Based on my bachelor thesis about the generation “Y” , I developed an art project, where some friends and I started to brainstorm all kinds of questions that were popping up in our millennial minds. We came up with about 200 Questions and installed them during an overnight guerrilla process inside the main building of Zeppelin University. The aim of the project was to show in what kind of insecure state of life millennials are constantly living and that we need to rely on being open to questions in a Rainer Maria Rilke(an) kind of way.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

(Letters to a young poet, 1929)

We also wanted to say “goodbye” to Zeppelin University by asking some specific questions that did relate to our three years of studying there. In a certain way this was our way of saying “fare well” to three years of fun, learning and challenging moments. We came to University with lots of questions and left with even more, because that’s what Zeppelin University taught us.

For the project the mix of the question was especially important to us. The questions covered funny, political- and big philosophical or social discussions. In the process of coming up with them we dared to ask questions we had wanted to ask for a long time.

Idea and Concept by me.
Team: Wencke Ruppenkamp, Nico Hoffman, Robert Bauer, Friederike Reinl, Jennifer Willoh