Saturday, May 11
Panels

11 am
Introduction
Marion von Osten and Grant Watson, curators bauhaus imaginista

11.30 am–1.30 pm
Panel 1: New Art Schools and their Social Conditions

Art After the Art Academy: On Bauhaus Pedagogy
Regina Bittner

A Virtual Cosmopolis: The Bauhaus and Khala Bhavan
Partha Mitter

Spaces of Experimentation - Inventing Visual Communication Technologies: Muriel Cooper and the Visual Language Workshop
Robert Wiesenberger

2.30 pm–4.30 pm
Panel 2: The Creation of New Learning Spaces

A Postcolonial Learning Space: The New Culture Studios in Ibadan, Nigeria
Demas Nwoko

Arieh Sharon's Campus of Ile Ife, Obafemi Awolowo University
Bayo Amole

On Misunderstandings and Translations: Gropius and IM Pei´s Design for the Shanghai Campus
Eduard Kögel

The Experience of Lina Bo Bardi's Museum of popular art and school if industrial design and crafts in Bahia, Brazil
Anna Carolina Bierrenbach

5 pm–7 pm
Panel 3: Beyond the Curricula

The African Design Centre Sub-Saharan
Christian Benimana

Non-Institutionalized Design Education of the 1960s
Mark Wigley

Popculture and The Leeds School of Art
Gavin Butt

7 pm
Wrap up
With the contributors, moderated by Grant Watson and Marion von Osten, curators bauhaus imaginista

Sunday, May 12
Workshops

2-4pm
Introduction
Marion von Osten and Grant Watson, curators bauhaus imaginista

Workshop 1: On Bodily Knowledge
Host: Yael Davids
Respondent: Regina Bittner

The workshop will reflect the writings of Bauhaus textile artist and designer Otti Berger, in particular her essay Stoffe im Raum (Material in Space). Berger draws attention to the Haltbarkeit (hold-ability) of textiles, thus enunciating the sensual terms of engagement that textiles evoke. By combing a Feldenkrais lesson with a choreography of textile elements, the workshop will guide the session’s participants through a dialog between the body and materials.

Workshop 2: On The Crisis of Art Schools
Host: Janna Graham, Susan Kelly
Respondents: Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Kulturen des Kursorischen, HGB Leipzig

This workshop will critically engage with genealogies of radical education that have been called up in the recent years of the so-called Educational Turn in the art world: histories of emancipatory education; art and theory programs; arte útil, libertarian education and so on. Can the activation of these histories contend with the conditions of the neoliberal in art school today, where radical curricula are detached from radical institution making? The workshop draws on histories and practices of institutional analysis in radical psychiatry as well as case studies from campuses in the UK and elsewhere today, to see how new protagonisms might be possible, and together write a new institutional curriculum.

Workshop 3: In and In and In Institutional Lives
Hosts: Annette Krauss, Ferdiansyah Thajib
Respondent: Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, raumlabor/ Floating University Berlin

How can one inhabit different institutional lives at the same time? This workshop is dedicated to the experiences of having one foot in an institutional context, and the other foot in another, e.g. self-organized collectives. When do these different workings intersect or support each other? How can they open up ways for sustaining, subverting and transforming these very institutions? How could the boundaries between admin-orga-institutional practices and learning practices in art schools be traversed and reconfigured?

4.30pm
Wrap up with hosts, respondents and workshop participants