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nOffice - Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson
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Residential Projects - |
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PENTHOUSE P |
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Cologne, Germany
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Redesign and refurbishment of a duplex penthouse in the city centre of Cologne. The post-war building had to be structurally rebuilt. The new home includes two spatious zones for private as well as public use, and a central 'tent', a double-height 'house in the house'. - |
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Commission
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2009
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Markus Miessen |
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Installation - |
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PERFORMA BIENNIAL - HUB AT COOPER UNION |
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New York, USA
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Design and construction of the Biennial's central meeting and screening place, lecture hall, bookshop and lounge, located on the ground floor of the new Cooper Union Building in Downtown Manhattan. A long and tall wall, which follows the section of a lowered ceiling and produces two kinds of spatial conditions: an open field in which directly visible programmes will take place, as well as a series of pockets, dug into the wall. - |
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Local architect: Nate Lindsey
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Photographer: Bradley Jones
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Commission
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2009
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Featured on |
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Markus Miessen |
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Residential / Cultural Projects - |
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WRIGHT'S ROAD GALLERY |
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London, UK
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This former East London pub is being turned into a center for contemporary art, with the gallerist's residence on the top floor. - |
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Commission
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2007/2009/2011
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Markus Miessen |
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Cultural Projects - |
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HANS ULRICH OBRIST ARCHIVE & LIBRARY |
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Tschlin, Faernigen & Berlin
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The project is proposing a radical city-cooperation between the cities of Dubai and Düsseldorf, supported by Kunstverein Düsseldorf and Goethe-Institut Gulf Region. With contributions by Ayzit Bostan, Antje Majewski, Eva Munz, Ingo Niermann, Z.A.K. and Markus Miessen & Ralf Pflugfelder. - |
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2008-2009
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Markus Miessen |
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Film & Publication - |
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'THE RECITAL' - AN OPERATIVE MANIFESTO |
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Performa Biennial New York, USA
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The Recital is a short and concise statement about nOffice's hopes and fears for the future. It will be read out by an actor in the form of a screening in a pavilion situated as an integral part of Performa's central hub. - |
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2009
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Markus Miessen |
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Residential Projects - |
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VILLA FRÖSAKULL |
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Halmstad, Sweden
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To counterbalance the fragmentary shape of the existing villa, the addition was conceived as a free-standing piece of furniture without direct dialogue with the existing house. - |
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Commission
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2009-2010
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Markus Miessen |
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Design of an Archive and Cultural Centre in the remote Swiss villages of Tschlin and Faernigen with a satellite institution in Berlin. - |
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2008-
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Markus Miessen |
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Institutional Projects - |
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'DUBAI - DÜSSELDORF' |
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Kunstverein Düsseldorf The Third Line Gallery, Dubai
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Gallery - |
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ARCHIVE KABINETT |
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Berlin, Germany
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Archive Kabinett is the new HQ and gallery of Archive Journal, a bi-annual periodical and major resource for the visual arts and cultural knowledge production. This phased project produces a space that simultaneously works as gallery, lecture hall, library and launch venue. - |
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Commission
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2009-2011
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Markus Miessen |
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Residential Projects - |
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'WOHNPILOT' - HOUSING COMPETITION 2ND PRIZE |
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Graz, Austria |
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Cultural Projects - |
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'BADHUS' |
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Hudiksvall, Sweden
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ARNOLFINI GALLERY RE-DEFINITION |
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Bristol, UK
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The concept is a thematic family of hybrid tables, aiming to rethink the gallery as a space not only for passively displaying art, but also a place where artefacts are actively being produced. - |
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Commission
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2008
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Markus Miessen |
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To balance the requirements of the brief and the conditions of the site within its larger context, a gesture 'weak' enough to be added to and 'strong' enough to relate to its context was required. - |
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Competition
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2008
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Markus Miessen |
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The UFO has landed: the mixed-use scheme as a multi-tasking urban gesture. - |
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Competition
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2007-2008
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Markus Miessen |
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Installation - |
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'THE VIOLENCE OF PARTICIPATION' - LYON BIENNIAL |
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Lyon, France
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Residential Projects - |
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HOUSE O |
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Bonn, Germany
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Urban Design Projects - |
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LYNGBY-TAARBAEK MASTERPLAN - 200 FLATS |
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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The proposal stitches or weaves together the disjunctive urban fabrics of small-scale villas from the beginning of the 20th century and the large post-war housing estates by extending the latent vectors of the existing urban fabrics. - |
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Competition
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2005
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Markus Miessen |
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Intricate, flexible, sustainable, bold, forward thinking and in-expensive. - |
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Commission
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2009-2010
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Markus Miessen |
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§1 sit down §2 take pen §3 a) take blank paper (or) b) take existing drawing §4 a) draw your spatial perception of Europe (or) b) corrupt existing drawing by superimposing your opinion §5 go to wall §6 pin up contribution - |
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2007
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Markus Miessen |
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STOCKHOLM PUBLIC LIBRARY |
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Stockholm, Sweden
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Asplund's library is an extreme solitaire that is autistically unable to communicate with other architectures, making a direct extension impossible. To properly address this condition, a solution of pure concept was required. - |
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Competition
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2006
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Markus Miessen |
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Cultural Projects - |
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HEJ GALLERY - 'GLASHUSET' |
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Boras, Sweden
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As a hybrid between park and pavilion, the Glashuset has better possibilities – both formally and conceptually – to form and to be formed by the existing park. - |
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Competition
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2006
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Markus Miessen |
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As the globally travelling show spends more time in containers than within the institutions that house its content, the storage system that guarantees safe shipping becomes the actual display framework. - |
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Commission
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2007-2008
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Markus Miessen |
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Cultural Projects - |
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KUNSTHALLE BREMEN |
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Bremen, Germany
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The existing museum is a dys-functional body. Thus, the extension functions like a prosthesis that supports the existing building. A symbiotic non-dialectical relation between new and old is formed. - |
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Competition
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2005
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Markus Miessen |
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Installation - |
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MAX WIGRAM GALLERY |
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London, UK
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A spatial strategy and programming for a temporary bar/project-space that would be operative over the course of a Summer and terminate during Frieze Art Fair. The entire former Gallery space was disassembled into its individual components. All material that made up the previous space was used to construct a central stage. - |
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Commission
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2006
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Markus Miessen |
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Sports & Urban Design Projects - |
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SPORTS HALL TENSTA |
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Tensta, Sweden
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Underground station, parking garage, public square, semi-underground art gallery, post-war housing estates and supermarket: On a logistically and socially complex site, the sports hall was conceived as an infra-structure linking, connecting and enabling various social interactions and events. - |
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Competition
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2005
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Markus Miessen |
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Residential Projects - |
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FLAT H |
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Berlin, Germany
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Redesign and refurbishment of an artist's residence and studio in Berlin. - |
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Commission
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2009
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Markus Miessen |
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Publications / Writing - |
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'SAFE HAVEN' - VOLUME MAGAZINE |
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Volume #15
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Article for Volume Magazine documenting the conceptual approach and strategic research, 'The Making Of' an Archive and Cultural Centre. - |
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Published 2008
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Markus Miessen |
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Publications / Writing - |
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CONDITIONS MAGAZINE |
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Conditions #1
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Article for Conditions Magazine - a series of strategic suggestions towards the future of the profession. - |
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Published 2009
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Markus Miessen |
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Exhibition Design - |
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CREDIT SUISSE Art & Entrepreneurship |
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Global Exhibition Tour
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FLAT C |
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Berlin, Germany
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Core removal and complete re-design and makeover of a 160 sqm private residence in Berlin Mitte. The period property's (built 1870) characteristics are being maintained while inserting an open plan design, which distinctly separates a public zone with an extensive archive and library from a private wing that, through a series of programmatic pockets, remains entirely self-sustained. - |
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Commission
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2010
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Markus Miessen |
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MANIFESTA 8 |
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Murcia, Spain
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nOffice is designing and constructing one of the venues for Manifesta 8, Spain. This year, Manifesta is expanding beyond the European continent and will take place in Murcia in dialogue with northern Africa. Manifesta is entering a new phase, shifting from its previous East-West dialogue to focus on North-South notions, investigating trans-continental representation. - |
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Commissioned by
Curators Bassam El Baroni & Jeremy Beaudry
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2010-2011
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Institutional Projects - |
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ASAP - Archive of Spatial Aesthetics and Praxis |
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Berlin, Germany
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ASAP is an archive chronicling, collecting and storing various modes of spatial praxis emerging after 2004 as part of a larger cultural, political and aesthetic discourse. It is conceived as a productive archive of knowledge and hub of activity that builds over time and in which relational content is continuously shifting. ASAP comprises virtual and physical components – spatial objects, documentation, and a knowledge-base. - |
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Founded by Tina Di Carlo in collaboration with nOffice
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2010-
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Markus Miessen |