FLOATING BERLIN
FLOATING BERLIN
Description: Roman Aurelio Karrer is an in(ter)dependent graphic designer, researcher and cultural worker, currently based between Berlin and Geneva.
The (Real) Book is a project conceived together with first year architecture students (19/20) studying at the EPFL with the Laboratory of ALICE (Atelier de la conception de l’espace). The 828 pages cover the work that would have emerged in the Summer of 2020 on the banks of the Rhône and Arve Rivers in Geneva had Covid-19 not sent us into confinement. The physicality and scale of the book was intended to help us in virtual times to stay related to the physical world. The grid paper (4×4mm) which has been ex
Thanks to all the students and the team members of ALICE for your energy and patience. The pandemic drove us apart as bodies and into platforms. We have been drawing and writing into grids. And we have been drawn into a grid ourselves. After months of close collaboration in the atelier, the team suddenly found itself physically fragmented. The map on the inside cover visualizes where the individuals who contributed to the book have been located during the first confinement in Switzerland and abroad. The thr
The (Real) Book ISBN 978-2-9701438-0-2
FLOATING BERLIN
FLOATING BERLIN