Every time an artist makes a new work they create a new world. As artists, and therefore world builders, how do we see visions of the ideal? How do fictional, visual, and cinematic other worlds reflect back on our reality? How have attempts to achieve ideal societies in literature and history both failed and succeeded? In this class we will explore the radical world building techniques of architects, performance artists, fiction writers and film directors and investigate how the conceit of their projects reveals the reality of the artist’s lived experience in significant and magnified ways. Students will engage with the work of these world-building masters through discussion, in class writing prompts, short essays, group critique, and a final project in which the student must present a new world in a medium of their choosing. 

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