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SUMMARY:Hannes Meyer’s Kinderheim Mümliswil: From Utopian 'Home' to Nat
 ional Memorial by Tatiana Efrussi / TPOD\, ACHT\, THEMA\, HITAM
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DESCRIPTION:Tatiana Efrussi\nIn the center of this current research is the
  1939 building of the cooperative children’s home in the village of Müm
 liswil (SO) and the memory practices around it. The holiday house in the S
 olothurn Jura was designed by Hannes Meyer. The chosen forms\, especially 
 a circular "Pestalozzi table" were considered as a powerful means to affec
 t the children’s consciousness and health. Ten years after the opening\,
  the experimental temporary "home" regularly hosted children who were pla
 ced there by the institutions in charge of the childhood questions. Those 
 placements\, as well as decisions to separate children from their families
 \, were often carried out arbitrary and violent. Today\, the building was
  transformed into a National Memorial Site for Children in Homes and Ind
 entured Children (Verdingkinder) by Guido Fluri\, one of the children who
  spent some time in the Kinderheim in the 1970s.\n\nTatiana Efrussi\, Dr.
  Rer. Pol.\, is an architecture historian and a visual artist. Efrussi stu
 died art history at the Moscow State Lomonosov University\, video and medi
 a art at the Rodchenko School for Photography and Media Art in Moscow\, fi
 ne art at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She curated the ex
 hibition "Bauhaus in Moscow" (2012) at the Museum of the Moscow Architect
 ural Institute\, worked as a research consultant for the traveling exhibit
 ion "The City of Tomorrow\," (2019–2020)\, collaborated with the "Bauhau
 s Imaginista" project (2018–2019). In 2020 she defended her thesis "Hann
 es Meyer—A Soviet Architect. Life and Work in the Soviet Union\, 1930-19
 36" at the Kassel University (Germany). Tatiana Efrussi is based in Paris
 \, since 2022 she is a member of the association Atelier des artistes en e
 xil.\n\nNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3\n\n13/3 - Pier Vittorio Aureli (E
 PFL). Architecture and Abstraction: Book Launch with Sarah Nichols\, Chris
 tophe van Gerrewey\, and Alfredo Thiermann\n20/3 - Tatiana Efrussi (L’at
 elier des artistes en exil). Hannes Meyer’s Kinderheim Mümliswil: From 
 Utopian 'Home' to National Memorial\n27/3 - Sarah Gainsforth (Journalist).
  Challenging the New Housing Question\n10/4 - Claire Zimmerman (University
  of Toronto). Industrial Architecture\, Situated in the Twentieth Century\
 n24/4 - Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). Aga
 inst the Commons: Elements for a Radical Planning Theory\n1/5 - Spyros Pap
 apetros (Princeton University). Pre/Architecture\n8/5 - Anna-Maria Meister
  (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz: Max Planck Institute\, KIT and sa
 ai archive Karlsruhe). Fragile Objects\, Coded Knowledge\n15/5 - Platon Is
 saias (Architectural Association) & Ioanna Theocharopoulou (Columbia Unive
 rsity). On the Polykatoikia and its Discontents\n\n 
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