Eine soziale Frage. Die Walter-Gropius-Schule in Neukölln. Eine Ausstellung im temporary bauhaus-archiv.

In the organizer's words:

What do the places where children and young people learn and meet every day look like? Using the Walter Gropius School as an example, students at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences are conducting an artistic research project to investigate the significance of architecture for education and community and the value of post-war modernist buildings for today's users.

Gropiusstadt was planned by Bauhaus founder and architect Walter Gropius in the 1960s as a large housing estate in south-east Berlin. At its center is the Walter Gropius School, a "pavilion school" planned according to the most innovative pedagogical considerations with cleverly structured classrooms, workshops, open spaces and sports facilities. The listed community school is now in a dilapidated state. The Gropiusstadt housing estate was built to create modern living space for many people. Even today, the housing problem in Berlin has by no means been solved, and schools are often in a very poor condition. What does this mean for our society?

The exhibition project was developed in collaboration with the committed director of the school, Lars Neumann, to draw attention to the urgent need to renovate the educationally and architecturally significant building. The results are presented by students who researched together over two semesters as part of a seminar, asked questions on site, developed ideas, photographed and filmed.

Project management: Wiebke Loeper (Professor of Photography and Dean of the Department of Design, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences), Friederike Holländer (Head of Education and Outreach, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin) and Nina Wiedemeyer (Curator of the Architecture Collection, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin).