Logistical Legacies of the Bauhaus

This chapter for Bauhaus Futures engages with the logistical legacies of the Bauhaus and their implications for the future of remote production in artistic practice and industrial manufacturing. Taking the Bauhaus as a site of investigation into the possibilities of distribution, mobility, and assembly, it argues that its legacy is a form of design that is both obfuscating and instrumental.”

“Hockenberry engages with the logistical legacies of the Bauhaus and their implications for the future of remote production in artistic practice and industrial manufacturing…considering the Bauhaus as a site of investigation into the possibilities of distribution, mobility, and assembly, he argues that its legacy is a form of design that is obfuscating and instrumental.”

“Telephone, Color Chart, Napkin: The “Logistical Legacies of the Bauhaus” in Laura Forlano, Molly Wright Steenson, and Mike Ananny’s Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press, 2019).

Emaille series

Exhibition view of Moholy-Nagy's Emaille series, 1922.

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