Bauhaus in Russia
Haunted Houses

Hannes Meyer arrived in the USSR just a couple of months after being dismissed from his position as Bauhaus director in October 1930. These months were filled with attempts by Meyer and his supporters to protest this decision through all possible means: media campaigns, open letters, student demonstration and court trials. After arriving in Moscow, Meyer carried on the fight against his unfair dismissal.

Der Bauhausschüler Kurt Kranz war Maler, Zeichner, Grafiker, Typograf, Ausstellungsgestalter, Erfinder, Programmierer, Pädagoge und Experimentalfilmer – ein Erforscher der Formen und Farben in Bewegung. Durch die Verknüpfung von Kunst, Wissenschaft und Pädagogik verfolgte er sein Leben lang den interdisziplinären Ansatz des Bauhauses.

Considering the role of photography, and particularly, of the Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy, in developing and envisaging information systems during and after World War II this paper focuses on the connection between her pre-war practices and her work as the director of the ASLIB Microfilming Service in wartime London, using it to think through the direction of developments in media and information technology by drawing a comparison with Vannevar Bush’s famous essay “As We May Think” (1945).