UDIST-3000-9: Worldbuilding
Fall 2020
- Subject: Upper Level Interdisciplinary Studio
- Type: Workshop
- Delivery Mode: Online
- Level: Undergraduate
- Course Dates: September 02, 2020 — December 15, 2020
- Meetings: Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM
- Instructors: Tim Soman, Zachary Walter
- Units: 3.0
- Enrolled: 17/16 Closed
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Tim E Soman
Description:
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
Worldbuilding is the sustained, creative process of populating an invented world with the works of artists, philosophers, writers, game designers, architects, and thinkers. Merging the philosophical, the critical, and the creative, worldbuilding is a holistic and expansive interdisciplinary art form emerging from the great narrative, aesthetic, and design traditions. Worldbuilders invent imaginary worlds that act, at once, as playgrounds for their imaginations, as tools of critique to turn on our own imperfect, real-world, and as lenses to spy a possible vision of a better civilization.
In this course, through collaboration and leveraging a multiplicity of disciplines and practices, students will build worlds while expanding and broadening their own artistic practice through exploring different interdisciplinary approaches to worldbuilding. Students will analyze and critique both well known and obscure imaginary worlds in literature, fine arts, cinema, and games. Students will learn the worldbuilding process and methodologies, and engage in both collaborative and individual worldbuilding through studio assignments in worlds they themselves create, including textual, 2D, 3D, and 4D worldbuilding projects.
Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:
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