Bauhaus

Dessau :
Festival
_School_
Fundamental
20 – 24
March 2019
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What would a Bauhaus school look like
­today? How would it face the challenge of
designing the environment in a globalised
society? What sorts of experiments might
it embark on and how would it organise
communal learning? And how might such
a school realise new politics of social
­design at the micro level of the campus?
The historic Bauhaus was active in Des-
sau for six years. Yet its influence on the
training of modern artists and designers
continues to this day. The Bauhaus
­Building remains a reflection of Bauhaus
pedagogy and of its curriculum – it em-
bodies the built conviction, in glass and
stone, that schools can plant the germs of
change for future ways of living together,
that they are experimental spaces more
so than educational institutions.
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In the context of the Fe s t i v a l S c h o o l
Fu n d a m e n t a l , this historic learning
­environment becomes a platform for the
global search for a design education that
can meet the social, ecological, and tech-
nological challenges of the present. Dur-
ing the festival, the Bauhaus turns into a
temporary school, a “test site” for intercul-
tural learning experiments in design.
Here, scholars, design students, curators,
and museum audiences come together to
study, experiment, and learn in a dialogue
with the iconic school.
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Learning environ-
ment Bauhaus /
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Programme Learning environment Parliament Bauhaus
highlights Bauhaus of Schools Translated
Workshops International Platform Symposium
[ 21 – 24 March 2019 ] [ 21 – 24 March 2019 ] [ 22 – 23 March 2019 ]
Performative
walk »!« Learning environment The P a r l i a m e n t o f B a u h a u s Tr a n s l a t e d
Party ! ! ! Bauhaus picks up on S c h o o l s is an interna- engages participants with
Workshop ⁂ three different aspects of tional platform for net- a series of worldwide ex-
Presentation « » learning that are mirrored working and interconnect- amples of art and design
Book presentation ¶ in the Bauhaus Building: ing new and alternative schools in the 20th centu-
Keynote { } Wo r ks h o p s – M ate r i a l approaches to design ry, which redefined their
Bar :-) [ Weaving Workshop ] pedagogy. Via an open educational approach by
Lecture „ “ takes up the teaching call, international school updating aspects of Bau-
Group discussion ?! ­philosophy around a projects were invited to haus pedagogy.
Committees … ­material-based learning put design pedagogical
Symposium ¿ and a “­didactics of things”. approaches beyond he-
Closing assembly x ­P r e l i m i n a r y C o u r s e gemonic canons of know­
R o o m – K n o w ­l e d g e ledge and education to
[ Room for the Preliminary the test. The festival ex-
Course ] introduces partic- plores the politics, forms,
ipants to past and present and spaces of socially
teaching experiments conscious knowledge
that defy the conventions ­production for designers
of knowledge transfer. In through discussion and
Fe s t i v e A r e a – T h e hands-on projects.
H u m a n [ Stage and Can-
teen ] the central Bauhaus
project of creating a “new
8 human being” is examined. 9
Festi__val_
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_gra_mme
Sat, 23 March 2019
6.30 pm
¶ Book presentation ¶
Library of
Societal Design
Wed,
20th and 21st Century 6 pm
Design Pedagogy { Keynote }
Keynotes “Inheritance, Disobedience
6 – 8 pm and Speculation“
–> Festive area Dennis Atkinson
[ London ]

7 pm

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{ Keynote }
Victor Papanek: The
politics of design and the
role of design education”
Alison J. Clarke
[ Vienna ]

8 pm
»!« Performative walk »!«
Liquid Walks
Inside the Learning

March
Environment
w/ Angelika Waniek
[ Leipzig ] and students
of the Master Coop Design
­Research
–> Bauhaus Building

10 pm
! ! ! Party ! ! !
w/ Vyce Blank [ Dessau ]

2019
–> Workshop wing,
basement level

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Thu, 21 March 2019
Parliament of Schools
Constituent assembly
10 am – 6 pm
–> R. 2.22
Thu,
Parliament of Schools w/ Al Maeishah
Constituent assembly [ Bologna ]
10 am – 6 pm The Black School
–> R. 2.22 [ New York ]
Casco Art Institute:
Working for the Commons
[ Utrecht ]
Center for Urban Pedagogy

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[ New York ]
Ciudad Abierta
[ Ritoque/Valparaiso ]
Derailed Lab/Rheomode
[ London/Athens ]
ESDI Escola Superior de
Desenho Industrial
[ Rio de Janeiro ]
The Free School of Architecture
[ Los Angeles ]
KUNCI

March
[ Yogyakarta ]
McDonald’s Radio University
[ Tokyo ]
Open Raumlabor University
[ Berlin ]
Open School East
[ Margate ]
Paper Crane Labs
[ Bangalore/New York ]
Public School for Architecture

2019
[ Brussels ]
Ruangrupa/Gudskul
[ Jakarta ]
Silent University
[ Berlin/Mülheim ]

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10 am 10 am 2.30 pm 4 pm
⁂ Workshop ⁂ ⁂ Workshop ⁂ ⁂ Workshop ⁂ ⁂ Workshop ⁂
Feminist Reading, A part of, Growing Design Manifest:
Potato Peeling! and apart from... w/ Maurizio Montalti Making Perceptions
w/ Clare Butcher w/ Carolyn Butterworth [ Amsterdam ] w/ Mike Anusas
[ Amsterdam ] and Leo Care [ Sheffield ] –> R. 1.22 / [ Edinburgh ]
and Sepake Angiama and students Workshop – Material and guests
[ Kassel ] and guests –> R. 1.20 / (en) –> R. 1.22 /
–> Canteen Preliminary course Workshop – Material
room – Knowledge 2.30 pm (en)
10 am (en) ⁂ Workshop ⁂
⁂ Workshop ⁂ A part of, and a part from... 6 pm
Exploring 10 am w/ Carolyn Butterworth « Presentation »
the Motion Space ⁂ Workshop ⁂ and Leo Care [ Sheffield ] A part of,
w/ Mary Copple, Spooky Action and students and apart from...
Michael Friedman at a Distance –> R. 1.20 / w/ Carolyn Butterworth
[ Berlin ], Sabine w/ Stefani Bardin Preliminary course and Leo Care [ Sheffield ]
Hansmann [ Berlin ], [ New York ] room – Knowledge and students
Joachim Krausse –> R. 1.20 / (en) –> R. 1.20 /
[ Berlin ], Friederike Preliminary course Preliminary course
Schäfer [ Karlsruhe ] room – Knowledge 2.30 pm room – Knowledge
–> Auditorium / (en) ⁂ Workshop ⁂ (en)
Festive Area – The Human The Inverse of School
10 am is Possible 8 pm
⁂ Workshop ⁂ w/ Sofia Olascoaga { Keynote }
Welcome to the [ Cuernavaca ] The Secret Lives of
Cloud Factory! –> Canteen Architectural Archives
w/ Clemens Winkler (en) w/ Albena Yaneva
[ Zurich ] [ Manchester ]
–> R. 1.22 / 2.30 pm –> Auditorium / Stage
Workshop – Material ¶ Book presentation ¶
Taking A Line For A Walk from
w/ Corinne Gisel [ Basel ] and 9 pm
Anne König [ Leipzig ] Bar :-)
–> R. 2.30 –> Workshop wing,
basement level
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Thu, 21 March 2019 +
Fri, 22 March 2019, 10 am
⁂ Workshop ⁂
Welcome to the
Cloud Factory!
w/ Clemens Winkler
[ Zurich ]
–> R. 1.22
Fri,
Bauhaus Translated 10 am
Symposium „ Lecture “
10 am – 6 pm Black Mountain College
–> R. 2.30 and the Bauhaus
Innovation
w/ Mary Emma Harris
[ New York ]

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11 am
„ Lecture “
Vkhutemas:
The School as
Social Condenser
w/ Anna Bokov
[ New York ]

12 pm
„ Lecture“
Bauhaus in Japan – 

March
Stories of Translation
and Refracted History
w/ Helena Čapková
[ Tokyo ]

3 pm
„ Lecture “
An American Bauhaus:
The Radical Pedagogy
of New York‘s Design

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Laboratory
w/ Shannan Clark
[ New York ]

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4 pm 10 am 2.30 pm 2.30 pm
„ Lecture “ ⁂ Workshop ⁂ ⁂ Workshop ⁂ ⁂ Workshop ⁂
„The ABC‘s of Space-Time” Feminist Reading, « Presentation » We eat circles and
at Chicago‘s New Bauhaus Potato Peeling! The Moving Corridor drink squares
w/ Maggie Taft [ Chicago ] w/ Clare Butcher [ Amsterdam ] w/ Mark Lemanski w/ Gabriëlle Schleijpen
and Sepake Angiama [ London ] and Leire Vergara
5 pm [ Kassel ] and guests –> R. 1.20 / [ Dutch Art Institute ]
„ Lecture “ –> Canteen Preliminary course –> Auditorium /
Bauhaus Teaching at room – Knowledge Festive Area – The Human
the New Art School, 10 am (en) (en)
and the University ⁂ Workshop ⁂
of Chile Exploring the Motion Space 2.30 pm 6 pm
w/ David F. Maulen w/ Mary Copple, Michael ⁂ Workshop ⁂ »!« Performance »!«
[ Santiago de Chile ] ­Friedman [ Berlin ], Sabine Spooky Action at The Way Things Go
­Hansmann [ Berlin ], Joachim a Distance w/ students of the Master
Krausse [ Berlin ], Friederike w/ Stefani Bardin Coop Design Research
Schäfer [ Karlsruhe ] [ New York ] –> R. 1.20 /
Parliament of Schools –> Auditorium / –> R. 1.20 / Preliminary course
?! Group discussion ?! Festive Area – The Human Preliminary course room – Knowledge
10 am – 5.30 pm room – Knowledge (en)
–> R. 2.22 10 am (en)
⁂ Workshop ⁂ 8 pm
10 am Welcome to the Cloud Factory! 2.30 pm { Keynote }
…Committees… w/ Clemens Winkler [ Zurich ] ⁂ Workshop ⁂ On Building A University
meeting on Institutions –> R. 1.22 / Manifest: for the Common Good
(en) Workshop – Material Making Perceptions w/ Tim Ingold
w/ Mike Anusas [ Aberdeen ]
2.30 pm 10 am [ Edinburgh ] and guests –> Auditorium
…Committees… ⁂ Workshop ⁂ –> R. 1.22 /
meeting on Practices From experiential knowledge Workshop – Material from
(en) to video tutorials (en) 9 pm
w/ Tabea Kießling [ Bauhaus Bar :-)
Agent ] and high school students –> Workshop wing,
–> R. 1.20 / Preliminary course basement level
room – Knowledge
> closed to the public
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Thu, 21 – Sun, 24 March
2019
10 am
⁂ Workshop ⁂
Feminist Reading,
Potato Peeling!
Sat,
Bauhaus Translated 10 am
Symposium „ Lecture “
10 am – 4 pm Lessons from the Bauhaus –
–> R. 2.30 On the Difficult Legacy of the
HfG
w/ Martin Mäntele
[ Ulm ]

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11 am
„ Lecture “
The National Institute
of Design Ahmedabad
w/ Suchitra
Balasubrahmanyan
[ Delhi ]

12 pm
„ Lecture “
Basic Design Workshops

March
in early 1960s Africa
w/ Ayala Levin
[ Chicago ]

2.30 – 4 pm
Round Table

6:30 pm
¶ Book discussion¶
Library of Societal Design

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w/ Friedrich von Borries
[ Hamburg ],
Laura Forlano
[ Chicago ],
Luiza Prado de O. Martins
[ Berlin ],
Adam Drazin
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10 am 10 am 4:30 pm from
…Committees… ⁂ Workshop ⁂ ?! Round Table?! 9 pm
meeting on Politics Un-Learning Bauhaus Learning Objects ! ! ! Party ! ! !
Parliament of Schools w/ Judith Winter w/ former participants w/ Tualma
–> R. 2.22 [ Manchester ] of the Bauhaus Lab [ Leipzig ],
(en) and guests –> R. 1.22 / Pinken Realm
–> R. 1.20 / Workshop – Material [ Leipzig ],
10 am Preliminary course (en) Hamdan
⁂ Workshop ⁂ room – Knowledge [ Amsterdam ],
Feminist Reading, (en)
 6 pm Glenn Feddich
Potato Peeling! »!« Lecture-Performance »!« [ Leipzig ]
w/ Clare Butcher 2.30 pm GROUND PLAY –> Workshop wing,
[ Amsterdam ] ⁂ Workshop ⁂ GROUND PLAY basement
and Sepake Angiama « Presentation » GROUND PLAY
[ Kassel ] and guests The Moving Corridor w/ Denisa Kollárová
–> Canteen w/ Mark Lemanski [ Amsterdam ]
[ London ] –> Auditorium /
10 am –> R. 1.20 / Festive Area – The Human
⁂ Workshop ⁂ Preliminary course (en)
Manifest: room – Knowledge
Making Perceptions (en) 8 pm
w/ Mike Anusas { Keynote }
[ Edinburgh ] 2.30 pm A School of Schools
and guests »!« Lecture-Performance »!« w/ Deniz Ova
–> R. 1.22 / Misuse / Displace – [ Istanbul ]
Workshop – Material Objects at Play and Jan Boelen
(en) w/ Kate McIntosh [ Eindhoven ]
[ Brussels ] –> Auditorium
–> Auditorium /
Festive area – The Human
(en)

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Thu, 21 March 2019
Parliament of Schools
Constituent assembly
10 am – 6 pm
–> R. 2.22
Sun,
Guided festival tours 10 am
all day ⁂ Workshop ⁂
–> Bauhaus Building Feminist Reading,
(ger) + (en) Potato Peeling!
w/ Clare Butcher
[ Amsterdam ]
and Sepake Angiama
[ Kassel ]

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and guests
–> Canteen

10 am
⁂ Workshop ⁂
« Presentation »
Un-Learning Bauhaus
w/ Judith Winter
[ Manchester ]
and guests
–> R. 1.20 /

March
Preliminary course
room – Knowledge
(en)

11 am – 1 pm
x Closing assembly x
Parliament of Schools
Making Do:
Toward A New School
–> R. 2.22

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“Schools are a
?: !!:
Ms. Bittner, how would you We took the Bauhaus Building it-
­describe the Festival School self as a starting point for asking
Fundamental? what a Bauhaus school, which

microcosm for !!:

would take a fresh approach to
the teaching of design, could
It’s a festival that is about learn- look like today. The building itself

new ways of
ing. Our focus is on the different is a piece of built curriculum.
design pedagogies that the Bau- Walter Gropius managed to write
haus in Dessau also made signi­ the structure of learning into the
ficant contributions to between building: from the preliminary

thinking”
1926 and 1932. After all, the course room to the workshops
Bauhaus was primarily a school. and from the canteen to the stu-
Its main concern was to foster dio building. In this sense, the
creative personalities. The Bau- separation of theory and practice
haus Dessau Foundation is also was abolished and learning be-
an educational institution. Within came collaborative. This is why
the framework of the Academy, the workshop wing is an archi-
for instance, we are developing tectural statement: Learning is

An interview
international programs for post- different here. The festival takes
graduate education. That’s also up this issue in the Learning En-
how the festival came about. Our vironment Bauhaus strand, which
initial question is this: How can is where current topics will be test-

with Regina we rethink design as a social ed in a historical learning environ-

practice beyond the formal can- ment. We are curious to see if
on of education? There are pro- this leads to a dialogue between
jects on this all over the world – this built curriculum and today’s

Bittner and we invited them to use the

Bauhaus Building as a platform
and space for debate.
design pedagogy movements. Will
the building recede into the back-
ground or can it still speak to us?

?: ?:
The festival is located in the What made learning and teach-
­Bauhaus Building, the former ing at the historic Bauhaus such

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school building. Why? a special experience?

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!!:
The radical break, shortly after
the First World War, with the idea
of a universal educational canon
was really fundamental. It just
wasn’t appropriate anymore to
imitate the traditional repertoire
of forms as had been customary
at art academies for a long time.
Finally, people wanted to break
down the boundaries between
art and life. Schools were very
important in all this. They were a
kind of microcosm for a new way
of thinking which considered art
as a social project to benefit
the many. The Bauhaus played
a major role in this because it
joined many aspects of the inter-
national educational reform
movements.
?:
Don’t we need to completely
­rethink the way design is taught
and learned today?
!!:
We could compare our experi-
ence to the experience of a
­r­adical break in the 1920s. Our
built, material environment has
changed fundamentally. It has
become so complex and prob-
lematic that the purview of archi-
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tects and designers has grown making contact with the material Regina Bittner
exponentially. It’s no longer environment in the first place.
about form but about shaping “Fundamental” aims at these to- She is Project head of the Festi-
processes. This is a paradigm tally new and different economi- val School Fundamental and
shift that has a massive impact cal and geopolitical challenges of Head of Academy of the Bau-
on education. You cannot make the 21st century, which assign a haus Dessau Foundation.
an object out of plastic without new position to designers – one
thinking about what sorts of for which they are not really
fracking processes this takes, trained.
you can’t use an iPhone without
considering the neo-colonial The conversation was conducted
forms of exploitation involved in by Sonja Vogel
its production, you can’t design
a t-shirt without knowing where
the cotton comes from, etc.
?:
What exactly does “fundamental”
– as in the title of the Festival
School Fundamental – mean in
this context?
!!:
It’s about a fundamental reorien-
tation. To give an example, we
have to deal with basic issues of
materiality again. The Bauhaus
member Anni Albers said that we
no longer grasp the things that
surround us. But how do we get
a hold of them? The training of
the senses, the sense of the tac-
tile, is what we have lost in the
digital age. But these modes of
knowledge are important for
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 The Festival Location:
The Bauhaus Building Dessau

Architect: Walter Gropius (1926)

The Bauhaus building is a key work of European mod-

ernism. It combines the principles of functionalism
with outstanding architectural quality. At the time of its
construction, modern materials such as glass and re-
inforced concrete were used. Built as a university, the
Bauhaus Building embodies the ideas of the Bauhaus.
This is why it is often called a “built curriculum” – be-
cause the building’s structure mirrors the Bauhaus’
pedagogy from the workshop wing through to the
­preliminary course room and the festive area, which
connects the stage and the canteen. Aside from radi-
cally new approaches to the architecture of buildings,
the site is significant for the renewal of art, design,
and ­architecture in the 20th century that took place
here. The Bauhaus Building is a UNESCO World Her-
itage Site and is the seat of the Bauhaus Dessau
Foundation.

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Participation Accessibility Imprint Photo credits The Bauhaus Dessau
Foundation is a non-profit
All events are public, The Bauhaus Dessau is Publisher p. 0 ) foundation under public law.
Bauhaus Dessau Bauhaus Open Studio, It is funded by the Federal
­unless otherwise indicat-accessible to everyone. Foundation ­Judith Winter (Manchester Government Commissioner
Claudia Perren School of Art), Un-learning for Culture and the Media,
ed. Participation is free.
But the dictates of herit- with Students Past and the State of Saxony-Anhalt,
Workshop capacity is age conservation mean Head of project
Regina Bittner
Present 22.–24.5.2017 /
Bauhaus Dessau Founda-
and the City of Des-
sau-Roßlau.
­limited. To attend, please
that the historic Bauhaus tion, Photo: David Hampel
Project management Festival School Fundamen-
register on-site at the buildings, a UNESCO Philipp Sack, Katja Klaus, p. 12 ) tal is sponsored by:
­festival front desk. World Heritage site since Valentina Buitrago Bibliothek für Gesellschafts-
design, Kunstverein Har- The
1996, are less accessible Dramaturgy
Uwe Gössel,
burger Bahnhof, Mai 2018 /
Photo: Michael Pfisterer
Bauhaus
Our Spirit
Language than 21st century build- Arved Schultze
p. 16 )
The festival languages ings. Visitors with reduced Festival architecture Photo: Ciudad Abierta,
are German and English. mobility are kindly ad- Lisi Zeininger, Isa Wolke 2017

Unless otherwise indicat- vised to use the ground- Programme p. 22 )

Design Photo: Clemens Winkler With generous support
ed, events are held in level entrance at the back Herburg Weiland, of the Institute for Applied
München p. 28 ) Linguistics and Translatlogy
German or with interpre- of the building. The his- Visual research by Carmen at Leipzig University.
tation, when possible. A toric freight ele­vator Edited by
Sonja Vogel, Ute König
José for Feminist reading,
potato peeling, 2019
whispered interpretation connects directly to the
Translation p. 34 )
service may be provided ­Visitor C­ entre on the Jana Schmidt Raumlabor, Urban School
Ruhr / Photo: Viviana
for events in English. mezzanine floor and to All dates are subject to ­Abelson
all other floors. For local change. Last-minute chang-
es may occur. p. 44 )
assistance please Effective 26 February 2019 Class with Alcar Rudelt,
with students of the building
call Visitor Services at department in front of the
+49 340 6508-251. Bauhaus. / Bauhaus Des-
sau Foundation (I 18972 F),
Photo: Stella Steyn

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