Publisher: Spector Books, ISBN: 9783959058308, Editors: Katja Klaus and 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 third issue of the Bauhaus Journal is titled Experiment: Learning Communities and features a diverse set of contributions that look at learning communities from a contemporary and historical perspective. In one way or another, these communities have contributed on an ongoing basis to the creation of alternative learning environments in art, architecture, and design. Katja Klaus at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invited the authors of this new issue to explore the question of how pedagogical reform attempts shaped past ideas of education and community. Some of these attempts continue to develop today in various pedagogical approaches and schools. In their essays, the authors analyse how teachers and learners come together to shape their environment, share knowledge in neighbourhoods, and try out new, experimental ways of shaping society and learning and living together.
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.