Almost a hundred years ago, a radical artistic utopia was born in the tranquil town of Weimar: the Bauhaus. Its
effects continue to shape the world we live in today.
From the very beginning, the architects and artists of the Bauhaus, including Walter Gropius, Wassily
Kandinsky and Paul Klee, asked: How to live together? What does “living together” mean? How can spaces be
designed in such a way that all people participate in life together?
With the Bauhaus, art, design and architecture became political. A spatial art emerged that was just as unafraid
to think about the distance between the bathtub and the toilet as it was about the ideal chair. Starting from the
Bauhaus as a social utopia, the film asks about its evolution, its change and its inspirational power over the last
hundred years. How can the ideas of the Bauhaus meet the challenges of global capitalism and its upheaval of housing markets?
Dr. Mirhan Damir, Lecturer at the Architecture Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria University
will be joining the discussion. She has conducted her doctoral research at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and
has also attended the 100-Year Bauhaus conference back in 2019.
Date/time: Thursday, 11 May 2023 at 19h
Director: Niels Bolbrinker, Thomas Tielsch
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany
Year: 2018
Language: German
Subtitles: Arabic
Duration: 94 min
