Competition Brief

DIA Graduate School is part Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. It is located directly next to the famous Gropius Bauhaus in Dessau. As theme for this year’s international student competition DIA has taken up a task suited to the location. In cooperation with the Bauhaus Foundation and the Theater in Dessau the competition brief demands students to design a stage set for the Bauhaus Bühne (Stage).

In the 1920s the Bauhaus Stage was a legendary project of the Modern Theatre. Founded in Weimar, under the direction of Oskar Schlemmer the Bauhaus Stage became a unique place for revolutionary experiments with body and space. In Dessau it received its manifestation in the architecture of the Bauhaus Building, the center of which it marks. Since the 1970s it has been revived gradually dance, theatre music and performance projects. Today, the stage is again a laboratory for performative experiments, where actors and dancers, artists and other disciplines jointly develop projects. A special emphasis is placed on experiments that stage the space. An extensive program revives this central place in the Bauhaus Building with diverse formats, which reflect the concepts of the historic stage and update them at the same time in the context of current discourses on theatre.

• The stage will have to accommodate 6-8 dancers, a pianist, a percussionist and a singer.
• The music chosen for the occasion is taken from a 1984 recording “Erik Satie’s Minimalism”
• Excerpts if the music as well as plans of the space are provided as material for competitors.

• Claudia Perren – Director Bauhaus Foundation
• Alfred Jacoby – Director DIA Graduate School
• Johannes Weigand – Director Anhalt Theater Dessau
• Johannes Kister – DIA Graduate School
• Cristina Gatti – Triennale di Milano
• Roy Oppenheim – Director Swiss Radio international

• 5th of May 2016 – Official announcement and Beginning of the registration period.
• 25th of May 2016 – Deadline for submission of questions.
• 30th of May 2016 – Deadline for DIA to answer all the questions.
• 5th of June 2016 – Registration Deadline (23:59 Central European time).
• 20th of June 2016 – Closing date for submissions (23:59 Central European time).
• 5th of July 2016 – Jury Decision.
• 15th of July 2016 – Price award ceremony and exhibition of entries in Dessau.

The Bauhaus Stage Competition is a one phase design competition.

Submissions are expected via internet. Participant will have to register prior to submission and download the competition material. Only one proposal per individual entrant will be accepted.

All proposals must be received prior 20th June 2016, 23.59 Central European Time (CET).Late submissions will be disqualified. Please note that DIA will not take any responsibility for e-mail Problems or other technical issues of the participants.

Proposals must be uploaded via internet to this page. Please submit max. Two single-sided PDF to be printable as two A1 boards in horizontal, Landscape format, using maximum 150 dpi. Participants may use all types of ways of
Representations, except hard copies or physical boards or models. Proposals will be projected on a Screen to jurors.

Your digital panels must include your registration number. Do not include anything that would identify yourself on your boards.

Your digital boards should include a written description of no more than 1 A4 Sheet explaining your idea, specifications of materials, colors and components to be used, method of execution.

With submission you agree to have your work included in an exhibition, which DIA will organize in Building 08 Bauhausstrasse 5, 06846 Dessau, Germany.

The Jury will select will a group of max 20 best proposals to be printed for the exhibit; we will
ask selected designers to send high-resolution print files for that purpose.

Other proposals will be exhibited as projected images only.

Only one proposal will be accepted from each team or individual. Variations of an idea will not be accepted. This will lead to the exclusion of the entire entry submitted.