Two Weeks Left And A Tower To Be Built

Even if I don't think someone seriously missed me during the last weeks without any new blog posts, I want to give a short insight into my current and last project I'm doing to – hopefully – get my bachelor degree this summer.

The topic I've chosen – more or less unrestricted – last autumn for my thesis project was on social decline and exclusion. But while I was working on my culture-theoretical thesis paper earlier this year I realized that these phenomenons today are just symptoms of a continuing development of flexibilization of labor conditions while social servies are cut back simultaneously. Sounds like a sociologic topic. Of course it is one first and foremost. But mass media are contributing their part to establish and solidify biases which originated from the years of the economic miracle through simplified and stereotype images in the course of a progressing tabloidization. Let's put it this way: It's a topic so complex it shook my belief in my skills to abstract and graphically formulate information to the core.

Finally, after have been struggling through and against all odds, I'm preparing for one of the most important steps within this project. I designed a tower like you may know it from the game Jenga representing the growing unsteadiness of gainful employment. Typographic elements are applied to each element of the tower naming a certain kind of employment. The structure is nearly 4 meters high and is created from styrofoam by Sager AG in Dürrenäsch, Switzerland.

On Wednesday, June 24th I'll place the tower which is part of campaign concept in several sites in Basel for further photographic documentation in the context of an urban enviroment. Based on these photographs several campaign posters are to be developed. Oh, and if anyone wants to join, have a look or give me a hand in installing the structure, you are all welcome to contact @me! More images will follow!