This course is an opportunity to think through how to put our values into action as artists, designers, critical thinkers, and activists by recognizing our roles in creating, revising, and circulating collective cultural narratives. We will explore these key questions: Whose story is being told? How are these stories being told and by whom? Whose stories are being excluded? And how might we change these stories to reflect our own values and lives?The course is structured around three units which examine the ways in which collective—often competing—cultural narratives are formed, reproduced or contested, and circulated. Each unit will unfold differing stories, inviting us to investigate how, as artists, activists, visitors, or bystanders, we make meaning within these narratives. The course will grapple with stories we choose to amplify, take up, or contend with in this current moment, as well as what agency we might have to affect their trajectories. 

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