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 Description: Insights in Site explores our relationships with the surrounding environment, local communities and broader society through interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration that consider race, gender, and the environment. In a time of social and environmental uncertainty, disconnection and isolation, this course grounds students in multi-sensory activations in and around indoor and outdoor space, examining how collective, embodied and sensory-based activations translate to belonging, care and healing. Students build new sensory skills as a means for nonverbal communication that introduce non-Western methods of learning, heighten sensitivity and awareness of place, support health and well-being, and embrace diversity through community-building. The outcomes of this course are a series of collective responses that reflect the comforts and discomforts in spatial engagement, connection, and belonging. This course aims to provide a safe and compassionate environment within which to lean into our edges, honor and disrupt our habituated modes of perception.

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