The workshop takes a field-based approach to explore ways that artists and designers expand their practice to shape civic life through social and political engagement, collaboration, community process and participatory activities. Investigating public practice in urban and rural contexts we will conduct a series of conversations with artists, educators, civic representatives, scientists, chefs and organizers as we generate proposals and ways of working that consider the dynamics of place, reciprocity, exchange, and mutual aid. The course will note and expand on methodologies and histories of socially engaged art, modes of working in this expansive genre, and how artists set up conditions for encounter and ways of
working in contexts that allow for continuous reconfigurations of places, histories and publics. Systems and Flows, Narrative and Conversation, Object-ness and Prototypes and Social Forms are lenses and research themes that will orient and structure our conversations and practice. Each semester the workshop hosts local, national or international artists working it the field to present their work and lead a workshop.

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