Workshop

The IN TUNE Research Workshop is a two-week program scheduled for early 2026 at Bauhaus University Weimar. It brings together international designers, researchers, and students to explore design as a dynamic interplay of material, body, and technology.

The focus lies on practical and performative engagement with materials such as textiles and wood. Through weaving, steam bending, 3D scanning, and body-based exercises, participants explore alternative design processes. The starting point is historical objects from the Bauhaus Archive and Museum, which are examined and transformed through a re-design perspective.

The workshop sees itself as a collective space for learning and production, where diverse perspectives and forms of knowledge—sensory, theoretical, technical—are treated as equally valuable. Keynote lectures, excursions, and performative formats complement the hands-on work in the studios.

The aim is to understand design as a practice of care, and to experiment with new narrative, material, and design approaches that transcend conventional authorship.