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 DescriptionInsights in Site examines how we shift from individual care to collective, shared care through embodied, personal engagements and layered interactions with our local communities and broader society. By charting our personal experiences to multi-disciplinary activations, students will engage in “care in place” using creative practices as a conduit to explore multi-sensory and somatic investigations in and around indoor and outdoor space. We upend traditional understanding of care towards more integrated and embodied experiences, examining how caring is translated to belonging and healing. We explore how identity, lived experience and ecology influence our creative-making process to (re)define common ground. Students will start by building awareness in relation to self, senses, environment, people and society. Juxtaposing personal practices of care with sensory investigations and spatial activations, students will test new sensory skills and share and build from differences of personal experiences.  Through reflection, experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration, the outcomes of this course will be a series of responses that reflect the comforts and discomforts of care, healing and belonging.

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