Un Bauhaus du vivant

This encounter responds to the European Commission's call for a New Bauhaus. The aim is to establish a Bauhaus for today, a gigantic school virtualised in a network. Designers, artists, architects, urban planners, actors, dancers, authors, filmmakers, Youtubers, graphic designers, promoters of third places, are active participants who share an ideal: to shift the interest of the artistic world toward the living world, inviting young people from schools to express themselves and to implement transition governance. 

The 1919 Bauhaus responded to the new needs of a society in transformation. The Weimer constitution called for a democratic space that had to be infused with a new language. The reconstruction of Germany called for an architecture, decorative objects, furniture and lifestyles. Wood, iron, earth, fabric and paper were the materials used to for the Bauhaus prototypes. 

Today's art school students work with new materials upcycled from waste, fabrics, food, plastics and concrete. They code, programme and explore the metaverse… Without abandoning painting, ceramics, object design and video, while remaining true to manual work, inventing objects, furniture, consumption modes for environments predicted to be radically different from the known worlds. Their activity also marks their shift of interest from industrial projects toward designing transitions. 

In coproduction with the Saint-Étienne City of Design