The Swiss sociologist Lucius Burckhardt would have been one hundred years old on March 12, 2025. We are celebrating his birthday at the Kunsthochschule in Kassel.
Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) and Annemarie Burckhardt (1930-2012) have shaped the perception and shaping of our world since the 1950s with their critical eye and great foresight. They opened up new perspectives for many students in Europe - not only in the design professions. Both were active in the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning at the University of Kassel from 1973 to 1997. From 1976 to 1983, Lucius Burckhardt was the first chairman of the Deutscher Werkbund. "Who plans the planning?", "Why is landscape beautiful?", "Design is invisible", "Destroyed by care" or "The smallest possible intervention": these Burckhardt questions and formulas are still relevant today. As a student in 1950, Lucius Burckhardt fought against the destruction of Basel's Gothic old town, which was to make way for a car-friendly redevelopment. In the 1980s, the Burckhardts spoke of the science of walking, promenadology or strollology.
Intervento Minimo and strollology are the focus of the contributions on Saturday, June 28, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. in the lecture hall of the Kunsthochschule Kassel. It starts with the idea for a new city with the architect and writer Max Frisch through to applied walking science: agglowandering and changing the administration en passant. The day ends with pasta, salad and wine.
Friday, June 27, 2025, at 6 p.m., welcome at the Kunsthochschule with börek and beer. In addition to the speakers, other birthday guests from Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal and Great Britain are invited. Sunday, June 29 at 11 a.m. "Visualization walk".
The conference/birthday party will be organized by Prof. Martin Schmitz and students of the Product Design Department of the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
The program 4th Lucius-Burckhardt-Convention can be found here.
June 27-29, 2025
Minimal intervention and stroll science
For the 100th birthday.
Kunsthochschule Kassel
Menzelstraße 13-15
34121 Kassel