Richard Paulick and the Remaking of a Greater Shanghai 1933–1949

This article is an example of “writing by being,” because the author had the privilege of being part of the pilot “batch” of Indian design teachers. These students, many from an engineering background, were to be India’s future design educators, and their first exposure to design education took place at the newly-founded National Institute of Design, India’s first design institute, established in 1961 and inspired to a large measure by Bauhaus ideology.

The symposium in New Delhi at the India International Centre, organized in collaboration with the Max Mueller Bhavan, looked specifically at the history of art school education in South Asia in relation to the Bauhaus legacy. Speakers include: Kathleen James Chakraborty, Sabih Ahmed, Anshuman Dasgupta, Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan, Mayank Mansingh Kaul, David Abraham, Tanishka Kachru, S Balaram, Saif Ul Haque, Kazi Ashraf, Prasad Shetty, Rupali Gupte, and Natasha Ginwala.

Der Bauhausschüler Kurt Kranz war Maler, Zeichner, Grafiker, Typograf, Ausstellungsgestalter, Erfinder, Programmierer, Pädagoge und Experimentalfilmer – ein Erforscher der Formen und Farben in Bewegung. Durch die Verknüpfung von Kunst, Wissenschaft und Pädagogik verfolgte er sein Leben lang den interdisziplinären Ansatz des Bauhauses.