Undergraduate and graduate students and professionals, with a general interest in intercultural context, and socially engaged artistic practices.
Design Basics: Text and Texture: Aesthetics and functionality in a Graphic-based dialogue within the Bauhaus Context
On making a poster that makes sense
Design Basics – Text and Texture: Aesthetics and functionality in a Graphic-based dialogue within the Bauhaus Context
Throughout history, posters have played a pivotal role as a medium for communicating with audiences, reflecting narratives of groups and documenting critical political an social transformations. In today’s fast-paced era of communication, where information and news are consumed and recycled at lightning speed, the question arises: how can traditional mediums like posters maintain their relevance and effectiveness in connectin with audiences today? And what is the message or statement that still makes sense, or is worth to create tension or starting a discussion?
This course questions how posters can retain their communicative power, beyond advertising events, festivals or more political campaigns. It examines the potential of posters as tools for personal and collective expression, especially in a world dominated by algorithms, trends, and virtual spaces. Participants will consider these mediums to voice their perceptions, emotions, and positions—beyond the constraints of censorship, publishing policies, and consumer-driven trends.
The course combines hybrid methodologies (analog and digital approaches, private and public realms, and studio and public space practices) to guide participants through the process of poster creation. Participants will translate personal and shared experiences into visual and linguistic elements, crafting aesthetic and poetic graphic expressions. This collaborative process fosters meaningful artistic production, enabling participants to engage with both their inner selves and the public sphere.
- Experiment with hybrid methodologies in poster making process, merging traditional and contemporary approaches and methods.
- Foster collaboration among participants from diverse backgrounds to produce collective and individual artworks in participatory format.
- Engage with the public sphere through planning interventions, and designing a collective body to display the posters in public.
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
The course fee includes:
- Orientation & Support
- Programme according to description
- Teaching materials
- Bauhaus Summer School ID card
- Daily Lunch at the University Cafeteria (Monday - Friday)
- Certificate
- Internet access at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- Free use of library
- Accompanying programme including excursions
- Free entrance to museums belonging to Klassik Stiftung Weimar
- Travel by public transport in Weimar
Please note our terms and conditions (admission conditions, cancellation conditions etc.)
The course fee does not include:
- Travel costs
- Accommodation
- Insurance
- Additional excursions
1. Online Registration
Please register first in our system ► Registration
Please follow the instructions on the page.
2. Documents
Please submit until 01/05/2025 the following documents:.
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CV
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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.