Willkommen in Berlin!

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design student Vanessa Lee reports. On the 4 February 2008, a group made up of 32 Art and Design Degree and Foundation Diploma in Art and Design students and five staff took a week long trip to Berlin, to explore the sights and visit some of its best known galleries. We stayed at the Generator Hostel, ‘Europe’s funkiest hostel’, and travelled everywhere by foot or train, so a good map came in handy! We spent our days visiting various galleries and monuments, such as the Neue Nationalgalerie, Norman Foster’s Reichstag Dome, and Checkpoint Charlie, exploring the shops and surrounding areas. And as for the evenings, we discovered little restaurants offering various cuisines, cocktails bars, gigs, or even just the entertainment put together by the hostel itself. All in all, everyone had a great time and enjoyed different aspects, coming home shouting ‘Berlin Baby’!! Course Team Leader for Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Lee Birkett adds, “We decided to take students to Berlin,

because of its fascinating past, as well as being a hub of contemporary culture and art. All in all, we felt the city would be a great inspiration for students’ own creative work when back in their respective studios. All students had to produce a sketchbook of work whilst on the visit, documenting all of their personal interactions and memories of Berlin. For some this sketchbook was used to inform project work when they returned to college.”
‘Berlin Baby’!!