László Moholy-Nagy’s New Bauhaus was built on tactile and experiential learning. For the 100th anniversary of the global Bauhaus, what if we could manifest Moholy’s concept of the “School as Lab” to the “City as Lab”?
This will be a 2-day immersion curated and produced by experience designers in September 2019 to:
trace the historical roots of the Bauhaus to today’s most provocative examples of innovation in our city
relish tangible experiences and intimate conversations with the best of Chicago designers, architects, artists and changemakers
tell our city’s story through multi-layered and diverse perspectives
explore the notion of “making as thinking” from the past to present
find inspiration for your own work and make new connections in our ever-evolving city
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About the Film
In Chicago, The New Bauhaus evolved from its origins at the German Bauhaus into an extraordinary flowering of interdisciplinary design pedagogy premised on the notion that “the whole field of contemporary architecture and design must be based upon an indivisible unification of formerly separated and independent fields.” Our film is anchored around the life and vision of Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, a man ahead of his time and increasingly relevant in today’s contemporary art and design discourses.