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

tim.soman@cca.edu

Tim E Soman

tim.soman@cca.edu

zwalter@cca.edu

Zachary Walter

Chair, Game Arts Program

Assistant Professor Non-Tenure, Fine Arts Division

zwalter@cca.edu

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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