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BAUHAUS Kolleg 12.08-13.08.2002 |
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- KOLLEG Manuel Abendroth,
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about the Kolleg ' serve city / dot city'
The Bauhaus Kolleg
is the postgraduate program of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. It is
not a conventional class room situation but offers the fusion of design
oriented analyses with analytic design in the work process of a project.
It is expected that the participants are ready to incorporate into the
work process as well as reflect their prior professional experience
to cooperate intensively in an international and interdisciplinary team
setting to develop inside positions and solutions with that team and
to present and discuss them publicly. || On the other
hand they were defined as instruments, which result in the final downfall
of urban life. || Beyond futurologist hypes and apocalyptic phobias,
it is only recently that studies have been drawn up which make the complex
changes for urban space a subject of discussion on an empirical basis.
|| It is evident that there is an interweaving of “real worlds”
and “virtual worlds” and that they change the materiality,
infrastructure and societal, political and social fabric of cities.
|| But how exactly do these changes take place? || Is it true that existing
forms of communication are becoming less important? || Or is the opposite
true and are they being upgraded? || What shifts in the structure of
urban spaces or mobility does this cause? || Does their transnational
character in cities and peripheral locations create new forms of social,
political and societal inclusion and exclusion? || Is this connected
with reterritorialisation trends in urban spaces? || Or is the “old”
city and with it urbanity, completely losing its position, and its importance,
to virtual worlds? || The spatial changes are particularly evident at
the interfaces, which represent a way of selectively affecting urban
space. || In this respect the aim is on the one hand to analyse the
changed character of places and events at interfaces in an urban context,
and on the other hand to treat them as a new, hyper-complex creative
task. || The central question here is which forms of public life develop,
disappear, move or become stronger in this new context and how do they
change the structure and shape of urban spaces? || Last but not least
this poses an old question again: "How can architects, artists
and scientists react adequately to this process of change in their occupational
fields and how can they make this a basis for their planning, design
and research work?" *** text from the bauhaus www.site The Bauhaus Theatre is a representation space on the Bauhaus premises, a venue for various events, guest performances and, in future, experimental theatre. || In no way can it be described as an ordinary theatre. In character it is rather like a laboratory or project theatre, whose productions (including more and more house productions featuring special guests) reflect both a critical appraisal of the history of the Bauhaus Theatre and current experimental trends in the performing arts. || The work carried out in and with the theatre is based on the annual topics addressed by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and deals with the tense relationship between body, space and media that constitutes the essential quality of the Bauhaus Theatre. || It concerns the relationships between people and space, the relationship between space provided for theatre and urban space and the concept of the theatricality of the city. People have changed the way they live and work. Hence there is a need to think about whether the stage is still adequate as a venue for theatrical work in modern society. || What roles do new and different venues play? The concept of the theatricality of the city incorporates the effect of the media and advertising. The question arises of a new role for theatre. An earnest search in this respect will be accompanied by the conscious interlinking of the performing arts with the new media. Thus, workshops on individual thematic aspects and different media will be held on the stage with the performing arts alongside. || The experimental theatre workshop for performing artists and those from other disciplines, which lasts for several weeks, will be staged at the changeover point between two annual topics, thus creating a playful bridge between the two topics. The aim is not to create a finished "stage production", but rather to put together staged sketches, which can be used again in other events on the annual theme with the help of multimedia documentation. || Festival culture plays a key role on account of its significance for the establishment of identity. The autumn Bauhaus Festivals, in which the influence of the historical Bauhaus Festivals is still readily apparent, were reintroduced in 1996 and ever since then they have played a crucial role in the integration of experimental projects at the point where the performing arts and the fine arts meet. || The festivals have also been important in helping a regional audience to identify with the "Starship Bauhaus". ***
text from the bauhaus www.site THE FOUNDATION BAUHAUS DESSAU TODAY || The Bauhaus, founded in Weimar 1919 by Walter Gropius, was Germany's most famous and most avant-garde art and design school. || The Bauhaus Building in Dessau was constructed based on designs by Walter Gropius in 1925/26 when the political situation in Weimar forced the school to move to Dessau. || It was this building's architecture as well as the Bauhaus' significance for architecture and design in the 20th century that motivated the UNESCO to add the Bauhaus Building and the Master Houses close by to their World Heritage List in December 1996. || Today's Bauhaus Dessau Foundation was founded in 1994 and is a public institution, supported by the Land of Saxony Anhalt, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Town of Dessau. || The statutes name two goals: To preserve and convey the historic heritage of the Bauhaus as well as to make it accessible to the public, and, in view of the historic Bauhaus' ideas and approaches to contribute to solving the problems of design for living in today's environment. || More than just a school or a museum, the institution is a place for design, teaching and research, focusing on issues related to the city and to urbanity in the broadest sense of the world. || Exhibitions and conferences add to the inspiring atmosphere at today's Bauhaus as well as performances on the Bauhaus stage and a variety of other events. *** text from the bauhaus www.site |
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