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.

Section Description
Post-Disciplinary Design at the Edges of Tomorrow - This Upper Division Interdisciplinary Studio will be designed for and from a Maker perspective in order for students to envision and design for Future Public Outcomes. As the complexity and problems of the world proliferate so does the making of things that matter. Designers have become more sought after than ever and the decisions related to creation and making need to be increasingly explicit in order to produce meaningful products, experiences, and places. For the best way to invent the future is to make it. And the best way to predict the future is to create it. Post-disciplinarity is more and more becoming the norm in today's marketplace. Post-disciplinarity means our voices are disparate and unique incorporating multiples and futures, speculations and actualities, accounting for the varied people, places, and settings we have come from and will become. What is the future of practice that makes disciplinary boundaries archaic? We will examine and study the history of futures: other visionary architects, artists, and designers who imagined the future of the city in order for us to understand the past and to begin to create the future. We will be envisioning the future of cities: environments, space, and the public realm. Probing cities and how they evolve and function.We will watch films, prototype and develop tangible experiences informed by researching the past and envisioning possible futures. Can we shape the future of the city by thinking and making things in more critical ways? What does your future look like, the city you move in, the environments you interact with? What is a citizen centered public realm that brings you outside onto the street, into a community?

Visit Workday to view this information.