The Potato Lab
The project called The Potato Lab has been designed by the students of two schools: ENSCI-Les Ateliers, in Paris, France and Köln International School of Design, in Germany, for an exhibition in Paris at the Grand Palais Ephémère called Eurofabrique. ENSCI-Les Ateliers being an official partner of the New European Bauhaus, The Potato Lab is part of the events linked to this partnership.
The Potato Lab playfully addresses the disconnection and (re)connection to Europe. Students from ENSCI-Les Ateliers and KISD, and nearly ten countries developed 3 to 5 questions emerging from five different topics highly relevant to their generation: Identity, Solidarity, Borders, Food, and Critical Europe (challenges for Europe). These questions were sent to a vast and diverse community across Europe, and responses were received through video or as specific actions.
At the Grand Palais Ephemere, a nearly empty scaffolding structure was organized around an interactive laboratory inviting visitors to engage and reflect on these questions. Through their diverse creations, participants became part of the installation: united, they created a shared European sculpture. By arranging videos, research models, posters, and objects around the scaffold structure, a manifesto-work came to life to provoke self-reflection, discussions, new connections, and to change the perspective of what it means to be European. The project explored its connections with citizens across Europe before, during, and after EuroFabrique: The Potato Lab was exhibited on 9 June 2022 in Cologne.
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