This course will provide a platform for students who are looking to develop, expand, or hope to locate a critical conversation that links image discourse to systemic societal issues within their studio practice. Course activities includes lectures, group research projects, student led discussions, field trips, and adaptive studio projects followed by critiques.
"We currently live in an era of declaration - US vs. THEM mentality. Our information media platforms are getting less polite, and societies' image of cultural correctness is being challenged and redefined through dominant and subdominant media sources. As people's inherited and informed opinions manifest into media-based experiences, these gestures are systemically affecting how people consequentially and psychologically experience the world - especially when opposing value systems collide. Through research and studio projects, this course will provide a platform for students to develop a critical conversation around societal issues that links the image to the human experience as separate and connected, foreground and background, or compassionately as positive and negative forces that shapes the self in relation to others."