One and the same text appears on all levels of the seven-storey main staircase of the Oskar von Miller Forum.
But it changes its appearance and content focus from one floor to another.
On the ground floor, the visitor encounters the large-scale text cloud consisting of reflecting stainless steel, which receives its particular form by mirroring the legible text.

When the visitor ascends, the reflecting stainless steel text disappears, line by line. The vanished reflecting lines

The visitor, ascending or descending, is the motor of these changes, and his potential for becoming a motor of reflections and thoughts lies in turn in his perception of the quotation itself at the very moment he is passing by.

The quotation is a statement by Oskar von Miller from 1891 that may be read as the quintessence of his personal approach to things, even though he formulated it with a different context in mind.
At the same time, it is timeless in its applicability.

 
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