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 DescriptionAs an overacting  concept, Transitory Place considers the nature of our world as an ever-changing environment created by people and place. As a creative process, this class will focus on public engagement as a cross-disciplinary studio practice, to explore spaces of temporality and movement in our everyday world such as commuter communities (or purposeful temporal communities), terrestrial pathways, urban responses to conditions of need or change, virtual spaces such as social media platforms, natural environments and systems of circulation in our local/global world that are both living and inanimate. What kinds of relationships form in these spaces and how can creative ideas be used to activate and explore them?Through a series of self-guided field experiences and assignments, you will learn about observation and mapping tools that will help you to better examine traces from crossed paths and movement flows, and support your investigation into the multiplicity of possible creative interactions and exchanges with others in these momentary places. We will hear from and meet a diverse group of guest designers/artists and interdisciplinary researchers who have studied, navigated and animated public spaces within and across disciplinary boundaries, such as social geographers, urban planners and artists, designers who examine social and place based patterns in our world.As a student you will call on your lived experiences as a tool for curiosity. Class assignments will help you to develop new thinking, inquiries, and strategies for your current practice, through the lens of design, performance, visual arts, surveying, recorded experiences, exchanges, installations or public dialogues as midterm and final projects. In this course you will engage in both individual and collective opportunities through assignments that can play out in either site-specific or virtual spaces. This course welcomes all perspectives and intersectional identities as a place of rich experience and spaces of transitory factors, as expressions of practice, exchange and as response to creating engaged experiences for others. Open to all disciplines.
 

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