Due to its central location at Museum Island, the Eiserne Bridge is crossed by millions of visitors from all over the world every year, and yet it is scarcely noticed as a structure. With their project Fata Morgana, the architect Tom Heneghan and the artist Manu Kumar will give the bridge's profile the prominence befitting its significance. The concept of growing together and bridging differences will play a central role.

A reflecting substructure supporting a lighting system will be built into the gaps of the steel supporting structure that is visible from below. A printed backlight transparency will be clamped underneath, so that the underside of the bridge resembles a viewer or a gigantic slide. The motif will be a multi-segmented photograph of the planet earth.

In addition to the projections on the underside of the bridge, old structures in the bridge's environs will be opened. The wrought-iron gate of an old, curved, stone staircase on the bridge's north side will be removed, thereby returning the banks of the Spree canal to the public as usable space. The bridge will no longer be a mere crossing.

Like the world's mirror image fractured in the water, Fata Morgana will take up the fragmentary nature of the developed surroundings and, at the same time, become a symbol of opposites growing closer. The combination of old structure with contemporary media projection will bridge the past with the present.