Throughout 2019, the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus was celebrated across the world with exhibitions, lectures, performances, and workshops. While most events focused on the history of the Bauhaus movement, a team around Professor Markus Weisbeck at the Faculty of Art and Design of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar took a more practice-based approach to bring the spirit of the acclaimed avant-garde school back to life within the field of contemporary graphic design.
Following the exhibition “Manifest of Practice” that presented current positions and projects from their Weimar campus to a Berlin audience, Weisbeck and his colleagues conceptualized a series of eponymous workshops to tour universities and festivals worldwide over the course of the “Bauhaus Year”. After Seoul, Isfahan, La Paz, Macau, and Gwangju, the sixth iteration led them to Taipei, where the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology hosted the event on the campus of its design faculty in early December 2019.