Bauhaus Lab 2025: After modern brightness. Ecologies of light at Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
..."Gegen Ende meiner Silberschmied-Ausbildung hatte ich begonnen, mich mit Lichtproblemen zu befassen", recalled the Swiss architect, designer and artist Max Bill in 1979, 'towards the end of my silversmith training I started to concern myself with problems of lighting', continuing, 'when I arrived at Bauhaus in the spring of 1927 I was impressed by the variety of Lichtträgern [light bearers] that alternated throughout the building according to functional needs'... 1 The Lichtträger in question is and was the so-called ME 94 by Marianne Brandt: a lamp designed and developed by Brandt at Bauhaus Dessau in the 1920s, employed in various contexts at Bauhaus Dessau in the 1920s and which in the 2020s served as the starting point for the participants of Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau's Bauhaus Lab to deliberate on, and respond to — as the starting point for a 'chain of considerations' on — subjects relating to electric lighting both historic contemporary and more contemporary contemporary...
