Manifesto for a digital bauhaus¹

In the history of modern society several grand projects have been launched in an attempt to unite the two sides of the Enlightenment project: the hard (technology and natural sciences) with the soft (values, democracy, art and ethics). One remarkable such project was the Bauhaus. It was a great modern success story, but also a failure. Today, in the digital age we can witness new more post‐modern attempts to meetings between ‘art’ and ‘technology’. This emerging ‘third culture’ of nerds and digerati is promising, but still most immature. With this background, the paper is formed as a general manifesto for a digital Bauhaus for the twenty‐first century, and at the same time an introduction to the attempts to implement this vision of creative and socially useful digital design at the School of Art and Communication at Malmo University in Sweden.