Title & Author:

Bauhaus futures / edited by Laura Forlano, Molly Wright Steenson, and Mike Ananny.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

xxviii, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Situating the Bauhaus in design history. Design education practice: reflections on feminist modes and politics / Ramia Mazé -- What was the Bauhaus? And what can it teach us today? / Fred Turner -- II. Critical pedagogies, imaginaries, and memes. Designing participation: rethinking the Bauhaus's legacy at the MIT Media Lab / Joi Ito, Natalie Saltiel, and Andre Uhi -- Situating Machenhäuser / Carol Strohecker -- The school of worldbuilding / Stuart Candy and Jeff Watson -- Diagrams for another Bauhaus / Carl DiSalvo -- III. "Problems" and politics of race and social justice. Bauhaus and the people without design history / Elizabeth Chin -- Negro | Bauhaus: design and politics of experimental life / V. Mitch McEwen -- Building on Bauhaus: design as the librarl art of the twenty-first century / Nassim Parvin -- From the Bauhaus to speculative design: a lineage of socially motivated practice / Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth -- . IV. Materialities of making. Some things about innovation / Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, and Silvia Lindtner -- Prototypes, products, and DIY kits: from Bauhaus to IKEA and Maker Faire / Denisa Kera and Joanne Pouzenc -- Bauhaus products for our time / Martin Thaler -- Anarchival materiality: the Bauhaus building in Dessau / Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, and Oliver Neumann -- .V. Embodiment in feminist circuits and cyborgs. Reading with Anni Albers: the weave as a lively involution of scale, affect, and feminist precarity -- Woven circuits: an interview with Taeyoon Choi / Shannon Mattern and Taeyoon Choi -- The decolonial cyborg and the Bauhaus automation: a play / Luiza Prado de O. martins -- Electronic inclusions in handmade paper, or How to finesse material incongruities in the spirit of the Bauhaus / N. Adriana Knouf -- VI. Emerging technologies, techno-utopian aesthetics, and interactions. From Bauhaus color to LED color / Alice Arnold -- The dematerialization of complexity, dynamic iconography, and iconic (past) futures / Michael J. Golec -- Telephone, color chart, napkin: logistical legacies of the Bauhaus / Matthew Hockenberry -- Bauhaus generative: avant-garde to algorithmic aesthetics in three chairs / B. Coleman -- The twittering machine: a conversation with the editors of Logic / Robert Wiesenberger with Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel -- The Bauhaus, the Colloquy of Mobiles, and the meaning of interaction / Karen Kornblum Berntsen and Paul Pangaro

Summary:

"What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if it were practicing today? A century after its founding by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, as an 'experimental laboratory of the future,' who are the pioneering experimentalists who reinscribe or resist Bauhaus traditions? This book explores the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. Many of the animating issues of the Bauhaus--its integration of research, teaching, and practice; its experimentation with materials; its democratization of design; its open-minded, heterogeneous approach to ideas, theories, methods, and styles--remain relevant. The contributors to Bauhaus Futures address these but go further, considering issues that design has largely ignored for the last hundred years: gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and disability. Their contributions take the form of essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and even a play. They discuss, among other things, the Bauhaus curriculum and its contemporary offshoots; Bauhaus legacies at the MIT Media Lab, Black Mountain College, and elsewhere; the conflict between the Bauhaus ideal of humanist universalism and current approaches to design concerned with race and justice; designed objects, from the iconic to the precarious; textile and weaving work by women in the Bauhaus and the present day; and design and technology."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262042918 (hardcover, alkaline paper)
0262042916 (hardcover)

Subject:

Bauhaus.
Design Philosophy.
Design Social aspects.
Design Forecasting.
Industrial design Social aspects.
Design Philosophie.
Design Aspect social.
Design Prévision.
Design

Added entries:

Forlano, Laura, 1973- editor.
Steenson, Molly Wright, editor.
Ananny, Mike, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306675
Call No.: BIB 252231
Status: Available