Zeche Nachtigall

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The history of the Zeche Nachtigall, or Nachtigall Colliery, is closely linked to the prevailing resources and the associated economic viability: 300 years ago, the coal seams were followed horizontally into the mountain, and later vertical shafts were used to go down into the depths. The colliery was closed in 1892 after large water ingresses. A builder bought the land and built a brickyard, because the raw material slate clay was abundantly available on site. Today, the museum is dedicated to the subject of raw materials, their geological history of formation, as well as their finiteness.

Tobias Raschbacher

Tim Berresheim

Anita Augustin

Follow the future

Futur II | 2022-03-20 00:00:00

A story-based augmented reality parcours invites you to an interactive discovery tour at four industrial museums. At the St. Antony ironworks in Oberhausen, the Müller cloth factory in Euskirchen, the Nachtigall colliery in Witten and the Lage brickworks, visitors can explore forward-looking topics in a playful way. Will we soon be growing houses from mushrooms? Will we make our clothes from bacteria in the future? Why do scientists dream of power plants made from algae? Can bricks save the climate? It’s all about the future of energy production, extraordinary materials from the laboratory, sustainable urban planning and innovations from the construction industry. The search for answers leads visitors through the virtually expanded game world, which combines analog places with digital elements and history with the future. The AR-Parcours invites visitors to explore the museum grounds with a new perspective and actively think about visions of future living and working environments.

Embedded in a fictional audio play by dramaturge Anita Augustin and supported by virtual 3D graphics by designer Tobias Raschbacher, visitors roam the grounds in “Playspaces”, collect virtual objects or solve tasks, and experience the industrial museums in an audio-visual new way. Based on these themed worlds, Aachen-based artist Tim Berresheim will be showing impressive augmented reality sculptures that can be freely experienced with a mobile device in a digital exhibition space. They take an artistic look at the contents and open up new associative spaces.

Ian Purnell

Moon Bricks

Futur III | 2022-03-19 00:00:00 - 2022-03-26 00:00:00

For the multimedia installation Moon Bricks, artist Ian Purnell transforms the surface of the ring furnace of Zeche Nachtigall into an immersive lunar landscape. Using cinematic means, he takes up the current research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne to produce bricks via 3D printing on the moon. Moon Bricks bridges the gap between the former colliery and brickyard and visions of the future and high-tech research into resource scarcity and the limits of growth.

Interest in developing the Moon as a habitat is growing steadily. Be it as a base on the way to Mars or as a place for the extraction of raw materials through so-called moon mining. On the journey to the Moon as an economic sphere, not only technical and logistical questions arise, but also questions about how we want to deal with our living space Earth in the future. The brick in Ian Purnell’s work becomes emblematic of both the constant expansion of human habitat and the struggle to find solutions to the effects of human-induced encroachment on the earth.

Moon Bricks

Interest in developing the Moon as a habitat is growing steadily. Be it as a base on the way to Mars or as a place for the extraction of raw materials through so-called moon mining. On the journey to the Moon as an economic sphere, not only technical and logistical questions arise, but also questions about how we want to deal with our living space Earth in the future. The brick in Ian Purnell’s work becomes emblematic of both the constant expansion of human habitat and the struggle to find solutions to the effects of human-induced encroachment on the earth.

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