Lecture and Panel Discussion
BAUHAUS MEETS COMMONS – DISCUSSION
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LECTURE AND DISCUSSION WITH STAVROS STAVRIDES AND FLORIAN KÖHL
How can we live with one another? And how can we gear production processes to the needs of the common good? Historically, the architects of the Bauhaus philosophy focused on this question at the interface of design, architecture, art, and craftsmanship. In their search for a commons, they saw functionality, standardization, and rationalization as possible solutions.
One hundred years on, however, these approaches appear to be at the root of (new) problems for society as a whole: rather than promoting the commons, technological innovations, automation, and rationalization seem to favour the optimization of capitalist production conditions, while also fostering the development of social crises.
Seen in this context, the commons movement provides an alternative answer to the questions of how to live together. Based on a variety of products and resources created and used collectively, advocates of the commons see commoning as a counterproposition to our economic model.
What can the experience of the Bauhaus, the social dimensions of design, and the commons movement learn from one other with respect to the questions of communal living and creativity?
The event addresses these questions and begins with a presentation of the results and empirical outcomes of the practical LUDD workshops. Here, the Bauhaus’s radical ambition to create functional and ergonomic goods of public value (here based on the example of a chair inspired by the Bauhaus!) are re-imagined in line with the idea of commoning.
This will be followed by keynote lectures by Florian Köhl and Stavros Stavrides, whose talks will be titled “Come On Architecture, Make Space More Common” and “Bauhaus and the Architecture of the Commons” respectively. This will be followed by a panel discussion on the Bauhaus approach to the commons and a group reception.
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Foyer Goethe-Institut Athen
Omirou 14-16
106 72 Athens
Language: English with simultaneous translation Greek
Price: Free entry
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