I have contributed to the creation of a book that accompanies the Bauhaus Dessau exhibition I co-curated.

In 1988, a seminar was held at the Bauhaus Dessau as part of the UN-HABITAT programme that dealt with questions of housing construction in ‘developing countries’. A prefabricated building system developed by GDR architects was presented here, which was used for the first time in an education and development center of the African National Congress (ANC) in Dakawa, Tanzania. The educational centers that have been set up in rural Tanzania since the 1970s with the support of international solidarity movements were learning and living spaces for people who had fled the brutal regime of racial segregation in South Africa. These centers were also unique sites of transnational encounters between East and West during the Cold War. Why education in particular was key to building a new democratic society is the focus of the publication.

The small and handy book is part of a series collaboration between Bauhaus Dessau and Spector Books, designed by the Berlin-based graphic designer Eike König. (ISBN 978-3-95905-746-2)

You can purchase the book here: spectorbooks.com/book/doors-of-learning-en