Events
12 | 2007
Fri–Sat, 07–08
December 2007
Von der Guten Form zum Guten Leben (From the good form to the good life).
100 years Werkbund
Conference at the ZKM_Media Theater, tickets and further information
at
bw@deutscher-werkbund.de or 0721/55 2547
→ Information auf Deutsch
The Deutscher Werkbund was founded in 1907 as a coalition of artists, craftspeople,
and industrialists. It developed a language of form that remained modern until
today, a language that corresponded with the demands of industrialized production
processes in the beginning of the twentieth century. The quality insignia »Made
in Germany« was born.
The Bauhaus, still recognized throughout the world as a leading authority for
classical modernism, was founded by Deutscher Werkbund members. After World War
II, decisive design positions were formulated at the design school, Hochschule
für Gestaltung in Ulm. Even today, such world-renowned institutions as the
Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe and the ZKM I Center for Art and Media
Karlsruhe, occasionally called the »Digital Bauhaus,« are based on
the intellectual tradition of the Deutscher Werkbund.
The anniversary »100 Years Werkbund« and »10 Years ZKM in Hallenbau
A« both occur in 2007. The »Digital Bauhaus« ZKM presents an
appropriate site to visibly express the connection between these two institutions.
On the occasion of the festivities for »100 Years of the Werkbund,« showcased
above all will be processes of social transformation in the past and present,
and their effects on the design of our living environment. Interventions in the
form of readings will lend a nostalgic glance back at the last 100 years, which
will also be reflected in the evening’s fare of the century, with meals
typical of the times.
Conference Program
07 December 2007, Fri
6:00 p.m. Opening words from Peter Weibel ZKM
| Karlsruhe and Klaus Lehmann Deutscher Werkbund
6:30 p.m. Hermann Glaser TU Berlin
Festival speech: »Schöne Form und gutes Leben? Von der Dialektik
der ästhetischen Erziehung des Menschen« (Beautiful form and a good
life? On the dialectics of aesthetic education)
7:30 p.m. Alfred Frei FH Merseburg »Gute Form und gutes
Essen« (Good form and good food), historical buffet
10:00 p.m. Encounters
08 December 2007, Sat
10:00 a.m. Welcome by Peter Weibel ZKM | Karlsruhe
and Klaus Lehmann Deutscher Werkbund
10:15 a.m. Lutz Fügener Hochschule für Gestaltung,
Technik und Wirtschaft Pforzheim
»Funktion und Emotion – Beispiel Automobil« (Function and
emotion, the car as example)
11:00 a.m. Intervention 1 »Erziehung zur neuen Sachlichkeit
und die ewige Unsachlichkeit der Menschen« (New Objectivity education
and the eternal non-objectivity of people)
11:15 a.m. Jochen Wagner Evangelische Akademie Tutzing
»Mythos Topform und das Ideal des Kaputten. Schönes, Gutes, Wahres
einmal anders« (The myth of top form and the ideal of the non-functional.
A twist on beautiful, good, and true)
12:00 p.m. Intervention 2 »Was ist schön im Werkbund?« (What
is beautiful at the Werkbund?)
12:15 p.m. Break
1:30 p.m. Peter Weibel ZKM | Karlsruhe
»Das Virtuelle im Realen: Von der Möglichkeitsform« (The virtual
in reality: on the form of possibility)
2:00 p.m. Wolfgang Ullrich HfG | Karlsruhe
»Fiktion als Funktion.Von Dingen, die den Alltag überhöhen« (Fiction
as function, on things that surpass the everyday)
2:30 p.m. Intervention 3 »Der Werkbund und der Internationale
Stil« (Deutscher Werkbund and International Style)
2:45 p.m. Peter Sloterdijk HfG | Karlsruhe »Die Oberfläche« (The
surface)
3:15 p.m. Gernot Böhme TU Darmstadt »Die Atmosphäre« (The
atmosphere)
3:45 Intervention 4 »Die Dinge des Werkbundes. Vom Sofakissen
bis zum Städtebau« (Werkbund objects: From the sofa cushion to urban
design)
4:00 p.m. Break
4:30 p.m. Vittorio Magnago-Lampugnani ETH Zurich
»Die neue Einfachheit, vierzehn Jahre später« (New Simplicity,
fourteen years later)
5:00 p.m. Intervention 5 »Zur Dialektik des Einfachen« (On
the dialectics of the simple)
5:15 p.m. Gerhard Schulze Universität Bamberg
»Fortuna und Felicitas. Der hinkende Gang der Moderne« (Fortuna
and Felicitas: Modernity’s limping gait)
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