For the new Immanuel Kant Museum at the East Prussian State Museum, we developed and realized the audio design of several exhibits. In addition to audio stations in German and English, produced in our studio and acoustically tailored to the spatial conditions of the museum, the central element is the “Dinner Party”: a radio play–like staging that renders Kant’s sociable mode of thinking experientially accessible, embedded within the biographical exhibition section on Kant as a person.
The exhibit is based on four imagined table conversations on religion, freedom of the press, economics, politics, and natural science, featuring Immanuel Kant, Johann Georg Hamann, Christian Jakob Kraus, Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel, and Karl Gottfried Hagen. Visitors take a seat at Kant’s table and follow one of four conversations, each from the perspective of one of the guests.

As a binaural 3D audio experience using high-quality headphones, a spatially grounded form of audio augmented reality emerges, in which voice, proximity, direction of gaze, and spatial imagination converge into a unified perceptual situation. The mix was calibrated on-site in relation to the built scenography, allowing the listening and exhibition spaces to integrate seamlessly.

Developed in collaboration with the Ostpreußische Kulturstiftung and in close coordination with Sunder-Plassmann & Werner Szenografie, this resulted in a layered auditory mediation concept for the first and only permanent exhibition on Immanuel Kant in Germany. With texts by Paul Norman Zacher and distinctive voice performances, including Katharina Thalbach as Immanuel Kant, philosophical content is staged as a vivid social situation.

Link: Kantmuseum Lüneburg