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 DescriptionSite Glass : Materiality at the Water's Edge | Through an investigation of traditional glass fabrication and assembly techniques and the design opportunities afforded by new production and fabrication technologies, we will locate the potential of hybridizing the analog and digital to produce a spatial intervention at the water's edge. Full scale installations and visual perceptions will be generated by scaling up through material, visual aggregation and atmospheric spatial effect. The immediacy of glass exploration and access to the SF bay will engage the studio in the poetics of light and space in the context of issues brought about by climate change that our local region faces today. Students will start by creating a site analysis catalog of the SF Bay comprised of iterative 2 and 3D plate glass manipulations, exploring materiality and the climate change conditions specific to the site. The studio will culminate in group installation projects sited on the shoreline. Additional materials fee of $200 will be charged. 

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