HAND-OUTS As part of our promotional material and in accordance to our presentation/ exhibition, Ryan came up with an idea, which would form some sort of primary interactivity with the audience. After researching into possibilities of quizzes or handouts he came across a pre-existing concept in which had been used at the Bauhaus by Wassilly Kandinsky, in the form of a colour questionnaire. Ryan was intrigued, due to the fact he discovered Kandinsky actually used to his get students to complete the questionnaire as part of their course. The idea was based on philosophy, in which he believed a colour had a specific relationship to a certain shape. In respect to the Bauhaus, Kandinsky got the students to match the colours; red, blue and yellow with the shapes; circle, triangle and square. With this idea in mind, Ryan created a modern version of such a questionnaire, using the same questions in which would have originally been asked in-accordance to Kandinsky’s concepts. In regards to the visual treatment, he has portrayed a very minimalistic layout and design with the inclusion of just outlined shapes and instruction text at the bottom. The aim is to get fellow students and the lecturers to fill them out during our presentation, with a result at the end concluding if they had made it into the Bauhaus under Kandinsky’s pre-conceived ideas.
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For experimental purposes the preliminary course at Bauhaus in Weimar, requests responses to the following questions.
1. Each of the three shapes should be entirely filled in with one of the following colours- yellow, red, blue:
Photograph taken by Rosie Thomas
2. If possible, provide a rationale for this choice. Rationale:
Contributed by Ryan Young