The entryway is one of the most frequently used yet often underestimated spaces in the home. It is where first impressions are formed, where guests are welcomed and bid farewell, a threshold between public and private life. Historically, this transition space served an important cultural function: as a hallway, vestibule, or windbreak … arrival, departure, and social encounters were spatially framed. With the rise of functionalist architecture in the 20th century and post-war housing, however, this space was increasingly reduced. In many cases, the entryway was transformed into a mere passage: a door, a coat rack, a short hallway. As a result, an important spatial and social transition was lost. The project is dedicated to this often overlooked space. Twenty designers from the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences are developing objects for the moment of entering and leaving. The works explore how design can influence the transition between outside and inside, functionally, spatially, and emotionally, and how it can help rethink this everyday threshold.
As part of Berlin Design Week 2026, the resulting works will be presented for the first time.
Designer*innen:
Janina Bartmann, Giuliana Becker, Elitsa Dimitrova, Lucia Ferrantini, Annika Fingerhut, Zoe Frercks, Yannick Heimburg, Louisa, Muriel Heuken, Emilia Klewin, Lucia Luber, Jan Lux, Leo Mertens, Leonora Morina, Florentine Moser, Alexander Münch, Laurids Nolting, Mathis Rubach, Sara Marie Was , Sophie Weitendorf, Ragnar Wilczek
