When comparing the philosophies and methodologies taught at the Bauhaus with those taught in the first year programme it is not hard to find similarities. The first day at the school of design I was told I was not an artist, I was a designer. This is because the school values craft amongst a technology based course, much the same as the Bauhaus, they believed the individual should be credited.
The Bauhaus has a unique pedagogy, that the values of many different designers can work together to create great design, hence the fact that Gropius, Itten and Maholy-Nagy were all teaching despite their sometimes conflicting views. In the first year programme the lecturers and tutors bring their own unique skills and design theories which contribute to the underlying outlook the school has on design as a whole.
The Bauhaus believed that a shared/universal design language was possible, as Herbert Bayer tried to portray in his universal alphabet. They also believed that the so called Utopianism of the future world should not intrude the creativity of designers, meaning they believed that as far as design is concerned, technology does not always equal progress. The school of design shares the same view, while many of the courses are based primarily on technology such as DSDN 104,112 and 142 as well as the blogging and photography elements of the other courses, the first year programme encourages a hands on approach to all projects with emphasis of craft and abstraction. This is so the essence of design is not lost through the ease that technology has created in the design process.
Ignoring the fact that we do not participate in gymnastics in the first year design programme the methods used by the school are very similar to those of the Bauhaus, the same can be said for the schools' philosophies and teaching style due to the view on creating a shared design style as well as emphasis of hands on craft.
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