Syndicate: Bauhaus Kolleg III Serve City Sydney

[Inke Arns <inke@snafu.de>]

Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 15:10:05 +0200
Subject: Bauhaus Kolleg III Serve City Sydney
From: Ute Lenssen <Lenssen@bauhaus-dessau.de>


Dear Friends and Colleagues:


I would like to bring to your attention updated information on the upcoming
Bauhaus Kolleg III Serve City.  I invite you to review the following
announcement describing the program content and application procedures.  I
would also be very appreciative if you would forward the information and
distribute this mail through your mailing lists.  We are eager to appeal to
the ever-increasing international group of people interested in
participating in the future design of cities.  Please make contact with me,
should you have any questions and comments about our program.


Sincerely,


Ute Lenssen

Project Manager




applications are being accepted until July 13 2001 for
Bauhaus Kolleg III serve city 2001-02




work, living, and communication in the space of flows

sydney, australia

The Bauhaus Kolleg is currently soliciting applications for its third
consecutive, post-graduate, certificate program called serve city to be
conducted September 20, 2001 to September 13, 2002.  Concentrating on
several project sites surrounding the vast harborfront of Sydney,
Australia, serve city shall explore the social and spatial theories and
implications of the global services network.  It shall also deliver through
transdisciplinary practice experimental design concepts, proposals, and
products for the emerging service-oriented topology of the 21st century
"serve city.???



theme and inquiry

The transformation of urban working and living patterns and circumstances
effected by the global proliferation of services and telecommunication
shall be the main theme for the Bauhaus Kolleg III 2001-02.  The increasing
merging of services and telecommunication accelerates the space of flows
between trade, commerce, information, social bonds, and cultural
traditions.  New media and economic activity increasingly blur the borders
between the workplace, dwelling, and leisure time-space. 

As private and public space become conflated or merged, what spatial and
architectural forms are suitable for the emerging heterogeneous modes of
living and working?  How might such forms transform the shape of the city
and experience of urban living?



context and project 

Having just become the proverbial global "event city??? during the 2000
Summer Olympics, Sydney, Australia, simultaneously offers a paradigmatic
and unique environment in which to confront the physical, social, and
economic imperatives of the evolving global service society. Competing with
the network of urban centers located within the Pacific Rim, Sydney has
successfully attracted a wide range of service industries during the past
decade.  The tourist industry and the multitude of related services as well
as corporate headquarters and luxury residences have concentrated in
high-rise buildings surrounding the harborfront of the Central Business
District (CBD).  Stretching beyond the CBD and the water???s edges are
swaths of low and medium density suburban residential and commercial
districts.  The representative lifestyles of these disparate urban
typologies are closely related to a kind of leisure-oriented urban hedonism
afforded by the city???s iconographic natural and built topologies.
Contrastingly, peripheral industrial terrains, interstitial grounds
reclaimed for the Olympics, and marginalized neighborhoods form the service
economy???s "back yard,??? hardly benefiting from the brilliance of its
ongoing spectacle.

This urban landscape of divergent geographies shall serve as the setting
for exploring the service economy and its spatial and architectonic
representations.  In particular, the Kolleg shall focus on several
disparate territories spanning the Sydney harborfront currently primed for
redevelopment.  The Kolleg endeavors to offer experimental architectural,
urban design, planning, and product design concepts and proposals for
future dwelling and workplace typologies featuring innovations for serve
city and its social and spatial cohesion.


approach and schedule

The project and program of study shall comprise trimesters focusing on
theoretical investigations (first term), conceptual urban design  (second
term), and design development (third term), as follows:


1.Trimester:  Theory: Service E-conomy
September 20, 2001 to November 30, 2001 

The ongoing spatial, social, and experiential urban transformations
unleashed by the emerging media and service "e-conomy??? and its milieus,
the new forms of organizational culture, and the heterogeneous modes of
working and living are the essential serve city trends proffered for
theoretical and empirical analysis, interpretation, and representation.
Some of the strategies and tactics shall include diagrammatic analyses of
quotidian time-space geographies as well as reportage and investigations
into the socioeconomic and sociocultural topologies of the urban fabric.
These comprehensive examinations shall lay the foundation for the design
process of subsequent trimesters.


2. Trimester: Architecture: Urban Servicescapes
February 14, 2002 to May 11, 2002

The prevailing architectural strategies of the service economy are marked
by a shift from the formation of urban space as a container or stage for a
multitude of interchangeable functions and activities to space that
materializes in service of programmed functions and activities.  Typically,
buildings are hermetically sealed off from the urban fabric while interior
spaces service specified functions related to working, consuming, living,
and leisure.  As a result, surface becomes the landscape and architecture
of the city. 

Accordingly, access, exchange, and plasticity shall serve as the
foundational criteria for defining and designing the space of flows of
"servicescapes??? spanning the Sydney harborfront. The aim shall be to
develop architectural models that reflexively accommodate the
transformations of workplace and dwelling, landscape and place.



3.Trimester:  Dwelling as Interface

June 20, 2002 to September 13, 2002

Whereas Trimester 2 shall ostensibly focus on the architecture and
"servicescapes??? of the city, Trimester 3 shall be dedicated to developing
media and product designs that could transcend the interfaces of dwelling
and workplace, the inside and out, the local and the global.  Electronic
media and telecommunication services such as the internet create these
interfaces, virtually perforating building walls, dissolving fixed floor
plans, and altering modes of living.  Electronic banking and e-commerce
services, for instance, internalize services formerly linked to
quasi-public buildings.  Concomitantly, there is an ongoing externalization
and outsourcing of activities traditionally bound to the home such as meal
preparation, cleaning and childcare, and activities fostering health and
well being.

In general, we are witnessing the transformation of traditional consumer
goods into more complex service products enriched by telecommunication
services and electronic media.  What designs are fitting and captivating
for these complex service products?  How can we conceptualize dwelling and
housing as the interface of heterogeneous forms of living and the
possibilities offered by information service technologies?




application and information

who should apply

Bauhaus Kolleg participants are professionals and practitioners who have an
academic degree, have been engaged substantively in their field, and have
compiled a portfolio of exemplary work.  Most applicants have expertise in
the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning,
and urban design.  Others come from related fields such as fine arts,
computer science, the humanities, and the social and physical sciences.
Ideal candidates share a passion for innovation in designing the built
environment and a commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and practice
in pursuit of that goal.  Applicants must also demonstrate proficiency in
English and possess skills in information technology and new media.
Successful participants demonstrate a dual ability to create their own
program of work and study while cooperating in teams involving multiple
disciplines and diverse approaches.


selection process and deadline

The annual application and selection process begins in the spring;
applications for the full-year program to begin in September are due on
July 13, 2001.  A selection committee of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
reviews all applications and selects approximately 25 participants.
Depending on program capacity, applicants may also be considered for
individual trimesters.


housing and resources

The participants either reside at the studio wing of the historic Bauhaus
Building or at the Bauhaus in-town residence, an apartment building 15
minutes away by tram.  At the in-town residence, the rent for
double-occupancy furnished apartments with full kitchen and bathroom is 160
???per month per person.  There is also a limited availability of
furnished one-bedroom apartments with full kitchen and bathroom for 240 ???per month.

Bauhaus Kolleg participants have access to the extensive resources and
facilities maintained by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.  The research and
reference library contains a wide-ranging, comprehensive, up-to-date
collection of books and periodicals on architecture, urban design and
planning, landscape and environmental planning, art, design, typography,
graphics, photography, and theater.  The Bauhaus Kolleg occupies spacious
design and media studios in the historic Bauhaus Building.  The studios are
fully equipped with the latest in computer hardware and software including
several digital and analog film editing labs.  Participants are furnished
with computer workstations and continuous, high-speed internet access.


degree and tuition

The Bauhauszertifikat is conferred on those who successfully complete the
program.  Tuition fees are 1600 ???per trimester, not including expenses
for travel, supplies, and work materials. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
provides a limited number of need- and skill-based grants and tuition
waivers in support of participants providing specialized expertise,
particularly in the disciplines of new media and information technology.
Financial need must be demonstrated by submitting a copy of the
applicant???s latest income tax form or a comparable personal financial
statement.


inquiries and application procedure

Please submit the following mandatory information and materials in
application to the Bauhaus Kolleg III serve city by July 13, 2001.

Personal Information

?? Full Name
?? Date of Birth
?? Place of Birth
?? Nationality and Passport Number
?? Permanent Address (Number, Street, City, Postal Code, Country)
?? Current Address (Number, Street, City, Postal Code, Country)
?? Telephone Numbers (Home, Work)
?? E-mail Address

Academic and Professional Credentials

?? Proof of English Proficiency
?? Schools Attended (Names of Institutions, Dates Attended, Degrees
Conferred)
?? Employment History (Positions, Employers, Employers??? Full Address and
Telephone Numbers, Dates of Employment)
?? Awards, Memberships, Publications

Supporting Materials

?? Portfolio
?? R̩sum̩
?? Statement of Interest (i.e., a 250-word essay in English describing
applicant???s interest in interdisciplinary study and practice and
potential contribution to serve city)


Please make inquiries and submit the information requested above via e-mail
and/or postal service to the following.

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
BAUHAUS KOLLEG
Ute Lenssen
Project Manager

Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau

Tel:  ++49 (0)340-6508-402
Fax: ++49 (0)340-6508-404
E-mail: lenssen@bauhaus-dessau.de

http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de

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