Участникам нужно предложить идеи по созданию нового кампуса Баухауса – образовательного пространства, где можно будет оспаривать статус-кво архитектуры, изучать новые идеи и решения. Это должен быть не традиционный университет, а творческое исследовательское пространство, свободное от иерархии, открытое для всех заинтересованных.
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For the sake of this challenge we will imagine that a group of contemporary, visionary architects, has come together to revive the idea that once lead to the creation of the Bauhaus.
This group believes, as once Gropius did, that radical changes are happening in life and society, and that architecture should play a major role in them. After all, almost everything we do happens under some sort of architecture. The spaces where we rest, where we work, where we exercise, chat, create, cook, sleep, dream, live… they all must be designed. But how can we be sure the ideas and solutions that lead these designs are still the best ones, when the way in which we live and perform many of these tasks has changed so much?
Maybe it’s time to take a step back and challenge what we know, what we think is “right” and explore new solutions that embrace society’s new reality, new habits, new visions, hopes and dreams, and empower us to pursue them and live them fully.
The challenge you are about to embark is the design of the new 2021 Bauhaus Campus. An educational space where the status quo of architecture can be challenged and were new ideas and solutions can be explored.
The 2021 Bauhaus Campus is not meant to be a traditional university, but a creative and explorative space instead. The campus will not offer the traditional undergraduate, graduate or masters programs, there will be no exams, no grades… Instead, students and professionals from around the globe who have shown an interested in proposing design and architecture solutions to today’s problems, will be invited to come together on campus for different periods of time to share their ideas and visions.
There will be no preestablished hierarchy between campus attendees. Anyone will be free to organize a group, a class or a workshop, to share their knowledge or learn together, and anyone will be free to join or attend if they have an interest in the topic.
A bi-annual exhibition will also be organized on campus to show the ideas being explored and the solutions being suggested to the world, in the hopes that they will inspire others. Anyone will be welcome to attend these exhibitions, whether on campus or online, and take these ideas with them the same way the Bauhaus staff took their ideas with them when they were forced to the exile.
The impact of the new 2021 Bauhaus Campus might not be obvious at first, the same way the influence of the original Bauhaus might have been hard to see until many years after it was dismantled. But one should always trust that, by pushing the limits and challenging the norm, we are helping architecture stay current and move forward, and hopefully, make the world a better place.
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