Our seminars make use of Das Programm’s core collection of Braun Design and the expertise of its director, Dr Peter Kapos. The objects around which the seminars are built can be found together in only a handful of places across the world. These landmark designs provide physical reference points as participants are led through a history of the Braun Company’s adventure in modernist industrial design. The seminars track the development of Braun audio design from its tentative appearance in 1955, and the emergence in the 1960s of a product programme of unprecedented rigour and formal coherence, through to its austere conclusion in the 1990s.

Seminars are held at Das Programm’s London E1 base. With group sizes maximum 6, the experience is direct and conversational. Handling is encouraged. Although the seminars are suited to design professionals and students, no specialist knowledge is assumed.

For code geeks, designs used include:
Exporter and Exporter 2 radios / G 11 radio + G 12 record player / SK 4 / SK 2 / Atelier 1 and L 20 speaker / TP 1 and TP 2 portable radio-record players / T 3 + T 4 pocket radios / L0 1 speaker with stand / Transistor K radio / PCS 4 record player / PCS 45 record player / CSV 10 amplifier / Audio 1 combined system + L 46 speaker + Vitsœ 606 shelving system/ PCS 52 E record player + CSV 60 amplifier + CET 15 tuner + LE 1 electrostatic speakers / Wall-mounted system: TS 45 control unit + TG 60 reel to reel + L 450 flat speaker / PS 1000 AS record player + CSV 1000 amplifier + CET 1000 tuner / T 1000 world receiver / last edition crystal grey atelier system / & many more household and printed items.