This is a hybrid course: We meet every other week together as a group at the same time (Sat 12-3 PST) and then follow that with a week where we work asynchronistically (all work happens on our own schedules and from our own locations). Because this course requires both a high degree of independent motivation and an ability to engage responsibility in community praxis, it is particularly suited to students who work well both on their own and collaboratively. Questions we will consider:

What does it mean to be oriented in any given direction? Why and how do people change their points of view? What happens when we shift our relationships to existing aesthetic, political, personal, and cultural structures? This course draws heavily on postcolonial, anti-racist and indigenous perspectives as we explore the many ways re-orienting lets us re-think, re-see, and re-make our world. This course will be both discussion and project based, with the opportunity to explore (and share) different places, neighborhoods, & curated spaces; different geo-located and virtual environments; creative-critical projects and points of view.