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HAAVC-3000-2: Study Abroad: Modernism/Postmodernism in European Design

Summer 2024

Subject: History of Art and Visual Culture
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: Hybrid
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: Off Campus
Course Dates: May 13, 2024 — June 12, 2024
Meetings: Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad - Europe
Instructor: Mara Holt Skov

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 1/14

Description:

HAAVC 3000 seminars continue developing students' visual analysis and research skills while providing students 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 specific topic/theme. 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. This course cannot fulfill the HAAVC 2000 requirement.This three-week immersive course offers students the opportunity to explore three historic sites for design in Europe: Dessau for the Bauhaus and German modernism, Amsterdam for the Dutch de Stijl movement and 1990s postmodern design, and Milan for the post WWII design boom and 1980s Memphis postmodernism. Every step of the way we situate the movements, methods, technologies, and materials within their geographic, historic, and cultural settings. We visit museum collections, manufacturers, design studios, and relevant cultural sites. Lectures, readings and discussions provide context for our activities, and students develop methods for documenting their observations and experiences and presenting their findings to others.While specifically designed for Industrial Design students, this summer travel course is also relevant to other design disciplines such as Furniture, Architecture, Interior Design, and Graduate Design, as well as Visual Studies majors interested in design. It offers immersive experiences in the history and culture of key sites where modernism flourished in the early years of the 20th century and postmodernism exploded in the 1980s and 1990s to overturn the order.May 13 Required Zoom MeetingMay 20-June 10, 2024

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