Design Akademie Saaleck

dieDAS, Design Akademie Saaleck, was launched in summer 2020. It offers designers and other creative minds opportunities for development and networking. The launch of dieDAS followed close cooperation between dieDAS founding director Arne Cornelius Wasmuth and the Egidio Marzona Foundation.

Programme

Every year, dieDAS holds a four-month ‘DAS fellowship’, where up to 16 international fellows from the fields of design, craft, architecture and art “research, design, and experiment in their quarters and studios”. The programme of dieDAS also includes innovation retreats for companies and institutions from October to April, an international symposium in the autumn and lectures throughout the year. The working spaces of the Academy are also made available to small and medium-sized companies in the region for workshops.

Location

dieDAS was launched in summer 2020 in Saaleck, Saxony-Anhalt. It is located in the former Saaleck Workshops.[1] The acquisition of the building complex was possible with the financial support of the Egidio Marzona foundation in 2018. In 2021, dieDAS revealed renovation plans for the site, designed by Danish architect Dorte Mandrup. The plans include new landscaping of the hillside complex and introducing residences and studio spaces for fellows.

History

The history of the Saaleck Workshops is associated with German architect and Nazi racial ideologist Paul Schultze-Naumburg, who built his home in Saaleck in 1902 and founded the Saalecker Workshops. dieDAS describes its intentions regarding the history of the site as: “Reclaiming this “uncomfortable monument” as a place of free thought, creation, and discourse was a deliberate choice.”

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