Dust and Data: Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Weizman1
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- T - Other
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- Location
- London
- Brief description of type
- Multi-component output with contextual information
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This body of work resulted from extensive research conducted over six years on the history of the Bauhaus, its afterlives on the historical sites in Germany, its international migration and on new historiographical methods in the digital humanities. It led to a complex body of materials and research outputs that were part of cultural and academic events during the Bauhaus centenary in 2019. It included three major international conferences at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, a performance dinner, an edited book, an exhibition and an online data archive developed such that further research can be added.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This body of work invited an extraordinary group of leading international scholars, architects, theorists, artists, and novelists to unearth new details about the history of the Bauhaus and reveal the perspectives of marginalized, dislocated, silenced, and dispersed voices that have gone unheard—until now. These included the voices of queer architects, of the (too) few women practitioners, of those in the Global South who studied at the Bauhaus or were influenced by its ideas, and the perception of the school beyond the Iron Curtain of the Cold War. For the first time, the history of the Bauhaus is told from the perspective of Weimar, where it was founded, involving the history of the afterlife of the school in Weimar through the political regimes that followed and that led to its very unique history of a reappraisal of the Bauhaus in the 1970s. As this history was caught between the historiographical readings of the Cold War narrative, this research gives for the first time voice to less heard protagonists and dissidents in East and West.
The research starts with the inception of the Bauhaus school in 1919 in the immediate aftermath of World War I and extends through several stages of dislocation to its demise on the eve of World War II. It deals with the migration of teachers and students, the dissemination of its ideas into various cultural contexts, the state of the buildings left behind, and the circulation of objects produced by Bauhaus protagonists. This body of work is original in offering a complex conversation regarding Bauhaus history, underpinned by its ideological and cultural interpretations, and is an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners alike. It uses innovative media techniques that help to retrieve unknown documents and creates new primary sources, now part of the university archive collection.
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- Non-English
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