Gropiusstadt was planned by Bauhaus founder and architect Walter Gropius in the 1960s as a large housing estate in south-east Berlin. At its centre is the Walter Gropius School, a "pavilion school" planned according to the most innovative pedagogical considerations with cleverly structured classroom buildings, workshops, open spaces and sports facilities. The listed community school is now in a dilapidated state. The Gropiusstadt housing estate was built to create modern living space for many people. Even today, the housing problem in Berlin has by no means been solved and schools are often in very poor condition. What does this mean for our society?

The exhibition project was developed in collaboration with the committed director of the school, Lars Neumann, to draw attention to the urgent need to renovate the educationally and architecturally significant building. The results are presented by students who researched together over two semesters as part of a seminar, asked questions on site, developed ideas, photographed and filmed.

• With works by 
  Annalu Grunwald, Elizaveta Mironova, Hanna Hauten, Isabelle Marten, Iuliia Krasnoperova, Jan Schlieben, KimLi Kaya Balzer, Louise Bianchi, Marina Ortega Velaz, Martin Zerr, Mathilda Fee S¨¢nchez, Mia Cordes, Michaela Unterweger, Monique Petermann, Paulina Deutmeyer, Sebastian Rist, Sudi Kujack
• Project management 
  Friederike Holl?nder (Head of Education and Outreach, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin) and Nina Wiedemeyer (Curator Architecture Collection, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin), Wiebke Loeper (Professor of Photography, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam), Monique Petermann (Tutor, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam).

Further information can be found on the Bauhaus website.