Catalog Description: Critical Practices is a hands-on studio design course where students work at the intersection of technological innovation and socially engaged art. Students will integrate a suite of digital fabrication tools with social design methods to create work that engages in cultural critique. Working with innovative technologies and radical, new art practices, this course will explore: hybrid art forms, critical design for community engagement, interventions in public spaces, tactical media, and disobedient objects. These new making strategies will reframe our notions of people, places and participation.
Units: 4
Formats:
Summer: 6.0 hours of studio per week
Fall: 4.0 hours of studio per week
Spring: 4.0 hours of studio per week
Summer: 10.0 hours of studio per week
Summer: 7.5 hours of studio per week
Grading basis: letter
Final exam status: Alternative method of final assessment