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• The beauty of progress
• Time out of joint
• 'We shall draw grand designs ... '
• First steps
• Weimar
• Breathing exercises
• Time
• New faces
• If we intend to survive
• The new unity
• Man at the control panel
• The part versus the whole
• Why did Gropius leave?
• Hannes Meyer
• Parallel fates? : Weimar, Dessau and Moscow
• Endgame
• Epilogue : Liberalism's utopia.

"In this highly original book. Hungarian art historian Eva Forgacs examines the development of the Bauhaus school of architecture and applied design by focusing on the idea of the Bauhaus, rather than on its artefacts. What gave this idea its extraordinary powers of survival?" "Founded in 1919, with the architect Walter Gropius as its first director, the Bauhaus carried within it the seeds of conflict from the start. The duration of the Bauhaus coincides very nearly with that of the Weimar Republic; the Bauhaus idea - the notion that the artist should be involved in the technological innovations of mechanization and mass production - is a concept that was bound to arouse the most passionate feelings. It is these two strands - personal and political - that Forgacs so cleverly interweaves." "The text has been extensively revised since its original publication in Hungarian, and an entirely new chapter has been added on the Bauhaus's Russian analogue, VkhUTEMAS, the Moscow academy of industrial art."--Jacket.

• 1. Bauhaus wohnt : Leben und Arbeiten in der Meisterhaussiedlung Dessau / Wolfgang Thöner
• 2. Bauhaus leuchtet : die Dessauer Bauhausbauten im Licht / Wolfgang Thöner
• 3. Bauhaus isst / Ute Ackermann.

• Introduction: (Re-)Programming Interaction Design - Thomas Binder, Jonas Lowgren, Lone Malmborg From Utopia 1981 to Utopia 2008 - Yngve Sundblad HCI and Design: Uncomfortable Bedfellows? - Kari Kuuttii Constructing Utopia(s) in situ - Daring to be Different - Liam Bannon Tradition and Transcendence - Kim Halskov Designing From Somewhere - A Located, Relational and Transformational View of Design - Margot Brereton On Participation and Service Innovation - Jeanette Blomberg The Phenomenological Stance of the Designer - Giorgio De Michelis Designing for Homo Ludens, Still - Bill Gaver Gaming Literacy: Game Design as a Model for Literacy in the 21st Century - Eric Zimmerman Distruptions - Johan Redstrom On a Scale Between Art and Design: On the Aesthetics of Function, from the Bauhaus until Today - Sara Ilstedt Hjelm Appropriating Digital Environments - (Re-)Constructing the Physical Through the Digital - Joan Greenbaum Designed Animism - Brenda Laurel In Search of a Critical Stance - Erik Stolterman A Science of the Possible - A New Practice in the Spirit of Bauhaus - Peter Ullmark Work, Design, Computers, Artifacts - Frieder Nake The Everyday Poetics of a Digital Bauhaus - Ylva Gislen, Asa Harvard, Maria Hellstrom.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The intent of this chapter is to outline a distinctive way of thinking about issues of technology and society that has characterized many Nordic approaches to the topic. One of the characteristics of this approach has been the recognition of the worth of human labour. Technology is not seen as an alien force, but something which is itself a product of human labour, and it can be designed and utilized in ways which augment human skills and expertise, rather than degrading them. What is particularly striking, at least to this author, in this approach is that we are presented not simply with a vision of how things could be better in our society, but with concrete exemplars of how we can build such a better world. It is in recognition of this fact that I have chosen the title of this chapter, as it emphasizes that, while the tradition of Utopian literature is the - lineation of a supposedly idea world which exists no-place (u-topos, in Greek), these visions can be an inspiration for quite practical activities on the ground, as steps towards their realization. As Wilde notes (in the quote above) this is a never-ending quest, as with each achievement, we recognize that there are further bridges to cross and places to be visited.
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• Up to 1890
• The Foundations of Modernism
• 1890-1910
• A New Style for a New Age
• 1910-1930
• Classicism and the Universal Vision
• 1930-1950
• Modernism : Better Things for Everyday Life
• Post-war Modernism.

"Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers a picture of the complex reality that lies behind the label: a modernism made up of many different figures, impulses and visions. It places the individuals who have achieved international fame, such as Edvard Munch and Alvar Aalto in a wider context, and through a series of case studies, provides a rich analysis of the art, architecture and design history of the Nordic region, and of modernism as a concept and mode of practice. Scandinavian Modern addresses the decades between 1890 and 1970 and presents an intertwined history of modernism across the region. Charlotte Ashby gives a rationale for her focus on those countries which share an interrelated history and colonial past, but also stresses influences from outside the region, such as the English Arts and Crafts movement and the impact of emergent American modernism. Her richly illustrated account guides the reader through key historical periods and cultural movements, with case studies illuminating key art works, buildings, designed products and exhibitions"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: (Re-)Programming Interaction Design - Thomas Binder, Jonas Lowgren, Lone Malmborg From Utopia 1981 to Utopia 2008 - Yngve Sundblad HCI and Design: Uncomfortable Bedfellows? - Kari Kuuttii Constructing Utopia(s) in situ - Daring to be Different - Liam Bannon Tradition and Transcendence - Kim Halskov Designing From Somewhere - A Located, Relational and Transformational View of Design - Margot Brereton On Participation and Service Innovation - Jeanette Blomberg The Phenomenological Stance of the Designer - Giorgio De Michelis Designing for Homo Ludens, Still - Bill Gaver Gaming Literacy: Game Design as a Model for Literacy in the 21st Century - Eric Zimmerman Distruptions - Johan Redstrom On a Scale Between Art and Design: On the Aesthetics of Function, from the Bauhaus until Today - Sara Ilstedt Hjelm Appropriating Digital Environments - (Re-)Constructing the Physical Through the Digital - Joan Greenbaum Designed Animism - Brenda Laurel In Search of a Critical Stance - Erik Stolterman A Science of the Possible - A New Practice in the Spirit of Bauhaus - Peter Ullmark Work, Design, Computers, Artifacts - Frieder Nake The Everyday Poetics of a Digital Bauhaus - Ylva Gislen, Asa Harvard, Maria Hellstrom.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The intent of this chapter is to outline a distinctive way of thinking about issues of technology and society that has characterized many Nordic approaches to the topic. One of the characteristics of this approach has been the recognition of the worth of human labour. Technology is not seen as an alien force, but something which is itself a product of human labour, and it can be designed and utilized in ways which augment human skills and expertise, rather than degrading them. What is particularly striking, at least to this author, in this approach is that we are presented not simply with a vision of how things could be better in our society, but with concrete exemplars of how we can build such a better world. It is in recognition of this fact that I have chosen the title of this chapter, as it emphasizes that, while the tradition of Utopian literature is the - lineation of a supposedly idea world which exists no-place (u-topos, in Greek), these visions can be an inspiration for quite practical activities on the ground, as steps towards their realization. As Wilde notes (in the quote above) this is a never-ending quest, as with each achievement, we recognize that there are further bridges to cross and places to be visited.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Photoreproductions of "Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar [April, 1919]" (folder [4] p. 25 cm. inserted between p. 8-9; translation :p. 9-10.

Bauhaus has established itself with designers and architects as a standard work and the most comprehensive collection of documents and visual material ever published on this famous school of design. Now this definitive work on Bauhaus is available again in a boxed hardcover edition. Documents in Bauhaus are taken from a wide array of sources -- public manifestos, private letters, internal memoranda, jotted-down conversations, minutes of board and faculty meetings, sketches and schemata, excerpts from speeches and books, newspaper and magazine articles, Nazi polemics, official German government documents, court proceedings, budgets, and curricula. The illustrations include architectural plans and realizations, craft and industrial model designs (furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, stained glass, typography, wallpaper), sculpture, paintings, drawings, etchings, woodcuts, posters, programs, advertising brochures, stage settings, and formal portraits of such Bauhaus masters as Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Hebert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)