Syndicate: Bauhaus Dessa

[Arthur Bueno <abueno@v2.nl>]

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:54:53 +0100
Subject: Bauhaus Dessau
From: Michael Fink <michael.fink@kolleg.bauhaus-dessau.de>


Attention! At this time the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites you to
participate in the second trimester of the new Bauhaus Kolleg. You can now
apply for a 3-months stay in the historic Bauhaus building in Dessau to work
with an international group of professionals on a challenging project in Rio
de Janeiro. Scholarship funds for the program are available.

If you are an architect, designer, artist, economist or working in any other
relevant field for the design of urban environments, please read on:

Second term


Bauhaus Kolleg 1999-2000
COMPLEX CITY - BEYOND SPRAWL
Second term, February 14 - May 12, 2000


Cellula Urbana/Urban cell: An urban improvement project for Jacarezinho/Rio
de Janeiro

In the mid-1960s the philosopher Max Bense proposed interpreting the concept
and idea of urban quality advanced by the Brazilian Modernity movement as a
counterpart to what Europeans associate with humanism. At the turn of the
century, the dream of the new city of Brasilia - the future qua urban and
civil space, drawing i.a. on the tradition of classical Modernity - seems to
have been drowned once and for all in an ocean of illegal settlements, of
"informal cities" familiar (not only) to Latin America. The "unplanned" city
of the Brazilian favelas provides a habitat for millions. It is a
phenomenon, a fact which politicians and planners can no longer ignore. But
what are the innovative approaches of planners and designers to working with
and for a city whose problems have long raised existential issues for the
entire urban organism?
The Bauhaus Kolleg plans to develop a blueprint for city-making, a complex
urban intervention model (Cellula Urbana/Urban Cell) for a favela in Rio de
Janeiro. The model will place the urban structures and the economic and
sociocultural demands of the favela ("city within a city") on a par with
those of the "official" city. The brief aims at a model of intervention
which embodies high standards of design and technology and generates and
represents networks, communication and exchange with the "reputable" city.

The members of the Kolleg are highly qualified, professional, unconventional
and innovative figures who have displayed eloquent commitment to the brief
and the program in their applications. They will be drawn from the following
disciplines:

architecture/urban development
media
art
design
urban economy
technical installations/physics of built structures.


For further details please refer to the Bauhaus Kolleg information on our
website.

http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de





Contact
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
BAUHAUS KOLLEG
Projectmanager Ute Lenssen
Tel. ++49 (0)340-6508-402,
Fax:++49 (0)340-6508-404
E-mail: lenssen@kolleg.bauhaus-dessau.de

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