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11/06/2019 | Berichte aus den Bereichen

Conference at the Bauhaus Dessau: wende-bauhaus/bauhaus-wende

In the week from November 4 to 10, 1989, the II International Walter Gropius Seminar took place at the Bauhaus in Dessau - a programmatic planning seminar that laid the foundation for the long-term project Industrial Garden Realm, which became part of the World Exposition EXPO in 2000. Exactly 30 years later, a Bauhaus Dessau conference from November 8 to 10, 2019, at the Bauhaus in Dessau will explore the background.

Contemporary witnesses such as the former director, Prof. Dr. Rolf Kuhn, as well as former employees and guests will speak and discuss.

Today, the question is how to deal with the legacy of the long-term project Industrial Garden Kingdom. After all, it is also a Bauhaus legacy - albeit one that is often overlooked: there was not only a Bauhaus, there was also the Bauhaus, which was newly founded in the GDR in 1986 and which inspired a model of sustainable regional transformation during the fall of the Wall. What is the balance to be drawn? What experiences can be derived and how can they enrich the debates about the current transformation? In addition, an outlook is to be ventured: What experiences can be gained from the Industrial Garden Kingdom / EXPO 2000 for the upcoming new "turnarounds"?

The speakers will explore these questions from different perspectives, looking back to the turn of 1989 and the emergence of the Industrial Garden Realm as well as the individual projects that ultimately led to the contribution to EXPO 2000. They look at the Bauhaus in the GDR and the debates that took place in this context. They look at the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall and also provide an outlook. The speakers include Prof. Harald Bodenschatz, Prof. Harald Kegler, Prof. Rolf Kuhn, Dr. Rainer Land, Dr. Regina Bittner, Prof. Michael Hofmann, Dr. Harald Engler, Prof. Holger Schmidt, Wolfgang Thöner, Harald Wetzel, Michael Suckow, Martin Stein, Dr. Thomas Flierl, Dr. Thomas Fischer and Thies Schröder. The conference is organized by the University of Kassel (Prof. Harald Kegler) and takes place in cooperation with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, the Hermann Henselmann Foundation and the Anhalt-Dessau-Bitterfeld-Wittenberg Business Development Corporation.

Start: 8.11., 16.00 o'clock, assembly hall Bauhaus Dessau. The conference will be continued on 9.11. with lectures and on 10. 11. with an excursion to projects of the Industrial Garden Realm. Please register by e-mail to wetzel[at]wfgabdw[dot]de

Information:
Prof. Dr. Harald Kegler
E-Mail: harald.kegler[at]uni-kassel[dot]de

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