Bauhaus workshop

The Bauhaus Archive Berlin is celebrating the key ideas of the Bauhaus movement and their relevance to modern design by hosting a new series of interdisciplinary design workshops.

The first workshop of the programme, June 7th until June 12th, 2010, will be held by the Berlin based designer Werner Aisslinger, and run in conjunction with the DMY Design Festival Berlin. Workshop Title: 'My Visionary Bauhaus' is based upon the inspirational vision manifested in the Bauhaus movement, the workshop will push the boundaries of the participants' idea of contemporary design. Engaging in the visions of the Bauhaus avant-garde, the participants will be challenged to come up with similarly revolutionary concepts today. In an intense five-day programme of conceptual and hands-on design work, the workshop will invite the participants to look towards the future and create new products
and concepts whilst following the process-oriented, interdisciplinary example of the Bauhaus philosophy. After a comparative introduction to the utopian concepts of future habitats as examplified in Italian and British design in the 60s, the participants will be challenged to apply their own visions of the future to our modern civilisation, and create
truly innovative concepts and products.

The goal of the workshop is not the creation of a perfect, production-ready design or prototype, but rather to engage in an experimental creative process. Playful exploration of innovative concepts will be the central focus of this intense programme, which will be rounded off by lectures, discussion and direct feedback sessions with the workshop host
and the organisers.