Berlin - Design & Technology School Trip

Day 1 - Berlin art and architecture walking tour and Little BIG City Berlin

Fly to Berlin and transfer by coach to your accommodation.

Collect your expert tour guide and begin to orient yourself in the city with a walking tour of its famous street art and architecture: Be wowed by the urban murals and graffiti art; Stride beneath the Brandenburg gate, scale the Reichstag’s transparent dome and view the city’s skyline from its terrace; explore Museum Island with its 5 architectural masterpiece museums designed by Berlin’s Prussian rulers and pause at the Holocaust Memorial, a strikingly designed monument made of 2711 concrete stelae spread over 19,000 square metres.

After some time for reflection, head to Little Big City Berlin to see Berlin in miniature! Students can explore 750 years of Berlin in a unique way, with 100 historical buildings, holograms, projections and over 6,000 residents demonstrating Berlin’s centrality on the international stage.

Finish your first day with an evening meal at your accommodation.

Day 2 - Manufacturing in action

Today’s visit to KPM (The Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin) is a fantastic opportunity for students to immerse themselves in the manufacturing process, watching porcelain being made from initial concept and design to the presentation of the finished product. Students can witness production on an industrial scale.

Spend this afternoon at the German Museum of Technology. On a huge 28,500 square meter site, students can explore how design and technology has changed lives, across a diverse array of fields including aeronautics, navigation, transport, telecommunications, textiles, machinery, writing, printing and computers. Next door to the Museum of Technology is the Science Center Spectrum. Its hands-on interactive exhibition 'The World of Experiments' demonstrates the complexity and vitality of the design and manufacturing process.

Students can end the day with a trip bowling or to the IMAX cinema.

Day 3 - Autostadt or Bauhaus Architecture and BMW Motorrad Welt

Today, jump on the coach and make the all day trip to VW Autostadt in Wolfsburg. Next to the Volkswagen factor, this visitor attraction charts the development of Volkswagen vehicles. Designed by more than 400 architects, “Automobile City,” represents ultra modern design all the way through from its buildings to its soft furnishings. Students can tour the enormous factory, see the first petrol vehicle produced, explore car design software and even design their own cars using the features from Audis. Finally, be amazed by the two 60 meters tall glass silos that store new Volkswagens in a kind of car vending machine.

If you prefer to stay in Berlin, you can divide the day between the Bauhaus-Archiv Design Museum and a visit to BMW Motorrad Welt. Bauhaus (1919-1933) was the most influential school of architecture, art and design of the 20th century and students can explore the creators and their works in this state of the art museum. At BMW Mottorad Welt, students explore the breathtaking motorbikes created by BMW over the past 100 years. Offering interactive workshops, factory tours and motorcycle cinema, students can explore the concepts and technology behind this design classic.

Day 4 - Museum visit and departure

Your final day has many options. You could brave Design Panoptikum which describes itself as a “surreal museum of industrial objects.” Or, journey further into the bizarre with The Monster Cabinet, where “bizarre automaton creatures dance, sing and write poetry.”

Alternatively, you could look at design adaptations for the disabled by visiting Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind and Deaf, a small broom and brush factory whose owner strove to protect his Jewish workers from persecution.

Or, if modern interactive technology appeals, finish with a visit to Computerspielemuseum, the computer games museum charting the development of gaming from Pong to the modern day, complete with rare originals and playable classics.

Fly home after a great experience.