23 to 25 September 2016 in Dessau

90 years Bauhaus buildings in Dessau

INAUGURAL EVENING on Friday

5 – 6 p.m. Bauhaus building/Auditorium

Opening address
Claudia Perren, Director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and
Robert Reck, Councillor for Economy and Culture, municipal council of Dessau-Roßlau

Words of welcome
Reiner Haseloff, Minister President of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt
Tom Maasen, Cultural Attaché of the Royal Dutch Embassy Berlin
Hartwig Lüdtke, Vice President of the German Commission for UNESCO

Introduction
“Bauhaus – Van Nelle Tour”, Werner Möller and Monika Markgraf
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

6 – 8 p.m. “Bauhaus – Van Nelle Tour”
Bus from the Bauhaus building

• Stop 1
  Dessau-Törten Estate versus the Kiefhoek housing estate, Rotterdam
  with refreshments at pop-up shop
• Stop 2
  Gropius House versus Sonneveld House
  Visiting the directors, with tea ceremony and reading of correspondence
• Stop 3
  Bauhaus building
  Exhibition “Simultaneity of Modernism”.

From 8 p.m. Dutch get-together
Bauhaus building/ Canteen

 

Architectural Tours

• Historical Employment Office

• House Anton

• Leopold Fischer

• Bauhaus Buildiung

• Masters' Houses

• Dessau-Törten Housing Estate

 

Panels and Lectures

• Bauhaus – Van Nelle Tour / Round trip
  The tour leads to the three locations in which the Bauhaus building, the Gropius House and the Dessau-Törten Estate come into contact with their counterparts in Rotterdam
• The Bauhaus buildings in Dessau and Simultaneity of Modernism / Lecture and reading from the new Bauhaus pocket books.

City Walks

Discover the open spaces of the Bauhaus city with guided tours.

• Talk Walk / A look back at new housing estates
  Art and performance-based walk through the Dessau-Törten Estate
• Talk Walk / Successful failure; through failure to success
  Art and performance-based walk through the Dessau-Törten Estate
• Scenic guided tour / Hope is the last thing we lose
  Staged with actors from the independent scene
• Cycle tour on the Junkers Trail
  Meeting point: Market square, Dessau (I-Point).

 

Open Spaces/Movement

• Parkcycle Swarm by N55 & TILL WOLFER  / Collective intervention
  Collective intervention in public space. The PARKCYCLE SWARMs are mobile spatial structures, ideal for micro galleries, temporary guestrooms, readings, mobile music stages, happenings, etc.
• Parkcycle Swarm by N55 & TILL WOLFER / Free
  On your bike! Cycling through public urban space
• Mobility in the Bauhaus city
  Mobility concepts for urban space by students
  Meeting point: Roundabout by the Masters’ Houses to the historic Employment Office
• Exercise/Yoga
  Adopting the tradition of physical education as an important part of the Bauhaus’s endeavours to reform the way of living, visitors are invited to join a Yoga class on the Bauhaus lawn.

 

Families, Children and Young People

• Schoolchildren show their housing estate
• “Open space designer” / Architecture workshop for young people aged 12 and over
• “The night sky in Gropius’s day”
• “Who lives in white cubes?” / Reading for children aged 6 and over
• Football on the Bauhaus lawn/ For Bauhauslers under 10 years of age.

 

Cooking, Curiosities and Cinema

• Bauhaus dinner / Homage to Gunta Stölzl
  The exclusive evening event takes a philosophical look at open spaces, focusing on the Bauhausler Gunta Stölzl and her time at the Bauhaus. In the company of descendants of the Bauhaus master.
• Triennial brunch – Mazdaznan food
• Masters of cinema / Open air cinema
• Snack point “Walter Gropius”
  The snack point is an ideal place to rest, eat and pass the time
• Pop-up shop / Plant market/ Café “Törten-Treff”
  Temporary shop based on a garden theme and a place to meet and chat in the garden of the Steel House.

Installations

• Light art
• 90 years Bauhaus building/ Temporary installations
• “360° Bauhaus” / Steadicam journey through the Bauhaus building.