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English Publication : projekt bauhaus: Can Design Change Society?

 

projekt bauhaus: Can Design Change Society?

Performance The Bauhaus: A Redeeming Requiem. Photo © David Baltzer

We are interested in the Bauhaus from a contemporary perspective— not the fetishization and mythologization of a legacy. In our view, many of the objectives of classical modernism show promise for the present day—be it design’s alignment to utility and function, the belief in the emancipatory potential of design, the integration of design with diverse forms of modernday under standing and technologies, or the critique of the present through design. Our focus lies less on actual Bauhaus products than on the school’s ambitions and methods. In the interests of a reflective modernism, we want to examine and critically reflect on the history of the development and impact of the historic Bauhaus, so that we can also learn from its mistakes and impasses.

This international edition on the work of project bauhaus now offers English readers a comprehensive overview of our multi-year research, artistic, performance, and publication project, which involved the participation of more than a hundred renowned scientists, artists, architects, and designers from around the world.

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Editorial
Anh-Linh Ngo, Christian Hiller, Philipp Oswalt

Editorial

Leseprobe
Can Design Change Society?

project bauhaus

Chapter
Intro
Jesko Fezer, Christian Hiller, Anh-Linh Ngo, Philipp Oswalt, Joanne Pouzenc, Jan Wenzel

Introduction

With its concept of design, the historic Bauhaus did not address the present, but a future that was both conceivable and imaginary. It endeavored to shape a forwardlooking transformation from manual to industrial production, from laissez-faire capitalism to the welfare state.
Essay
Fred Turner

From Bauhaus to Silicon Valley

I am going to tell a long history, a history that is almost a century long. I am going to try to tell it in a way that we can see key moments at which ideas born in one place, here in Germany, particularly in the later stages of the Bauhaus, have moved through the Cold War in the United States, all the way to our present moment in Silicon Valley.
Essay
Mark Wigley

The Bauhaus Virus

There is something about the birthday party for the Bauhaus that produces a kind of intimacy amongst scholars, which is extremely enjoyable. But it seems to me that there are many risks with birthday parties, and especially that of the Bauhaus, which was so famously proud of its parties.
Essay
Beatriz Colomina

The Perversions of the Bauhaus – A Eulogy

The Bauhaus has died. It was in the midst of all the celebrations of its 100-year birthday that it succumbed, perhaps, to the sheer number of events misinterpreting its history, manufacturing multiple legacies. It didn’t stand a chance.

Can Design Change Society?

Chapter
Essay
Philipp Oswalt

Models of Change

These days, the basic ideas of the Bauhaus are generally thought to include the desire to change society through design and to improve everyday life. But what does this actually mean?
Essay
Reinhold Martin

Big Changes

“Strange angels singing just for me Old stories they’re haunting me Big changes are coming Here they come Here they come” – Laurie Anderson, Strange Angels, 1989
Essay
Boris Groys

Towards a New Conspiracy

If artists want to change the world in which they live, the following question arises: In what way is art able to achieve such a change?
Interview
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Christian Hiller, Anh-Linh Ngo, Alex Nehmer

Shaping Social Space Together

Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius from raumlaborberlin in Conversation with Christian Hiller, Anh-Linh Ngo, and Alexandra Nehmer.
Essay
Wolfgang Ullrich

Consumption as Design

In recent decades, the makers of consumer goods have analyzed every activity, every experience, every situation, no matter how mundane, to see if it can be associated with an intensified moment or experience, with a good feeling in the broadest sense. No novelist or film director has scrutinized human life, in all its facets, with more attention.
Essay
Gui Bonsiepe

Disobedience of Design

In one of Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s more recent works, the main character launches a diatribe against modern design—particularly furniture and lamp design.
Interview
Philipp Oswalt, Jean-Philippe Vassal

Designing the Brief

Jean-Philippe Vassal in Conversation with Philipp Oswalt
Interview
Amica Dall, Giles Smith, Philipp Oswalt

Assemble

Amica Dall and Giles Smith in Conversation with Philipp Oswalt

Architectures of Globalization

Chapter
Essay
Christian Hiller, Alex Nehmer, Anh-Linh Ngo, Philipp Oswalt

Can the Universal Be Specific?

From Trump to Brexit, from the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) to the Alternative for Germany (AfD), right-wing populist parties and movements are mobilizing worldwide against globalization—and against universalism.
Essay
Ina Kerner

Universalism – Claims, Problems, and Potentials

Following common philosophical handbooks, universalism appears as “a validity claim of certain moral and legal norms in such a way that they should extend to all human beings.”
Essay
Arjun Appadurai

The Politics of Forms and the Forms of Politics

Our era of globalization—approximately from the 1970s to the present—is characterized by the flows not just of cultural substances, but also of cultural forms, such as the novel, the ballet, the political constitution, and divorce, to pick just a few examples.
Essay
Marion von Osten

The Patio Grid

In 1956, the artists Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi, and the architects Alison and Peter Smithson, all members of the Independent Group, created the Patio and Pavilion installation for the famous This Is Tomorrow exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
Essay
Łukasz Stanek

Architecture in Global Socialism

Architecture’s globalization is irreducible to Westernization: this is the guiding hypothesis of my research, which examines architectural mobilities between socialist Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East during the Cold War.
Essay
Philipp Oswalt

Anonymous Modernism – The Architecture of Patents

Modernism as a process takes place through the accumulation of many changes, mostly small ones, across a wide variety of fields. Iconic buildings are merely specific moments within a continual evolution.
Project
Leo Herrmann, Jan Westerheide

The Hennebique System

At the Lisbon Architecture Triennial in 2016, the Building Site exhibition devoted one of its sections to the Hennebique system.
Project
André Tavares

A Concrete World

The exhibition Building Site at the 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennale had a section devoted to François Hennebique.
Essay
Anke Hagemann, Elke Beyer

The Collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh – Specific Inequality and Universal Responsibility

On April 24, 2013, the nine-story Rana Plaza building near Dhaka collapsed, burying thousands of factory workers under tons of rubble.
Visual Essay
Gilles Sabrié

Life in iPhone City

In a suburb of the city of Zhengzhou in central China, there is a city dedicated entirely to the production of the Apple iPhone.

Datatopia

Chapter
Essay
Anh-Linh Ngo, Christian Hiller, Georg Vrachliotis

Alexa, Tell Me the Truth!

We are experiencing today the emergence of social structures, mindsets, and ways of life that would be inconceivable without the computer.
Interview
Peter Weibel, Georg Vrachliotis

Open Code – “We Will Experience an Uprising to Reclaim Our Data”

Peter Weibel in Conversation with Georg Vrachliotis
Interview
Armin Linke, Georg Vrachliotis

Data Landscapes

Armin Linke in Conversation with Georg Vrachliotis
Essay
Harald Trapp, Immo Klink

Gig Space

Harald Trapp with Photographs by Immo Klink The gig economy forms part of a new kind of capitalism, based on online platforms.
Essay
Kate Crawford, Vladan Joler

Anatomy of an AI System

The Amazon Echo as an Anatomical Map of Human Labor, Data, and Planetary Resources
Essay
Andreas Bernard

The Knowledge of the Profile – On the Self-Design of Digital Culture

Until around 20 years ago, only criminals and the mentally ill had “profiles.” This data-collection technique, which took the form of a tabular document containing several identifying characteristics of an individual, was developed in the scientific disciplines of criminology, psychiatry, and pedagogy, primarily to outline a divergent personality.
Essay
T’ai Smith

Notes Toward a History and Theory of the Trend

The Trend—this phenomenon that subtends every aspect of contemporary politics, society, culture—is not especially specific to the present “online mind.”
Interview
Eyal Weizman, Victoria Ivanova, Armen Avanessian

Forensic Architecture

Eyal Weizman in Conversation with Victoria Ivanova and Armen Avanessian
Essay
Keller Easterling

Medium Design

I always say that I am often looking with half-closed eyes at the urban world, focusing on the buildings with shapes and outlines but also on the matrix of rules and relationships in which those buildings are suspended.
Interview
Benjamin H. Bratton, Victoria Ivanova, Armen Avanessian

The New Normal

Benjamin H. Bratton in Conversation with Victoria Ivanova and Armen Avanessian
Features
Jesko Fezer, Christian Hiller, Anh-Linh Ngo, Philipp Oswalt, Joanne Pouzenc, Jan Wenzel

ARCH+ features 89: The Bauhaus: A Redeeming Requiem VOLKSBÜHNE

In the 1920s, people talked about the New World, the New Man, and the New City, in order to take on the present from the vantage point of an imagined future. Today it is no longer about inventing a new world. We need a different approach from the classical avantgarde’s espousal of renewal and the new.