Programmes

Bauhaus Lab
Global Modernism Studies

The aim of the Bauhaus Lab is to create an interdisciplinary research community which addresses a topic from the field of global modernism over a three-month period. International career entrants and postgraduates from the fields of architecture and design as well as young curators and design researchers can apply. The eight participants are selected by an international jury.

Each Bauhaus Lab focuses on a modern design object that simultaneously serves as a thematic anchor and starting point for the collective mission of research. The programme is held in English and is free of charge. At the end of the three-month period the findings will be presented in the framework of a joint exhibition at the Bauhaus Dessau.

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Bauhaus Lab 2022
Camps for Liberation
9. Mai – 5. August 2022

Somafco and Dakawa are two camps in Tanzania that, with support from international organisations and the African National Congress, offered education and a temporary home for young South Africans fleeing the apartheid regime. These were not just testing grounds for the development of a new society that would defeat the spectre of racial segregation, but also examples of the collaboration of East and West during the Cold War era in the spirit of international solidarity and the anti-apartheid movement. The Bauhaus Lab will research the different perspectives on these settlements, which were places of both exile and liberation, in collaboration with researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. They will pool their findings in an exhibition in the Bauhaus Building.

Head of Programme
Dr. Regina Bittner
bittner@bauhaus-dessau.de

Project management
Philipp Sack
sack@bauhaus-dessau.de
P +49-(0)340-6508-403