A series of events focused on complicating designs Bauhausian origin story in order to offer a design history—that repositions design discourse beyond the default Eurocentric, techno-deterministic normalities and reimagine—design trajectories that privilege critical engagement with questions of race, gender, access and worldview.

Reception & Symposium

October 2, 2019
5:00-8:00 PM

Dr. Elizabeth Otto
Associate Professor, Modern & Contemporary Art History, The University at Buffalo (SUNY)
2019-2020 Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC

Dr. Leah Haiso
Lecturer, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China
Researcher, Bauhaus Lab: Global Modernism Studies at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

Dr. Raquel Franklin
Head of Theory of Architecture Department, Universidad Anáhuac México
Founding Member, Mexican Chapter of DOCOMOMO
Former Fellow, Kulturstiftung des Bundes at the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau