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Recorded!

Children explore architectural Icons

Using experimental drawing techniques, elementary schoolchildren explore Dessau's Bauhaus architecture in the context of the Bauhaus Agents Programme. The outcome is more than just impressively drawn insights and sketches. In the context of the project “Recorded!” the pupils were also testing how future visitors can explore the modern architectural icons for themselves with the help of a DrawingKIT.

Verzeichnet: Zeichenexkurs. Kinder erkunden Architekturikonen

At the Bauhaus the inside is outside and the outside is inside, according to one insight by third year pupils at the elementary school "Am Akazienwäldchen" in Dessau-Roßlau, who enjoyed a drawing excursion in the Bauhaus Building last year. On a different poster in the series produced during the excursions and workshops entitled "Recorded!", the children noted that "Gropius sat on the bridge like a captain on his ship". Over the course of four project days, the nine- and ten-year-old pupils captured the special architectural features of the Bauhaus Building and investigated their impact by using different experimental drawing and collage techniques.

Grundschule "Am Akazienwäldchen"
Kirsten Eckert / Teacher responsible for the project
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Artistic supervision
Christian Zabel / Graphic designer and illustrator
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March 2018
Tabea Kießling / Bauhaus Agent

Everyone can draw – Methods towards Transferability

What drawing techniques and instructions are suited to which age groups, so that they can comprehend each of the Bauhaus buildings with its special conceptual and design features? The methods for the drawing excursions were developed by the Dessau Bauhaus Agents together with Christian Zabel. This Leipzig-based graphic designer and illustrator also supervised the pupils throughout the entire project. In exchange with the "trial draftsmen", the assignments and the graphic ideas were tested and could be modified where necessary. Besides elementary school pupils, the Bauhaus Agents also involved pupils from higher years, incl. from 10th-year classes at the Dessau grammar school Philanthropinum and from the 9th year at Nelson Mandela School in Berlin.

The results of the project will flow into the development of a DrawingKIT, with which future visitors can explore the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau on their own.

(FE 2018)