This interdisciplinary course will explore the geopolitics and culture of “Hybrid-ism” The diverse cultural landscape within San Francisco continues to evolve, each new wave of immigration over generations both transform and are transformed through existing world communities creating hybrids of cultural identity or “Hybrid-ism”. This course will research and explore through design and visual art, the social, political, economic and cultural impacts of “Hybrid-ism” within our local immigrant and under-represented communities.This semester’s concentration will be on the very diversified Tenderloin Neighborhood. Often remarked, “the Tenderloin district is the beating heart of the city, peopled by immigrants and iconoclasts, artists and activists, sinners and saints”. The students, through research will learn the rich history of one of San Francisco's most misunderstood neighborhoods. Through connecting with the diverse community activist organizations, performance art cooperatives, students will gain perspective and proximity to the neighborhood’s inhabitants and their every-day lives.Students will produce personal and individual works of their own creative activism through a discipline of their choice (art, design, architecture, etc.) or use different media (photography, illustration, video etc.) for “documentary storytelling” that reflect an understanding of the impacts of global / local pandemic, racism, economic and cultural displacement; that faces a diversified low-income and underrepresented community such as the Tenderloin. The student work produced in this course will be represented in a book/catalog at the end of the semester.

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