Lessons of the Bauhaus

The doer’s rush: contemplation is a designer lost skill

“…The attitude can recall humans to get closer to their natural habitat -the tropical forest and the prairie (open 'savannah') (Roberts et al, 2017;Scerri et al, 2022) -and let their senses heal the mind and body, thus allowing a wealthy range of powerful insights to appear. Although we are witnessing a post-Bauhaus era in design and education, the effects of the Bauhaus school are still very present in design school agendas (Edwards, 2019;Trimingham, 2019). However, the New European Bauhaus initiative as a solution to tackle global problems should be challenged since it may fall short for the post-colonialist and ecological feminism theories (Bason et al, 2020;Von der Leyen, 2020;European Commission, 2021;Ness, 2021;Mak-Schram, 2024;Nunes, 2024).…”