In the Workshop of Nature
October 24–25, 2025, 11am
Dessau-Roßlau 06844
Germany
Under the title Learning Environments. In the Workshop of Nature, the Bauhaus Study Rooms 2025 explore approaches to environmental thinking in design and discuss the significance of nature-related knowledge for contemporary design practices. Lectures, presentations, workshops, and discussions open perspectives on inclusive, regenerative approaches that take emphasis on the interplay between human and non-human beings, living, and non-living entities—concepts such as care, empathy, and symbiosis take center stage.
The programme also reflects critically on modernity: the historical Bauhaus and the design schools it influenced contributed to resource-intensive production cultures; at the same time, early environmental movements proposed counter-models that resonated in architecture and design. Collections and archives preserve this knowledge and are themselves ecosystems—with specific climates, conservation practices and orders—that are being revisited today.
An international network meeting of the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, in cooperation with Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity“, Humboldt University of Berlin, MAO—Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, MSU—Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb and ALU—Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb.
Bauhaus Study Rooms
The Bauhaus Study Rooms were conceived in 2020 as a public format for exchange and networking between alumni and partners of the educational programmes of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s Academy department (Bauhaus Lab, Bauhaus Open Studios, the Master Programme “COOP Design Research”). They are simultaneously aimed at a local and international public, thus creating temporary learning spaces in which the potential of collective knowledge production can be explored and experienced.
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is a non-profit foundation under public law. It is institutionally funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the State of Saxony-Anhalt and the city of Dessau-Roßlau.
