“The ArtWalk of History” is the oldest catwalk in history. It is the first digital fashion show where “models” from the 15th–19th century conquer the stage and try to fascinate with an extraordinary wide range of historical garments, costumes and accessories.

Starting point for this idea was the collection (digitised and curated by the UCLAB) of the Berlin Publishers Frieda and Franz von Lippernheide, who gathered over time around 1600 paintings, sculptures and garments – all in the attention of fashion.

While working on different concepts, the catwalk seemed like the perfect environment to offer an accessible and very engaging platform to experience this (fashion) art collection. It wasn’t just a familiar platform to fashion fans and thereby a product with low affordance, it was also an exciting instrument to convey this collection.

Conventional presentations of cultural collections like in many museums need to be questioned – we tried to do that here.

This team project was born in the course “Visualising Cultural Collections” lead by Marian Dörk. My team colleagues were Mariana Reinhardt and Kerstin Humm.

Thanks to the UCLAB Potsdam the collection comes with a complex and detailed ontology. This information network is used to create your very own Artwalk of History.

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