The editor of the magazine INTERNI then gave a lecture on the Bauhaus, the “building house” founded in Weimar in 1919, one hundred years ago. This centenary is an opportunity to think about the continuing validity of the school’s message.
“The Bauhaus was a laboratory of innovation and vision, which left a fundamental legacy of method, educational practice and training,” Bojardi said. “With the goal of bringing together various types of artistic, intellectual and productive knowledge in a single work, the school’s approach aptly reflects the situation of contemporary design: a project open to fertile contaminations that only in a context of unity and interaction can achieve the necessary complexity demanded by today’s world. In the famous experimental workshops of the Bauhaus (ceramics, weaving, metalworking, typography and graphic design, photography and advertising), an interdisciplinary approach was activated under the guidance of two teachers: a 'master of form'– usually one of the artists at the school – and a 'master of works' capable of ensuring a suitable level of practical ability. A way to unite hand and mind in a program of 'learning by doing’”.