Chair
The Chair of Design and Housing at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has been headed by Verena von Beckerath since 2016. The focus of her work at the Chair and as an architect is on the issue of what kind of spaces we want to live in against the backdrop of substantial social transformations, what these spaces would actually look like and how they could be designed. The Chair's teaching and research concept is based on the assumption that design represents a cultural practice that is immediately linked to the negotiation between public and private spaces. The consideration of residential architecture and forms of community comprises speculative, disciplinary, historical, economic and environmental approaches in equal measures, and seeks links with current topics and discourse. The Chair of Design and Housing is seen as a collective teaching and learning workshop that is committed to various formats, activities and biographies within and outside the university while being in a continuing process of development.