Hi Alain and Bernhard,
Thank you so much for your accounts of Ulm. They brought back to life many of the texts I read during the sixties and seventies and gave me a better sense of the context and people I had no direct experience with.
Klaus may have more to say about this, but what struck me at the time from afar was the intellectual mismatch between the visual design and the social ’science’ they were so eager to embrace. These were very difficult ideas coming from such different paradigms and traditions, both with grander visions than they could possibly realise in their own ways of thinking, let alone across paradigms.
At a slight remove from that, I found myself at the time very interested in Charls Morris’ ideas that informed the New Bauhaus. So what you had to say about his role, Bernhard, was fascinating. I went on to explore his ideas of semiotics and was disapointed by the turn to ‘behaviourism’ which he reluctantly embraced in his later work. For me that was an important moment in my own research on semiotics.
BTW, I’m currently working on a new and revised edition of my ‘In Search of Semiotics’, and following your comments, I may go back and revisit this earlier material.
Many thanks,
David
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