To begin, we thought of an architectural facsimile of a room in the Bauhaus, Dessau removed from its context. Then we began to imagine what could happen in that space.
The replica Prellerhaus room recalls the physical space where staff and students lived and worked at the Bauhaus a century ago, its location situates it in the art school of today.
Over three days, Unserhaus was occupied by three cross-disciplinary groups of students from Central Saint Martins. Each group was confined to the Unserhaus for a 12-hour period, participating in durational workshops which invited an exploration of the power and potential of physical proximity and immersive experience in the development of self and work.
The open-sided design of the reconstructed room creates a space that contains the students within, whilst allowing people to watch from the outside or become involved in the working process as it evolves.
1 FORM + STRUCTURE, 22/10/19, tutor: Alaistair Steele
Participants adapted the reconstructed Prellerhaus room into a tool for experiencing and filtering its surroundings.
2 FORM + BODY, 23/10/19, tutor: Emma Tod
An exploration of the ways in which we inhabit space and the body itself as a place or site.
Activities invited an examination of the relationship between public space ‘polis’ and the private or household space ’oikos’ and the value we assign to the events that take place there.
3 FORM + LANGUAGE, 24/10/19, tutor: David Blackmore
Through a series of propositions, participants were asked to explore their own physicality, their ability to work together without verbal communication and to consider what a life living together in the Unserhaus could be like.
