Moni­teurs cre­ated the Cor­po­rate De­sign of Face to Face 2011. This con­fer­ence of busi­ness and de­sign took place in Lud­wigs­burg. De­sign­ers and clients met on the podium un­der the motto “In di­a­logue we trust!” to dis­cuss var­i­ous pi­o­neer­ing pro­jects. This year, Por­tu­gal joined Ger­many in host­ing the con­fer­ence. The orig­i­nal de­sign was in­flu­enced by tra­di­tional Por­tugese tile de­signs.

Berlin is short of foot­bridges and yet has so many rivers and other in­ter­est­ing sites that are cry­ing out for a bridge. Work­ing with the Berlin Bridge De­part­ment of the In­sti­tute of Con­cep­tual and Struc­tural De­sign at the TU Berlin, we have iden­ti­fied six cen­tral lo­ca­tions that are typ­i­cal of Berlin, and where foot­bridges are needed. So be­gan the “World’s Foot­bridges for Berlin” pro­ject. Par­tic­i­pants from all over the world sub­mit­ted many cu­ri­ous, in­tel­li­gent, vi­sion­ary foot­bridge de­signs. The pre­cious col­lec­tion of 73 se­lected bridge de­signs are mapped in the mi­crosite “Bridge Finder”, a dig­i­tal com­pass, to ex­plore the con­text of the pro­ject and the city. The “Bridge Finder” first shows the near­est lo­ca­tion and then all other lo­ca­tions with in­for­ma­tion on walk­ing dis­tances. It in­forms the user of the re­spec­tive bridge de­sign and in­vites the user to go for a stroll.

The in­ter­na­tional con­fer­ence Foot­bridge, or­gan­ised by the head of the de­part­ment of “De­sign and Con­struc­tion – Solid Con­struc­tion” of the TU Berlin, in­vites bridge builders from all over the world to ex­change their per­spec­tives and ideas and to learn from each other. With “Tell a Story”, the con­fer­ence par­tic­i­pants were in­vited to sub­mit their thoughts on pedes­trian bridges. The nu­mer­ous “sto­ries” were pub­lished in the con­fer­ence reader. Moni­teurs has de­signed a com­pletely new look, which has been im­ple­mented in dig­i­tal and ana­logue in­for­ma­tional ma­te­ri­als such as the Bridge Finder app, web­site, bill­boards, a pro­gram guide and wayfind­ing sys­tem for the sixth con­fer­ence.