Upper Division Interdisciplinary Studios extend a student's cross-school experience from Core Studio up into their 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 DescriptionIn the time of environmental and political instability the fixed boundaries between private and public, natural and artificial, land and water – become uncertain. This course invites students to envision the possibility of fluid and dynamic relationships that embrace change and adaptability. In doing so, we will examine our responsibility to water as a “common” resource, including the ways we use water, the dynamics of flow, and the social-natural ecologies of the watershed.Students will imagine, explore, and prototype water-related scenarios, while addressing the multiple scales of reciprocal relationships between people and water – from molecular and micro-organic, through skin and body, to regional and potentially global. The outcome of the course will be a series of projects, implemented in tangible prototypes that represent various imagined possibilities of how we interact with water.

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