Posters have long served as powerful tools for communication, shaping dominant discourses and documenting sociopolitical transformations. Yet in today’s accelerated digital age—where information is consumed fleetingly and attention spans are fractured— how can "slow" mediums like posters retain their relevance and still make sense? What matters are still worth creating tension or sparking dialogue for, in the age of algorithmic realm of knowledge and ephemeral content?
This course experiments with and reconstruct the process of poster-making, revisiting its communicative power beyond conventional roles as advertising medium for events, festivals, or political campaigns. It re-invests in the poster’s potential as a medium for personal and collective development and expression—particularly in a world dominated by algorithms, trends, and virtual spaces. Participants will examine how to articulate perceptions, emotions, and critical positions, operating outside the constraints of censorship, publishing policies, and consumer-driven strategies.
The course combines hybrid methodologies (analog and digital approaches, private and public realms, in studio and public space interventions) as the process of creation. Participants will translate personal and shared experiences into visual and linguistic elements.
This collaborative process fosters meaningful artistic production, enabling participants to engage with both their inner selves and the public sphere.
Course Components:
During the period of the course, we will depend on the interplay of the following three components as a framework for the production process:
Examine relevant socially and politically critical artistic movements such as Imaginary Bauhaus, and Situationists Internationale by addressing the role and reputation of Bauhaus, as a starting point of tensions between political and artistic standpoints and interpretations. Explore the influence of current trends and discourses, from our time, on structuring the subjective agency of individuals, in the body of the practice, as engaging tool with sociopolitical issues, and negotiating with the public.
Using routes, sceneries and impressions from the city of Weimar, signs in the streets and mass communication objects as it represents the space of our shared experience during the course. Elaborating on visual and conceptual elements to examine and elaborate on the personal negotiations with public, influenced by the multi-perspectives of participants.
We will explore printing and assembling techniques as both tools of production and methods of artistic research, working through accessible, hands-on processes as an alternative to the print workshop. Participants will examine relationships between self-statement, the perception of others, and context, while engaging with materiality, authorship, and translation. The final project will take the form of an inter-connected body of subjective statements, presented in a shared exhibition space.
-Participants will contribute to its planning and realization as a collaborative practice.
-Guest contributors will join at key moments to expand the dialogue and process.
Update: 24.03.26
Undergraduate and graduate students and professionals, with a general interest in intercultural context, and socially engaged artistic practices.
Prior Knowledge/Requirements:
Nawar Alhusari: Artist and researcher. www.nawarhusari.com
Ph.D candidate at the Bauhaus University Weimar. In 2017, received his MFA in Graphic arts from Damascus University. In addition to his artistic research, he works as a freelance artist, designer and lecturer.
Experimental and interdisciplinary approaches. Examining roles of artistic practices and discourses in individuals participation within sociopolitical transformations
The course fee is 950 EURO.
750 EURO for students & alumni
390 EURO for BUW students as well as for Bauhaus4EU students (4 discounted places are available for Bauhaus4EU students)
The course fee includes:
Please note our terms and conditions (admission conditions, cancellation conditions etc.)
The course fee does not include:
1. Online Registration
Please register first in our system.
Please follow the instructions on the page.
2. Documents
Please submit until 01/05/2026 the following documents:.
CV
Letter of motivation
ONLY COMPLETE AND CORRECTLY LABELED APPLICATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED!
3. Selection Process
All applicants will receive notification about the outcome of the selection process as soon as possible via e-mail. In case of a positive answer you will receive the invoice simultaneously which you will have to pay within 10 days. If applicants fail to do this, places will be given to others on the waiting list.
If you need a VISA, we recommend you to get informed now about the requirements and to make an appointment with the German embassy in your home country.
A maximum of 20 applicants will be selected to participate in this course.
After successful completion of the language course, you will receive a certificate of participation issued by the Bauhaus Summer School.
Participants earn 3 credit points (ECTS) after completion of the two-week course. In order to receive credit points, t is necessary to attend at least 80% of the course lessons and to fulfil the required tasks.
Prior to your participation, it is essential that you clarify whether your home university will recognise the foreign credits you intend to earn.
If you would like to receive a grade, you should discuss this with the teacher at the beginning of the course! The fulfilment of additional tasks may be necessary.
In this course, participants will explore posters as tools for personal and collective expression. Combining multidisciplinary approaches, you'll create meaningful visual and textual statements that resonate
today. The course encourages collaboration and fosters poster designs that challenge conventions, generate discourse and create discussion.
