The Educational System at Bauhaus and Black Mountain College
Session
Integrated Design
Description
This article will present some of the basic characteristics of the educational system that was ran at the Bauhaus Faculty and Black Mountain College. Information that are not so well known, will be presented. Four basic principles of teaching will be covered: learning from the community, the change in the naming of student/professor, freedom of the students and experimentation. In the first chapter called “Industry and Guilds”, the separation that took place between the industrial principle and the guild principle, which was almost totally forgotten in the later phases of Bauhaus, will be presented. Bauhaus was firstly obliged to the guild principle when Walter Gropius wrote the manifesto for the faculty. This has shown also in the naming, which was used for the faculty. The second moment that we can see this principle is life in a community. The second chapter “Theory and Theoreticians” shows the theoretical influence of Bauhaus on Herbert Read and the influence of John Dewey on Black Mountain College. In the centre of this chapter is the idea of freedom and experimentation.
Keywords:
Bauhaus, Black mountain college, education, experimentation, Industry, guilds, freedom, autonomy, Aristotle
Session Chair
Ajhan Bajmaku, Artrit Bytyçi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-19-2
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
26-10-2019 11:00 AM
End Date
26-10-2019 12:30 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2019.13
Recommended Citation
Savic, Luka, "The Educational System at Bauhaus and Black Mountain College" (2019). UBT International Conference. 13.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2019/events/13
The Educational System at Bauhaus and Black Mountain College
Pristina, Kosovo
This article will present some of the basic characteristics of the educational system that was ran at the Bauhaus Faculty and Black Mountain College. Information that are not so well known, will be presented. Four basic principles of teaching will be covered: learning from the community, the change in the naming of student/professor, freedom of the students and experimentation. In the first chapter called “Industry and Guilds”, the separation that took place between the industrial principle and the guild principle, which was almost totally forgotten in the later phases of Bauhaus, will be presented. Bauhaus was firstly obliged to the guild principle when Walter Gropius wrote the manifesto for the faculty. This has shown also in the naming, which was used for the faculty. The second moment that we can see this principle is life in a community. The second chapter “Theory and Theoreticians” shows the theoretical influence of Bauhaus on Herbert Read and the influence of John Dewey on Black Mountain College. In the centre of this chapter is the idea of freedom and experimentation.