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 the process of poster-making, revisiting its communicative power beyond conventional roles as advertising medium for events, festivals, or political campaigns. It explores 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 poster 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:
Update: 31.03.25
Undergraduate and graduate students and professionals, with a general interest in intercultural context, and socially engaged artistic practices.
Prior Knowledge/Requirements: -Openness to interdisciplinary, experimental concept development. -Writing/sketching materials and an exploratory mindset. -Basic proficiency in Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator (or equivalent).
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
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1. Online Registration
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2. Documents
Please submit until 01/05/2025 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.
