Press Release of May 17, 2010

Second International Summer School from 21 – 30 July 2010. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites young students from various disciplines to come to the Bauhaus City.

Living 2010: cyclical crises shake the property market, mobility and flexibility are demanded, migration and population decline confront town planning with unimagined challenges and cause severe changes to urban living conditions. Dessau-Roßlau serves as a good example of this development. The Bauhaus city, once a showcase for innovative experiments in social housing, has become a shrinking city in search of new perspectives.  At the same time, due to nationally and internationally oriented institutions based in the city, a new mobile class has emerged which lives in the major German cities and commutes to the shrinking city – modern nomads without a permanent residence in the Bauhaus city.

The second international Summer School run by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites young students from various disciplines to take part in an idea contest held in Dessau from 21 to 30 July 2010. The format has been established successfully last summer, and will continue this year under the heading ‘Home is Everywhere’. Based on Martin Wagner’s vision of a flexible living in the ‘Growing House’, the title of an exhibition held in 1932, the participants shall develop fantasies for a multi-local living in Dessau-Roßlau, they will work of the following themes: ‘Garden shead XXL’, ‘Home comforts on the move’, Boarding house’, and ‘Global home Platte’. The Summer School is aimed at students of architecture and town planning, but also of other disciplines such as the humanities, mathematics, and art.

The Summer School fee of 300 Euro includes accommodation. For further information and enrolment please visit This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or http://www.bauhaus-dessau-summerschool.de.

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