Cross-Discipline: Focus on Photography /Video / Graphic Design /Architecture / Community Arts / Critical Studies || Cross-Culture: California College of the Arts and Istanbul Marmara University. This interdisciplinary course will explore the geopolitics and culture of places within the limits of specific site and establish global discourses with students from Istanbul Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts. (Turkey). Throughout the semester there will be an online discourse with students from Marmara University in Istanbul and their Faculty of Fine Arts. This conversation is based on an exchange of ideas from student work in progress and will result in a collaboratively designed & produced catalog and an exhibition of this work. The exhibit is the upcoming International Student Triennial on June of 2013 in Istanbul and in the Fall Semester in San Francisco. The purpose of this exchange is to research the historical developments of the two respective cities and specifically explore the geopolitical and cultural heritage of designated neighborhoods. The participants assumed the role of artist/designer as an ethnographer or fieldworker in the relationship between action and public space by responding according to her/his individual curiosities. The class will be divided into small groups and each group chose a specific neighborhood in either San Francisco or Istanbul; after researching a chosen district, each artist/designer explore her/his individual interests within. Historical and cultural research of each district in concert with visual collecting by direct experience from each participant produced an archive in the evolution of place.

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