PORT Magazine is released annually by students from Bauhaus University Weimar. It exhibits selected students’ works from varios fields, such as architecture, product design, visual communication, media arts, fine arts, media science, a.s.o.
This year’s issue focuses on the paths of development and the problems occuring on those paths and how the students solved or circumvent them. That’s why the subtitle is »UmWege«, which translates as detours. Detours complicate the progress – they cost time, often money and effort. One accepts detours when experimenting, leaving beaten tracks and discover new ways. That experimental approach is what PORT Magazine wants to present. The selected works are, apart from their quality, persuasive, because they dared to raise new questions and take new paths both conceptually and technically.
The realisation of the magazine, which appears more to be a catalogue, reflects the detour in a explorative way. A japanese binding is used to separate the process from the result. The reader flips through the pages seeing only pictures from the procedures. To explore the results, profound texts and interviews the pages need to be torn open at the perforation in the fold. Furthermore all presented projects should be considered as equal. That’s why their are 25 different orders and 25 different covers.
