Storytelling with Numbers
Under the guiding question "Where do we stand?", at the end of the exhibition route, a statistical retrospective on more than 30 years of reunification is presented. In close collaboration with the museum's curators, the underlying data and content were shaped into narrative threads and staged expansively. Eleven large monitors encompass the visitors in a U-shape, immersively placing them within an abstract virtual landscape.
In this topographic setting, the camera pans in four directions – four chapters, in which topics such as internal migration, representation in leadership positions, and living conditions in East and West are illuminated, narrated through vivid images and visualizations, and supported with statistical evaluations and diagrams. Thus, numbers are transformed into currents, positions, and gravitational points.
The content displayed is dynamically generated from extensive datasets in real time and immediately played live. This enables the content to be updated and new chapters to be added to the narrative at any time. Therefore, the question "Where do we stand?" can always be answered with the most current information.
Questions Looming in the Space and Beyond
Voices and Opinions
In visual harmony with the large media installations, additional media stations are positioned as satellites throughout the room, where experiential reports and opinions on the events are offered through interviews.
A survey station, by means of statistical evaluation, ultimately offers a glimpse into the mood of the visitors.