African Design: Architecture and the Body, explores issues of ornament, structure, and symbolism for spaces of private and public gathering and modes of fashioning and adorning the body. This survey includes examples on the African continent and through the African Diaspora. We will study innovations emerging from artists and designers creating within local traditional contexts as well as those engaging more directly within contemporary global networks. While the professor will carry out weekly lectures, the course will also emphasize discussion and collaboration. As part of this, students will be expected to do 1-2 short readings per week in advance of the class meeting so that they may better understand the lectures and engage in discussion. Other requirements may include mini-presentations, short writing and creative assignments, as well as a few very basic quizzes.HAAVC 2000 courses develop students' visual analysis skills while providing the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the topic at hand. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created.

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