The Installation “Desire for Identity” in the German pavilion at the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice realized by 15 Students of the Technical University Munich, department of architecture was a great success. The installation was part of a workshop organized by the chair for design methodology and representation Prof. Mark Mückenheim on the 26th of October at the German pavilion, Giardini, Venice Biennale Fondamenta Dell’Arsenale 30122 Venezia, Italia. We would like to thank ‘Die Wahlverwandschaften’ as curators, Cordula Rau for making this possible, Elena Almeida for great email organization and last but not least Katharina Nawarotzky for beeing our kind host during that day and for preventing people messing up the installation. Workshop organized by Mark Mückenheim, Juliane Demel, Harry Dobrzanski, Peter Schmid and Maren Weitz. Participating Students: Benedikt Bührle, Dorian Cani, Tatiana Galitzine, Franziska Gehrmann, Manuel Gemoll, Maximilian Kimmel, Bertram Landwehrlin, Daniel Lechner, Bin Lin, Victoria Lippsmeier, Astrid Neukirch, Doris Stranninger, Robert Strasser, Irina Vorontrova, Ran Xu