Berlin Bound!

Today I am going to take you through the adventures of half of the product design class the ones who landed in berlin. There was a huge split of people who decided not to go due to the pandemic that just started to gain traction at the time but myself and a good group decided we would go and see berlin for all it has to offer.

The fist day we learned the S-Bahn which to me was nonsense at the beginning as I had never been before, so all the areas were new to me. Thankfully we had excellent tour guides in Jack Hatre and David Gilhooley who had been to berlin before. We travelled around berlin getting familiar with the culture and differently engineered buildings they made me step back and really appreciate what this city was about so industrial and well laid out it was a designer’s heaven. On the first day the two attractions that stood out to me were the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and the Jewish memorial museum. The Jewish memorial was so intense and really had you feeling bad for all that occurred during the world war. Seeing the real letters, the family story’s and the horrific things that were done to these people for nothing else but their religion.

For the second day Bauhaus museum and go to the German science and technology museum. The Bauhaus was the main focus of today though and it was everything we expected and more the place was so nice and aesthetically pleasing to be in they even had stations set up to interact with. You could do up to eight different tasks upstairs from scaling to different ways of drawing a lamp to some sort or origami type station that to be honest baffled me it was such an enjoyable experience seeing all the different work that other tourists did while visiting the museum. Some work was excellent just to see how different people interoperated the different challenges.

Day three brought about the Berlin wall. Probably the most pictures were taken of this as each section was just so incredible where you really had to stand back and admire the work of these artists. It was just such a pleasant walk down the street with this wonderful art that I really couldn’t take my eyes off if I’m being honest. It probably took us about an hour to walk the fifteen minutes that it should have taken to stop take pictures admire and try see if we could find a deeper meaning for each part of the wall. It was truly incredible to look at.

Home time was a sad time as there was still so much, we could have done but still I was happy to have experienced everything that we did in berlin and will be one of the most memorable trips I have ever been on. It was a shame that the whole course wasn’t able to experience this with the group that went but that’s just how life goes sometimes.