A Short Course in English within the 10. International Weimar Summer Program from 28 June - 11 July 2009
under the direction of Dr. Hildegard Kurt and Shelley Sacks 

Enrolment by 30th April 2009

There are still a few places left on this third English version of the Bauhaus to Social Sculpture program that we (Hildegard Kurt and Shelley Sacks) run each year in Weimar 

This is the direct link to information concerning this summer course:
http://www.weimar-summer-courses.de/2009/kurs-b.html


COURSE OUTLINE

Comparing a historical cornerstone - the Bauhaus - to the contemporary concept of Social Sculpture, the course explores the following question: 

Can the shaping of humane societies be approached as an aesthetic challenge? 

The course includes a workshop process we assist participants to develop heir individual, creative responses to this question. The whole programme is in English. 

Weimar was not only the home of the Bauhaus, but also of Schiller (The Aesthetic Education of the Human Being) and Goethe (new organs of perception), both of whom are central to the development of a connective aesthetics and a holistic approach to being in the world. 

This is a special opportunity to explore social sculpture in relation to earlier experiments in Weimar -including the BAUHAUS - that were investigating and renegotiating the relationship between life and art. 

The Summer School has been very successful in drawing people from all over Europe, including Eastern Europe. Contact between the participants and the potential it offers to develop dialogues and work across countries, is also a very important aspect of this international programme. So it is now running it in English to extend the programme to the English speaking world and to people from countries who do not speak German as a second language.
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