Transitory Place is a UDIST and ENGAGE at CCA course that explores how place is created in spaces of movement, like modes of transportation, commuter communities and other ambulatory circulation through urban space. Examining traces from crossed paths, and analyzing movement flows through observation and mapping, we will investigate the multiplicity of interactions with others in these momentary communities. Design, performance, visual arts, mapping, and recording experiences of traveling around the bay area, will be used to create snapshots of communities that are made up of moments to allow emerging ideas, engagement, actions and reactions to fluid environments. We will explore temporal spaces on buses, BART, ferries and foot pathways throughout the city, to examine social patterns that inform design/arts based experiences, processes and installations in these places. This course is an ENGAGE class, and we will be partnering with BART throughout the semester. Through guest artists, field trips and exploring contemporary artists and designers who have activated temporal spaces, this class will explore new ideas and artist-created mapping systems of both human and virtual movement around the bay area, adding to our expanding understanding and engagement of everyday transitory places. Navigating within and across disciplinary boundaries, students will develop new patterns of thinking, inquiry and practice within the local urban landscape. Students will learn how to interact with the broader community as well as work with BART's public art division; develop individual and collective topics and questions for investigation and create related collaborative artworks, performances, installations and public dialogues, and more. Interdisciplinary Studios extend a student's cross-school experience from Core Studio up into his or her upper division years. 3 units of Interdisciplinary Studio are required of all majors and must be completed in the junior or senior year. This advanced level studio is thematic in nature. Technical demonstrations are paired with thoughtful readings, seminar discussions and ambitious projects. Collaboration, experimentation and presentation skills are developed in concert with critical thinking. This course is part of ENGAGE at CCA, a program of the Center for Art and Public Life. ENGAGE at CCA is a community-engagement program that partners students with local organizations, allowing students to apply critical and creative skills toward real-world projects. The course is an advanced course on community engagement.

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