Schools of Departure No. 3: Experiment – Learning Communities

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 en- vironment, share knowledge in neighbourhoods, and try out new, experimental ways of shaping society and learning and living together.

Greg Castillo, professor of architectural history at the University of California at Berkeley. Binna Choi, curator, writer and organizer. Andrés Garcés Alzamora, architect, with Katherine Exss Cid, designer, David Luza Cornejo, architect, Rodrigo Saavedra Venegas, architect, all member of the Corporación Cultural Amereida – Ciudad Abierta (Amereida Cultural Corporation—Open City). Fernando Garcia Dory, artist, shepherd and agroecologist, living between Madrid, Mallorca and Northern Spanish mountains. Heidi Gruner, executive Director of the School of the Alternative (SotA) in Black Mountain, NC. Katja Klaus, research associate at the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Aleksandra Kędziorek, architecture historian, curator and editor based in Warsaw, Poland. Lee Stickells, associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning.