The competition was organized for students of architecture by Kulturkreis der Deutsche Wirtschaft and took place in Technical University in Cottbus, Germany. The subject of the competition was “New Media—the Space and the Borders”, and entries in several fields of architectural design, image design/region promotion and multimedia/Internet were welcome.

The overall project was completed with another student and included the posters presented along with some other material, that was a result of a confrontation of imagination of children and the post-industrial vision of the region (a series of drawings made by children).

The design shown here was my personal response resulting from a sequence of observations made in the ecologically devastated, lignite open-mining region of Lausitz—vision of the excavated vast “holes” would impress anybody who could ever see this moon landscape close-up.

The aim of the design was to speculate with the vision of the “green region” (under the name of Pueckler Land) that was synthesized by the government for the purpose of removing most of the traces of current exploitation, and yet to show a different point of view at the promotion of the region of Lausitz. The background of the project suggested the preservation of both landscapes taking advantage of already developed modern conceptions of industrial archeology. It would also emphasize the border at which the two worlds meet: the (relatively small) areas of ecological disaster, which had ironically become the “natural” landscape, and the synthetic “artificial nature” that was going to be reintroduced.

Our project was granted a honorable mention in the competition.

And—last but not least—yes, the familiar look of the “Pueckler Park” logo WAS intended :)

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