Schools of Departure No. 4: Pedagogies of Machine Learning examines how post-Bauhaus design education engaged with cybernetics and technology across the second half of the twentieth century, tracing the shifting conceptual relationship between designers, architects, and machines.
About This Book
The fourth instalment in Spector Books' Schools of Departure series takes the wave of cybernetisation that swept universities and research institutions from the mid-twentieth century onwards as its central subject. Rather than rehearsing a linear technological history, the publication asks how designers and architects have conceptualised their relationship to machines — and what those conceptualisations reveal about the underlying beliefs connecting knowledge, technology, and progress. The book sits within a broader series that maps experimental approaches to art and design education beyond the Bauhaus, treating these movements as 'travelling concepts' whose meanings shift across geographies, cultures, and time. A companion digital atlas extends the inquiry further.
Key Features
- 152 pages of essays and documentation exploring design pedagogy and machine learning from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Edited by Regina Bittner, Katja Klaus, Philipp Sack, and Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
- Part of the Schools of Departure series, accompanied by a digital atlas of experimental art and design education
- Published by Spector Books
What You'll Discover
- How cybernetics reshaped design education in the second half of the twentieth century, and why the belief in the knowledge–technology–progress triad proved so resilient
- The varied ways designers and architects have conceptualised machines and their own relationship to them — from tool to collaborator to epistemic framework
- How the Bauhaus legacy travelled across different geographies and cultures, mutating in meaning as it moved through different institutional and political contexts
- The concept of 'travelling concepts' as a methodological lens for understanding how pedagogical ideas circulate, transform, and remain in constant exchange across design education globally
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 152
- Dimensions: 11 × 15 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783959059176
- Publisher: Spector Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Design educators, architectural historians, and researchers with an interest in design pedagogy, cybernetics, and the institutional legacies of the Bauhaus beyond Dessau.