Wars + Climate + Famine + Economic Inequality + Displacement = Mass Immigration.
The participants in this interdisciplinary course will develop a project, in the medium of their choice, that
addresses the issues of a new geopolitical global order and its influence on our local communities,
particularly underrepresented in our respective cities, San Francisco and Istanbul.
The students will assume the role of artist/designer as an ethnographer in researching a specific Ethnic
Community from its history to the present. Particular attention will be given on how history over time can repeat itself. The students through their skills will collect and make a visual narrative or an ideal design in telling specific stories of individuals or groups from diverse ethnic backgrounds that are affected by the issues of a new geopolitical global order. Specific readings and presentations will help frame a discussion and understanding of the effects of a new global geopolitical order. We will establish a global discourse(online) for part of the semester with students from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts (MUGSF), Istanbul that are developing projects of similar current critical issues. Final projects will represent an individual interest / perspective and demonstrate an understanding of some of the critical cultural, geopolitics, economic and social issues surrounding underrepresented communities with regard to the new global geopolitical order and its influence on our local communities. The students’ work will culminate in a book/catalog.

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