Experiment: Learning Communities, the third issue of the Bauhaus Journal in the Schools of Departure series, maps the histories and present forms of alternative learning environments across art, architecture, and design education.
About This Book
Edited by Katja Klaus and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, this issue takes pedagogical reform as its central concern — asking how experimental communities of teachers and learners have shaped, and continue to shape, education in art, architecture, and design. Contributors analyse the ways knowledge is shared across neighbourhoods, how alternative learning environments emerge and evolve, and how new modes of living and learning together are tested. The volume situates these phenomena as ‘traveling concepts’: ideas whose meanings shift across geographies, cultures, and eras, always in exchange and in motion. Part journal, part historical enquiry, it sits alongside a digital atlas cataloguing experimental approaches to design education beyond the Bauhaus.
Key Features
- 152 pages of essays and contributions from a diverse range of authors examining learning communities from contemporary and historical perspectives
- Edited by Katja Klaus and Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
- Part of the Schools of Departure series, complemented by a digital atlas of experimental art and design education approaches
- Published by Spector Books
What You'll Discover
- How pedagogical reform movements shaped conceptions of education and community, and which strands of those experiments persist in contemporary schools and practice
- The ways teachers and learners co-produce their environments, from shared neighbourhood knowledge to experimental social structures
- How ‘traveling concepts’ in design education shift meaning as they move across different geographies, times, and cultures
- The relationship between the Bauhaus legacy and broader, often overlooked, alternative approaches to art and design pedagogy worldwide
About the Author
Katja Klaus is an editor at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, where she coordinates the Schools of Departure research and publication series. The volume brings together multiple contributing authors invited to examine historical and contemporary learning communities across art, architecture, and design.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 152
- Dimensions: 11 × 15 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783959058308
- Publisher: Spector Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architecture and design educators, historians of design pedagogy, Bauhaus researchers, and practitioners with an interest in alternative and experimental models of design education.