Bauhaus, Design and the Livable Anthropocene

Exhibition and Colloquium Celebrating the 102nd Year of the Bauhaus School

Photo credit: Jean Molitor (2014). Building: Haus Schminke, Löbau, 
built by Hans Scharoun 1932-33

Event Information

“Bauhaus, Design, and the Livable Anthropocene” celebrates the innovative approach to design and architecture developed at the Bauhaus School, founded in Weimar, Germany, in 1919. The aim is to reflect on the historical impact of this approach, and explore its potential for addressing the design challenges of the Anthropocene. The bau1haus photographs by Jean Molitor, brought to UVic by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Vancouver, present an exceptionally beautiful record of modernist buildings from around the world. The Exhibit is accompanied by an inter-disciplinary colloquium.

bau1haus Exhibition: 2 – 31 October 2021, McPherson Library, main floor.

Contact person and organiser: Thomas Heyd Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, heydt@uvic.ca.

Colloquium website: https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/bauhaus2021/

Online Exhibition of photographs: https://omekas.library.uvic.ca/s/Bauhaus/page/JM

Colloquium Youtube streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQVmNnkL5

Acknowledgement

With thanks to the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Vancouver, the Mearns Centre for Learning – McPherson Library, the Faculty of Humanities, the Department of Art History and Visual Studies, European Studies, the Department of German and Slavic Studies, the Centre for Global Studies, the Department of Philosophy, PICS, and UVic in the Anthropocene, as well as to the speakers, Ulduz Maschaykh, Menno Hubregste and Elena Pnevmonidou, and to the campus architecture guide Don Lovell. Special thanks to the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Vancouver for supplying the bau1haus exhibition, in particular to Dr. Schmidt and Ms. Daiminger, and to Michael Lines and Lisa Abram from the Mearns Centre for Learning – McPherson Library for their support in the planning of this event. For more information on UVic in the Anthropocene, please visit the website.