15:00

Opening „Die Bauhausbücher“

An Exhibition of the University Library, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

16:00

Conference Registration

Foyer, Audimax

17:00

Formal Opening

Winfried Speitkamp
President of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Ines Weizman – Conference Director
Director, Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning

17:30

Keynote – Stephen Kern

Honorary Distinguished Professor of History, Ohio State University

“The Culture of Time and Space a Hundred Years Later”

18:30

Discussion

19:00

President’s Reception

Foyer, Audimax

Panel 1

1919: The Reinvention of Space and Time

08:00

Conference Registration

Foyer, Audimax

09:00

Introduction

Ines Weizman – Panel Chair
Director, Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning

09:30

Joyce Tsai

Clinical Associate Professor, College of Education, University of Iowa
Curator, University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art

“László Moholy-Nagy and the Epochal Traces of Self-Portraiture”

10:00

Zeynep Çelik Alexander

Associate Professor of Architectural History, Columbia University

“1919: The Turning Point at which History failed to Turn”

10:30

Coffee Break

11:15

Tracey Eve Winton

Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

“Giorgio De Chirico’s Metaphysical City: Mystical Matters of Time and Space”

11:45

Elizabeth Otto

Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences

“Queer Bauhaus”

12:15

Discussion

13:00

Lunch Break

Panel 2

Bauhaus: Reform of the Living Environment and Societal Rationalization

14:00

Introduction

Max Welch Guerra – Panel Chair
Director, Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning
Professor of Spatial Planning and Spatial Research

14:15

Lutz Raphael

Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Trier

“Rationalization Plans and Ideological Conflict in Europe during the World Wars”

14:45

Karin Wilhelm

Professor Emeritus of History and Theory of Architecture and City, Technical University of Braunschweig

“From Hand to Type: Gropius and the Bauhaus Weimar 1919–1924”

15:15

Coffee Break

16:00

Christa Kamleithner

Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin

“Neues Bauen and the Aesthetics of Rationalization”

16:30

Harald Bodenschatz

Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Planning and Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin

“Bauhaus Innovations in the Rear-View Mirror”

17:00

Discussion

18:00

Screening of exclusive footage

 
Introduced by Marquise Stillwell

“The New Bauhaus: How László Moholy-Nagy Brought a Movement to Chicago” (2019)

19:00

Conference Dinner

Panel 3

Bauhaus Modernism: 100 Years of Avant-Garde?

08:30

Conference Registration

Foyer, Audimax

09:00

Introduction

Eva von Engelberg – Panel Chair
Interim Professor for the Theory and History of Modern Architecture
Member, Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning

09:30

Christof Dipper

Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary History, Technical University Darmstadt

“Euphoria and Panic: Modernism and Its Diagnoses of the Time around 1900”

10:00

Eric Garberson

Associate Professor of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University

“Period Style or Timeless Universal? The Modern in the Historiography of Architecture”

10:30

Coffee Break

11:15

Donatella Cacciola

History of Design and Design Theory, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

“Contemporary? Historical? Modern? Bauhaus Designs and Their Re-editions”

11:45

Annika Eheim und Jannik Noeske

Graduate students, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

“Bauhaus in the Museum, Bauhaus in the Classroom?”

12:15

Discussion

13:00

Lunch Break

Panel 4

Designs from a World to Come

14:00

Introduction

Johannes Warda – Panel Chair
Architectural historian
Member, Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning

14:15

Sebastian Löwe

MD.H Media Design School, Berlin

“Disastrous Futures: Criticizing the Present through Dystopian Visions”

14:35

Ana Jeinić

Doctoral Candidate, Graz University of Technology

“Which Speculation? Open Questions of Future-Oriented Design”

14:55

Daniel Grenz

Master’s student, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

“A World without Labor: Speculative Urban Planning as a Testing Ground for Technological Revolutions”

15:15

Coffee Break

15:45

Agnes Cameron

Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

“Internet as City, Network as Craft: Questions of Utopia in the Age of Decentralization”

16:05

Florian Bengert

Doctoral Candidate, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

“A Smarthome is Not a Smart Home. Über das zukünftige Zuhause”

16:25

Marie Rosenkranz

Project Manager, European Democracy Lab, Berlin

“Future Architecture: The European Republic”

16:45

Discussion

17:30

Conference Resumee

Max Welch Guerra
Ines Weizman

18:00

Conference End

18:30

Festive Opening “Republic of Spirits”

The Bauhaus Festival of the Weimar Universities

Opening Speeches:
Winfried Speitkamp
President Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Christoph Stölzl
President Hochschule für Musik „Franz Liszt“ Weimar