Waterways

An artistic and creative project about and for inland navigation in cooperation with bremenports

Rivers and canals were a central infrastructure in many places and for a long time. Trade and commerce
developed along the waterways and spread out from there. 
Seaports were built at the mouths of rivers. Early maps mainly showed coasts and shores. It is difficult to imagine Bremen and Bremerhaven, for example, without the Weser. Today, transportation and travel by water are becoming increasingly less important. Is this the technically necessary end of an obsolete practice or does it open up opportunities for other uses and forms of inland navigation? bremenports is one of the sponsors of the EU project InnoWatr, in
the framework of which various groups and organizations in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Sweden are openly and speculatively considering the role and
the potential of inland navigation. An expressly desired aspect of this project is the artistic and creative engagement with the topic, which we offer as part of
this course.  
Inland waterway transport in the hinterland of the ports of Bremen has a 
transport share of only 4%. Nationwide, the modal share of the 
mode of transport is 7%, compared to 14% 25 years ago.

Exclusively technical arguments for the development of inland shipping seem to be in vain in this; bremenports has therefore asked the Integrated Design students to communicate their views on the industry. The result is exciting exhibits and installations that offer a different perspective on this mode of transport.

Professors
Prof. Tania Prill (taniaprill.com)
Prof. Olav Westphalen
Mathias Lempart & Sascia Reibel (shortnotice.studio)