In 1919, Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969) founded the influential Bauhaus school. It was known for its innovative approach towards arts education where it brought together all disciplines of art, technology and design. The school’s mark on the world was so immense that Bruno Munari credited Gropius – and the Bauhaus – with inventing design as we know it. Amongst what the school championed was treating its students as equals and not as subordinates to the faculty. The egalitarian structure saw them all as citizens of the school. They were come to known as Bauhausler with the word representing their shared identity. It is in this vein, that the Tate Collective Producers have invited the first-year students to respond to the works on display by the Bauhaus artists. Together, we aim to interpret what being a Bauhausler would mean in today’s digitally driven world.

The works displayed are a selection from a broad period within the Bauhausler’s lives, during and after their time at the school. In this display, no distinction has been made between the Bauhaus artists and UCL students, choosing to show the works together as one collective to represent the overarching ideology. Each work selected from Tate’s Prints and Drawings Collection was specifically chosen with the MA student collaboration, and the characteristics of their animation software, in mind. Attributes such as geometric abstraction, repetition and tonality are central to all the works on display. However, it is this shared idea of collaboration and interdisciplinary practice between the Bauhaus and UCL's Design for Interaction department that ties them together.