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  • Gerold Keefer
    Gerold Keefer    Premium Member
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    Bauhaus: The 90th Anniversary of a Lean Education Institute
    hello everybody,

    i just want to draw your attention to the 90th anniversary
    of the Bauhaus. founded in 1919 at weimar the bauhaus
    was a highly innovative institution that applied a holisitc
    approach for educating designers and architects.
    the education model is shown in the graphic here:
    http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Bauhaus-prog...

    on remarkable fact is that in the early years a prep
    course was held that gave students insights into basic
    material handling and material capabilities.
    i think we would be much more successful in lean
    transformations if such a prep course would be held
    before, giving insights into the basics of learning,
    insight and group dynamics.
    they also head a very integrated teaching approach.
    it consisted mostly work done in labs leas by so
    called masters. a lot was learnded hands on.

    as an institution the Bauhaus was rather fragile.
    founded in Weimar they had to move to Dessau
    and then Berlin due to the political pressure of
    the rising nazi party. it was shut down after they
    took over power.

    as a center of new approaches to design, architecture
    and education, however, the Bauhaus was spectacularly
    successful influencing the whole 20th century and beyond.

    the pattern is everywhere the same: bring together
    the right people, give dem just a basic structure and
    then let them follow their passions. you will be
    surprised by the results!

    should you have the time and money, don't miss out
    on visiting the Bauhaus locations at Weimar and Dessau -
    and the remarkable buildings, for example at
    Stuttgart-Weissenhof.

    best regards,

    gerold
    This post was modified on 10 Apr 2009 at 08:59 pm.
    • 10 Apr 2009, 8:53 pm
  • Ralf Lippold
    Ralf Lippold    Premium Member   Group moderator
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    Re: Bauhaus: The 90th Anniversary of a Lean Education Institute
    Thanks Gerold for posting that insight ful post:-)

    After 1933 quite a number of members of the Bauhaus
    fled Nazi-Germany and became famous in the USA.

    Somehow we had the innovative thinking of doing
    more with less already installed in institutions at
    the Bauhaus, Garden City Hellerau
    (http://riemerschmid.5eins.de/riemerschmid_im_werkbund/garten...).

    Of course it is difficult to recapture what has long gone, it is
    doable and already done.

    Lean Thinking arrives at a much earlier phase and
    the pre course to the Bauhaus studies captures neatly
    what was asked by the future students:

    seeing the things that surrounded them differently and
    co-create the new future together!

    Coincidently, exactly 100 years after the establishment of
    Hellerau a new innovation nucleus is coming from
    Dresden;-)

    Cheers,

    Ralf

    PS.: .... http://www.twitter.com/LockSchuppen
    This post was modified on 10 Apr 2009 at 09:26 pm.
    • 10 Apr 2009, 9:19 pm