Automated system test schedule

Abstract

The Bauhaus School Building in Dessau has become a mythical icon. Today, the COOP Design Research—MSc. Program integrates design and research into a practice-oriented curriculum, situated in the original Bauhaus workshop rooms. But how can we make use of the building other than as a historic reference, how can the building itself become part of a contemporary curriculum? For the interdisciplinary COOP Design Research curriculum, we have conceived a Pre-course that uses the building as a teaching agent. Firstly, we seek to provide the students with the essential academic skills required for conducting independent practice-oriented research, and secondly, to foster their capability to engage critically with a research subject, primarily the built environment. The COOP Design Research is a cooperation between Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Humboldt–Universität zu Berlin. It brings together students from across the world for a one-year master program, which draws on the students’ experiences from their previous architectural and design studies and their professional work practice to provide the basis for an approach to design based on research and analysis. Based on our backgrounds in architecture (Sabine Hansmann) and the humanities/art history (Friederike Schäfer), our educational methodology combines writing exercises, theory and analysis with bodily exercises (for example sensory awareness and field trips) and various reflection methods. The class constantly engages with the Bauhaus School Building with its spacious workshops, the iconic staircase, as well as the Bauhaus collection, to bring students into a continual, open conversation supported by changing spatio-didactical setups. By way of working in small groups on problem-based tasks, the students train their analytical and research skills, and learn to apply various methods, ranging from close descriptions and iconography.