Vier5 139, rue du Faubourg St.Denis 75010 Paris ++33 1 42 05 09 90 contact@vier5.de Guiding system for documenta 12 The guiding system developed by Vier5 for documenta 12 distinguishes between two systems, the outer guiding system and the inner guiding system. The outer guiding system, as it is understood by Vier5, has several levels and is viewed as a structure that can be divided into an informative, tangible and an abstract area: On the one hand it is to be a functioning system that fulfils the visitors’ primary wishes and leads them through the city to the desired places. This form is directly tied to the venue of the exhibition and to its duration. On the other hand the guiding system, as it is grasped by Vier5, has another, uncontrollable and invisible function. It is meant to span a network and carry the aims and thoughts of the show to the outside, detached from the place and time of the exhibition. It is to evade a primary functionality. These two poles that are mutually dependent form the basis for the development of five central elements that represent the framework of the outer guiding system. 1. OUTER GUIDING SYSTEM a) signs b) containers c) living guiding system c) ceramic hills e) crown caps 2. INNER GUIDING SYSTEM TYPEFACES for documenta 12 <

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