ABSTRACT
The art school is unique in British higher education. It condones and encourages an attitude of learning through trial and error, through day-to-day experiment rather than through instruction. Bauhaus’s Kevin Haskins recalls his first day at Northampton Art School:
It was mind opening. I hadn’t been in contact with people like that before. If you can imagine this on your first day after leaving school, they took us into this hall where there were 12-inch squares mapped out on the floor and ceiling and pieces of string hanging down to make each one like a small cage. They told us to
create our own environments within those squares and gave us all day to do it.3
