An international series of exhibitions and events
bauhaus imaginista 2018–2019
An international series of exhibitions and events
23.-24.11.2018 Symposium in Lagos
The symposium
Decolonizing the Campus will be held in Lagos on 23 and 24 November 2018, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Gallery 16/16, the Department of Architecture at the University of Lagos and Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State, Nigeria. Through dialogue between local and international architects and scholars, the symposium will offer a critical dialogue on design pedagogy and campus construction as practiced at the start of Nigeria’s transition to independence.
The
Decolonizing the Campus symposium focuses in particular on Obafemi Awolowo University. Founded in 1961 as the University of Ife in protest against British education policy in place at the end of colonial rule, it was, significantly, the first post-independence university in Nigeria to possess an architecture faculty. The Israeli architect Zvi Efrat has been commissioned by
bauhaus imaginista to conduct on-site research and produce a short film about the development of the University of Ife campus, which was designed by Bauhaus graduate Arieh Sharon together with a team of Nigerian architects (including Lagos-based architect A.A. Egbor). Sharon completed his studies at Bauhaus Dessau in 1931, returning to Palestine where he was subsequently appointed head of the State Planning Authority after Israeli Independence. His involvement with Ife campus was part of Israel’s development aid programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sharon and his team designed the University of Ife campus over a twenty-year period lasting into the 1980s. How did the resulting campus in the ancient town Ife-Ile differ from colonial era campus architecture built? How was the Ile-Ife Campus perceived by local students and architects and how does it function today?
23.11.2018, 7pm: Introduction and Panel discussion at 16/16 (16 Kofo Abayomi Street, apt.16, 8th floor, Victoria Island)
November 24, 10 am – 6 pm at University of Lagos, Tayo Aderinokun Hall
10.30 Welcome by Goethe-Institut and University Lagos
Introduction by Prof. Marion von Osten, Curator bauhaus imaginista, Berlin
11.00 Architecture education after Nigeria’s Independence
Prof. Joseph M. Igwe, Professor of Architectural History and Theory, University Lagos
11.30 Tropical architecture / building skin
Prof. Hannah le Roux, Architect, Educator and Curator, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
12.00 Colonial Architecture in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Prof. Cordelia O. Osasona, Professor of History of Architecture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and pioneer Head of Architecture at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan
12.30 Discussion moderated by Dr. Regina Bittner, Head of Academy Department and Deputy Director of Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
13.00 Lunch break
14.00 Nigerian Campus Design: A juxtaposition of traditional and contemporary architecture
Prof. Dr. Abimbola O. Asojo, Associate Dean for Research, Creative Scholarship and Engagement and Professor, Interior Design College of Design, University of Minnesota
14.30 The Ile-Ife Campus and the Bauhaus architect Arieh Sharon
Presentation with film excerpts by Prof. Zvi Efrat, Architect and Architectural Historian, Tel Aviv
15.00 The influence of Arieh Sharon on the other buildings in OAU Campus
Prof. Bayo Amole, Department of Architecture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
15.30 The Post-Independence Curriculum at Ile-Ife
Prof. Dolapo Amole, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
16.00 Discussion moderated by Babatunde E. Jaiyeoba
Associate Professor/Reader, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 The Zaria School - Conversation with the architect and artist Demas Nwoko on art, design and architecture education after Nigeria’s Independence
Artist and Architect, Lagos
17.00 The first generation of Nigerian architects
Prof. Adekunle Adeyemi, Architect, Designer and Urban researcher, NLÉ, Amsterdam/Lagos
17.30 Final Discussion moderated by Zvi Efrat and Marion von Osten
The Lagos symposium is part of
bauhaus imaginista’s 2018 series of events celebrating the centenary of the Bauhaus school (1919-1933) in Germany, a project investigating the worldly relations of the Bauhaus across major geopolitical transformations of the twentieth century. The Bauhaus school radicalized design pedagogy and stood for a cosmopolitan vision, acting within the transnational network of the modernist movement. The Bauhaus hosted students and teachers from various world regions. Through flight and migration following its closure by the Nazis in 1933, Bauhauslers were in contact with other modern movements in Asian, American and African countries. Over the course of 2018, artistic directors Marion von Osten and Grant Watson—in cooperation with a team of international researchers, artists and designers—have developed a research project, including four separate exhibitions in China, Japan, Russia and Brazil, complemented by discursive events in India, the United States, Morocco and Nigeria, held in partnership with local art and design institutions and the Goethe-Instituts. From 15 March to 10 June 2019, the final exhibition
bauhaus imaginsta will be on view at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (HKW). More information on the project can be found on the website/online journal
bauhaus-imaginista.org.
bauhaus imaginista is a collaboration between the Bauhaus Cooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar, the Goethe-Institut and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (HKW). The research project with its different exhibition stations is taking place for the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus. It will be enhanced with international perspectives of the Goethe-Instituts and tied together as part of the long-term project 100 Years of Now in 2019 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. bauhaus imaginista is made possible by funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The German Federal Cultural Foundation is supporting the exhibition in Berlin and the German Foreign Office the stations abroad. Mediapartners are 3sat and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Partners abroad are the Goethe-Instituts in China, New Delhi, Lagos, Moscow, New York, Rabat, São Paulo, and Tokyo as well as Le Cube – independent art room (Rabat) and other institutions. bauhaus imaginista is realized in collaboration with the China Design Museum / China Academy of Art (Hangzhou), the Independent Administrative Institution of National Museum of Art / The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow) and SESC São Paulo.
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