Bauhaus Kolleg
The Bauhaus Dessau Urban Studies Program
Since 1999 the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation has offered an international and interdisciplinary post-graduate program, conceived for designers, urban planners, architects and other theorists interested in aspects of urbanism: the Bauhaus Kolleg.
The Bauhaus Kolleg is an extra-mural program, a kind of further training program for professionals whose work involves aspects of urban research and urban design. The one-year program, which focuses each year on a different urban issue, seeks to broaden participants’ knowledge of traditional space-related disciplines by offering specific methodologies and strategies for addressing ‘the city’. Read more…
Urban Footprints: Batavilles
Bauhaus Kolleg XII
18 October 2010 to 23 June 2011
Deadline of application 30 September 2010
In 2010/2011, the Bauhaus Kolleg will focus on an early instance of international modernity in urban development and architecture – the satellite towns of the transnational company Bata. Shoe manufacturer Tomáš Bata is considered to be the Central European equivalent of Henry Ford: the organisation of the factory, the corporate structure, the architecture of the town, the spatial planning and the mechanisms of social control adhere to the same principles, which informed the processes involved in the efficient production of footwear. As a “good capitalist”, Bata pursued the interaction of economic rationalisation, technological progress and a new and visionary architectonic and social order. Zlín, where the company had its headquarters, is one of the few examples of a functional city still in existence.
Building on the outcomes of an international conference held in Zlín in 2009, the Bauhaus Kolleg will take two Bata satellite towns, Batanagar in India and East Tilbury in Great Britain, as resources for research and conceptual development. Read more…
