On the occassion of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-based design collective Savvy Contemporary has designed a movable, miniature version of their iconic workshop wing. The collective seeks to challenge and act against the inherent, neocolonial power structures in design practices, theory and teaching. It takes up the founding moment of the Bauhaus one hundred years ago and starts from its reality as a school of design to reverse and reshape it.
Nicknamed “Bauhaus-Wohnmaschine” (Bauhaus living machine), the 15-square-meter model on wheels features a replica of the original building's iconic of the curtain wall, conceived by Walter Gropius in 1925. Inside the program includes an exhibition space and reading room dedicated to the history of the famous school.

Over this year, the Wohnmaschine will visit four cities, Dessau and Berlin to Kinshasa and Hong Kong.  The longterm project starts in January 2019 in Dessau until  Berlin, carrying with itself a message, exhibited at the opening festival of “100 years of bauhaus” at Akademie der Künste.
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Published on: January 9, 2019
Cite: "Bauhaus Wohnmaschine hits the road in celebration of school's centennial" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/bauhaus-wohnmaschine-hits-road-celebration-schools-centennial> ISSN 1139-6415
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