Bundesplatz 3
Polit-Forum Käfigturm

This autumn the Federal Assembly (Swiss parliament) is elected for the 50th time. This event constitutes the starting point for the Parliamentary Services to implement the exhibition "Bundesplatz 3" at the Polit-Forum Käfigturm in Berne.

Tweaklab was responsible for the entire media technical planning, programming and implementing the media installations, as well as for the visual implementation of the animation "The Election" and the programming of the light show.
The central topic "The Motivation" examines the question of why young people should engage in politics. In seven interviews young members of parliament express their views. The statements can be called up via pushbuttons that are integrated in the plan of the allocation of seats of the parties. Furthermore, an LED display with a countdown in this room provides information about how much time is left for the election campaign. Tweaklab is responsible for programming these two stations and for installing them.
"The meetings of the Councils are open to the public" is stated in the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation. Therefore, all speeches are transcribed. Unfortunately, to transcribe the spoken word to written texts is not easy. The audio-video-station "The Protocol" illustrates this difficulty. On two screens people can leaf through examples of texts of the bulletins via pushbuttons.
In the room "The Commission" entire school classes can observe the work of the commission secretary on a video screen and twenty headphones.

Exhibition concept and design: Staufenegger + Stutz
Photo © Béatrice Devènes, 2015

Duration of the exhibition: 07.05.–17.10.2015