Performing Material Attunement for Post-Authorial (Architectural) Design Practices

The practice-based research project »IN TUNE« explores alternative design and production processes. It draws on theories from New Materialism, which understands material as an active co-creator, and New Dramaturgy, which approaches design as a body-related, open-ended process. At its core are the interactions between material, body, technology, and social context—beyond the notion of traditional authorship.

IN TUNE combines artisanal and digital methods, artistic research, and performative practices to develop a design approach grounded in sensitivity, attentiveness, and responsibility. It connects historical reflection on early Bauhaus with current questions of ecological and social transformation.

As part of a two-week research workshop at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, international designers work with techniques such as steam bending, weaving, 3D scanning, and performative exercises. Historical objects from the Bauhaus Archive are reinterpreted through a process of re-fabrication—aiming to think of design as a practice of care, to challenge hierarchies, and to explore new forms of collaboration.