International network meeting of designers
June 1–15, 2024
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Germany
Hours: Monday–Sunday 10am–5pm
T +49 340 6508250
service@bauhaus-dessau.de
The Bauhaus Study Rooms 2024 reassess the legacies of the industrial age and explore perspectives for design practices in transitional landscapes. Together with collaborators and alumni, the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites you to engage in sensible approaches to the land, the living beings, the people and their relationships with one another. This year’s edition of the Study Rooms is jointly organised by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, in partnership with the Festival OSTEN in Bitterfeld-Wolfen. The main weekend of events on June 14 – 15 is preceded by the opening of the Festival OSTEN on June 1 and a workshop on June 2.
Merging design and industrial production was a core concern for the historical Bauhaus in Dessau. The development of new materials and technologies required vast amounts of energy and the large-scale extraction of resources. Massive interventions into the landscape and the emission of environmentally harmful substances are the dirty underbelly of the industrial age. But what comes after industry? How can a structural change be organised in a socially and ecologically just way? In its programme of workshops, lectures and walks, the Bauhaus Study Rooms 2024 address the post-industrial conditions of design. With the aim of developing anti-extractivist alternatives to the exploitative methods of modern production, the event draws attention to material cycles and processes of co-design in which human and non-human activities interact.
The events take place at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau and on the grounds of the Festival OSTEN in Bitterfeld-Wolfen. A detailed programme and further information can be found here, or by sending an email to studyrooms [at] bauhaus-dessau.de.
In cooperation with: Hochschule Anhalt Dessau, Kulturpark e. V. — Festival OSTEN 2024, Grupo Amereida—Ciudad Abierta, Escuela de arquitectura y diseño, Valparaíso
With contributions by Akshita Bhandari, Lili Carr, Laya Chirravuru, Samo Darian, Maria Valentina Dinca, Ines Glowania, Ludwig Haugk, Rebekka Hehn, Aliaksandra Liakhavets, Elena Maldonado Suarez, Marina Otero Verzier, Hira Rasool, Randy Rojas Díaz, Hannah Margarethe Schönicke, Ramanna Shrinivas, and many others.
Bauhaus Study Rooms
The Bauhaus Study Rooms were conceived in 2020 as a public format for exchange and networking between alumni and partners of the educational programmes of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s Academy department (Bauhaus Lab, Bauhaus Open Studios, the Master Programme “COOP Design Research”). They are simultaneously aimed at a local and international public, thus creating temporary learning spaces in which the potential of collective knowledge production can be explored and experienced.
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is a non-profit foundation under public law.
