On our open-house festival day we invited interested people to dive into the space which 28 residents lived and worked in for 6 weeks. But this evening would not have been this epic without some artists who made this evening an unforgettable event by creating a huge clusterfuck of visual and audiovisual madness.

This goes out to you, your spontaneous dedication, your far out creativity and the sharing of your joy. A big shout out and thanks to:

* BUFFdiss (www.klebeland.de // www.flickr.com/photos/buffdiss): With the white cube space as his canvas, BUFFdiss used duct tape to create amazing graffiti art.
* Enriko: for his kickass ‘traditional spray can’ graffiti on the walls of the white cube room
* Timo Stammberger (www.timostammberger.com) for his incredible photo projection
* Igor (www.myspace.com/sitosun // www.myspace.com/misterpinktv) for the amazingly stylish visuals
* Mike Wall (www.myspace.com/wallbrother) for his damn good taste in music
* Sascha Schlegel from Motor.fm


Photos by Carolin Seeliger

As promised last week, I want to give you a quick update on what happened on Monday evening, when we had our second dinner with young architects in our future camplocation.

We met at 7 o’clock directly at Malzfabrik to get a better feeling and insight into what the location for the camp looks like. Again, we were a group of 9 people (Palomar5 teammembers: Simon, Hans, Mathias and Pippa; young architects: Julius, Nils, Christian and Max; later on, our teambuilder Ernst joined us as well) that conjointly explored the space, had dinner, chatted and developed ideas on how to possibly make adequate and efficient use of this extensive area for our Palomar5 camp.

Once you go into the Winery, you realise that 2000 sqm is a lot of space indead! There is so much to discover! As the venue is not renovated yet, it feels a bit like an ultralarge adventure playground: in every room, around every corner you discover something new (well… rather old in fact). Once in a while, I caught myself trying to reconstruct what a particular room might have been utilised for, how many cigarettes might have been smoked in there and how many times the former employees might have climbed the stairs. However, one can already easily imagine how great the venue will meet our expectation and serve our purpose once it is completely renovated for our camp in October.

When everyone had investigated the location, we sat down and had a beer or two in front of the old roller shutter that probably have been used for deliveries in the past. Lots of discussion evolved around the question of sleeping area(s). Maybe some of you have read the entry on our Facebook-Page. Here, we also asked for some input whether it makes sense to have a huge shared space for everyone, furnitured with huts or tents or whether you would prefer single pits where you have a place for your own. Of course everything in between is ponderable, too. If you have some input: let us know!

Apart from that, you might have seen the twitter-post earlier on this week… our “office-sharing” concept has been put into practice! Since last week, Julius Kranefuss and Nils Krämer (“die zweidrei”) have joined us to work out the architectural concept of the camp-location. Since two days, Max Pauen also trailed to help those two and to construct some furniture for our office or the camp itself. If you move to the rear part of our space you can not only feel, but also see the creative mood those three: papers, pencils, drawings, parts of models and more than one screen for each of them! Thanks again for being here! It is absolutely great!

As you might have realised on skype or our facebook page, we had a first dinner session in our office last friday.

Maybe a short introduction on what we mean with “dinner session”: in a roughly fortnightly rhythm, we will invite a set of people, who have – or might have in the future – an interest in our project to visit us in our office space and spend an informal evening with us and the others. For each of these sessions, we define a specific topic, which will be the focus of attention. Objective is to brainstorm about this specific topic, exchange ideas and maybe come up with some new solutions for subsistent problems.

Last week, we decided to give it a first try – we picked the issue of our camp-location and its interior achitecture to a invite a handful of young architects for some beer and finger food. Although everything was arranged in the short term, we managed to bring together six inspiring architects, who quickly started to brainstorm on the wide options a huge space such as the Winery in the Malzfabrik offers if you want to use it efficiently for an innovation format like the Palomar5 camp.

When we concluded the evening somewhere soon to midnight, we felt that we were on the right track: lots of issues had been raised and many ideas had been yielded so that we could gratified hit the next party and enjoy the success of the evening. However, when we talked about the evening and its consequences the next day, we realised that there was so much more to discuss in detail. Soon, we determined that another session was needed!

So here we are: on Monday, we will do another round with some of those folks who have been present last time – and also some newbies to fuel the discussion. Additionally, there will also be another modification with respect to the first round. Instead of blueprinting our ideas in the office, we decided it would be an evident added value to switch the venue and do it on-the-spot inside the camplocation itself.

Be sure to read again at this point about the experience and outcome of this second meeting! In case you feel you could add to this discussion – being an architect, designer or carpenter yourself – please drop us a line:

sw@palomar5.org or pp@palomar5.org

We will get back to you and see how we might include you at this stage or a later point!