claim has designed a fairstand for greenpeace at the ‘Natur 2010′ in Basel, Switzerland.

The concept was to produce a prefabricated stand, that can easily be assembled and disassembled by a few greenpeace volunteers. In this case it took 3 hours for the basic setup. The wooden box elements, being transport box and exhibition table and wall in one piece, can be openend and are kept in place by connection panels. The resulting wooden wall works like a pin wall or poster wall. The rough materiality was chosen to maximize the differentiation from sourrounding fair stands and to produce reusable and robust elements.

The green insets can convert the boxes for diffrent uses. They determine a box to be a container, a table, a counter or a terminal station. This flexibility in design, constellation and ease of transport makes them a starting point for other public appearances.

All the content graphic was developed and printed in house and was stapled to the walls. The stand works on several levels of detail. From a distance the black and white patterns define the 3 areas; the jungle, the palm oil production and the supermatket. On a next level, the posters on the boxes subdivide tose areas in different stations, to give a rough insight to the issue od palm oil production. The texts and photos give in depth informations in a linear way. The green insets are filled with packaging of products containing palm oil or palm oil products to relate the issue to the every day life of a visitor to the fair stand.

The fair stand has been awarded as a “Sustainable fair stand at Natur 5/10″. Der Messestand ist als “nachhaltiger Messestand an der Messe Natur 5/10″ ausgezeichnet worden.

All photos copyright by Greenpeace/Nicolas Fojtu

Claim designed the new office spaces for Startbahnwest AG – a Zurich based ad-agency.

Claim has been selected to participate in the Ohrenstrand 2008 competition to design a flexible, transportable auditorium for “Neue Musik”.

Digital media and technologies managed to change the perception of space. On the contrary, they did not fulfill their promise on a physical level in relation to the body: in ‘scale 1:1’, the gap between digital speed and real world seems to shift further apart.
We propose an archaic setup of ‘base, column and roof’. Instead of using this setup to enclose a space, we try to convert the traditional understanding, in which a space is defined by its borders, and exchange it with a condition of fullness.
By utilizing flexible cords, spanned between two datum planes, it is possible to create an almost digital environment of instant connectedness (real-time force feedback), reversibility (Ctrl-Z) and permanence.

The default condition is a coordinate system of strings in the equilibrium of tension. This equilibrium is a place of inherent forces and possibilities.

This defined ‘stringed space’ works as a multi user interface. By means of physical interaction with the proposed setup, it becomes a laboratory of conditioned interaction.

By entering this multitasking environment, the user is inscribing his presence into the coordinate system. Additionally by pasting a ‘place-mark’ he is able to define a personal space. This space can be erased by removing the ‘place-mark’ or it can remain as an ‘impression’- a trace within a flexible territory, which is able to return to its default condition.

Moreover, this personal space has a direct visual and physical impact on its surrounding. It forces interaction and can be seen as a tool for negotiation. What is a generic coordinate system becomes a physical computing environment, a user-based design space. In this sense we offer a simple spatial condition directly reflecting our body’s emergence in space.

in collaboration with Büro Achter April / Michael fragstein, Marc Guntow and uvwxyz / Daniel Utz