[Nettime-ro] Fwd: After Levittown ­ Bauhaus Kolleg

[stefan rusu <suhebator@gmail.com>]

2011/7/26 Michael Zinganel <zinganel@mur.at>

>  Dear Colleagues, please forward this invitation to interested young
> scholars, artists, designers and architects, etc.. Thank you M.Z.
>
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> *Bauhaus Kolleg - XIII After Levittown – Application procedure is up and
> running
> *
> When, in the course of the global financial crisis of 2008, the American
> developer Levitt & Sons had to declare bankruptcy, not only its creditors
> had their dream of owning a retirement home in a gated community shattered,
> a collective dream got shattered since Levittown had made possible the
> ‘American way of life’: For over 60 years it had been lived out in suburbia.
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> In the 1950s, the developer Levitt & Sons built planned communities,
> so-called Levittowns in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, which
> consisted of more than 20,000 single-family houses as well as community
> buildings, schools, shopping centres, sports facilities and cultural
> facilities. Levittown provided homes primarily to ex servicemen returning
> from World War II and their families, thereby benefiting greatly from
> federal government supports for housing. Levitt mass-produced those homes
> cheaply and efficiently, realizing on a grand scale what its European
> colleagues from the Bauhaus had anticipated back in the 1920s with the
> Törten Estate in Dessau. The new Bauhaus Kolleg will take Levittown, the
> role model of American suburbia, and the fate of its latest developments as
> the starting point of a comparative international study on the economic,
> social and cultural implications of a global suburbia. The Bauhaus Kolleg
> XIII will furthermore develop critical creative approaches to this form of
> housing which today is no longer economically and ecologically viable.
>
> The Kolleg is aimed at qualified designers and scientists in the fields of
> architecture, city planning, the visual arts, media- and product design,
> landscape architecture, sociology, cultural studies and the humanities.
> Participation is limited to a maximum of 25 people, who will grow together
> as a group through intensive research, excursions that last several weeks as
> well as joint publications. This work will lay the foundation stone for
> future collaborations. Quite frequently the international reputation of the
> program has allowed participants to advance professionally.
>
> For more information please check our website:
> http://afterlevittown.bauhaus-dessau.de/kolleg_xiii/
> Admission details:
> http://afterlevittown.bauhaus-dessau.de/kolleg_xiii/admission.html
>
> We are looking forward to your application!
>
> Ina Ross
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>


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