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 DescriptionTransitory Place is a UDIST course that explores how place is created in spaces of temporality and movement - like modes of transportation, commuter communities and other terrestrial circulation through our local urban space. In this class you will also consider the nature of our world as an ever changing environment. What kinds of relationships form in these spaces and how can creative ideas be used to active and explore them? Through examining traces from crossed paths and analyzing movement flows through observation mapping, this class will investigate the multiplicity of interactions with others in these momentary places. Navigating within and across disciplinary boundaries, you will develop new patterns of thinking, inquiry and practice within our local urban landscape. Using design, performance, visual arts, surveying, and recorded experiences, you will explore temporal spaces such as buses, BART, ferries and foot pathways throughout the city, to examine social patterns that will inform design/arts based experiences, processes and public installations. For part of the semester, this class will partner with BART’s public art division, using this system as a site of research and engagement. Through guest artists, field trips and researching 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, that will help to expand your understanding of everyday transitory places. You will develop individual and collective topics and questions for investigation and create collaborative artworks, performances, installations and public dialogues as midterm and final projects. Open to all disciplines.

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