Exhibition architectures are usually disposable products that are elaborately manufactured and end up in the rubbish bin after the event is over. For our “Talkshop Museum” series, the architecture lab Refunc (Jan Körbes, Denis Oudendijk) designed the lighting, seating and listening lounges from leftover materials. The audience is invited to collect the objects after the end of the event series and reuse them.

The international collective Refunc challenges the conventional design principle of “form follows function”. In Refunc's creations, form and function are not definitive, but part of cycles. Through imaginative combinations, things whose official utility value has expired are given new functions: disposable transport materials are turned into seating, plastic bottles become exhibition halls, and disused grain silos are transformed into comfortable micro-houses.

Designer Jan Körbes from the Refunc collective was a guest at “Talkshop Museum” on 30 September 2020. The objects and furniture designed by Refunc can be tried out and reserved at the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv and picked up during “Commitment Week”. The team will be happy to take reservations for the reuse of the objects on site.