"Die Halligen"

The Halligen are a group of small islands in the North Sea, sitting in the middle of the Wadden Sea. They flood regularly with the tides. Life there works on different terms than on the mainland — supply chains, orientation, the physical texture of the land are all shaped by water.

Students visited the islands, then returned to build technical and interactive installations that made those phenomena tangible to people who hadn’t been there. Another let users walk through 3D scans of the island’s dams and piers, wrapped in fog, reproducing the disorientation of navigating without landmarks.

One piece mechanically reproduced the ripple patterns left in sand at low tide.

The project was a collaboration between two classes at ABK Stuttgart, with Prof. Windelen and Prof. Roggan from the Fine Arts program.