cord­ing to the de­sign of gmp Ar­chitek­ten, com­ple­mented by a con­tem­po­rary guid­ance sys­tem de­signed by Moni­teurs. Vi­su­al­iza­tion: gmp Ar­chitek­ten

We are part of the team led by New York-based civil en­gi­neer­ing firm sbp and ar­chi­tec­ture firm PAU that com­peted along­side 33 de­sign teams. The US “16 Tech Com­mu­nity Cor­po­ra­tion“ fa­vored our team. In ad­di­tion to a bridge that con­nects the newly emerg­ing “16 Tech In­no­va­tion Dis­trict“ with the na­tion­ally im­por­tant re­search lo­ca­tion of In­di­anapo­lis, the de­vel­op­ment of a path and guid­ance con­cept for the en­tire dis­trict is also com­mis­sioned.