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Zentrum Paul Klee
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27.01.2011 - 08.05.2011

Invent a world in one hundred days: an interactive facility based around the topics of war, dreams and utopia.

The guests at the Children’s Museum Creaviva could invent their own world in 101 days. As a counter-proposal to the nightmare of war, which ripped apart the friendship between Paul Klee and Franz Marc, Creaviva was exploring the longing and fantasy of a new world. With bricks made of wood, that can be painted, inscribed or pasted, guests could form new urban landscapes day after day using the dreams of Bernese youth and celebrities as a basis for inspiration.

The 19 Dreamers were visualised through portraits by the Bernese photographer, Sandra Stampfli. These facial landscapes, together with personally written ‘visions’, awaken imagination and inspiration in guests, and stimulate reflection. The spectrum of formulated thoughts spans from pure hope of freedom, or memories of disturbing childhood events to personal matters and wishes for the future of the world, or own lives. Guests could also formulate their own ‘visions’ on a digital DreamStation in the Creaviva loft.