Publisher: Spector Books, ISBN:9783959059176, Editors: Regina Bittner, Katja Klaus, Philipp Sack, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Format: Softcover, 11 × 15 cm, 152pp
The New Designer: Design as a Profession deals with the emergence of the profession of artist and designer after the First World War and its development in the context of industrial production. The fourth edition of Schools of Departure is devoted to the use of technology in post-Bauhaus design education: in the second half of the twentieth century, universities and research institutions were swept by a wave of cybernetisation, as the belief in the triad of knowledge, technology, and progress surfaced again undaunted. The relationship between design education and technology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is reflected in the different ways that designers and architects have conceptualised machines – and their relationship to them.
The paperback is part of the Schools of Departure series, which also includes a digital atlas that lists experimental approaches to art and design education beyond the Bauhaus. These phenomena are understood as manifestations of 'traveling concepts,' whose connotations are constantly shifting, whereby a variety of approaches in education remain constantly in exchange and in motion. The publication explores narratives of ways of appropriation that lead through different geographies, times and cultures.